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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026

Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026

need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Donald Hall, born on this day in 1928

Where the poet stops, the poem
begins. The poem asks only
that the poet get out of the way.

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James Asmus @jamesasmus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh my god he admit it www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

Microsoft director privately admits AI was "largest theft of labor in human history"

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

AI apologists to actual disciplinary experts & experienced teachers

NEW YORKER “allow me to interrupt your expertise with my confidence” cartoon

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So excited to be part of the inaugural issue! I have two poems in it: one about Planet Earth, and one about horror movies. Happy reading!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

LOADING... Please stand by while we finish obsessing over Issue 1. Forget Cool launches September 1. Just TWO WEEKS to go.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I recently watched Iron Man (2008) for the first time in over a decade, and it's a real lightbulb moment to realize that every executive, business bro and tech guy currently obsessed with using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever thinks they're like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

democrat is socialist and socialist is communist

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I didn't need to write a dissertation on confessional poetics, Ishmael beat me to it

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I fucking love this. Christopher Nolan has done exactly what a blockbuster director should do, and Emily Wilson is doing exactly what a classics academic should do. Top marks all round!

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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hard to be an old book lately, I tell you what. #sonnet

Harvest Me Like One Of Your Antique Books

Why preserve the rhythms of a mind
when buttons exist? For poetry, press red,
shade of trampled hearts. For novels, find
the one that’s blue as a hero newly dead.
Machines grow hungry: feed them iron ink,
chain-lined paper, stories built from days
of toil and boredom. (Gatekept dreams will shrink
a wallet, unlike the slop that clankers praise.)
Congested shelves can breathe at last, their freight
predestined for some better place, where coy
truth is barely a token. Musty weight
departs, mere offal for the worms to enjoy.
And now we have books—The Codex On Demand!—
with vistas fixed, unable to expand.

— John T. Glover

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 24/07/2026

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hey there! Did you see The Odyssey? Are you haunted by Penelope's veiled and screened existence? If you can't stop thinking about Homer, this might be a good time to reread my Pushcart-winning poem, "Poem in Which I Fail to Teach Homer!" www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2021...

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Poem in which I Fail to Teach Homer — Cotton Xenomorph

by Laura Passin When Sally Ride suited up for America, the NASA engineers asked her if 100 tampons was the correct number for one 32-year-old woman to spend one week in space. That is not the corr...

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 15/07/2026

Finally it's my moment to shine

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?

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God @thegodshow.com · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Why do I love what fades? Mark Strand

The Guardian

The sun setting. The lawns on fire.
The lost day, the lost light.
Why do I love what fades?

You who left, who were leaving,
what dark rooms do you inhabit?
Guardian of my death,

preserve my absence. I am alive.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"When Americans say a man takes liberties, they mean he’s gone too far." For this semiquincentennial, I recommend my favorite bicentennial poem: "Language Lesson 1976" by Heather McHugh. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56262/...

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Language Lesson 1976

In Philadelphia today I saw a kid on a leash look mom-ward and announce his fondest wish: one bicentennial burger, hold the relish.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 04/07/2026

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

wint @dril

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
12:24 AM - 16 Jun 2012

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

A search bar with the question "will GTA be on antikyth..." And an AI summary reply saying "no. Grand theft auto will not be playable on the antikythera mechanism. The device is a 2000 year old ancient greek analogy computer and orrery used exclusively to calculate the positions of celestial bodies like the sun, moon and...". There is a picture of a bronze machine made of circular parts

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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 28/06/2026

George Tsongas “The States” #smallpoemsunday #poetry #sf

The States
George Tsongas

it’s an
amazing
place, where
no one enjoys

life

but they
all want
to live

forever

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Already my new lit mag @forgetcool.bsky.social (with @allisonwrites.bsky.social, who I met through @marchxness.bsky.social) is so much fun! We’re open (through July 15) for poetry and CNF about the pop culture that has shaped you. Submit and be part of our first issue!

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

have just talked two more people into The Name of the Rose, absolute banger of a book and a perfect beach read

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If other news was reported like climate change:

A picture of a couple driving and laughing with the text "road fatalities highest in ten years"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

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