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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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DENVER’S FUCKING WEATHER @denversweather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN [PUTS ON SHADES, HOISTS ROCKET LAUNCHER, AIMS FOR THE SKY]: I'M GOING TO KILL THE SUN.

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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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Several times I’ve had students warn me that their poems are “pretty dark”

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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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did this last weekend and it kicked my ass FYI

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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 · 05/09/2026

I think AI is honestly the opposite of brainstorming!

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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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Miriam, this is a beautiful, sharp essay. Thanks for sharing it. (and jesus christ what is wrong with that woman)

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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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ghost malone ergo propter bones @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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I teach The Odyssey every semester and my fave is Elpenor, who dies bc he is drunk and falls off a ladder at Circe's house. When he dies, Odysseus trash talks him and says he was not very brave and not very smart. Justice for my himbo Elpenor

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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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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Every time an ad interrupts anything I’m doing, I say “This is my favorite Skyrizi commercial”

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I feel like nobody else is watching but there are already full phrases that have entered my household vocabulary for good!!

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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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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I feel physically itchy when I am referred to as a "wife"

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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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