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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 02/10/2026

Please add an option to export all games into a calendar please! 🙏 It would take forever to go game by game to add to my calendar

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 21/09/2026

And perhaps it's a good idea to think of cognitive activities: studying, writing, reading, etc., in the same way: a practice for my brain. So yeah, maybe classrooms (and by extension, anything else studious or creative) should be more like a gym.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 21/09/2026

The more I hear this, the more difficult I want my writing, reading, and studying to become. Just like it is in the middle of my yoga session, I know that practicing difficult moves is how I improve my body-- it IS called a yoga *practice* after all. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 21/09/2026

This is extending into my writing, reading, and studying, too. The siren song of using AI to make all of these things "easier" is growing louder with each new update or person in my life that unashamedly says they use AI in almost all parts of their day-to-day. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 21/09/2026

There's no room for Artificial Intelligence during my yoga practice in the studio, and it's like a breath of fresh air. Previous to this year, I was allergic to anything athletic. but with the rise of AI, I've been looking for more physical IRL activities. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 21/09/2026

This piece put to words something I've been thinking about recently. I'm not a university professor or a cyclist like the author of this essay is. But I *have* been thinking lately about how much I value my yoga sessions at an actual yoga studio. 🧵

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 19/09/2026

I now log into Bsky maybe once or twice a week and looking at the Trending is exhausting. KKK converse ad? Sounds about 2026 honestly.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 03/09/2026

Oh yeah, everything other comments suggested but also, "I'm not interesting in helping you train your AI model."

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 26/08/2026

Ugh yesterday Dolly, today Tim Curry? Noooo :(

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 20/08/2026

Pomodoro style livestream tomorrow (8/20/26) at 5pm CST! I'll be spending the time getting some reading and research done. If you have some things to mark off your to-do list, feel free to join!

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LIVE SOON: Co-Work & Study Hall Livestream

Starting Aug 20 at 6:00 PM EDT

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 17/08/2026

At one point, the book, Yesteryear, says something about twisting something repulsive or sick into a delicacy and that is how I’d describe the book. Sick, but you can’t help but consume it. Devour it. A very interesting read..

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the amount of Telemachus/Antinous art I've seen on my feed, it appears it’s actually Robert Pattinson whose face launched a thousand (online) ships.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 15/08/2026

Today, I’m using the working time to research The Divine Comedy, so we’ll probably end up chatting about that! (I can yap about TDC all day!) If you’ve got some stuff you’d like to check off your to-do list, or want a study buddy, feel free to join!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 15/08/2026

We’ll do three sets of 30-minute working pomodoros, during which I’ll be muted while chill music plays. Then when the timer is up, we’ll break and chat for 5 (ish) minutes in between!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 13/08/2026

If you're a streamer or even just a watcher, make sure to opt out of using your chats and interactions to train their AI models!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 13/08/2026

I only recently began dabbling in coworking streams on Twitch, so I'm not shedding any tears about abandoning the platform. But I feel bad for all the folks who were with Twitch for longer than all the recent enshittification. But since it's owned by Amazon, it's not surprising the sharp decline.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 13/08/2026

So now I’m going to try having my Pomodoro-style productivity sessions on Substack instead! In this one on Saturday, we’ll do 3 sets of 25-minute working sessions, with 5-minute breaks between each session for chatting!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 13/08/2026

With Twitch essentially forcing streamers to share their videos to train Amazon’s Generative AI models, I’m done with doing my Study & Co-work sessions there. (I know, I know.. Substack is also bad, but there's not a great Twitch alternative yet). open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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LIVE SOON: Research & Marginalia ✒️ 📖 | Co-work and study mythology & ancient history with me!

Starting Aug 14 at 9:00 AM EDT

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 12/08/2026

But I’m like 700 words in and still have so much to say about the word *Heresy*. So turns out that Dante and his heretics will need to wait because this will be a two-parter, and we need to unpack that fascinating little word first. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 12/08/2026

I set out today to write an article about Dante’s circle of Heretics and how it shows up in social media today. I titled it “Dante’s Heretics are in the Comment Section,” and I was SO excited about it. 🧵

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 10/08/2026

I don’t think that using an AI service for detecting AI in writing is the way to go, so in this piece I detail my writing process and what I’ll share about each article going forward to show its human touch. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 10/08/2026

With Substack integrating Pangram, I knew I wanted a way to show that my writing is not AI generated. 🪡

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 10/08/2026

Spoiler alert: I don’t use AI in my writing, and the more and more I hear about the effects of AI, the less and less desire I have to use it under any circumstances. 🧵

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My Writing Process & Stance on Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence continues to change at a breakneck pace, I'll continue to edit this essay as appropriate. Thanks for reading! -M

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 08/08/2026

I bet! I can see why it’s gotten soooo many of both extremely good reviews and extremely bad ones!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 08/08/2026

With more and more people getting addicted to it or conflating a chat bot that generates answers with meaningful relationship, I think it would be beneficial to refocus on how “AI” is ARTIFICIAL. Like, it and the imagined feelings that people think it has is literally not real. 🪡 2/2

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 08/08/2026

Going forward, I think I’m going to make a concerted effort to say or type out “Artificial Intelligence) rather than referring to it as AI. 🧵 1/2

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 08/08/2026

Because I’m usually late to trendy titles, finally starting Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. I’m only about 15% in but this is a **very** interesting book so far. I see why it got so much buzz!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 06/08/2026

I saw “Kit Conner cast as Cyclops” trending and my brain is still in Odyssey mode and I genuinely thought for a second that another Odyssey adaptation had been announced

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Emily Wilson set the entire world to arguing how to properly interpret an ancient poem and a modern blockbuster but sure, this is a failure of public engagement.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 06/08/2026

A part of England has the chance to do something absolutely hilarious today. Go, Count Binface!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 05/08/2026

I’ve never looked at a Michigan Map so intently before today, and I’ve never noticed how many lake islands there are in that state. Nothing like an election to get a better sense of a state’s geography 🤪

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 05/08/2026

Hooray, my state actually doing something good. Too bad that the politicians that put shit like this on the ballot keep getting elected… Missouri keeps electing progressive policies but anti progressive politicians—it’s infuriating.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 04/08/2026

I agree! Leguizamo did an excellent job!

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 03/08/2026

The pipeline from an Onion Article to horrifying reality is all too real with this one.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 31/07/2026

Seems like an appropriate way to wrap up a wild week in classics is an Onion article about ✨the discourse✨

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 30/07/2026

I read Discontent by Beatriz Serrano in one afternoon. I really enjoyed this book, and may identify with this protagonist than I’d like to admit. 😅 It truly put to words the existential dread of having to work in a capitalist world with such snark. I definitely recommend! #booksky

Me holding “Discontent” up against my shelf

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wait-film people are mad about Wilson's review? When a movie is called "The Odyssey" and is based on the poem, it deserves critique for how it failed. Nolan had NO expert ancient world consultants-major hubris on Nolan's part...

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 29/07/2026

Absolutely agree! It’s plain to see rather than obscured by grandiose language that creates a nice little cushion for the reader

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 29/07/2026

Gods know I have *many* issues with the Nolan film, but I’m not going to pretend that there’s nothing good worth pointing out just to prove how progressive I am.

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 29/07/2026

I truly do not like this take. And it sounds like the other side of the extremism coin: The racist imperial loving chuds on X/witter all fall in line of the idea that if you support Nolan’s movie in any way then you’re a traitor to the “West”

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 29/07/2026

I heard someone on a podcast essentially saying that if you call yourself a feminist and anti-imperialist but found anything enjoyable or worth praising in Nolan’s Odyssey then you’re a traitor to both feminism and anti-imperialism. 🧵

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 28/07/2026

What what?? 👀🙋‍♀️

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 28/07/2026

I also read Percy Jackson at first 😆

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 27/07/2026

What does that have to do with having criticisms about the movie?

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Monica Vale @themythicglass.com · 27/07/2026

Robert Pattinson's Antinous is definitely one of the best parts of the movie The Odyssey. I'll be the annoying friend in the group chat using this GIF to death:

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