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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In the latest issue of "Iperstoria" I got the chance to review one of the most transformative works I read in my academic life. I cannot overstate how much I recommend Sarah Ensor's Queer Lasting. You can read my humble thoughts (and badly concealed fangirling) at iperstoria.it/article/view...

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Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World. Sarah Ensor | Iperstoria

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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very proud to share this brand new special issue on American Narratives and Video Games I co-edited with Francesca Razzi for American, British and Canadian Studies. You have 12 delightful open access contributions to enjoy 👾🎮 reference-global.com/issue/ABCSJ/...

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American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 45 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)

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Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Deep in final exams and term papers, and while I may have criticized AI in the past for siphoning off whole water tables and sucking up every penny needed for the energy transition, I will admit they’ve done a great job at making it totally fucking impossible to evaluate students

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 18/06/2025

📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]! Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :) iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...

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Scrivere fantascienza mentre fuori il mondo è in fiamme

In occasione della pubblicazione del suo secondo romanzo What We Owe the Dead (Set Margins’, 2025), Stefano Gualeni (Università di Malta) dialogherà con Marco Caracciolo (Università di Ghent, Belgio) ...

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 28/05/2025

Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje. Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00! >> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<

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Scrivere fantascienza mentre il mondo è in fiamme

What We Owe the Dead, il secondo romanzo di Stefano Gualeni

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025

Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body. All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught. My God.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square.
The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW.
The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX

Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro
Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller
Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber
Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 03/04/2025

You don’t say ….

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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/03/2025

lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month! Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...

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What We Owe the Dead - Set Margins'

PRE-ORDER Expected March 2025. We post out orders including pre-orders once all titles are available. In a desperate attempt to lower the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, humanity has built cooling ...

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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The CfP for the AISNA conference is out! Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West 11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy) Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28! www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 02/02/2025

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

i don't think there's any question that there are up and coming artists out there who can make shit as transgressive and unique and personal as lynch, my worry is if the increasingly claustrophobic way things are structured now will allow a wider audience to receive it

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Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Italy's temporary university staff is on strike today, together with many other social categories, to protest against the budget and recruitment reform our government is trying to pass💪 torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024...

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Precari e studenti bloccano il Campus Einaudi, all’università la protesta dilaga

Manifestazione di ricercatori, bibliotecari e docenti dopo l’occupazione di Palazzo Nuovo ieri sera

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Scene in a lecture hall: Me: Some saw the telegraph as a miracle. Info moving across space SO quickly! How? Reminds me of the 1st time I faxed something. My info moved SO quickly! How? I STARED at the fax machine after using it. Student: What's a fax machine? Me: [disintegrates into corpse dust]

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark." That's how horrifying Twitter is right now. There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

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Albertina Rizzo @albzrizz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This place has farmers market energy and I’m here for it

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Advanced memework

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/11/2024

We can live without Twitter but Twitter cannot live without us. It’s as simple as that.

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poqu @poqu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

boating

an illustration of two cats riding in a mini boat strapped to a swimming crocodile. there are several houses in a line the back, sitting by the water. reeds are growing and piping is running by the water.

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Network Sportsball Analyst @fakesportsceleb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Everyone on this site has a library card

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