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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 58m

It is my son’s sleepover and already his glasses are broken and someone left the door open so he may have lost his cat. He is very upset. Please send the good.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 7h

When they put the paw over the eyes

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"A lot has changed since the American Library Association was established in 1876 — even just over the past decade. The library has gone from a building full of books to arguably the most versatile civic center in any community lucky enough to have one." nyti.ms/47zF62M

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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America's libraries -- what they provide, what they need to survive. Here's what they told us.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do I have any followers on here who are scholars or makers of visual arts in Sweden (painters, art history, etc.)?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Found a chicken statue at a thrift store I could not leave behind so now he guards the anthologies in my campus office.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes life doesn't send you answers. It sends you a cat that lies down next to you and makes everything a little easier.

Jinx the tabby bobtail cat with her two front paws curled under her belly. She’s sound asleep.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Found my perfect Halloween-Friday teaching blazer at goodwill

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I was an undergraduate and a dude tried to sexually assault me, a male friend noticed, pulled the guy off of me, and literally threw him into a wall. Which is the start of how I would like such men to be treated no matter what fancy school they attend.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wendell Berry

THE times are disgusting enough, surely, for those who long for peace and truth. But self-disgust also is an injury: the coming of bodily uncertainty with age and wear, forgetfulness of things that ought to be remembered, remembrance of things best forgot.
Forgive this fragmentary life.
Wendell Berry
Sabbath Poem IV, 2006.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love pandas and all but this seems like a lot to do to a poor animal minding its business

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maaaan, you ever had to sneeze WHILE you are actively eating? It’s not fun!

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Upon inspection the dream house is filled with black mold. I must sadly decline.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyhow so tired I got done teaching,came home, and fell asleep sitting up with my tights and heels still on.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Make The Jungle required reading

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm thinking about how some of my most powerful memories of being a student are the moments when my professors were so moved—or stunned again?—by the material that they were teaching that their speaking ground to a halt and what I learned in those moments of silence

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

later on me and my friends are gonna stand around the haunted k mart parking lot and hate conformity

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/09/2026

My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace #peace #poem #poetry www.un.org/en/observanc...

George Square
by Jackie Kay

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress.
‘What a pair the two of us are!’
my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,
you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’

And off they went, my two parents
to march against the war in Iraq,
him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis
to congregate at George Square where the banners
waved at each other like old friends, flapping,
where they’d met for so many marches over their years,
for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

back in the good old days, Emerson biographers used to acknowledge that it was extra-offensive when a young wife died a painful death if she was also hot.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my doctor looking at my bruised and scratched up arms: umm... do you feel safe at home? the person making me feel unsafe at home:

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A day so long I mentally freaked thinking I’d forgotten to meet a student…that I did indeed meet today at 12:30.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I like to listen to just the vocal track of early R.E.M. songs. It's like whale song.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dog’s reaction when he realizes his sister was adopted into the same home. Original post

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe if elite schools weren’t pushing AI and bowing down to the prez and closing libraries and writing centers and laying off fac/staff at every turn I’d be willing to take their nominal devotion to academic standards in the form of The Book seriously. But right now? Nope, not buying it.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A book should NOT be req'd for tenure--esp now w/ the inordinate pressures on peer review. It puts untenable demands on scholars & publishers AND enables tenure committees to shirk their duty & blame presses for killing jobs/careers instead of actually engaging scholars' work. It's infuriating.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

She’s an Emmy winner!!!

@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)

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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Telephone pole, White Bear Lake, 2014

A mass of nails and staples in old wood. Photo by Steve Quick

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thinking of getting a poster of Blucifer for my campus office door

Large blue mustang statue nicknamed Blucifer that stands outside Denver International Airport. It is dusk and the airport is visible behind in the background.

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Candice Birkin @candiceberken.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Showdown” (year u/k), oil on canvas, #JuliAdams , Seattle #Caturday #Cats #BlackCats #Art #Illustration #Painting

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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

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