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We're going to be fighting water wars bc everyone's going to be making their own AI porn, aren't we? Death by "thirst," in two senses

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I try to stay on top of the news, and I'm finishing a book about Very Current Events, but I gotta say, this small-town East Texas kid does not in any way understand the stakes of the NYC mayoral stuff. Our mayor was who you called when there was a pothole on your street

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I just feel like after 32 years of thinking about how to fend off a velociraptor, I could do it

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It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of [assigned gender].

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whoever taught my kids the copycat game come outside i just wanna talk

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THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has JUST been APPROVED by the FDA. Lenacapavir was 99.9% EFFECTIVE at PREVENTING HIV in clinical trials. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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This is a nice, simple lesson plan for helping first-year undergrads think about the effects of knowledge organization. I liked the linked video, too. projectcora.org/assignment/t...

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Has anyone tried to compile an index of US-based community archives?

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Have resorted to doing planks between emails to make them easier to tackle

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I love how we had to rebrand normal human foods as “superfoods.” It’s the Clark Kent/Superman glasses gag of eating

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Universities benefit them.

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the one about the rat (honest answer)

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Ten writers, more than 5 books Poetry version Walt Whitman George Oppen AR Ammons John Ashbery James Tate Lucille Clifton CD Wright Jorie Graham Claudia Rankine Shane McCrae

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When medicine goes postcritique 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

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unfortunately for Pete we have not had a president under 6’ tall since Jimmy Carter

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Seth on a Rupi Kaur poem in the below: "I will not burden this poem with much interpretation, except to say why it is bad. The idea that two people become one during sex is so old that it appears in the Gospel of Mark and so tired that it appears in a Spice Girls song."

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Thrilled at the publication of our @uclpress.bsky.social book, co-edited with @lisejaillant.bsky.social, Stephen Downie, Paul Gooding, Claire Warwick, & Katie Aske, with contributions from many great colleagues, incl. @thomaspadilla.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social +

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Thanks to everyone who showed up at the #ACH2025 #DHandLibs SIG meeting. We had a wonderful conversation and welcomed our new co-chairs, @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and @micahbateman.bsky.social. Missed the session? Reach out to me or @claudiaeberger.bsky.social and we'll get you plugged in!

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Excited to attempt to fill the big shoes left by @plach.bsky.social and Claudia Berger as co-chair of the DH in Libraries SIG for @ach.bsky.social alongside Jessica Brode Frank. You do not have to be an ACH member to participate in the group; communications signup is here

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As a critic I am constantly struggling to imagine myself out of "We can't imagine ourselves out of neoliberalism"

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On one hand the organizations stepping up in the age of govt defunding are necessary. On the other, we're manifesting the "thousand points of light" neoliberal ideology that private or semi-public orgs should displace the functions of the state. It's frustrating to always be playing their chess

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Reader's Digest wanted to use AI digests at the top of digests

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University accountant, or MFK Fisher?

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What are the most tweeted (and most memed) lines of literature? Anna Preus and I take a shot at this question in a new book chapter, focusing on some T.S. Eliot lines. Sharing for the morning crowd :)

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As a contrarian, it pains me to be of the Very Popular Opinion that Pet Sounds was a masterpiece. RIP to a master of the art

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Expressive Networks: Poetry & Platform Cultures, ed. Matthew Kilbane, is out and open access! I write about how social movements like Occupy using estate like Twitter/X and Walt Whitman's verse betray the limitations of emergence and often default to what Raymond Williams calls "residual culture."

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“You don’t need a book; you need a writing habit,” I keep telling myself. “But that can start tomorrow!” I keep telling myself.

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The Data Services Continuing Professional Education program will remotely train a cohort of early to mid career librarians who want to offer data services at their library. (I'm not involved, just thought was cool.) Apps due June 27 for Sept-Dec training dscpe.github.io

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we are living in classical times of the petty gods fighting and secondarily impacting all human life

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Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

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Athens, GA: Digital Archivist, University of Georgia

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