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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 1h

Hate to say it but Faulkner

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 1h

Carol Oates?

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 1d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 2d

same but we call it diva-li

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

In my culture, Christmas is any day that a Real Housewife is arrested for fraud

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

It even makes good leftovers. 10/10

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly like the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky links look like trash every time but

Light yellow cover of Sonia Hazard's Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

As a pamphlet enthusiast I can honestly say I've been looking forward to this book for like a decade global.oup.com/academic/pro...

global.oup.com

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2d

Dreamed I was giving a keynote address I was in no way prepared to give✨

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 3d

a neighbour saw me carrying my regalia for fall convocation and asked me if it was a lord farquaad costume for halloween fml

Read and black academic regalia hanging from a French door.

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3d

This is my favorite depression meal as of late

Sheet-Pan Bibimbap (Published 2021)

cooking.nytimes.com

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3d

This is obviously egregious but I've heard how you all talk about people from the South

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3d

Woke up at 3AM for no reason and have personally taken it upon myself to like every Justin J. Pearson post on every platform on the Internet

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3d

YESSS

State Rep. Justin J. Pearson to challenge U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen

State Rep. Justin J. Pearson, seen here in a 2023 constituent meeting at the Tennessee State Capitol, announced his intention to run for U.S. Congress.

mlk50.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross