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@genna.bsky.social

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Creator, Pages Past, a podcast where your favourite people revisit their old favourite books. Editor, college instructor, library lurker, luddite. Opinions mine. Torontonian. Listen: https://pod.link/1753505445 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PagesPast

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 28d

New episode of the podcast with @annetheriault.bsky.social! Come sit on a beached whale (that’s what people did for fun in medieval Scotland) and listen to us talk about plucky heroines, actually scary witches, and a little light regicide! pod.link/1753505445/e...

Portrait of Anne (selfie with high bun and glasses) identifying her is a history and religion writer along with a picture of the cover of quest for a maid 1988

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 6h

@madisonmcla.bsky.social ilu

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 9h

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 11h

the practice of giving books a star rating out of five has degraded literary culture profoundly and ought to be wiped from the face of the Earth

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

genna @genna.bsky.social · 9h

I HATE edge cases where you can't tell if someone is AI or they just post weird

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

god is far from finished with his punishments

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

my early prediction for 2026 is that katy perry writes a sexually explicit song about justin trudeau

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 11h

the practice of giving books a star rating out of five has degraded literary culture profoundly and ought to be wiped from the face of the Earth

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 19h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 12h

have had many students protest that they told the LLM only to provide real citations

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 14h

if people both have iPhones, they'll use a feature called "NameDrop" to send the other person their number without having to type it in even once

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 14h

!!!! this is very interesting to me as a many-times-over Jane Austen completist who has never cracked Dostoevsky

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 15h

off-brand baseball equipment

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 15h

ooh, please say more! where did you learn structure?

genna @genna.bsky.social · 15h

thank you!!! one of the surprising silver linings of losing a grandparent this year (at a blessedly advanced age) is that I inherited a load of vintage glassware, china, and serving dishes that I finally had a reason to bust out! my friend ooo'd and aah'd and it was a nice way to remember them

genna @genna.bsky.social · 16h

yesterday was a disconcertingly beautiful day for a two-person Canadian friendsgiving

table set with bone china cranberry sauce dish, mocktails, silver servingware with mashed potatos and stuffing, flowers and candles and just one other person at the table

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 18h

Why isn’t the media covering this thing I learned about from the media, an undying genre of post

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 16h

I've been teaching it to community college students (using the PG term "platform decay") since Wired reprinted a Doctorow essay about it in maybe ~2023. It's one of the only things I can reliably get a class discussion going about, because once they get their heads around it, they see it EVERYWHERE

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 16h

25 WEEKS wait at my local library. people are VERY excited about this book

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

none of the grocery stores in my area are carrying Tofurkey this year. It's an expensive seasonal item made in Oregon and I fear that for some it's not worth importing at the moment due to tariffs. I am sorry to be the one to tell my people in the veggie community that Trump Take Tofurkey

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to use this post to shoehorn in a rec for the slim and emotionally devastating memoir Stay True by Hua Shu,
which is at least 50% about making zines in the 90s

Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 1d

16 year old Jason: Will you still like BBSes?
23 year old Jason: Will you still like zines?
55 year old Jason: I just used a program to write a program that writes a program to scan old zines for BBS numbers for my global BBS list.

80 year old Jason: Touch grass, jesus

genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

it's been way too long since I told someone COOL BEANS on the electronic highway 😭

genna @genna.bsky.social · 1d

something glitched BAD in 2015

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

We’ve all been spotted kissing Justin Trudeau on a yacht. Grow up

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

We’ve all been spotted kissing Justin Trudeau on a yacht. Grow up

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished a book for the podcast that I read as a kid & it's SO different than I remember that I tried to look up whether an abridged school edition was ever printed (nope). + I vividly remember an English teacher's lesson on it that turned out to be wrong (assuming my memory of THAT is correct)