Caroline Wilkinson
@carolinewilkinson.bsky.social
Writer, Poet & Scholar of Nineteenth-Century Novel. Words in Witness, 14 Hills, & NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (she/her).
www.carolinewilkinson.com
www.carolinewilkinson.com
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A video poem of mine appears in the new issue of Drunken Boat. Formally, I'd call the poem a Tennessee Crown. Turning with the spirit of the jester, the lines move through the gallows humor of healthcare workers.
Thank you, editors of Drunken Boat. What an issue.
drunkenboat.com/issues-compo...
Thank you, editors of Drunken Boat. What an issue.
drunkenboat.com/issues-compo...
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)
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Wow.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Wow.
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While it would have been soon enough to stop quoting Larry Summers as an expert after his first comment about women while president of Harvard, perhaps this email will be enough to finally do so.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
While it would have been soon enough to stop quoting Larry Summers as an expert after his first comment about women while president of Harvard, perhaps this email will be enough to finally do so.
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
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Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
November 12, with dog
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
November 12, with dog
No, it's probably not a good idea to teach kids to read by telling them to just skip difficult words "(Skippy Frog)."
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
No, it's probably not a good idea to teach kids to read by telling them to just skip difficult words "(Skippy Frog)."
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Try to make your ALT TEXT a poem
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Try to make your ALT TEXT a poem
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Aurora visible in the middle of Chicago
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Aurora visible in the middle of Chicago
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No Kings includes Angus King
This is what bullies want you to think, and it's why they get stronger
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
No Kings includes Angus King
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From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
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@senangusking.bsky.social's net worth is $22 million.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@senangusking.bsky.social's net worth is $22 million.
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Vast majority of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762723200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762723200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Majority of LGBTQ+ people voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split
NBC News exit polls show that 81% of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split between him and Cuomo.
www.thepinknews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Vast majority of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762723200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762723200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never recovering from this page
I've taught Sharon Begley's work in regard to plagiarism. (Jonah Lehrer famously plagiarized her science writing.) Here's her posthumous breakdown of Watson's legacy, including his racism and misogynist appropriation of "Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images (which Watson surreptitiously studied)."
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I've taught Sharon Begley's work in regard to plagiarism. (Jonah Lehrer famously plagiarized her science writing.) Here's her posthumous breakdown of Watson's legacy, including his racism and misogynist appropriation of "Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images (which Watson surreptitiously studied)."
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Breaking | Israeli occupation tanks opened heavy fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Breaking | Israeli occupation tanks opened heavy fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
And they called it CEASEFIRE!!!!!!
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Night after full
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Night after full
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When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo
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They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election."
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election."
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani
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They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
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