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Majda Gama
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Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 15h
Free in #Annapolis on 12/6/25! I join poet Zeina Azzam in the St John's College conversation room. The audience will choose a poem from each of us to interact with after a short reading. Such a unique opportunity for us, to have this collaborative experience. events.sjc.edu/event/poets-...
Poets in the Conversation Room - Majda Gama and Zeina Azzam
events.sjc.edu
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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brianbeutler.bsky.social
Hilarious whoopsie for the headline writer, too.

Unless…

“Part 3: The King Solomon Affair”
evansutton.bsky.social Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 6h
I know there's still a month to go in 2025 but I'm ready to award the trophy for Take of the Year in the Caping for Fascists category.
A screenshot of a headline from Forward (Jewish independent nonprofit) that reads, and I shit you not, Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s In biblical times and, apparently, in our current era, erotica is in the eye of the beholder It's got pics of the Felcher in Chief and the most desperate and pathetic excuse for a journalist in America wearing a skintight, shiny leopard print shirt as if to scream to the world "I'm desperate to be fucked by the guy with the droopiest testicles"
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
well this is going into our sources and methods teaching on looking at images
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · 16h
Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats https://theonion.com/study-average-19th-century-american-spent-93-of-time-waving-at-trains-boats/
Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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moudhy.bsky.social
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).

I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is seen wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and tan shoes. He's shaking hands with someone in a black outfit. A close up of his shoes show weird stitching on the side. They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
rainer maria rilke
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
Archaic Torso of Apollo By Rainer Maria Rilke Translated By Stephen Mitchell We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s war on tourism in red states continues
dfeldman.org Sphexish Quine @dfeldman.org · 7h
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)

And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.

This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
In a statement on Tuesday, the Interior Department, which manages federal land, said that, as of Jan. 1, it would more than triple the price of an annual park pass for nonresidents, from $80 to $250. Foreign tourists without an annual pass will also be charged $100 on top of the standard entrance fee to visit each of the 11 most popular national parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain and the Grand Canyon.
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were

stollen
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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adrianf.bsky.social
the soapbox I will die on is that we don’t give animals enough credit and we will never, by nature, be able to know how intelligent they are because our definition of intelligence is too narrow.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 9h
A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first documented use of tools by a wolf. https://cnn.it/48jB0Mn
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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katieocean.bsky.social
@popville.bsky.social tip my hat to this quality DC content
Screen grab of photo of National Guard troops writing on a public art type chalk board asking people to write “I’m dreaming of…” with a title over the photo saying “I’m dreaming of a caption contest”
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
I ordered this new children’s book from Shout Your Abortion after meeting ppl from the org at NWSA and they threw in a couple extra books for me and I couldn’t love this org more. Buy their stuff! Support them! Shout about abortion! shoutyourabortion.com
Three books: My Mom Had an Abortion, Abortion Is Everything, and Shout Your Abortion
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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porcupinelit.bsky.social
Check out this new poem by our EIC!
readinstead.bsky.social Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 21h
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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honeygirlgrows.bsky.social
Seeds to donate to Los Angeles fire victims? 🌱 We are distributing thru Seed Libraries and fire-affected schools in Altadena, as well as Pacific Palisades. Native/noninvasive seeds going to the Seed Bomb Project, who has already donated 4,000 ❣️seed bombs since June. Ship-To Address to in comments.
Blue shell beans and every color from sky blue to very deep blue so I’m still in the skin of the bean, they grew in that’s dried and beige, All of them in the pinkish palm of a hand facing us
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Always makes me shudder to see nandina in Portland. It's super invasive in Florida and annihilates patches of native plants with its growth rate. Also, the berries are poisonous to birds in quantity, for ex cedar waxwings who are gorgers. That said, Portland cold stops the spread considerably.
bright red berry clusters with narrow green leaves; cedar waxwings and other berry devourers usually eat nandina berries only when more tasty berries are gone, but there is still some threat to birds
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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cooperlund.online
My actual food discourse take is that the problem with low stakes Internet discourse like the food stuff isn’t the people with opinions, it’s the people who act like you kicked their dog if you say you don’t like something they do. Learn how to not take other people’s opinions personally.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
what does chatgpt say?

I HAVE NO IDEA! How cool is that??
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙

We are thankful for our readers ❤️

riverriverbooks.org/store/
Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author E.G. CUNNINGHAM POEMS "This field transforms looking to wanting.” RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD POEMS JAMEELA F. DALLIS "I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-" RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
majda.bsky.social
My whole life is this and it’s amazing
rcolesworthy.bsky.social Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18h
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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blindcatrescue.bsky.social
Will you please help us with our Turkey for Tails Food Drive? Make the holidays special for the blind, fiv+, and felv+ kitties here by donating the gift of food from one of our wishlists!🦃🍂🥧

Wishlists: linktr.ee/BlindCatResc

Thank you so much! 💙
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
A great piece on the once-arcane discharge petition, which has now been used five times during Johnson’s tenure — “more than in the prior 30 years combined.”

A signal of his waning influence, via @politico.com

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
Folks, AI and Crypto are going to blow up, and we're going to bail them out.

It'll be disastrous.

We need to promote Dems who take on the broligarchy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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vickymharris.bsky.social
If people see faces on Mars, pareidolia, they will see people in AI. I think it's the same brain function, for connection.
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 14h
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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jbfarthing.bsky.social
Yes please
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM