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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 2d

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2d

40 years ago today
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.

Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nice to finally see a bit of good news.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 20

Literally the only thing all the people of Ireland can agree on.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 20

Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trump on why he’s trying to bring peace to Ukraine: “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’

www.nytimes.com

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

Except that PhDs can actually think, as opposed to simply producing responses based on data patterns. Tech bros are a fucking plague on humanity.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

If there's one thing I learned from reading Please Kill Me, it's that almost no one knew how to play an instrument or sing when they started their band.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

If I had any musical talent, it would definitely be the name of my riot grrrl band.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following:

A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

nbcnews.to

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

Also the phrase "initial brassiere" is just hilarious. "Hello, I would like to purchase an initial brassiere" 😂

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Aug 8

You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you.

Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · Aug 7

Profound intimacy? What?

Sebastian Moore

@SebastixnMoore

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Replying to @IndiaWilloughby and @marksandspencer

The profound intimacy of a mother and child purchasing an initial brassiere or sanitary products is a cherished and delicate rite of passage, which should remain undisturbed by the presence of a man dressed in women's clothing.

5:13 AM 05 Aug 25

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasking a villain. Fred is labelled Ann Radcliffe. The villain with a mask is labelled spooky terrifying mystery and without a mask is inane bullshit

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 6

*Academics in early August

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · Jul 20

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Jul 7

If this wasn't like 2 months' rent...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Jun 14

This might be Andrea's Christmas present this year.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · May 16

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · May 10

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis

The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

www.politico.com

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Ginevra Bianchini @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social · Apr 23

Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Apr 23

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405

@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

The CFP List

An academic call for papers database.

cfplist.com

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Apr 16

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

www.scientificamerican.com

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Apr 15

Academic-style essays (so like theory, citations, bibliography), but contributors don't need to be academics.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Apr 15

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · Apr 11

@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it

ALT: a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it

media.tenor.com

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