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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social · 6d

Do join me and @callanid.bsky.social to talk buck baskets, feisty wives and small town Tudor life👇

Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 17d

Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Join us on 6 Oct at 6pm to delve into the new OWC edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social &
@callanjd.bsky.social

All welcome! Register now via Eventbrite & you will be sent a Zoom link before the event. #teamenglish

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Merry Wives of Windsor

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor from Oxford World's Classics.

shakespeare-webinar-merry-wives.eventbrite.co.uk

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1st ed. (London, 1813), at Christie's, New York (est. US$120,000-180,000 - but will go for more). Long #c18th #c18 #18thc

First edition in a contemporary binding, with ownership inscriptions dated less than eight weeks after publication. In each volume is the ownership inscription, dated 20 March 1813, of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry (1774-1849). FitzGerald was the husband of Maria La Touche, a cousin by marriage of Mary La Touche. Austen records in her letters that she visited and was visited by Mary and her daughter Miss East when Austen was in London in 1811, 1814 and 1815, straddling the publication of Pride and Prejudice. The three volumes, standing upright.

Volume 1, open at title page with ownership inscription.

Volume 1, open at page 1 ('It is a truth universally acknowledged, ...')

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 17d

So, this just got a whole lot more real...☠️⚔️🌹

Title page for Oxford World's Classics edition of William Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth Part Two with an introduction by Kavita Mudan Finn, text edited by Rory Loughnane

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 17d

Yaaaaaaay! I’m so looking forward to reading this!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 17d

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 24d

I wish I could sit in! This sounds amazing.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28d

Meanwhile…

Virginia HBCUs shutdown due to threats

Virginia universities take swift action amid threats. Virginia State University and Hampton University close campuses for safety.

hbcugameday.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 29d

Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver.

Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · Sep 9

📖 Concurrent Printing, Watermarks, and the Print Run of the First Folio 📖

Learn more in Pervez Rizvi's article in the September 2025 issue of *PBSA*

Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio🔗

🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736969

#BookHistory #Bibliography

Black text on a purple background with information about an article in a recent issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Black text on a purple background. Quote from the abstract of the article with information about the author at the bottom.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wait what?

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · Sep 9

Iran-Contra's Oliver North just secretly married Iran-Contra's Fawn Hall, and the person who found out was Clinton-Lewinsky scandal-breaker Michael Isikoff.
www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: An Iran-Contra Romance

Oliver North and Fawn Hall are wed in a “secret” ceremony in rural Virginia

www.spytalk.co

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 9

Slightly diminish a book

The Decent Gatsby

ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Slightly diminish a book

Glove in a Cold Climate

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · Sep 9

Slightly diminish a book

For Whom the Bell Dings

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · Sep 9

otherwise known as my and dan’s 10th anniversary party 🔟 🎉

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

A program for a close reading symposium at Emory University on November 7, 2025, in Room 208 in Convocation Hall, from 8:15 to 5:15, with breakfast, lunch, and panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Sep 8

this should be the attitude of almost anyone in a public role - including faculty at universities

Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 8

"fuck you, make me" would be my overwhelming ethos as a district judge at this point

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh no. I am so sorry.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Sep 8

The damaging effects of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence reverberate in multiple directions, often passing down from generation to generation. Domestic abuse cannot be explained away as a “little fight.” Everyday this man telegraphs to the world just how vile and disgusting he is.

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 8

Catherine Doyenne’s r looks like a match to the document but that’s not enough to go on. :(

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · Sep 8

The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars.

Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social

Latest Daedalus journal features ASU scholars, asks readers to think about our past and future | ASU News

“How will we think about the past in the future?” asks the latest issue of Daedalus.

ow.ly

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 7

I will be asking students these questions from now on.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 3

In the middle of the week? Save that for Friday at 2pm so you can forget about it! :(

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 3

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Sep 3

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 3

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Sep 2

Not in Phoenix. It is almost always summer in Phoenix.

Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s the end of meteorological summer, that heartbreaking time when you explain to your garden furniture why you must now imprison it in a cold, dark shed. "It's for your own good," I tell an angry deckchair as it tries to snap shut on my hand. I lock the shed door, fighting back my tears.