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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

@byzantienne.bsky.social

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speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true). unfortunately, I care about power lines now she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 11h

philologist, art historian, numismatist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 11h

You and me both…

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 15h

you could buy a book about the horrors of an actual embodied artificial intelligence (as opposed to the horrors of "artificial intelligence", for a change!) and support local bookshops

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 22h

oh I think you're going to love this

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

oh, thank you, I genuinely needed a thing to look forward to

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

eeeeeeeeeee OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS BOOK, I have loved this book since I was nine years old

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 1d

In our latest critical book-club, we talk about Melissa Scott's BURNING BRIGHT (@torbooks.bsky.social), a queer cyberpunk/space opera about political machinations and online role-playing games, with author Ursula Whitcher!

A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 2d

For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

... distressingly accurate

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

I love it.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

if you add me, the Plot will Happen to us, and it will probably involve local politics.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

If this particular senator was a Pingree, send my regards and best wishes.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 4d

Truth is precious and important. It’s not image-making and misleading people to grease a path.

@bradlander.bsky.social must deliver on his promise of major action on climate.

@nyccomptroller.bsky.social wields power. Use it.

Cc: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Protesters raise signs directed at Lander during his image-building but empty climate week event. This event and week would have been the obvious moment for him to deliver on his promise, but he has refused to do so. That blew a private promise of a deadline of summer or at the latest September. There’s still October, November and December for him to deliver. He should! For our part, we’re not going to quietly pretend all is fine and dandy when it’s not. We’re in a low trust society now and politicians like Lander breaking their promises is part of it. WE keep OUR word.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

well it could be

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Whenevir Ich heare of the bear yclept "32 Chunk" Ich thynke it ys a Teixcalaanli name from *A Memory Called Empire*

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

(the testimony is about regional market entry)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

(Tiny Dacquoises, if they work, should be two-bites-sized ganache-covered hazelnut/coffee dacquoise. I have made Large Dacquoise many times but Tiny Sharable Dacquoises is an experiment.)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

today:

writing testimony for a Public Regulation Commission case while simultaneously making Tiny Dacquoises for the New Mexico sacred harp convention that starts tomorrow

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, this is extremely neat!

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

You all should go look at these new pieces Viv has made - the mint and chocolate dagger necklaces and matching earrings absolutely kill me (and if I could wear mint I'd be asking to keep these.)

www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 5d

Time for some escapism!

Mint and chocolate jewelry. The mint-green glass fluoresces bright green under UV, so it may or may not be ever so slightly spicy as well as minty-fresh, but it's pretty gorgeous either way. The dark-chocolate version is lush and heavy-looking but easy to wear...

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

CAISO.

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

fucking hell.

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 6d

THIS ONE.

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 6d

you would think that having a moderate understanding of regulatory accounting for utilities would mean it was easy for me to do my own taxes

you would be WRONG

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 6d

perfect no notes.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 7d

it is true that all you need are shoes and Outside...

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 7d

yeah, that seems like a reason to pick a different activity to enact physical suffering upon yourself with

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 7d

back a decade ago, the last time I did running seriously, I did not experience a runner's high but I did experience the amazing 'runner's inability to think of anything at all but physical sensation' and thus 'runner's mood alteration away from meaningless rage/anxiety'?

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