Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn
@carrielynnland.bsky.social
#PhD candidate in #ScienceFiction; master's on #Dune; podcaster & host of New Books in #Secularism; #academicsky
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Tis better to have shoved an ass
Than never to have shoved at all
Than never to have shoved at all
This morning I learned that Tennyson, when young, once bodily picked up a troublesome donkey and set it aside. Which of our contemporary poets could do as much?
December 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Tis better to have shoved an ass
Than never to have shoved at all
Than never to have shoved at all
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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
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Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Pretty great, unexpected news. (Also, it’s not just about “driving the whales crazy” 🙄)
‘wind farm gave rise to benthic ecosystem—dominated by seafloor organisms - colonies of oysters and barnacles—that was nonexistent…researchers think rough turbine surfaces provided optimal habitat…predatory fish followed the food…developed stable ecosystem’
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Pretty great, unexpected news. (Also, it’s not just about “driving the whales crazy” 🙄)
@michaelburns.bsky.social did I hear you say you had a book in the works, or was that wishful thinking?
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@michaelburns.bsky.social did I hear you say you had a book in the works, or was that wishful thinking?
Self-loathing is the mother of good invention 😂
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Self-loathing is the mother of good invention 😂
News flash: university students really love science fiction in the classroom too (but you think anyone has a budget for such a professorship? 🙄)
One thing that stands out about this list: people love science fiction!
Ok that's not surprising, but it *is* surprising in the context of the Norton Anthology. Especially because in this edition, they added a new special section for SF.
These authors account for 25% of all the checkouts!
Ok that's not surprising, but it *is* surprising in the context of the Norton Anthology. Especially because in this edition, they added a new special section for SF.
These authors account for 25% of all the checkouts!
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
News flash: university students really love science fiction in the classroom too (but you think anyone has a budget for such a professorship? 🙄)
A Meal of Thorns pod is far and away my favourite recent find. I’ve been looking for academic book chat on my interests (science fiction & adjacent) for years and really never found it. Can recommend this one highly enough 🐉🙌🏻
"What *are* the elves?" For our episode on Tolkien's THE SILMARILLION, @tallesteden.bsky.social of Death // Sentence joins to talk about power & choice, whether adaptations are unfailingly blasphemous or sometimes really good, and hope in dark times.
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A Meal of Thorns 18 – THE SILMARILLION with Eden Kupermintz
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Eden KupermintzTitle: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienHost…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A Meal of Thorns pod is far and away my favourite recent find. I’ve been looking for academic book chat on my interests (science fiction & adjacent) for years and really never found it. Can recommend this one highly enough 🐉🙌🏻
@piatpod.bsky.social she beat Anna to it: www.threads.com/@charlenekay...
Charlene Kaye (@charlenekaye) on Threads
I’m talking WAP WAP WAP, Father
www.threads.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
@piatpod.bsky.social she beat Anna to it: www.threads.com/@charlenekay...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
Where do you sell that?
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Where do you sell that?
Loved these books as a kid. My teacher read the first one to the class and I read the sequels the library had.
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Loved these books as a kid. My teacher read the first one to the class and I read the sequels the library had.
I love a good “adversarial”, “malicious” poetry story 📚
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I love a good “adversarial”, “malicious” poetry story 📚
Always exciting to see a Musk property so embarrassingly surpassed 🛰️
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Always exciting to see a Musk property so embarrassingly surpassed 🛰️
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Um … I literally don’t know what any of those words mean.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Um … I literally don’t know what any of those words mean.
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Smart people keep saying…
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Smart people keep saying…
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
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Please reply with your favorite No Kings photos!
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Please reply with your favorite No Kings photos!
Mange la résistance ! 💪🏻🥰
Someone in Sacramento made these great 'Protest Cookies' for the No Kings rally
October 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Mange la résistance ! 💪🏻🥰
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.