Dr CS
@csmother87.bsky.social
Resident contract nerd for IP @NorthwesternUP (is forced to admit she's not really Machiavelli). She/her
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Dr CS
@csmother87.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Because I cannot be anything other than true to myself, a reminder that Petrarch and the Petrarchists are trash.
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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 4:15 PM
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.
Today's best lion - from a tapestry in the Museo della Basilica di San Marco
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Today's best lion - from a tapestry in the Museo della Basilica di San Marco
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Trolling each other since 1054
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Trolling each other since 1054
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.
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sir with all due respect when I go to bed tonight I have to know if I have a thing on the calendar tomorrow and at exactly what kind, or else I’ll die
September 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sir with all due respect when I go to bed tonight I have to know if I have a thing on the calendar tomorrow and at exactly what kind, or else I’ll die
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The AI push by the elite reminds me a lot of the time Elagabalus brought a meteorite to Rome and was like “we worship this now.”
August 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The AI push by the elite reminds me a lot of the time Elagabalus brought a meteorite to Rome and was like “we worship this now.”
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If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) - Ferrero Group, maker of Nutella, agrees to buy breakfast cereal maker WK Kellogg for about $3.1 billion.
$KLG
$KLG
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants
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People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is
June 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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cardinals raw dogging? what is this, the renaissance?
CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."
May 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
cardinals raw dogging? what is this, the renaissance?
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if you call yourself a star wars fan and you don’t listen to AMCA you are a Fool. nowhere else are you getting almost 4 hours of podcast covering like 90 minutes of cartoon for 9 year olds
With Andor Season 2 starting tomorrow, people have been asking us when we're going to find the time to drop the Rebels Finale episode. Easy: We did it just now. amorecivilizedage.net/109-a-world-...
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast: 109: A World Between Worlds, A Fool's Hope, and Family Reunion – and Farewell (Rebels 72 - 74)
It took us a little bit longer than we planned, but we've done it: We finished Rebels. And hey, in the process we sort of learned that time is sort of a malleable thing anyway, right? So kick back and...
amorecivilizedage.net
April 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
if you call yourself a star wars fan and you don’t listen to AMCA you are a Fool. nowhere else are you getting almost 4 hours of podcast covering like 90 minutes of cartoon for 9 year olds
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I’m sorry I’m not part of your weird old religion and I’m sorry I don’t understand this creepy annual ritual but I just think golf is boring, ok?
April 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’m sorry I’m not part of your weird old religion and I’m sorry I don’t understand this creepy annual ritual but I just think golf is boring, ok?
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Passing the bill he wants passed gives him more power. Not passing the bill he wants takes away from his power. Pls stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.
March 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Passing the bill he wants passed gives him more power. Not passing the bill he wants takes away from his power. Pls stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.
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Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Sale of Ellen Raskin Estate Reveals Unpublished 'Westing Game' Sequel
International Literary Properties has acquired Raskin’s estate and, along with it, two previously unpublished manuscripts by the late author, including a sequel to her Newbery Award–winning mystery, '...
www.publishersweekly.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI!
What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science?
Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?
What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science?
Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?
March 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI!
What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science?
Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?
What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science?
Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?
My last 5 days
Aaaaand I’m going to need stitches.
I will say, there’s nothing like a low stakes trip to the ER to put all of your mundane complaints in perspective
I will say, there’s nothing like a low stakes trip to the ER to put all of your mundane complaints in perspective
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My last 5 days
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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
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Customer: MY CAR IS ALL BLACK, REFERRING TO THE BLACK PLAGUE
DMV: POOR TASTE/ BUBONIC PLAGUE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
DMV: POOR TASTE/ BUBONIC PLAGUE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
February 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Customer: MY CAR IS ALL BLACK, REFERRING TO THE BLACK PLAGUE
DMV: POOR TASTE/ BUBONIC PLAGUE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
DMV: POOR TASTE/ BUBONIC PLAGUE
Verdict: ACCEPTED
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she died as she lived, telling authors that their advance contract is a "real" contract www.chronicle.com/article/when...
Advice | ‘When Will I Get a Book Contract?’
The answer can vary from press to press, editor to editor, and project to project.
www.chronicle.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
she died as she lived, telling authors that their advance contract is a "real" contract www.chronicle.com/article/when...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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yes, I’ve [flips hair] still got it*
* impressive if probably unhealthy compartmentalization skills
* impressive if probably unhealthy compartmentalization skills
January 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
yes, I’ve [flips hair] still got it*
* impressive if probably unhealthy compartmentalization skills
* impressive if probably unhealthy compartmentalization skills