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Jes Battis
@jesbattis.bsky.social
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Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/jbattis
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · Oct 23
Fiction I’ve published:

The Winter Knight (Queer Arthurian Mystery): ecwpress.com/products/the...

Occult Special Investigator (Buffy meets CSI): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BL4/o...

Parallel Parks (Grad school + Ancient Roman RPG): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BKX/a...
Osi
Buy books online and find book series such as Osi written by Jes Battis from PenguinRandomHouse.com
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 8h
If a college drama were made today it would just be the professor helping students manage mental health crises and secure disability accommodations while trying to hook them up with free counseling and food banks--that's truly a lot of what we're doing.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 11h
TT position in comp lit, French/Spanish, U de M: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 11h
Love how news articles are saying "pro-Palestinian" and not "anti-genocide"
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Dillon @6sidedgames.bsky.social · 4d
Hey, a Wizards Win. You don't always see it.

Make sure to donate.
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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 7d
Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!
Promotional graphic with a purple and blue fantasy-themed background and crystal-like formations. The image features two logos: the Wizards of the Coast logo in rainbow gradient colors on the left, and the Trans Lifeline logo in white on the right. Large bold text in the center reads: “Support Trans Lifeline.” Below, smaller text says “Tune in Oct 4” next to the Twitch logo.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 5d
Can folks offer some suggestions for fundraising an academic event? What are some events/activities that can help to defray costs and build a bit of funding for the future? Bake sales? BBQs? Readings? Pub quiz nights? Throw them at me.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 7d
how long until I attend a bear run dressed as the Green Knight
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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 8d
Amazing how many treasures can be contained within 32 seconds.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 8d
"Knight Rider" (1984) s02e17, Garthe Knight (Michael Knight's evil twin) breaks out of prison. Now in glorious HD.
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 8d
Happy #InternationalTranslationDay!

Keep AI out of translation!
White text on a red field. Text reads: Translators are NOT traitors, with letters in bolder white offering the message "Translators NOT AI."
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 8d
TT job in African American literatures, U de M: accute.ca/2025/09/29/j...
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of English Studies (African American Literature) at Université de Montréal < ACCUTE
Vibrant, multidisciplinary and innovative, the Faculty of Arts and Science is one of Université de Montréal’s largest faculties. Through its 28 departments, schools, centres and one institute, it offe...
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 10d
Listening to my Phantom of the Opera tape (London cast) while bf naps and sun filters through the French doors, counting down to the release date of Final Fantasy Tactics, and actually life is pretty good at the moment.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 12d
consumers aren't gonna spend shit on this garbage because it sucks ass and does nothing useful, so I'm guessing their exit plan is the same as every other bubble, big taxpayer bailouts for the well connected players and devastation for everyone else
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12d
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13d
I know it's dumb, but the saying "life is what happens while you're making other plans" = centuries of philosophy and theory-making. Life is the thing that you're in, while you strive for all kinds of ideas and other lives that aren't necessarily good. You're alive in this moment and it's yours.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13d
I'm trying to design a composition course based on "slow reading and writing"--the idea that slowing down and engaging with complex processes over a long period can offer deeper ways of reading and writing. But it requires attention and patience, and those skills can become outcomes for the course.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13d
We're teaching a generation of students who have been recorded--often against their will--for their entire lives. They have little experience of privacy or boundaries. But many eras had a similar lack of privacy, and we can work with that. We can gently re-build attention and model safety.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13d
I hear a lot of complaints about addiction to social media. And I agree that social media can be highly engaging and extremely manipulative. But capitalism structures the delivery of virtually every art form. We've always been manipulated. We have to figure out how to co-exist in that chaos,
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13d
Instead of all the hand-wringing articles about how Gen Z can't read and the Internet broke civilization, we need to think more deeply about how folks are reading and experiencing stories when our lives are half-digital. Screens have always existed in one form or another. How are we reading now?
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 14d
Is there a way to hack Outlook and keep it from displaying someone's old name? It only seems to register legal name changes, but if someone is in the middle of that process, how do you alter the name on their email?
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 14d
CRC in Creative Writing and Translation Studies: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15d
The funding necessary for tech support to ensure every hybrid session runs smoothly is usually about $100/hour, which can really add up. And if you want good sound quality, that can be expensive as well.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 15d
As a trans woman who is proudly anti-fascist, I'm just wondering if Trump designating me a terrorist TWICE cancels out?

Am I back to upstanding citizen? Or am I a SUPER DUPER terrorist?
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15d
If you were going to attend a queer and trans fantasy conference in a smaller Canadian city, would you rather it be 1) online, or 2) in-person? Hybrid is often so expensive that it's beyond the budgets of most smaller schools. But in-person with some remote presenters is also possible.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15d
Just an 18thc autistic scientist cataloguing and painting every freshwater fish in Britain: www.rct.uk/collection/s...
RCIN 1057038 - The Fresh-water fishes of Great Britain / by Mrs T. Edward Bowditch.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15d
Instructors teaching composition studies: how are you detecting AI without using programs like TurnItIn? What are some practices that are working for you?
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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 15d
I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️

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Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage
Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc
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