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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 7h

Dreamt it was the end of the world and the hands of all the clocks started bending slowly outwards. Morning.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 19h

me too (currently grading and aaaaarrrrghh)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 21h

ooh yeah, it’s great! I cited it in my PhD

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 23h

Online Lecture Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00pm EDT @sims-mss.bsky.social J. D. Sargan on Trans Studies as Book Historical Method @jdsargan.bsky.social

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 23h

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Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social · 1d

Hey British children’s lit pals! What is it about “Susan”? I’m British Gen X and I think it was maybe considered old fashioned by families naming their daughters in the late 60s?
But:
Susan the First Mate in the Swallows and Amazons
Susan the Queen in Narnia
Susan the sister of Colin in Garner

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

haaaa me too!

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Jennifer Flayley @flannelle.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Jilly Cooper. I accidentally own 8 copies of Octavia by you because I was trying to replace a specific edition which I thought my boss had gifted to me but she actually wanted it back because it belonged to her late mother and I didn't have the heart to tell her I'd dropped it in the bath

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

I truly do adore how teaching at a university forces you to reread and rereread it is a discipline and a blessing

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 1d

gaslight gatekeep ghoulboss

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

I like that his name sounds like lemon curd

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 2d

I've just realised that the Margaret Wise Brown who wrote the great Goodnight, Moon is also the MWB who commissioned Gertrude Stein's book for children, The World is Round. This is a delightful connection to make on the bedroom shelves. And this story about the amusing cake is the perfect footnote.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

A page from Leonard Marcus’s biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (1992) in which he describes MWB receiving the manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World is Round. ‘In the happy confusion, everyone forgot about supper and Margaret had not thought to pick up refreshments. The only food in the house was an amusing cake in the shape of a boat, which she had ordered for a friend’s going-away party and which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature.’

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

:)

also both illustrated by Clement Hurd

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

There’s this: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/oc...

And their edited collection, Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2014)

Gill Partington and Adam Smyth | At the Shredding Plant

‘I hate books. Can't read them. They send me to sleep,' says the man responsible for annihilating tens of thousands of...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

‘As T.S. Eliot said of the poetry of Swinburne, “it is effective because it appears to be a tremendous statement, like statements made in our dreams.”’

yes! The only way to read the strangest picture books imo, e.g. Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon— which she did indeed dream —

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

‘I recommend reading it slowly and solemnly, pausing on the linebreaks and the rhymes.‘

@jntod.bsky.social on Gertrude Stein’s children’s book

💙 ⭕️

someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

It’s really good, funny and bleak

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but ‘President Trumbull’? That startled me

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

bsky.app/profile/nata...

Natasha Bernal @natashabernal.bsky.social · Feb 25

Last week, a handful of Jeep owners reported that they had advert popping up on their dashboard every time they braked. This was a glitch, but the idea of using this type of messaging in the future very much isn't. Great story by @aarianmarshall.bsky.social

WIRED @wired.com · Feb 25

When Jeep owners complained ads were appearing while driving, the carmaker said it was a glitch. But as auto makers consider connected car opportunities, in-vehicle selling might be too tempting to ignore.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

www.wired.com/story/i-hate...

I Hate My Friend

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

www.wired.com

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

bsky.app/profile/wolv...

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

bsky.app/profile/scri...

Sandra Schwab @scribblingsandy.bsky.social · 4d

Are you in the EU? Then check this out: There's a proposal to scan ALL of our private digital communcations, including encrypted messages and our pictures. This basically means mass surveillance of all EU citizens and severely undermines our rights + democracies.

fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

and ahead of teaching FEED, a little list of recent stories I plan to draw my students' attention to: bsky.app/profile/self...

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 4d

anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise

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