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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2h

For just once, I like a “time-saving” piece of technological innovation to actually save me time instead of stealing more of it away from me.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 20h

a new Chris Kraus book > a new Pynchon book

And I say this as someone who enjoys the heck out of Pynchon.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 1d

See Laura Miller's 2009 "The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler"

Of the Big Three distributors described in Miller's article, only Ingram remains. (Advanced Marketing Services was acquired by Baker & Taylor in 2007.)

doi.org/10.1207/S153...

The Rise and Not-Quite Fall of the American Book Wholesaler

This article uses historical and interview data to examine the transformation of the wholesale sector in the American book industry. In contrast to the dominant pattern in other consumer goods indu...

doi.org

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

About once a year, I get a request for a bagpipe gig that is so bizarre sounding, I wonder if I will live to tell the tale of it later on.

Anyway, it just happened again and of course I said ‘yes.’

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

True, but it might be interesting to see how that argument develops different you out of geography as a field

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Looks pretty freaking fire

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg rules. Incredibly brave, righteous leadership and clarity, at an age when my main hobby was smoking weed.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

You might!

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

“So far in 2025, every major sector from utilities and industrials to healthcare and banks has fared better in the rest of the world than in the US … AI better deliver for the US, or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.” 🙃

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

I would totally befriend a horse named Ian.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Unclear. Gonna have to get back to you on that one.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Relatable.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Was excited that the book I’m reading has a character named Sheila, but then it turned out to be a horse.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

Yay! Super cool!

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

Alt text:
Left, a view of blue sky and trees sporting fall foliage; right, view from a high mountain summit showing valleys flush with fall foliage and distant mountain peaks

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

A day of flagrant, impolite beauty, as seen from the heights of Mt Worcester.

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 3d

“Once a company is too big to fail, it becomes too big to jail, and then too big to care. Antitrust law was designed to fight that apathy and force companies to care.”

Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 3d

“[T]he internet is not the most important issue facing us today ... But the internet is the terrain upon which these fights will be waged. It is the communications medium we will use to organise to save our species and planet from their imminent eradication …”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d

💪

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 3d

“[T]he internet is not the most important issue facing us today ... But the internet is the terrain upon which these fights will be waged. It is the communications medium we will use to organise to save our species and planet from their imminent eradication …”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 4d

Last night, I got kicked in the face by someone who was crowd surfing and then watched a naked man play accordion.

This was all at the same show.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 6d

Tha i mar bharaille de sgadan saillte:
chan eil agad ach do chròg
a stobadh ann, agus dòrlach a thoirt a-mach,
reamhar is tiugh leis a’ bhuntàta…

—Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul, “Bàrdachd”
#NationalPoetryDay #poem #poetry #Gaelic
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/bardachd/

Bàrdachd
Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul

Tha i mar bharaille de sgadan saillte:
chan eil agad ach do chròg
a stobadh ann, agus dòrlach a thoirt a-mach,
reamhar is tiugh leis a’ bhuntàta.

Stob
an t-ìm na mheasg
agus tha cuirm agad: Eliot is Donnachadh Bàn,
le do làmhan rùisgte. Seachain
forca is sgian: fàg sin aig na sgoilearan.

Nuair a thig thu gu bonn a’ bharaille
sgròb na craicinn ri chèile,
dean ràth chnàimhean,
lìon lannan
‘s tilg sin thairis
dìreach mu àm reothairt.

Ma ghlacas tu adag,
thoir leat i: nuair tha an sgadan
gann, nì easgann fraighte fhèin a’ chùis
san acras.

Poetry
Translator: Angus Peter Campbell

It’s like a barrel of salt herring:
you only have to stick your paw
in, and lift a handful out,
thick and juicy with the tatties.

Pile
the butter in the middle
and you have a feast: Eliot and Duncan Bàn,
eaten with your bare fingers. Don’t use
a knife and fork: leave that to the scholars.

When you reach the bottom of the barrel
scrape the skins together,
make a raft of bones,
a net of fine filament,
and fling it over the side
just after the spring tide.

If you catch a common haddock,
take it anyway: in the absence
of a fat herring even eels
taste fine when deep-fried.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 6d

MY WINNIPEG = one of my all-time favorites.

The event was about Fellini — Maddin introduced his own short “The Rabbit Hunters” (which was supposed to be inspired by Fellini) and then gave a mini lecture on Fellini’s TOBY DAMMIT, followed by screenings of both films. Truly incredible!

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 6d

Both, I like to think

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