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@wheelbug.bsky.social
lesbian, any/all. trying to replicate what twt was on here.
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Ill repeat something I said a while ago: I hope those who get to become professors 25 years from now remember the entire generation who never even got a chance. Take a moment to think about all the people doomed to never follow their dreams
Yikes!
From the article: "many peer institutions paused Ph.D. admissions altogether, suggesting the FAS may have considered a complete halt in line with its peers."
The government's attack on American universities seems to be hitting PhD admissions, fellowships, early career opportunities hardest.
From the article: "many peer institutions paused Ph.D. admissions altogether, suggesting the FAS may have considered a complete halt in line with its peers."
The government's attack on American universities seems to be hitting PhD admissions, fellowships, early career opportunities hardest.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ill repeat something I said a while ago: I hope those who get to become professors 25 years from now remember the entire generation who never even got a chance. Take a moment to think about all the people doomed to never follow their dreams
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Literally no one wants this janky surveillance garbage. It’s men who don’t like people and treat them like appliances making computers to simulate people they can treat like an appliance: Offensive on every human level.
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Literally no one wants this janky surveillance garbage. It’s men who don’t like people and treat them like appliances making computers to simulate people they can treat like an appliance: Offensive on every human level.
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Must read for the book world from @defector.com and something I would have cited the hell out of in Art of Libromancy if it'd been out before I wrote it. tl;dr: Publishing is always ideological, especially when we claim it's not.
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Must read for the book world from @defector.com and something I would have cited the hell out of in Art of Libromancy if it'd been out before I wrote it. tl;dr: Publishing is always ideological, especially when we claim it's not.
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One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
September 22, 2024 at 11:07 AM
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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Zhou Chunya (b. 1955). Year after Year the Flowers Bloom. 2009
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Zhou Chunya (b. 1955). Year after Year the Flowers Bloom. 2009
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I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
July 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
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my dad sent me this couplet in 2016, which i have been thinking about a lot. (the original is from a 7th century hymn by Appar, each English verse is a possible translation)
July 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
my dad sent me this couplet in 2016, which i have been thinking about a lot. (the original is from a 7th century hymn by Appar, each English verse is a possible translation)
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real analysis >>> breathless concern
The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector
In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was s...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
real analysis >>> breathless concern
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Genre of chart I’m increasingly interested in practicing - great big one that tries to map out parts of the world system:
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-syc...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everyb...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-co...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-syc...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everyb...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-co...
November 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Genre of chart I’m increasingly interested in practicing - great big one that tries to map out parts of the world system:
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-syc...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everyb...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-co...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-syc...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everyb...
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-co...
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
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Imprimi as fotinhas que tirei com a Game Boy Câmera em Brasília pro meu caderninho de lembranças 🥹
June 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Imprimi as fotinhas que tirei com a Game Boy Câmera em Brasília pro meu caderninho de lembranças 🥹
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If you want to know why I drip with disgust about these companies it’s because I love technology and I hate them for what they’ve done to the computer. It has never been perfect, but four or five companies decided that it had to be this bad, and they should be treated like war criminals for it.
June 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If you want to know why I drip with disgust about these companies it’s because I love technology and I hate them for what they’ve done to the computer. It has never been perfect, but four or five companies decided that it had to be this bad, and they should be treated like war criminals for it.
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"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits."
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia
Move over, Liberty Bell.
www.popsci.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits."
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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went long on my journey toward becoming a person who cooks, and a person who doesn't try to stop herself from eating: defector.com/how-i-got-co...
How I Got Comfortable With Cooking, And Eating | Defector
There’s a document on my computer called “food.txt.” According to the metadata, I created it in October 2023, and I’m sure I’ve opened it at least every couple days since. It would be incoherent to an...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
went long on my journey toward becoming a person who cooks, and a person who doesn't try to stop herself from eating: defector.com/how-i-got-co...