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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

@byzantienne.bsky.social

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speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true). unfortunately, I care about power lines now she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

What fascinates me about this is that I - a 100% prose writer, who has never even written for games - recognize EXACTLY this in my own methods of 'how do I build a world/set up a plot'.

'Can it generate the event I'm aiming for, or events like it, with equal emotional valence.'

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredibly powerful and resonant language, to the point of creating genuine emotional religious response in me (a Jewish person).

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we score a run?
ESTRAGON: Yes. Let's.

They do not score.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

I will now board a plane. I love baseball.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

Oh it’s awesome

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

In the ABQ airport watching the Tigers-Mariners game, which is in the bottom of the 14th. Good lord.

Baseball! 😍

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

I think I could maybe get, like ... appointed to Manhattan Community Board 7? with that order

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

I am sad to have missed this game.

(everything bagel, toasted, scallion cream cheese. I am a simple girl in this one fashion.)

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 2d

So proud to finally publish MotL’s public finance strategy for Mamdani’s NYC. This is a collective labor of love months in the making. Now is the time to democratize finance at every level of government, no exceptions.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

This is very intriguing (and exciting!)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

SO CUTE

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

Uuuuugh you know I love you but fuck you, Lissa 😆

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 3d

Scrapping the diversion road is a final victory for South Bronx neighborhood advocates who have spent the last two years sounding the alarm that bridge repairs were just a way for the state to quietly expand the Cross Bronx Expressway. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/18/r...

Reps. Torres, AOC Join to Oppose Hochul Effort to Widen Cross Bronx Expressway - Streetsblog New York City

The Bronx House reps told the governor that her plan to build a pair of hulking, highway-sized roads next to the existing scar is "doubling down on Robert Moses."

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

He picked his papal name for a reason.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 3d

All day at the NM Renewable Energy Transmission Authority’s energy storage workshop!

I am going to LEARN THINGS 😁😁😁

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

Oooh.

*immediate preorder*

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4d

Vaheesan's book is an agile experiment in heterodox economic and legal theory, which treats both political and electric power as contestable and malleable public goods.

Democracy in Power with Sandeep Vaheesan

We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (University…

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

honestly epistemological disorder is EXACTLY what is happening to ... well, most of us, honestly

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

philologist, art historian, numismatist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

You and me both…

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

you could buy a book about the horrors of an actual embodied artificial intelligence (as opposed to the horrors of "artificial intelligence", for a change!) and support local bookshops

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 5d

oh I think you're going to love this

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 6d

oh, thank you, I genuinely needed a thing to look forward to

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 6d

eeeeeeeeeee OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS BOOK, I have loved this book since I was nine years old

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 6d

In our latest critical book-club, we talk about Melissa Scott's BURNING BRIGHT (@torbooks.bsky.social), a queer cyberpunk/space opera about political machinations and online role-playing games, with author Ursula Whitcher!

A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 7d

For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 8d

... distressingly accurate

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