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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for asking 🙏🏼

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 9d

Precisely: 1986.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 9d

I emigrated long before Witcher, but I’d also never heard the circus/monkeys saying while living in Poland 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 9d

I hate it that my first association was Cory Lewandowski instead of Robert.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 18d

Jabba the Rat, wow

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 23d

I can also imagine 7) Use to further blackmail universities (major H1B visa hubs) into submission.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 24d

That's my question exactly! There's no language exempting universities in the proclamation itself afaik...

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 25d

Thinking of all the college faculty on H1Bs who may be flying back home from a conference this Sunday. I was one myself for 4-5 years in the 1990s, and my visa status felt extra safe and unproblematic then.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 26d

hear, hear

Micah @rincewind.run · 26d

the list of conditions that qualify you is fairly extensive, but may I suggest a simpler route: lying

seriously, I just checked the “I’m eligible” box online when scheduling and the pharmacist didn’t ask me shit, they just gave me the shot

Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 26d

How are under-65s getting COVID boosters? I want one!

Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 26d

Yup, did this today (in RI), no issues whatsoever.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · 28d

Same here, except later in the day.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28d

Motto

In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Sep 14

There's a wonderful essay inspired by this image, by the Cape Verdean writer Joaquim Arena: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A Majestic Knight Rides Past - Words Without Borders

Cape Verdean writer Joaquim Arena paints a picture of the life of Afro-Portuguese nobleman João de Sá Panasco in this excerpt from his memoir-history hybrid Under Our Skin, out now from Unnamed Press.

wordswithoutborders.org

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tailor-made for manufactured outrage: How dare you pollute children’s literature with GENDER?!

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Sep 7

The exhibition was amazing! Here’s one of my favorites.

Painting by Gustave Caillebotte, with a woman reading a newspaper in the foreground and a man reclining on the sofa with a book in the background.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 2

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024.

It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness.

They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 30

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year).

Just read it. My God.

Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Aug 28

thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Aug 25

In the same category, “Cheeto Benito” tops them all imho (rhyme is so important).

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Anna M. Klobucka @amklobucka.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 20

Can anyone recommend a piece on AI in education that uses the concept of "deskilling?" I'll explain why I'm asking in the next post.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskill...

Deskilling - Wikipedia

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

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