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@bryoniadioica.bsky.social

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sex & murder & semiotic theory (elves & doomed revolutionaries & kpop men). Arriviste & dianize on ao3.

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 17h

Today’s #poemsontheunderground
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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not doing the math of adding up all my various accounts

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 19h

You’re an angel, thank you for all of these

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact: my PhD was on the golden age of detective fiction and thus a lot of Christie 🕵️‍♀️

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 23h

I’m recovering from a procedure on Tuesday/Wednesday, please rec books and long fic? 🩷

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3d

breaking into the louvre and just stealing napoleonic and second-empire jewellery is proof that 'money can't buy you taste' also applies to thieves

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 5d

This week is a bit dicey but next week I have some time between the end of teaching and final essays coming due to look at it, if that would help?

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 5d

Elevator?

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 5d

It is 2007. Barnacle is losing her mind over Patrick Stump.

It is 2011. Barnacle is losing her mind over Patrick Stump.

It is 2025. Barnacle is losing her mind over Patrick Stump.

It is 2040. Barnacle is —

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 6d

God your 2007 breakdowns over Patrick were god-tier

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 7d

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 8d

I've been keeping a bottle of cold brew in my office for an emergency and we're in the second to last week of the teaching semester, I'm breaking the seal

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 8d

You laugh at how we can’t cope with snow!

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 9d

all the trees in my street are coming into blossom and I *feel* suddenly happier. weird how that works!

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 9d

There's so much marking in my life but my brain is starting to bud with spring and to think about writing again.

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 9d

The horrible vicious circle of procrastination: I don’t want to do the thing, I want to be free of the thing, but the only way to be free of the thing is to do the thing

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 9d

who knew. gosh.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 15d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 11d

I haven’t really followed them since they were little baby teens and 1) they’re in their 30s now? It’s been, I guess, 14-15 years but that seems illegal, 2) :((((

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 11d

Oh no I don’t want to click. I remember their first season out of juniors…

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 12d

It’s the best time of the year — peonies are in season, the first cherry blossom blooming in my front yard

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 14d

Writing is literally finding these transitions, thinking through the big picture and the little, making sense of the events. The idea of handing off this process to AI is just shocking, and the fact that AI guys don't understand that suggests they do not understand much about art or writing.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 14d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 15d

Notes app.

convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 16d

just came across a description of one of gerard manley hopkins' terrible sonnets as ”a kind of cursed croissant, a damned doughnut' in a scholarly article. incroyable.

homer simpson is holding a plate with a donut on it .

ALT: homer simpson is holding a plate with a donut on it .

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convincing but fickle @bryoniadioica.bsky.social · 16d

Thick black paper or cardboard?