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Stephanie Russo

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Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you use the code 25AFLY2 you can receive a 20% discount on pre-orders of the paperback version of The Anachronistic Turn! www.routledge.com/The-Anachron...

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethin...

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 2d

Every word of this is spot on
www.counterpunch.org?p=383759

The Shock of the Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs

It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This tendency endears the dim rascals

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 2d

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3d

The best part of these is theres basically no win-condition once you enter the octagon with him

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A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this

Interaction between Derek Guy and Matt Stoller on X, the Everything App. Stoller: "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you have to talk about your left wing views. You're slime." Guy replies: "not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted."

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5d

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 7d

Tried Valium for flight anxiety but it didn't work at all. My anxiety cannot be defeated!!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10d

Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 13d

In her case, she seems to be stuck in a deeply strange arrested development

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 13d

Somehow I can't relate to being either a billionaire or being perpetually 16

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 13d

I honestly cannot stand her music. I don't get it at all and her lyrics are cringe as hell

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 13d

I never usually comment about Taylor but I have to say, Charli's song was about complex professional jealousy and ambivalence (and not personal at all), and to respond to that with "you must be gay for me and also you do cocaine" would be cringe for a 12-year-old.

Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 13d

This Charli XCX diss track is just the worst, her worst since Reputation

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 13d

Oooh, happy birthday to her and how clever of her to be born on Mean Girls day!

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 14d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 14d

I don't know, if you're going to describe yourself as an "English teacher" (lol), I'd expect you to have some reading comprehension skills

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 14d

Precisely

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 14d

Actors are hot therefore AI is fine.

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 14d

JFC I feel dumber for reading this

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 14d

It's October 3rd

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 15d

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

Text from the Variety article on the sub quoted piece:

In a letter inviting her peers to join the re-established group, Fonda writes: "I'm 87 years old. I've seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I've been celebrated, and I've been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life. When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15d

The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.

Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org · 15d

ALWAYS consult your doctor before making any decisions about your reproductive health care, and look out for your peers by calling out disinformation online.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 16d

A new variant in the "AI makes false case citations" emerges jade.io/article/1156...

43. In support of their application, the renters have cited a number of

supposed authorities. In reality none of the cases referenced

actually exist. When questioned about these, the renters advised

the authorities were copied from the Al summary that resulted
from a simple Google search.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 16d

The president of the United States openly bragging about turning the army on to its own citizens to violently quell dissent and centrist men still calling for "civil debate"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 17d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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