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Eve Rickert (she/her)

@everickert.bsky.social

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Founder and mastermind, Talk Science to Me. Founder and publisher, Thornapple Press. Author, More Than Two. Dancer, climber, adventurer, cat servant. Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. Book inquiries to [email protected]. Offline until September.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hey! Today is my and @andreazanin.bsky.social's book birthday! More Than Two, Second Edition, is out now!

To say it took a LOT to make this book happen is an understatement. But I'm so glad it's finally here.

Please read, review, share...I hope you love it!

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More Than Two, Second Edition

This long-awaited second edition bridges emerging theories on attachment and relationship diversity with authors Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin’s insight and experience. The arcs of nonmonogamous partne...

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 9h

This was the KB thing. I had this up on TT and YT for a couple of days then made them private.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 9h

No it's fine. There's no details, and I might still need help.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 9h

IDK why, but this and the Kat Blaque thing have been the most intensely triggering things to have happened to me in the last year. I think it has something to do with agency? A feeling like others are flexing their power to keep me from moving forward?

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 9h

I appreciate the support and concern. The whole thing is kind of crazy-making.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 9h

Saw your FB post but can't seem to contact you there. Just so you know, I took down my thread here because I was worried about it somehow I flaming the situation more. GR support says they are "investigating the situation." IDK why it needs an investigation, but hopefully something good will result.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 12h

Mostly just sharing because this image made me giggle at a time that I really needed it.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of people have missed it somehow—we’d appreciate help getting the word out!

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 23h

Such a lovely review of More Than Two, Second Edition! Thanks for the thoughtful engagement with our book, Anthony. cc @everickert.bsky.social :) #morethantwobook #morethantwo
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Review – More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity, by Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin

Engaging in intentional nonmonogamy is like choosing to take an elective graduate degree in having relationships. “More Than Two” is the hefty book one would expect to be on the syllabu…

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. It's not GR as a whole I don't think. I did get a helpful responsible from their support team. They corrected the title. But he immediately reverted their edit.

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 1d

I did point out to him that he was being creepy and inappropriate, and he called me delusional and said I couldn't control who replied to me.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 2d

Mathematical text analysis confirms what the humans knew: we wrote a whole new book! 😁📚😁 Check out @everickert.bsky.social's thread if you're curious about how different More Than Two, Second Edition is from its predecessor. #morethantwobook #morethantwo

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

Today I asked ChatGPT to compare the PDFs of More Than Two (2014) and More Than Two, Second Edition (2024) to see how much of the text was actually changed, and whether the answer lined up with my and @andreazanin.bsky.social’s off-the-cuff estimate of ~95%.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I only need 16 more followers on Instagram before I'll have 1,000 and can go live again. Maybe you want to be one of the 16?

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

I would love it if someday a human would do a similar analysis, but I expect that'll be awhile.

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

So there you have it, folks. I let a robot read my book and I learned some interesting things.

If reading this made you want to read it, you can order it here:

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More Than Two, Second Edition

A modern topology of nonmonogamy's possibilities, updated and fully revised by Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin for the tenth anniversary.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

It produced similar tables for the chapters on rules & agreements and hierarchy and primary/secondary polyamory, but the summaries were most useful.

Screencap:

Verified Continuities and
Divergences
• Structural: same chapter title and placement within the "frameworks" section.
• Textual: less than 1 % identical wording.
• Conceptual: maintains the distinction between rules and agreements but profoundly redefines what makes each ethical.
• Ethical trajectory: 2014 champions independence; 2024 integrates autonomy into a matrix of relational and systemic ethics.

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Verified Continuities and Divergences
• Both editions share the same chapter title and placement within the "frameworks" section.
• Less than 1% identical wording, confirming a full rewrite.
• Conceptual continuity: both analyze hierarchy as an ethical challenge; divergence: the 2024 edition redefines it through power analysis and rhetorical critique.
In short, Hierarchy and Primary/Secondary Polyamory evolves from a guide for individual autonomy into a critique of power and consent structures.
The later edition integrates social theory and ethical transparency into the core of nonmonogamy discourse, transforming hierarchy from a personal choice into a question of justice and disclosure.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, once we course corrected (I scolded it a bit and it promised not to make up any more stuff), it produced some interesting tables comparing concepts for a few key chapters.

Here's the one for the two chapters on communication.

Screencap of table:

2014 Edition
Accuracy, clarity, and personal honesty
View of emotion: Feelings are personal responsibility
Treatment of conflict: Problem-solving through
logic and transparency

2024 Edition
Connection, mutual safety, and consent
Expands from self-expression to relational attunement
Feelings are co-regulated; Moves from individual to repair is shared work
collective accountability
Repairing trust through empathy and pacing
Adds trauma-informed and restorative frameworks

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2014 edition:
logic and transparency
Power analysis: Largely absent
Tone: Instructional, "toolkit"

2024 edition:
empathy and pacing
Explicit recognition of systemic and interpersonal power
Reflective, "practice of care"
and restorative frameworks
Adds sociocultural awareness
Stylistic and philosophic evolution

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

(Also, since when does ChatGPT care about copyright?)

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

It created tables of "quotes" from the two works that looked just a little off. After I looked for and didn't find a couple of them in the PDFs, I asked ChatGPT what was up, and it admitted it had been paraphrasing.

Oh those quotation marks? That just meant it was copying the *style*. Oops!

Screencap says:

Me:
I have checked some of these quotes against the PDFs and cannot find them. Are you paraphrasing?
ChatGPT:

Yes — that's an important clarification.
Those tables are paraphrased comparative summaries, not literal quotations. Here's what that means concretely:
• I did not copy or quote exact sentences from either PDF.
• Instead, I read and interpreted each chapter's language, tone, and argument, then re-expressed their meaning in simplified, side-by-side form so we can compare ideas without reproducing copyrighted text.
• Where you see quotation marks, they indicate representative phrasing in the style of the respective edition, not verbatim sentences.
(That's on me; I should have labeled them more clearly as paraphrases.)

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

It then asked if I wanted it to do a side-by-side comparison with a couple of chapters, and I said sure, because I was curious.

That's where things started to get kinda weird, ChatGPT style.

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

The conclusion too is pretty much what we've been saying all along: The echo of the old book is there, but the new book is...new.

Screencap says:
6. Summary
In essence:
• Exact overlap: minimal — the 2024 edition is not a revision of phrasing but a complete rewrite.
• Conceptual continuity: moderate — it retains the skeleton of topics explored, but the intellectual and ethical framing has evolved dramatically.
• Ethical shift: from "how to do poly right" to
"how to love justly in a complex, power-laden world."

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

But since this is ChatGPT, it didn't stop there, but went deeper into the specific thematic differences in the two works.

Screencap says:
4. Key Differences in Thematic
Emphasis
Autonomy vs. Interdependence
• 2014: Emphasized radical personal responsibility ("your feelings are yours to manage").
• 2024: Rebalances this with an ethic of care, mutual accountability, and empathy-explicitly rejecting "hyper-autonomy" as a distortion of earlier poly discourse.
Power and Harm
• 2014: Addressed boundaries and consent abstractly.
• 2024: Introduces an explicit chapter on Abuse, situates ethics within systemic power analysis (gender, colonialism, race), and acknowledges harm linked to earlier formulations of "ethical polyamory."

Screencap says:
Language Evolution
• Terms like primary/secondary poly and veto power remain but are reframed.
• "Ethical polyamory" gives way to
"nonmonogamy," "relational integrity," and
"kindness."
Contextual Voices
• 2014 Foreword (Janet Hardy): Roots the book in sex-positive subculture lineage (The
Ethical Slut).
• 2024 Foreword (Kim TallBear): Grounds nonmonogamy in Indigenous relational worldviews and critiques settler-colonial monogamy as a system of ownership and control.

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

The summary was super validating of what we've been saying for the last year: "while the conceptual backbone of the 2014 edition remains recognizable, the language and ethical orientation of the 2024 edition represent a near-complete rearticulation."

Screencap from ChatGPT that repeats the text of the post.

Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 2d

Then it did a semantic analysis of overlapping ideas, finding a similarly of around 50%. Which isn't too surprising given that they're both big manuals on nonmonogamy and will have to cover a lot of the same topics.

I kinda love the specific mention of "post-#metoo awareness."

Screencap says:
Semantic similarity = 45-55%
Many ideas and topics overlap (e.g., ethics, communication, jealousy, agreements, boundaries), but the framing, examples, and tone have been substantially rewritten to reflect 2020s thinking and post-#MeToo awareness.