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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3h

YEAH you do.

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Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · 6h

Kind of expensive, so if you are interested in reading What Has Been (1801), a feminist Minerva Press novel edited by Elizabeth Neiman and I about a woman who attempts to survive as a writer, have your library order it.

#c18th #c18 #18c #18thc #Romanticism #Gothic #FeministSky #Minervapress

What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students of the long eighteenth century. This critical edition includes an extensive introduc...

www.routledge.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3h

Finally my doctorate has led to petit bourgeois class status. 💅

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 4h

This is what Democratic lawmakers need to be doing: not giving up on groups that are unpopular because they've been targeted by hate campaigns, but TEACHING the public why those groups are being targeted and standing up for them.

Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 4h

"New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani released a video this weekend honoring the life and legacy of legendary transgender rights activist Sylvia Rivera, reaffirming promises to protect and expand services for trans New Yorkers if elected."

Watch Zohran Mamdani Give a Sylvia Rivera History Lesson in SOPHIE-Soundtracked Campaign Video

The New York City mayoral hopeful laid out his pro-LGBTQ+ plans.

www.them.us

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

So basically I need this event to sell out in the next fifteen minutes—it's for, as they say, a thing—and it would do my heart good if you could all make that happen. OK?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

I hope this absolutely destroys those companies.

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 4h

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Gunnar "Ghostly" Hamann 🎃👻 @ostprog.bsky.social · 9h

”Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize has become a common press frame for international affairs, from Gaza to Ukraine to India-Pakistan, highlighting how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.“

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4h

Homer in a pink shirt being taken away by goons: how can you tell who's sane and who's insane?

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 4h

link is still banned from bsky y’all

race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 4h

i am just link’s friend

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 17h

Lest we forget

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

I'm watching Triumph of the Will (1935) because I haven't seen it in a long time and people are insisting to me that you have to admit it's a good movie.

It's not a good movie. The idea that it has any value, even technically, is literally Nazi propaganda that's just endured.

Here's a real clip:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4h

Not to denigrate a legend, but you can see that he wasn't immediately funny if you read a Shepherd's Crown, which is finished in the sense that the plot is there, but has none of the jokes because he hadn't gotten there before he died.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

Thus the conspiracy posting.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

It is, which is why my strident argument might not be super effective. It's still true though!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5h

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 6h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 6h

Even Thomas Jefferson's personal library would be too expansive for these freaks. www.monticello.org/research-edu...

Qur'an owned by Thomas Jefferson

Find out why Jefferson owned a copy of the Koran in his library at Monticello.

www.monticello.org

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

My actual argument is much more strident than this! AI is fascist! Orwell wanted us to learn how to read for ourselves! Intermediaries are poisonous!

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 5h

Old literature has stood the test of time, while untested new ideas like AI might not pan out in the future. We know that reading books makes students smarter; we don't know that about AI, and it's too important to leave to experiments by corporations.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 5h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

news.antiwar.com

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 6h

"Watch Skip Intro Finish" is a perfect ten minutes of porn.

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