Marguerite Carrithers
@divinetautology.bsky.social
Currently getting my masters in Library Science, passionate about medieval studies, early modern printing, costuming, and other things I’m currently forgetting, she/her
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These businesspeople are going to innovate romance books by . . . doing exactly what romance authors have been doing for decades
Also their book covers look like they were made by someone who has never read a book in their life
Also their book covers look like they were made by someone who has never read a book in their life
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
These businesspeople are going to innovate romance books by . . . doing exactly what romance authors have been doing for decades
Also their book covers look like they were made by someone who has never read a book in their life
Also their book covers look like they were made by someone who has never read a book in their life
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Also, surprising nobody, they’re focusing on hiring non-romance writers because what could romancelandia POSSIBLY know about how to make romance books appealing
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Also, surprising nobody, they’re focusing on hiring non-romance writers because what could romancelandia POSSIBLY know about how to make romance books appealing
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
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I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
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This past weekend Skeuomorph GA @divinetautology.bsky.social led a workshop for kids & parents as part of the "Spurlock Sundays" series in local museums & cultural orgs—participants drew designs & then overprinted them—the results are delightful!
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This past weekend Skeuomorph GA @divinetautology.bsky.social led a workshop for kids & parents as part of the "Spurlock Sundays" series in local museums & cultural orgs—participants drew designs & then overprinted them—the results are delightful!
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
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An incredibly macabre irony that at the same moment mass language archives are being looted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, our own public access to our preeminent form of archiving language is being slowly strangled to death.
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
An incredibly macabre irony that at the same moment mass language archives are being looted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, our own public access to our preeminent form of archiving language is being slowly strangled to death.
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Ivory does not Bleed, Victor,
Flesh does!
Perhaps my favorite part of Frankenstein was this medical teaching moment! Thanks for playing with one of these extraordinary eighteenth-century interactive anatomy dolls @realgdt.bsky.social! (The anachronistic Struwwelpeter reading was a close second.)
Flesh does!
Perhaps my favorite part of Frankenstein was this medical teaching moment! Thanks for playing with one of these extraordinary eighteenth-century interactive anatomy dolls @realgdt.bsky.social! (The anachronistic Struwwelpeter reading was a close second.)
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ivory does not Bleed, Victor,
Flesh does!
Perhaps my favorite part of Frankenstein was this medical teaching moment! Thanks for playing with one of these extraordinary eighteenth-century interactive anatomy dolls @realgdt.bsky.social! (The anachronistic Struwwelpeter reading was a close second.)
Flesh does!
Perhaps my favorite part of Frankenstein was this medical teaching moment! Thanks for playing with one of these extraordinary eighteenth-century interactive anatomy dolls @realgdt.bsky.social! (The anachronistic Struwwelpeter reading was a close second.)
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Back in the binding circle @skeuomorphpress.org finishing the Le Guin books. Will be finally mailing them next week!
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Back in the binding circle @skeuomorphpress.org finishing the Le Guin books. Will be finally mailing them next week!
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any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
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Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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Somehow I missed this news today. 😱 Thanks to her for working through concrete implications for people.
This trans woman legal researcher on Reddit has given, I think, the best answers encompassing the current passport situation
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Somehow I missed this news today. 😱 Thanks to her for working through concrete implications for people.
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Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Seems like every week I walk in to find new messaging from our local Luddite Society drying on the racks @skeuomorphpress.org
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Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
![An ad for the Friend AI pendant that is, according to a post on Redditt, at the Fullerton CTA stop. The ad reads, "friend. [frend] noun. someone who listens, responds, and supports you." A person has written, "AI is not your friend" over the image of the pendant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uufz3dvrdnbm6ptii46y7j7u/bafkreidv2q5m54fchg5zocga7igukl6rlss4mdzxlkkcklw5wnrc7sccga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
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Excellent piece and worth reading. They’re serious about wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, and things to look out for along the way include efforts to control access to contraception and to eliminate no-fault divorce, both of which are widely discussed on the right even away from the fringes.
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Excellent piece and worth reading. They’re serious about wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, and things to look out for along the way include efforts to control access to contraception and to eliminate no-fault divorce, both of which are widely discussed on the right even away from the fringes.
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on "Early Modern Asexualities," in person at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (and streamed online), January 5-7, 2026.
Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤
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Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤
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November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on "Early Modern Asexualities," in person at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (and streamed online), January 5-7, 2026.
Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤
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Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤
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If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is.
Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.
Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is.
Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.
Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.
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During our summer exhibition 'Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity', we ran a fun paper doll activity. It was a huge hit! As a thank you for all the creativity our younger visitors shared, we took the opportunity on the final day of the exhibition to picture them alongside their inspirations! 👗✨
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
During our summer exhibition 'Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity', we ran a fun paper doll activity. It was a huge hit! As a thank you for all the creativity our younger visitors shared, we took the opportunity on the final day of the exhibition to picture them alongside their inspirations! 👗✨