Things I'm Reading
@thingsimreading.bsky.social
I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent.
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
[credit avatar image - I’m a Rainbow Too, by Jeffrey Gibson]
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
[credit avatar image - I’m a Rainbow Too, by Jeffrey Gibson]
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There are electeds with dual citizenship with a certain state committing genocide
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country”
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There are electeds with dual citizenship with a certain state committing genocide
Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.
stem needs humanities
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
stem needs humanities
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Jennifer Bartlett, "Ten P.M.", 1991-92, Oil on canvas, 84" x 84"
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Jennifer Bartlett, "Ten P.M.", 1991-92, Oil on canvas, 84" x 84"
Great new paper from Ēko on new reasons OpenAI sucks:
OpenAI moved quickly to try and rectify this by introducing stronger
moderation. Yet this research shows that OpenAI’s content moderation,
especially for younger users, is severely lacking, as teenage users are
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OpenAI moved quickly to try and rectify this by introducing stronger
moderation. Yet this research shows that OpenAI’s content moderation,
especially for younger users, is severely lacking, as teenage users are
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December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great new paper from Ēko on new reasons OpenAI sucks:
OpenAI moved quickly to try and rectify this by introducing stronger
moderation. Yet this research shows that OpenAI’s content moderation,
especially for younger users, is severely lacking, as teenage users are
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OpenAI moved quickly to try and rectify this by introducing stronger
moderation. Yet this research shows that OpenAI’s content moderation,
especially for younger users, is severely lacking, as teenage users are
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Whoa, Nelly Bookmarking. The Modern Media Playbook: Elite Strategies for Digital Influence by Manu Singh Burson
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In the following paper, I examine how fake social media accounts boost politicians' online popularity and this phenomenon's subsequent spillover on traditional news coverage.
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In the following paper, I examine how fake social media accounts boost politicians' online popularity and this phenomenon's subsequent spillover on traditional news coverage.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Whoa, Nelly Bookmarking. The Modern Media Playbook: Elite Strategies for Digital Influence by Manu Singh Burson
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In the following paper, I examine how fake social media accounts boost politicians' online popularity and this phenomenon's subsequent spillover on traditional news coverage.
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In the following paper, I examine how fake social media accounts boost politicians' online popularity and this phenomenon's subsequent spillover on traditional news coverage.
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Today marks the 6th anniversary of the first documented covid infection in Wuhan, China — the last day of life as we know it. It is also #WorldAidsDay and the current admin won’t be honoring it.
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today marks the 6th anniversary of the first documented covid infection in Wuhan, China — the last day of life as we know it. It is also #WorldAidsDay and the current admin won’t be honoring it.
Excerpt from Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Excerpt from Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang.
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#SouthSide is an incredible show. So many good one liners, it is hard to pick. I love it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#SouthSide is an incredible show. So many good one liners, it is hard to pick. I love it.
One of the most pernicious things about liberalism, esp when it intersects with supremacy ideologies: it omits critical details to reduce opposition to oppressive systems as individual choice or opinion. The article fails to mention he was arrested at the border with Gaza while zionist settlers
Israeli conductor @ilanvolkov.bsky.social decided to use his “biggest concert of the season” in London to speak out about the Gaza war: “Closing our eyes is not an option”, he tells @aloner.bsky.social.
The viral Israeli conductor: ‘Closing our eyes is not an option’
Ilan Volkov on his political intervention at the Proms—and why Gaza is all that matters
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
One of the most pernicious things about liberalism, esp when it intersects with supremacy ideologies: it omits critical details to reduce opposition to oppressive systems as individual choice or opinion. The article fails to mention he was arrested at the border with Gaza while zionist settlers
This episode from The #Kink Compass made me cry and helped me sort out aspects of an experience I had with a bad-to-a-lifechanging degree, narcissistic “dom” who conceived kink as something he does “to” women (he always said “girls”) rather than with them. #bdsm
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Emotional Currents: Catharsis & Release
This episode dives into something a lot of us experience, but not many people talk about openly: the laughter, the tears, the shaking, the stillness. All the emotional release that can rise during a s...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This episode from The #Kink Compass made me cry and helped me sort out aspects of an experience I had with a bad-to-a-lifechanging degree, narcissistic “dom” who conceived kink as something he does “to” women (he always said “girls”) rather than with them. #bdsm
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ECUADOR REJECTS NOBOA’S RIGHTWARD TURN from NACLA: On Sunday, November 16, Ecuadorian voters decisively rejected President Daniel Noboa’s attempt to push the country further down a right-wing, authoritarian path.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ECUADOR REJECTS NOBOA’S RIGHTWARD TURN from NACLA: On Sunday, November 16, Ecuadorian voters decisively rejected President Daniel Noboa’s attempt to push the country further down a right-wing, authoritarian path.
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Highly recommend the documentary, The Silence of Others, by Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar on the “memory law” or “pact of forgetting” in Spain — which halted the reckoning of Franco’s crimes (400K+ people gone), as if a shared vision of the future were possible w/o reckoning with the past.
20 de noviembre: No, hace 50 años no acabó el franquismo. Solo se murió el dictador. El régimen siguió tan tranquilo, arropado por coronas, silencios y continuidades. Y hoy aún asoma, con una frescura que desmiente cualquier mito de “transición democrática”.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Highly recommend the documentary, The Silence of Others, by Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar on the “memory law” or “pact of forgetting” in Spain — which halted the reckoning of Franco’s crimes (400K+ people gone), as if a shared vision of the future were possible w/o reckoning with the past.
#Booksky: What books left an impression on you this year — a memorable passage, good story, terrible character? I am curious.
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#Booksky: What books left an impression on you this year — a memorable passage, good story, terrible character? I am curious.
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
Currently reading #Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley and there are so many beautiful passages. Here are a few I’ve come across, just a few pages into this #novel:
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November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Currently reading #Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley and there are so many beautiful passages. Here are a few I’ve come across, just a few pages into this #novel:
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#Music q: When was the last time you listened to an album all the way through?
My last two times were Noname’s debut & Tierra Whack’s Whackworld. But before that I can’t remember.
My last two times were Noname’s debut & Tierra Whack’s Whackworld. But before that I can’t remember.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#Music q: When was the last time you listened to an album all the way through?
My last two times were Noname’s debut & Tierra Whack’s Whackworld. But before that I can’t remember.
My last two times were Noname’s debut & Tierra Whack’s Whackworld. But before that I can’t remember.
Zionists and Nazis: A love story
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Zionists and Nazis: A love story
Anyone see #HuntingWives? It is super campy and fun. I do have to say the difference btw scenes w het actresses with intimacy coaches and actual queer women is far more stark than I could have imagined. #gaydar #observations
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Anyone see #HuntingWives? It is super campy and fun. I do have to say the difference btw scenes w het actresses with intimacy coaches and actual queer women is far more stark than I could have imagined. #gaydar #observations
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Pretty heartbroken that Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, passed away. She was an incredible organizer for #disability justice and her clear, rigorous vision for a world that is optimized — not antagonized by — disability really changed the way I think. (1/3)
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Pretty heartbroken that Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, passed away. She was an incredible organizer for #disability justice and her clear, rigorous vision for a world that is optimized — not antagonized by — disability really changed the way I think. (1/3)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you are Muslim or Palestinian and care about poor people, you have no place in the #Democratic Party. That is one of the lessons this year. #mamdani
Listen to our episode of the Briefing with @katmabu.bsky.social:
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If you are Muslim or Palestinian and care about poor people, you have no place in the #Democratic Party. That is one of the lessons this year. #mamdani
Evergreen, forever, eternal. #bdsm
🧵 (1/5)The term "pleasure dom" feels like an attempt to signal an aversion to toxic masculinity, but reads to me as a stereotypically gen-z prudish and moralizing capitulation to sex negativity and the tendency to brand any emotionally difficult experience as abuse. #kink #bdsm #theculture
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Evergreen, forever, eternal. #bdsm
Q: Guess which year this was written in? (Answer at bottom of thread)
In fact, the benefits reduction would eliminate the state-level "Heat and Eat" policies currently employed in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Left-wing opponents of the Farm Bill, including Rep.
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In fact, the benefits reduction would eliminate the state-level "Heat and Eat" policies currently employed in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Left-wing opponents of the Farm Bill, including Rep.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Q: Guess which year this was written in? (Answer at bottom of thread)
In fact, the benefits reduction would eliminate the state-level "Heat and Eat" policies currently employed in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Left-wing opponents of the Farm Bill, including Rep.
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In fact, the benefits reduction would eliminate the state-level "Heat and Eat" policies currently employed in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Left-wing opponents of the Farm Bill, including Rep.
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