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@pinebeltblues.bsky.social

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ–€πŸ’œπŸ€ ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library PhD student @ UNC AmSt UE150 she/her from AL

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This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)

05.03.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6746    πŸ” 937    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 70

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

09.03.2026 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5127    πŸ” 899    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 12
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Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises | Los Angeles Review of Books Samuel Cohen’s anthology on book banning diagnoses a recent swell in censorship that’s problematic for more reasons than you’d think.

Wrote about @samcohen.bsky.social’s book banning volume for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The volume invites us to consider why books matterβ€”and it shows the many ways they’re under attack, even here in progressive NYC.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/bann...

09.03.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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I can't compete with this.

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

y'all !!!!

I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" πŸ˜β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

09.03.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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Breaking the World, Justin Mann's brilliant new book on @dukepress.bsky.social, is out! Essential reading for anyone interested in black feminist world-making and speculative fiction. It's the third book on our Black Feminism on the Edge series. @samanthapinto.bsky.social and I are ELATED!

07.03.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Lit for Queer Liberation 2026 Silent auction 'Lit for Queer Liberation 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

And it's the first day of the Queer Liberation Network Fundraising Auction today! Tons of signed books, calls with agents, manuscript critiques and more! Including the illustrated edition of Murderbot, hardcover Witch King & Queen Demon, mass market Raksura:

www.32auctions.com/organization...

08.03.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Small yellow flowers

Small yellow flowers

Trout lily season πŸ’›

09.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Borrowed and Blue Reviews, old and new. Mostly books. Mostly SFF. Quite likely gay.

After a month of buildup, may I present...

The Queersar not an award 2020!

10 (+1) great queer SFF novels.

V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

08.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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What is Technofeudalism? A landing page for teachers, students, and scholars.

Easy access!

08.03.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

can't "love libraries" and not fight for them to be fully funded.

08.03.2026 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 336    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A mini reading list to understand what’s happening in Iran. Today marks the seventh day of the unlawful U.S-Israel war against Iran. Like many a citizen, I’ve been struggling to understand what’s animating this latest burst of imperial violence.…

Brittany Allen recommends books to help you understand what’s happening in Iran.

07.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Apex Magazine Submissions ARE NOW OPEN!
Fiction: https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/
Nonfiction: apexmagazinenonfiction@gmail.com

Apex Magazine Submissions ARE NOW OPEN! Fiction: https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/ Nonfiction: apexmagazinenonfiction@gmail.com

ICYMI 🌟 Apex Magazine submissions are now opening on alternating months in 2026! Submissions close March 31st and reopening May 1st. And we're especially on the hunt for nonfiction this month! πŸ‘½

Fiction: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Nonfiction: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

06.03.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

07.03.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Me: "Are you aware of the intersection of Taco Bell and Literature?"

Writer: "Yes, I met you in Seattle, you offered me drugs, and you were the first person I told I was pregnant."

07.03.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 30281    πŸ” 7515    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 239

When politicians don't honor their promises, our work is to make them. To do that, we have to build enough power to make them. I understand why people get disappointed but this is unfortunately how things work in politics.

07.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1059    πŸ” 282    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Markwayne's real name is Samueltclemyns

06.03.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

05.03.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 662    πŸ” 455    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

05.03.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8511    πŸ” 2066    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 95
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a man in a suit is smiling in front of a sign that says hulu Alt: President Cal in the TV show Paradise saying "I Like That." It's one of the new entries on the list of labour unions in SFF.

Updated the list of labour unions in SFF with a ton of new entries. (Many found by @joachimboaz.bsky.social)

Everything from 19th Century utopian works to reactionary tomes from the 1970s.

List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...

List as Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

05.03.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But the leopards won’t eat my face, etc.

05.03.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

05.03.2026 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25904    πŸ” 10112    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 199
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The Right Expands Its Campaign to Censor College Professors PEN America called 2025 β€˜a year of catastrophe for higher education,’ but professors are fighting back against censorship.

β€œOur vision for a fully-funded public education, where a professor can write and teach freely, and can challenge every vapid, cruel argument federal and state governments make, sustains us. It’s what we’re fighting for.” 

β€”Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

04.03.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

04.03.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1000    πŸ” 565    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 60
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Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition Published in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Grateful to the journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society for asking me to review Jeffrey Ding's excellent new book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. I use it to discuss AI development not as an inter-national scientific 'race,' but an intra-national financial struggle.

03.03.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

hell yeah

03.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calls for Reviews & Essays: June 2026 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

Calls for Reviews & Essays: June 2026

02.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Abusable Past published a microsyllabus on Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis last year that seems more relevant than ever. Please check it out and share widely: abusablepast.org/radical-iran...

02.03.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œBut what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

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