Reading 17th-century secret history and drama together to think about the transmission of the affects envy and spite through literary and dramatic representation ... heavily influenced by Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings.
Cis people who did some thinking before coming out to themselves as cis tend to be some of the most reliable, honourable and secure people I’ve ever known.
Had a blast chatting about my favourite @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan. Was so happy to be included on this latest edition of The Great Guy Gavriel Kay Read!
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman.
Yes, that's the point.
It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
Looks to me like folks knew what was up about 109 years ago.
This! So often, I have a great idea when returning to a project, then I look at my notes and see that I have had the same idea multiple times before.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Transformative Works and Cultures graphic with keyboard and quill pen
Transformative Works & Cultures Spotlight:
"To love and to labor: The Black female fan experience" by Onyinyechukwu M. Chidi-Ogbolu from #TWC issue 44: Centering Blackness in Fan Studies. Read here! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2551/3237
The flood that is expected to hit Peguis First Nation in less than a week is considered to be a 1-in-100-year flood.
APTN’s Julia Ross spoke to community members volunteering to fill sandbags to protect their homes and infrastructure.
🔥 CFP: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies, Fall 2027 issue of WSQ. Submit by July 31, 2026! feministpress.org/pages/curren...
@feministpress.bsky.social
*The Pitt* Fans Aren't Happy With Journalists. We Need Real Etiquette When Reporting on Fandom
www.teenvogue.com/story/journa...
PowerPoint title slide reads “The Asexual Gothic in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children Series” in white text on a dark gray background. The slide is draped in white cobwebs and the outlines of ravens and trees cover the top and bottom of the slide respectively
At #PCA2026? Interested in the gothic, vampires, and queer theory? Come hear me present about all three in @seananmcguire.bsky.social ‘s Wayward Children series at 9:45 am Thursday (today!). #pcaaca2026 #pca2026
The concept of time may feel fake but none the less! You've only got 1 MORE MONTH to submit to present at the 2026 FSNNA #fanStudies Conference!!
Targeted Call for Chapters:
Larp, Pedagogy, and Institutional Practice (Routledge Edited Volume)
evolutionofstory.info/call-for-cha...
When you provide people with healthcare, food and housing … their lives change.
Their health improves.
They’re happier.
They’re able to show up in the world.
When basic needs aren’t being met everything else falls apart.
We are all worthy of care and safety.
The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.
🚨 Job alert! History Today is hiring a PT freelance copy editor, either remote or in the office. Please share widely! www.historytoday.com/jobs
Only caught a few panels at #pca2026 today thanks to a delayed flight but panels on gothic in SFF and reimagining Dracula were a great way to start to the conference. #pcaaca2026
This 👇
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
archive.is/ELrCI#select...
Social media engagement overall has stalled, even decreased. It's not a single platform issue. In digital marketing, our metric is now "engagement." Not traffic, users, or views. About 30% of social profiles are fake, and 30-40% of web traffic is just bot traffic.
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
Terrifying reality check on Al Jazeera. Israel is systematically detonating and completely destroying entire civilian towns and homes across Southern Lebanon. This is not a war, it is a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing and total erasure of Lebanese communities.
Where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
This is why all of my indoor flowers are made of Lego.
This speaks directly i think to the devaluing of skill and experience. When you buy a hand painted thing or knit sweater or a book etc you are paying not just for the object, but the years of expertise that created it. Same with hiring a plumber or lawyer etc. Skill matters. Experience matters.
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
For
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Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.
Deadline April 21st - please circulate!
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