Julia Leyda (she/her)
@julia-leyda.bsky.social
jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels - doesn't suffer fools - gleefully uses block function - mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia - movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
It's clear that many cis people aren't aware how truly fucking awful the New York Times has been towards trans people and that it is not just a bit transphobic like so many others but a leading voice that has been cited in legal cases taking away the rights of trans people.
yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!
"The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older This multi-award-nominated sapphic, Holmes-esque mystery manages to create a gaseous world that feels lived in.... Investigator Mossa tracks clues all the way back to the university where her ex-girlfriend, Pleiti, researches how to return to Earth."
The Best Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century are Very Queer
Far from an obscure subset of science fiction, as it may have been in the previous century, queer sci-fi is now leading the genre.
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New publication alert! My article with Maria Sulimma on the gendered regimes of electricity in the TV series Yellowjackets is just put from the ISLE journal. Please share! #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Yellowjackets doi.org/10.1093/isle...
Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets
Compared to other forms of energy consumption, electricity has long been either a symbol of technological progress and modernity, most recently in the comi
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"Together with Secretary Kennedy at Health and Human Services, we’re removing fluoride from the water supply and replacing it with trace amounts of 100 percent pure testosterone, sourced exclusively from the manosphere."
Effective Immediately, Every God-Fearing Soldier Will Be Jacked to the Gills with Testosterone
“Whether our military members are deployed to Iran, the Pacific theater, or the streets of Dubuque, Iowa, Americans can feel safe knowing our soldiers are no...
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google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot
Never forget that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine cast the pivotal and deciding vote to approve Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
As we close out on our country's 250th birthday celebrations, I also want to celebrate a notable Woman in History, Pasadena's own Octavia Butler.
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
Og signer oppropet til KIKI, og få alle du kjenner som er fans av det ekte og menneskeskapte til å gjøre det samme. (Du kommer til å få en bekreftelsesmail du må godkjenne, så sjekk spam etc om den ikke kommer frem.) underskrift.kikinorge.no
Underskriftskampanje for regulering av KI
Norge er i ferd med å tillate åpent tyveri
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Across the Americas, in South Africa and beyond, feminists are all trans-inclusive. 🏳️⚧️ They are trying to build large forms of #solidarity 💪💖🌈 to fight enormous forms of power. Judith Butler
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · last mo.This is such an important point.
These are best-in-kind guidelines—no surprise, given who wrote them. Thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @maurasmale.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social for their intellectual leadership and addressing the challenges posed by genAI with characteristic criticality, nuance, and care.
Joel@sentantiq.bsky.social · last mo.thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social and Chief librarian Maura Smale @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for developing these draft AI Guidelines www.gc.cuny.edu/research-fac...
"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies, eating, breeding, failing to do the reading and not bringing us enough money. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams." Read the whole thing 🔥
Neville Morley@nevillemorley.eurosky.social · last mo.Why are you concerned? Do you not trust your senior management team? Do you not love us? thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/24/t...
Interdisciplinary scholarship often falls between categories, including when it comes to awards. We built the Ideas on Fire Book Awards Guide to make it easier to identify recognition opportunities across disciplinary boundaries. The database is now available: ideasonfire.net/ideas-on-fir...
A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Google Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools
A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.
variety.com
Now We Ride! - new original available in my shop. It will also be my gay rodeo release in August. I’ll have a booth at the Santa Fe Gay Rodeo
Synd, men dessverre ikke overraskende med all den hetsen vi ser, og med all den medieoppmerksomhet hetserne får. Det betyr først og fremst at pride har blitt viktigere. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/M7EL...
Rapport: Økt skepsis til pride-markering
Et flertall mener at det er viktig at pride markeres, og er positivet til at offentlig myndigheter deltar. Likevel har skepsisen til markeringen økt siden 2022, ifølge en ny rapport.
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Leo: The choices you've made are responsible for who you are today, so you have no one to blame but yourself.
CfP for all Nordic-facing #ecocritics! You have just a few more days to put in an abstract for the 2026 ENSCAN workshop on the topic of #resilience. enscan.net/workshops/re... What is the role of resilience in Nordic literature & culture? #EnvHum #Ecocriticism #økokritikk
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
