AI has applications other than writing. Disavowing it simply because a few people used it to write some fantasy novels ignores how it can serve humanity. There's more to the world than writing
Mike Spry
@mikespry.bsky.social
Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books. I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
It's almost as if a reliance on oil instead of green energy leads to violence.
If only NYTimes readers would get as upset over PSHAW as the newspaper’s poor journalism think of the world we could have. #wordle
Sure gas is expensive, but the oil companies are doing great!
Saddened to hear of the passing of Darth Vader. While we disagreed politically, I always respected his fervent defense of evil and his love for the Yankees! RIP big guy.
"A Seat at the Table: Adjunct Faculty, Shared Governance, and the Cost of Being Left Out " by @edonald.bsky.social. #adjunctdispatches #highed #adjunct open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun...
A Seat at the Table: Adjunct Faculty, Shared Governance, and the Cost of Being Left Out
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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What if, instead of a reflecting pool or presidential library or C+C Music Factory headlined concert or Air Force One, y'all had healthcare?
The @awpwriter.org Adjunct Writers Caucus has a new series of essays, "The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education". I'm up first with a short piece on the joys of adjuncting. "The Joy They Use Against Us" open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun...
The Joy They Use Against Us
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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Democracy, hockey, and The Hip… plus more Sunday feelz. open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...
SUNDAY FEELD NOTES 17.05.2026
Things I’m feeling on a Sunday afternoon in Atlanta
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This @nytimes.com article made me dumber. I feel like these people are why the apocalypse is nigh. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/s...
A Wedding Weekend, No Spouse Required
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Colleges should be mandated to pay adjunct faculty a living wage before they build their third rockwall.
Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026 Game of Thrones, Adjunct Ghost Study, and more... "...MACCLV have released a ten-year study concluding that adjunct professors may, in fact, be ghosts..." open.substack.com/pub/mikespry... #adjunct #highered #gameofthrones #ghosts
Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026
Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning after a stretch of not sharing feels
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Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026 Game of Thrones, Adjunct Ghost Study, and more... "...MACCLV have released a ten-year study concluding that adjunct professors may, in fact, be ghosts..." open.substack.com/pub/mikespry... #adjunct #highered #gameofthrones #ghosts
Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026
Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning after a stretch of not sharing feels
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The Deep Local series of shorts from @rattysnake.bsky.social is getting the exact kind of awesomeweird I'm into. Check out the latest: youtu.be/2iifHOlyCDw?... #ducks #baddies #shortfilm
Deep Local | Ep. 5: Freak Duck Season
YouTube video by Deep Local
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Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.
See y'all at 12:10 in 307. Adjuncts and Allies. #awp26 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Mike Spry@mikespry.bsky.social · 5mo ago#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307 Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊ MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq
#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307 Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊ MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq
#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307 Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊ MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq
I’m too sad to write any Sunday Feeld Notes today because hockey broke my heart. If it broke yours, maybe read this instead to remind us that the beauty of sports exists outside of the spotlight. open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...
The Ethos of Eephus
The Meaning of Games That End
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The Ethos of Eephus Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country. open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...
The Ethos of Eephus
The Meaning of Games That End
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The Ethos of Eephus Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country. open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...
The Ethos of Eephus
The Meaning of Games That End
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NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive" ----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk . . . #poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews
We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive
a review of Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" for BOA Editions.
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Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26 I’m going to make chili and cheer for a tie. Wouldn’t we all just rather watch Kid Rock and Bad Bunny in a celebrity boxing match? My Super Bowl column/self-indictment: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...
Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26
Things I’m feeling on a Sunday of jingoism and Ozempic ads
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Honestly, f*ck all these people. F*ck these colleges. F*ck the institutions and communities that were complicit in this division of class and the perpetuation of evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
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