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Natalie M. Houston

@nmhouston.bsky.social

Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion

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Svenja Guhr@guhrs.bsky.social · last yr.

Btw, I created the Bluesky feed "CLS in DH/NLP". It collects posts containing the keywords: #CLS, #CCLS, #JCLS, #CCLS2025, CLS INFRA, Literary Computing, SPP-CLS, Computational Literary Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Literary Studies, etc. 👉 Feel free to like and share

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Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · last yr.

What do Elon Musk, Joyce Carol Oates, Adam Schiff & Ezra Pound have in common? They all remixed T.S. Eliot lines: "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper" Why have these lines become a meme—used across the political spectrum? Find out in our new book chapter!

A screenshot of the book chapter, "Not With a Bang But a Tweet: Democracy, Culture Wars, and the Memeification of T.S. Eliot" by Melanie Walsh and Anna Preus. The first two paragraphs read: "It was still unclear whether Donald Trump would be re-elected President of the United States on the night of the election, November 3, 2020. Even by morning, key swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were too close to call. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented number of mail-in ballots, the outcome of the election would remain unclear for another three and a half days. In the meantime, the world watched, waited, and tweeted. As early ballots rolled in, Twitter (X) users of all ideological stripes made fluctuating predictions about the election’s outcome. When a few swing states seemed to tip toward Trump, a user named @CausticPop gloomily joked, “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a WI/MI/PA,”1 a joke that was retweeted more than 5,000 times.2 Hours later, another user struck an even stronger chord with the same apocalyptic..." A screenshot of the tweet in question is pictured by @CausticPop is pictured. It reads: "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a WI/MI/PA." It was posted at 9:16 PM on November 3, 2020, and received 3,753 retweets, 851 quotes, 20.6K likes, and 219 bookmarks.A screenshot of a tweet by Joyce Carol Oates that read: "this is the way the world ends / this is the way the world ends / not with a bang or a whimper / but with “deeply-offended-by"" It was tweeted at 10:28 AM on October 20, 2017
Natalie M. Houston@nmhouston.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a great intro activity-- I've done something similar, but always a bit more structured-- next time I'll try it this way and see what kinds of variables emerge --

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:

Natalie M. Houston@nmhouston.bsky.social · 2y ago

So grateful for the people on YT who post videos showing how to fix random things! (Today it was how to remove a drawer from a piece of Ikea furniture I assembled at least 15 years ago and couldn't easily figure out.)

Natalie M. Houston@nmhouston.bsky.social · 2y ago

As a Gen Xer, I have always associated "vibes" with hippie boomers. This essay explains their return: "They are precious fairy dust to keep the all-seeing algorithms from sinking their vampire teeth into our culture, and yet they are a modern marketing tool." www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics

From voters picking up ‘bad vibes’ to the Brat girl summer, vague instincts now make the world go round. Does this represent a crisis of seriousness or has it always been feelings that make us human?

theguardian.com

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 2y ago

some little bluesky tips 🦋 your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people

Chris Louttit@drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm giving another paper tomorrow on Annie Edwardes, my favourite Victorian sensation novelist you've really never heard of. Cover 👇 from the yellowback edition of Archie Lovell (1866), depicting a dramatic moment between the heroine & the caddish Gerald Durant on a steamer to London.

A young man and woman on a steamer to London, with the man picking up a handkerchief. The scene is from Annie Edwardes's Archie Lovell.
Artjoms Šeļa@artjomshl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars. My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

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Natalie M. Houston@nmhouston.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hard to know if it's just the influx of new joins or the new visibility offered by "starter packs", but I'm encouraged by finding lots of once-familiar names and faces now on here-- as well as new ones!