Correct, the point isn’t to make them feel shame. The point is to reinforce the group norms.

Betsy Humphrey@betsyvt.bsky.social · yesterday

They may be shameless, but shunning, booing and not accepting them into public spaces is the correct response.

Maybe because I’ve spent this summer watching the suffering of a family member, but this Kim Addonizio poem hits hard.

OK. Since I'm a librarian and I must ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS, I took all the titles mentioned by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, and the Library Freedom Project and put them in a single list on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/wishlists/53.... (I did not coin "data politics," Tressie did.)

poets: “I really haven’t been writing” also poets: have two collections in the wings

Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Painting created by Anthony Dare c.1964 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, where he was compelled to live. No biographical information is currently known to us about him, this is one of his four surviving works & the subject is art therapist Edward Adamson &

"But sometimes, writing about the life around me is the best way I can love it. Or maybe it’s me trying to pray for what I’ve seen, to protect what I’ve witnessed and experienced."

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”

Hi y’all—we haven’t used Substack for a minute, and we need to say no to invitations to participate in posts (interviews, features, etc). Leaving this here so folks know why! 📚💙 We love small presses and their authors!

interesting framing of this, a thing we (gen x and millennials) joke about, but I've been teaching college freshman for years and their relationship to computers vs what the world expects them to just know how to do intuitively is really a thing!

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

I really hope that what happened to Anthony Fauci is a lesson to everyone not to keep their personal diary on a work computer.

You have left me with a cathedral of trees and no church to speak of. —Jennifer Militello, from "The Conductor's Last Call Before Leaving"

If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine. Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem… wiby.org

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

nobody says trans people have good faith concerns when we talk about how transphobic policies impact us. we are “pushing an agenda.” total reversal of what’s actually happening

Jeanette Winterson

just wrote "ugh this is boring" at the top of some of my writing. follow me for more tips!

what do your poems contain? what do they not contain? what can their stomachs digest? where must they swim? how do they cry?

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7d ago

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

If you happen to know someone at Harvard who’d like to take my creative nonfiction workshop this fall, here’s the application. Part of what’s fun is I can accept students from any part of the college, undergrad and graduate students: hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

“Grains of grit in a tall sky sewing.” A poem by John Ashbery.

ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say

Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.

charlotteobserver.com

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

it's the summer of spending as much time with my very old dog as possible. and reading so many gd good books.

Man isn't that the same photo?

Yep. This happened to me as recently as a week ago so I can confirm it’s still a thing. I was buying phone accessories for travel, eg light kit and headphones. Not allowed to touch them. I left them where they were.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.

That is clearly discriminatory. They'll unlock it and hand the item to me without checking on anything.

Before the Moon Falls Collage made from 1960s Vogue and Women’s Realm magazines, Will’s cigarette & Brooke Bond tea cards, 1960s wallpaper, felt tip, watercolour & acrylic marker

🚨 POETS 🚨 🗣️

Quentin Bacquelé@quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Look at these women gondoliers go - so fast that their hair streams out behind them. Detail from Giacomo Franco, Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane, 1610. Folger Shakespeare Library.

If anyone watches Silo, I always think of the top left one when they show the simulated screen of one of the fake outsides

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · 2w ago

Windows XP wallpapers in 2001