Them, turning on the hose and spraying Benjamins into the fire: COME ON YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OR WE'RE GOING TO GO BROKE

that about sums it all up

Looking forward to reading at @northshirebooks.bsky.social in Manchester Vermont on Jan 23rd with poet Molly Johnsen! Come out for poems if you're in and around southern Vermont! www.northshire.com/event/norths...

Love this poem. From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, the Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774845 #poem #books #writing

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

Here's a simple way to disable AI mode in Google. I just did it, and I feel like a new, freshly showered woman! www.engadget.com/big-tech/how...

Don't miss livestream of Winter Solstice at Newgrange, Sunday 21 December 2025 "For 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber." heritageireland.ie/winter-solst...

More details to come but… 🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...

Poet's Note (from Poetry Society of America): "What drove me to write the poem...was the impulse...to make excuse after excuse for people who don’t treat us well because we’ve internalized that we’re just supposed to be grateful for the attention." 😞💔 "Reader, I Married Him" Margaret Ray #poetry

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

this is a must-read for anyone in higher ed.

the thing about extra-time accommodations is that either they help you a lot or they don't matter much, and if they help you a lot that is evidence that you should get them

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026. Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens. Available to preorder now 🙏🏿

If you’ve been looking for an alternative to Amazon-owned A*dible, we have good news for you: we’re now on @libro.fm! Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.

[Enter Ghost.]

Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

“Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement officials.”

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

you can see why the regime would want to defund public media like Frontline

"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."

AI was born enshittified.

Once more for the people in the back: GenAI is the weapon of the oppressors. You cannot support a progressive message with GenAI images.

Does an industry that burns cash to boil lakes to erroneously rephrase the Internet deserve a market valuation higher than the GDP of 97% of countries on Earth? What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ireland 🥹💚🤍🧡

2 new poems of mine are in in this rad project (here’s one) style.atwhatcost.me#margaret-ray

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Come write poems w me in this online workshop w Poetry Society of New York next week? Thurs Oct 2, 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-virtu...

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

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"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking and by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 37/🧵

Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.

More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.

If you see people having their windows smashed in, thrown on the pavement, and ripped away from their children and your thought is to ponder legality, I think you should reconsider what’s important in this moment.

I love this framing. For too long it’s felt like morality was framed like a currency. But it should be thought of as a condition, a fitness.

I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.

"school shooting industry"

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n