Generally it’s a bad sign when mid to late period Yeats resonates

I don’t know how @afamiglietti.bsky.social got access to this private conversation between me & future me except maybe that the internet is haunted

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

Splendid thread to uplift your timeline and for mental refreshment amid the ongoing everything.

Its about minerals in Greenland? In Trumps fever dream maybe, in reality physics and economics win. Thread via @CRUDEOIL231. Exploring and mining in the Arctic is a literal hellscape. The constraints are insane and the costs to overcome 'em are mooning way past imagination. 1/

What's the reason, given or actual, for the police not to be in their HQ?

Ah, 7 January – or as it’s otherwise known, 88th anniversary of the time Samuel Beckett was stabbed by a pimp on the streets of Paris in the small hours, causing him to meet his soulmate and giving rise to the phrase (and recipe) ‘assassination custard’ 🧵

"When I came out, I probably seemed unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. Tell me, how have you guardians of facts been doing recently?" #McSweeneysTop25of2025

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks (Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)

We literally have a snowman sitting on our balls how's your day going?

We are very lucky to live on the same planet as frogs (Wood Frog) #herps 🌿

Hegelly Blonde

Don’t “interview LLMs. They cannot speak for themselves. Each invocation runs on a separate context window that is unaware of every other context window. Further, based on what is in that context window (how it was prompted), one can get very different, even contradictory, responses.

Omg I hope the answer is endlessly scrolling through the worst news imaginable

goddamnit, your email found me.

The rouged cheeks are sending me

A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis sparked by Trump over Greenland. Danes told me that the US can already do whatever it wants on the island. Their conclusion: Trump just wants the U.S. to look larger on a map www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen to the United States: “Enough is enough.”

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

It was a very pretty afternoon in Copenhagen ❄️ (my friend took this pic, but it was too good not to share)

My corner of Bluesky seems to be responding with poetry ❤️

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Lucy Dacus performs "Bread and Roses" - the Labor Anthem - at the Inauguration of Zohran Mamdani.

Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say: 1. What is a “serious” historian? 2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.

I’m not even going to dignify that with a reaction.

Pleased to report that this is how my three-year-old daughter apparently intends to greet the new year 🗡️

These make me laugh 100% of the time

Carnet Un autre étrange cheval parce que. Il porte une grande tour en bois.

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

Overmorgen in Danish

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

a festive miracle!

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

This is so fascinating. Taking the sprayed edges trend into a new subgenre, too!

Mine's the classic Copenhagen one of avoiding to run over a half-naked Nikolai Coster-Waldau with my bike. We've all been there.

Rudolf Nureyev cruised me at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was so obvious even my father noticed.

Shout out to all us sleepy worms

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be

The people who need to make us feel like their useless tools are inevitable are doing EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY CAN to conflate themselves with the actually useful (and generally ethical) uses that have been around for a while. This confusion is 100% on them.

New news: I've been awarded the Richard Stein Essay Prize for "The Climate of Utopia,” published in @victstudies.bsky.social! This is a great honor, which I could not have received without the generous help of editor @moniquemorgan.bsky.social and, honestly, the journal's highly skilled reviewers.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

You know what, fuck it, posting this again to feel something

Essential educational thread. It's quite the mix of "sure, yes, familiar" and "... Wait, what?"

Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.