Ashley Rattner
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
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Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
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A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
Bold of Birmingham Legion to employ the slogan "Hammer Down" like that won't send me into a Magnolia Electric Co. spiral every time I encounter it
February 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Bold of Birmingham Legion to employ the slogan "Hammer Down" like that won't send me into a Magnolia Electric Co. spiral every time I encounter it
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Things I hear on campus as we continue to adapt to AI. Plenty try to incorporate it. Others:
- med school faculty going back to oral exams
- comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses
- med school faculty going back to oral exams
- comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Things I hear on campus as we continue to adapt to AI. Plenty try to incorporate it. Others:
- med school faculty going back to oral exams
- comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses
- med school faculty going back to oral exams
- comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses
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🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
February 11, 2026 at 11:28 PM
🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
On this day in 2020, John Lurie followed me on Twitter
February 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
On this day in 2020, John Lurie followed me on Twitter
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Every year I'm like "Doing more than one conference a year is overwhelming! Never again" yet somehow here I am going to three conferences in the month of March alone 💫
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Every year I'm like "Doing more than one conference a year is overwhelming! Never again" yet somehow here I am going to three conferences in the month of March alone 💫
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
My brother just sent me all the "Radiohead valentines" I made in high school
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 AM
My brother just sent me all the "Radiohead valentines" I made in high school
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
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You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
Now hurry up and post Bad Bunny's halftime show to the internet so football haters like me can watch it
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Now hurry up and post Bad Bunny's halftime show to the internet so football haters like me can watch it
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
Everything is horrible but at least I got a check from some class action settlement for $132 yesterday
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Everything is horrible but at least I got a check from some class action settlement for $132 yesterday
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I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.
Do this at C19
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Do this at C19
Pleased to announce that I will present a paper on Bobblebuns at SSSL in March
Vulcan Bobblehead Bobblebuns
Vulcan's head isn't the only thing that bobbles! He is a Bobblehead as well as a Bobblebuns. Standing at 8", this resin statue will delight in home or office. It comes in a stylish box with trivia ...
the-anvil-store.myshopify.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Pleased to announce that I will present a paper on Bobblebuns at SSSL in March
Page layout of the day
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Page layout of the day
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For your consideration
QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
quitgpt.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
For your consideration
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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
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I’m extra mad because I’m a woman in roughly the same age cohort as many of the victims and people keep forgetting how bad it was to be a teen girl back then, how hypersexual teen culture was, how it actually felt to be on the receiving end of the lechery they’re saying was ‘normal’
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I’m extra mad because I’m a woman in roughly the same age cohort as many of the victims and people keep forgetting how bad it was to be a teen girl back then, how hypersexual teen culture was, how it actually felt to be on the receiving end of the lechery they’re saying was ‘normal’
Real Housewives of Rhode Island is the first franchise to feature a cast comprised of one woman who has been digitally replicated 7 times
February 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Real Housewives of Rhode Island is the first franchise to feature a cast comprised of one woman who has been digitally replicated 7 times