Ashley Rattner
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Former Internet personality
This is what your Frankenstein photos look like to me
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is what your Frankenstein photos look like to me
Love to see it
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Love to see it
Hell yes
Annual Conference - Communal Studies Association
The Communal Studies Association is an interdisciplinary organization for people living in intentional communities, historic site personnel and academics representing topics including history, anthrop...
communalstudies.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hell yes
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
"Meet the Fedora Man" no thank you
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Meet the Fedora Man" no thank you
Bop
Breakfast At Tiffany's
YouTube video by Deep Blue Something - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Bop
"Events proceed in this negative vein."
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Events proceed in this negative vein."
Is this why everyone I know has texted me about Oneida in the past week
I had zero chill about getting this screener. Here's the first of three pieces on @netflix's Death by Lightning
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
A Presidential Historian Explains What to Know Before Watching 'Death by Lightning'
The series dives into the assassination of President James A. Garfield.
www.townandcountrymag.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Is this why everyone I know has texted me about Oneida in the past week
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
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So many people seem to understand that AI is bad but then let it slide when the result is something they think is funny or whatever. Just like all the people that don't see the big deal about THEM littering, or making a bunch of noise in a city, because they don't see the accumulation.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So many people seem to understand that AI is bad but then let it slide when the result is something they think is funny or whatever. Just like all the people that don't see the big deal about THEM littering, or making a bunch of noise in a city, because they don't see the accumulation.
Why don't you write a good think piece for once about how "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" saved New York
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Why don't you write a good think piece for once about how "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" saved New York
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I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
Charlotte Temple spoiled us
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Charlotte Temple spoiled us
Had the best dining experience of my life last night in Atlanta (a feral cat caught a rat and paraded it around a packed patio)
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Had the best dining experience of my life last night in Atlanta (a feral cat caught a rat and paraded it around a packed patio)
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We often forget how far we have come: Today almost 3/4 of EU electricity generation is from non-fossil energy sources.
It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix.
This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation.
Source is @ember-energy.org
It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix.
This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation.
Source is @ember-energy.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We often forget how far we have come: Today almost 3/4 of EU electricity generation is from non-fossil energy sources.
It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix.
This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation.
Source is @ember-energy.org
It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix.
This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation.
Source is @ember-energy.org
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Every anniversary the same old story of the Edmund Fitzgerald gets rehearsed. I tried to take a few steps toward an environmental history of that wreck.
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Every anniversary the same old story of the Edmund Fitzgerald gets rehearsed. I tried to take a few steps toward an environmental history of that wreck.
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Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
My students just finished Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and astutely asked why, if the society it depicts is so perfect, can't Edith find a better man than Julian West?
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
My students just finished Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and astutely asked why, if the society it depicts is so perfect, can't Edith find a better man than Julian West?
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is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
is a sandwich a speech act
Again thinking about my former boss many years ago who would casually say things like "I don't hire men because they're bad workers"
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Again thinking about my former boss many years ago who would casually say things like "I don't hire men because they're bad workers"
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Paging @ashleyrattner.bsky.social !!!!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Paging @ashleyrattner.bsky.social !!!!!!!
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy