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Mary Caroline Cummins
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One day I'll learn to stop dancing long enough to take a video. Last night was not that day. OMD @ House of Blues
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’! | Arwa Mahdawi
Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’! | Arwa Mahdawi
This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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In 1980, Trump promised to preserve Art Deco sculptures on the stylish 1929 Bonwit Teller department store, which was being demolished to make way for his vulgar Trump Tower.

He lied. He destroyed them.

In 2025, Trump promised to preserve the East Wing.

He lied. He destroyed it. (John Baron👀)
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House. This week, bulldozers began to tear it down to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom.
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump's ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women's visibility in the White House.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Kim Stanley Robinson Archive Goes to The Huntington
Kim Stanley Robinson Archive Goes to The Huntington
The Huntington has acquired the personal library and papers of Kim Stanley Robinson, including drafts of novels, annotated works, photographs, and more. All told, The Huntington describes the colle…
locusmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
So excited to be here. Congrats to all the nominees! #Worldcon #HugoAwards #SeattleWorldcon2025 🪐📚
August 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Happy 92nd Birthday to Bjo Trimble, founder of the #Worldcon Art Show! Come see Bjo's fanzine art at the Seacon 1961 exhibit! #SeattleWorldcon2025
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Special Exhibits are open on the 2nd floor of the Summit Building and Dealers' Room opens in 5 minutes. Come see us at the Seacon 1961 exhibit! #Worldcon #SeattleWorldcon2025
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On display at Worldcon will be recreations of the badges worn to Seacon 1961 by F.M. and Elinor Busby, Seattle's own beloved fan writers. The Busbys made history in 1960 when their fanzine, Cry of the Nameless, won a Hugo, making Elinor the first woman ever to take home a Hugo Award. 🚀🪐📚 #scifi
August 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Ways to save money at #Worldcon: Go to Worldcon in 1961.

#SeattleWorldcon2025 #Seacon1961
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
With thanks to Astrid Anderson Bear, the Seacon 1961 Special Exhibit at Seattle Worldcon will feature the Hugo Award trophy won by Poul Anderson that year for his classic short story, "The Longest Voyage," published in the Dec. 1960 issue of Analog!

#SeattleWorldcon2025 🪐📚💙
August 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Headed to Seattle Worldcon 2025? Want to learn all about the rip-roaring good time had by attendees at Seacon 1961 -- the only other time Worldcon has visited the Emerald City? We have been digging through boxes and combing through archives just for you. 🚀

#SeattleWorldcon2025
July 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Hugo Award voting closes TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m. PDT!

Still cramming to finish that last novella? We get it. But don’t forget to submit your ballot before time runs out!

seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

#HugoAwards #SeattleWorldcon2025
How to Vote
Instructions for voting in the 2025 Hugo Awards.
seattlein2025.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Sofia Samatar said okay I'll write a book about the university and what she wrote is The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain because speculative sci-fi might actually be the best way to call things what they are right now
July 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Oh hello, new things! #SeattleWorldcon2025
July 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Con-Verse: Calypso and the Legacy of the Epic Poem: One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength … seattlein2025.org?p=4028
Con-Verse: Calypso and the Legacy of the Epic Poem
One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength...
seattlein2025.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche
Who waccheth ovir thee
Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
May 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
CFP: Exploring The Murderbot Diaries. Annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA); San Francisco; Nov. 20-23, 2025. This session seeks critical explorations of any themes in Martha Wells' Murderbot universe: cfplist.com/CFP/44380

#AcademicSky 💙📚🪐
The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
cfplist.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
What IS going on with the upenn cfp site? Does anyone know? #academicsky
does anyone know what's up with the upenn cfp site? i had so many things bookmarked 😭
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This.

Because the axe seems to be coming for everything, let's talk about what happens, hypothetically, if we eliminate or gut federal financial aid, the largest category of federal spending on higher ed. 🧵
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
wesa.fm WESA @wesa.fm · Feb 21
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
March 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Didn't realize till the end that Graham Gore was a real person and now I can't stop thinking about the fact that Graham Gore was a real person 💙📚🪐📚
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is gem of a book about cultural displacement and how we connect with others.

Set in near-future UK, a young government employee is tasked by the home office with being a liaison for a Victorian sea captain who has been extracted from the past.

14/18
February 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM