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I teach, I read, I write, I RESIST.
SF/F lit & film, creative writing, and nature writing
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This German paper has no doubts and no willingness (or legal ability) to show it.
January 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Thirty years later, still raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
#genx #soundtrack
January 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don't call it bullshit in my syllabi because they're legal documents, but I definitely talk about AI in exactly this way in class the first day, and throughout the term. It's bullshit.
Just finishing up the AI policy for my spring syllabus. It was really hard to not write “bullshit.”
January 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Plan is to be posted up by the fire today. It's 7⁰ with a brisk west wind.
Looks to be a clear day for the full Wolf Moon. 🌕 The theme for me is to Choose to Let [This] Go, with Gratitude.
January 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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A 🧵on religious monsters in HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, (Feb. 4, @ucpress.bsky.social)
In the 16th-C Protestant Reformation, religious thinkers weaponized monstrous births. They spun them as metaphors sent from God to show church corruption under the pope and his priests.
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern 1/10
January 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Teaching this 2024 #hugoaward -winning novel as the last book of spring term. #antifascist #lgbtqia #sciencefiction
January 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Um, I'm in this post and I don't like it. 🤣🫠
Upsettlingly, in order to finish writing my book, I have to actually write the rest of my book.
January 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
FB/IG/Threads going the way of Twitter in 3...2...1...
Meta has previously struggled to police misinformation on its platform.

A 2022 @propublica.org @washingtonpost.com analysis of Facebook posts and internal documents provided clear evidence that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show
A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading l...
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January 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When lyrics hit you in a different way than they did 30 years ago...
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Doing a pop-up online salon tonight on Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol. Register before 6 pm CST TONIGHT for the link! linktr.ee/caryatisfarm...
December 15, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Throwback to the dance and dye silk workshop held on my Farm (@caryatisfarm IG) back in September. I'm learning how to loosen up and go with the flow. Video by @gaealady on IG.
December 8, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Some light reading so that I can maintain a semblance of sanity in order to keep doing my day job.
November 13, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Hunter's Moon rising over the neighbor's field.
October 18, 2024 at 1:58 AM