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Elaine
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Writer and feminist. Work published in Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Ploughshares blog, Grain, The Normal School and elsewhere. You can find me here: www.elainevandergeld.com
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Summarise this document into bullet points. Now tell me how to understand bullet points. Translate bullet points into simple pictograms, now describe the pictograms in words of one syllable.

Now convert the inchoate noises I make in response to the pictograms into a masters thesis, honours level.
May 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thank you @kenyonreview.bsky.social for publishing my small, strange non-fiction piece. It’s about being a teenage girl contending with the world of men.
It's finally here! Our Winter 2025 issue the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest judged by @melissafebos.bsky.social, the Far Corners folio, poetry by @victoriachang.bsky.social, nonfiction by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, and so much more!

kenyonreview.org/journal/wint...
April 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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In a world of endless heartbreak, we bring you work that's full of heart. Welcome to Split Lip’s February issue. Thank you so much for spending time with our contributors' beautiful art & words.
Love gets us through life 💕 And we're so in love with this new FEBRUARY ISSUE 💕: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

All the love and thanks to our Contributors!
WORDS: Selen Ozturk, A.A. Tojino, Afri Arebu, Andy Chen
ART: Kathleen Frank
PLUS: Isabella Maria interviews Olivia Gatwood
February 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It’s almost as if we shouldn’t use an educational model that perpetually rewards thoughtless obedience.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
wrd.cm
February 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Breaking News: President Trump fired 17 inspectors general in a late-night purge of the internal government watchdogs, people with knowledge of the move said.
Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that the amount of carbon that humans can still emit, while also limiting warming to 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial levels, may be exhausted within the next 6 years. 🧪
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets - Nature Climate Change
The remaining carbon budget (RCB) is a critical estimate of the carbon that can be emitted while staying within a particular temperature threshold. This study provides an updated assessment of the RCB...
go.nature.com
October 30, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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“By Wednesday, Sondos Badawi’s family members had fled for their lives four times in eight days …
‘There is no safe place,’ she said.”
‘There is no safe place’: Some Gazans have been forced to flee again and again.
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2023 at 7:08 PM