Gabby Tapia
@mswitchgabby.bsky.social
English PhD candidate. Big fan of Spinoza, Simondon, transecology, and Romantic poetry. Even bigger fan of my cat and my husband. They/them
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20 years ago you could wake up and read any major newspaper in the world for free on their own website with just a dial up modem and a browser. Now we have…whatever this is.
December 20, 2024 at 2:30 AM
20 years ago you could wake up and read any major newspaper in the world for free on their own website with just a dial up modem and a browser. Now we have…whatever this is.
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BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
How Amazon Ruined Christmas
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM
BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
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UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell Reminds Us That Elon Musk Is A Rat B*stard
December 9, 2024 at 10:31 AM
UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell Reminds Us That Elon Musk Is A Rat B*stard
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A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
December 11, 2024 at 2:17 AM
A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
In celebrating this beautiful embroidered piece and catching some fortune’s spindles (Euonymus fortunei) myself this morning, here’s a favorite sonnet of mine by John Clare!
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 PM
In celebrating this beautiful embroidered piece and catching some fortune’s spindles (Euonymus fortunei) myself this morning, here’s a favorite sonnet of mine by John Clare!
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
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Finally assimilating this obit and this loss— a poet & critic meet in an Indiana elevator, and together reshape the fundamental structure of literary criticism and, in the process, the general ideological field of the world. What a beautiful legacy. RIP.
November 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Finally assimilating this obit and this loss— a poet & critic meet in an Indiana elevator, and together reshape the fundamental structure of literary criticism and, in the process, the general ideological field of the world. What a beautiful legacy. RIP.
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Here is a nice mushroom
November 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Here is a nice mushroom
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H.R. 9495 is back on the calendar for next week. If this legislation passes, it could provide Trump with more power to suppress nonprofits and views he disagrees with.
Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and ask your representative to vote NO.
Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and ask your representative to vote NO.
House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.
theintercept.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
H.R. 9495 is back on the calendar for next week. If this legislation passes, it could provide Trump with more power to suppress nonprofits and views he disagrees with.
Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and ask your representative to vote NO.
Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and ask your representative to vote NO.
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For all ecocritics interested in Gothic studies! Join us at ASLE 2025: @asle-us.bsky.social
CFP: AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
1/2 🧵
CFP: AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
1/2 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM
For all ecocritics interested in Gothic studies! Join us at ASLE 2025: @asle-us.bsky.social
CFP: AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
1/2 🧵
CFP: AIRBORNE GOTHIC
ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
1/2 🧵
Hello to all my moots! Just wanted to give a heads up that I made a second profile for my fandom interests so that I don’t flood people’s feeds with fan art and media rants lol. If that’s more your speed than my more academic posts, here’s my new account: @spynozy.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Hello to all my moots! Just wanted to give a heads up that I made a second profile for my fandom interests so that I don’t flood people’s feeds with fan art and media rants lol. If that’s more your speed than my more academic posts, here’s my new account: @spynozy.bsky.social
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a procrastination activity you indulge in instead of writing & 2) your favourite food to stress eat
1) Video games big time, most recently Dead Cells, Inscryption, and Dark Souls 1
2) Blueberry shredded wheat cereal
🥣
1) Video games big time, most recently Dead Cells, Inscryption, and Dark Souls 1
2) Blueberry shredded wheat cereal
🥣
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a procrastination activity you indulge in instead of writing & 2) your favourite food to stress eat
1) Video games big time, most recently Dead Cells, Inscryption, and Dark Souls 1
2) Blueberry shredded wheat cereal
🥣
1) Video games big time, most recently Dead Cells, Inscryption, and Dark Souls 1
2) Blueberry shredded wheat cereal
🥣
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good for him! work-life balance is so important
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
good for him! work-life balance is so important
This might be worth something for people to consider doing before deleting their Twitter. Regret not doing this myself:
www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Twi...
www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Twi...
November 17, 2024 at 1:54 AM
This might be worth something for people to consider doing before deleting their Twitter. Regret not doing this myself:
www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Twi...
www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Twi...
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CENSORSHIP AT MIT. Advocacy for #Palestine is censored and punished without due process at MIT.
PLEASE Sign the petition:
blocktheban.org
PLEASE Sign the petition:
blocktheban.org
Block the Ban at MIT
A petition to challenge MIT’s censorship of
Palestine advocacy and education.
blocktheban.org
November 16, 2024 at 7:34 PM
CENSORSHIP AT MIT. Advocacy for #Palestine is censored and punished without due process at MIT.
PLEASE Sign the petition:
blocktheban.org
PLEASE Sign the petition:
blocktheban.org
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my dissertation, "crip data studies," is now out in the world! may be helpful for folks working on projects at the intersections of disability studies, creator studies, + digital media.
please read + share!
macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375...
please read + share!
macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375...
November 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM
my dissertation, "crip data studies," is now out in the world! may be helpful for folks working on projects at the intersections of disability studies, creator studies, + digital media.
please read + share!
macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375...
please read + share!
macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375...
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It’s amazing to me, & something I observe in my book, that the advice of actual activists like Grace Lee Boggs, below, via @prisonculture.bsky.social, sounds so little like the revolutionary action-fantasies expressed in (mostly male) social media posts & much more like the plot of Middlemarch
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
November 13, 2024 at 5:20 PM
It’s amazing to me, & something I observe in my book, that the advice of actual activists like Grace Lee Boggs, below, via @prisonculture.bsky.social, sounds so little like the revolutionary action-fantasies expressed in (mostly male) social media posts & much more like the plot of Middlemarch
Everyday we stray further from God, or Nature’s light and thus am I tempted
November 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Everyday we stray further from God, or Nature’s light and thus am I tempted
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Hey, everyone! ASLE is here. Welcome to Bluesky Good to see you! @asle-us.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Hey, everyone! ASLE is here. Welcome to Bluesky Good to see you! @asle-us.bsky.social
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Reposting my Shadow of the Erdtree art on here.
November 14, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Reposting my Shadow of the Erdtree art on here.
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NEW ISSUE | Vol 3.2 includes analysis of 'Les Cenelles', an Afro-Creole anthology of #RomanticPoetry in French; British travel narratives on China, 1797–1805; and Olive Schreiner’s 'From Man to Man'. Browse all articles online 👉http://bit.ly/GNCS-Vol-3-2
@livunipress.bsky.social
@livunipress.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 9:58 AM
NEW ISSUE | Vol 3.2 includes analysis of 'Les Cenelles', an Afro-Creole anthology of #RomanticPoetry in French; British travel narratives on China, 1797–1805; and Olive Schreiner’s 'From Man to Man'. Browse all articles online 👉http://bit.ly/GNCS-Vol-3-2
@livunipress.bsky.social
@livunipress.bsky.social
Talked to my husband for the first time in that building! He complimented a Hunter x Hunter shirt I was wearing after a British 19th-cent. lit class and it was the highlight of my month lol. Always loved the mixed architecture that made up the humanities circle at UCI.
A ❤ for brutalism! Studying at UC Irvine gave me a taste for the style. Humanities Hall (below) is where I began German and French. Appropriate, perhaps, that it always looked to me like a spaceport. Windowless rooms, though, make it a poorer example of the style.
November 14, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Talked to my husband for the first time in that building! He complimented a Hunter x Hunter shirt I was wearing after a British 19th-cent. lit class and it was the highlight of my month lol. Always loved the mixed architecture that made up the humanities circle at UCI.
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
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BARISTA (grinning): and you'd like that latte...
CHAPPELL ROAN: iced. for here
CHAPPELL ROAN: iced. for here
November 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM
BARISTA (grinning): and you'd like that latte...
CHAPPELL ROAN: iced. for here
CHAPPELL ROAN: iced. for here