Pattie McCarthy
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I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.
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We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:
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October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.
October 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.
Such sad news. I learned so much about Irish from Manchán & I’m so grateful for all his work. Suaimhneas síoraí air 💚
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Such sad news. I learned so much about Irish from Manchán & I’m so grateful for all his work. Suaimhneas síoraí air 💚
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The French for Brits Out is << dehors, les rosbifs ! >>
June 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The French for Brits Out is << dehors, les rosbifs ! >>
Imagine just using your mind to think instead. This type of ai use might be the most pathetic
Not the point of this piece exactly but a great example of how chatbot validation could increase polarization
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Imagine just using your mind to think instead. This type of ai use might be the most pathetic
the drawing makes the subtext into text
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the drawing makes the subtext into text
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Given the increasing authoritarianism in the UK, and threats against peaceful protest, I’m reminded of this project by Tamás St. Turba, Czechoslovak Radio in 1968. As possessing a radio was banned, he painted bricks to look somewhat like them, which were then banned also.
August 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Given the increasing authoritarianism in the UK, and threats against peaceful protest, I’m reminded of this project by Tamás St. Turba, Czechoslovak Radio in 1968. As possessing a radio was banned, he painted bricks to look somewhat like them, which were then banned also.
❤️🔥
July 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Super pleased to have a couple poems in The Belfast Review! 💚
Launched!!
Issue 4 is now available in print and digital from our website (coming soon to Amazon).
Free preview also available on our website (it takes a minute to load due to file size).
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Issue 4 is now available in print and digital from our website (coming soon to Amazon).
Free preview also available on our website (it takes a minute to load due to file size).
Link below
July 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Super pleased to have a couple poems in The Belfast Review! 💚
it's a draw for me: archeology of pre-history & physics for non-majors
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it's a draw for me: archeology of pre-history & physics for non-majors
I don't know enough ways to say fuck this
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don't know enough ways to say fuck this
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by Ted Berrigan~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by Ted Berrigan~
July 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by Ted Berrigan~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by Ted Berrigan~
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Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder….
1940-2025
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
1940-2025
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
A Hymn
The paper slept but the night in me woke up. While birds swept over the water like pot-bellied angels beautiful bells rang to assist the hoist. Then they kill themselves offstage, away from the pages ...
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July 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder….
1940-2025
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
1940-2025
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
why did Juventus go to the white house? why.
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
why did Juventus go to the white house? why.