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@racheledini.bsky.social
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Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 10d
I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
I heartily second this emotion. @rcolesworthy.bsky.social is brilliant and half the reason why Queer Waste and Feminist Excretions is still going ahead, despite the myriad challenges that have delayed it since we signed the contract during the lockdowns!
drsepinwall.bsky.social Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 14h
Love this! @rcolesworthy.bsky.social is indeed a “thought leader.” I’ve learned so much from her making publishing more transparent. And I love the books she publishes, which is why I asked her to work with me on my next one! 🤗

(I just need time to write it! 😆🙏)
sunypress.bsky.social SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 17h
For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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drmisserin.bsky.social
“Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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jendick.bsky.social
This piece gets at why I hate the word & concept of emasculation, as if men are owed some level of agency and power that women aren't
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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anibundel.bsky.social
“The woman reader may feel…the familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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gutwein.bsky.social
Thank you for calling it like you see it. What a way to repay women voters, particularly the non-white ones (especially the Black women) who have carried this party (along with too much other stuff) on their backs for far too long.
What these pundits are judging us to do , ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened by their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The “female-coded” person, to borrow Krugman’s terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can’t acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an ICU nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorsed a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, “is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency.” In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be…What a gift it is…to have no choice in the matter.” 🔥🔥🔥
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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drphiloponus.bsky.social
Realistic scenario.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
Someone needs to give me and Gennaro a talk show because let me tell you, we have MANY opinions and ALL of them are spicy.
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
racheledini.bsky.social
I tried to find the full video of Trevor Philips interviewing @zackpolanski.bsky.social but instead found this weird clip that halfway thru switches to slow-mo images of Polanski’s face w/an AI voiceover spewing angry, vaguely right-wing (but more generally nonsensical) slop youtu.be/GgFgTgiGYgI?...
Zack Polanski HUMILIATED Live On Air After Trevor Phillips DROPS This BOMBSHELL!
YouTube video by Britain Now Falling
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
racheledini.bsky.social
Trevor Phillips smugly demonstrating he understands F all about gender identity or, indeed, biology. In a fairer society this would make him a laughingstock, but the public has been showered w/so much anti-trans misinformation that god knows how many (cis) viewers were nodding along 🤦🏻‍♀️.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
World's worst gotcha from Trevor Phillips: "If trans women are women why don't we just say 'women'... who needs 'pregnant people?'" 🤔
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people.

It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
This piece by Peter Coviellois a goddam masterpiece. “Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.” lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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esedia.bsky.social
And that’s why we need liberation — freedom to exist — for everyone. I don’t want my gender “affirmed”, I want access to healthcare— for everyone.
voidsbunny.bsky.social voids bunny 🏳️‍⚧️ @voidsbunny.bsky.social · 2d
Liberals portray trans people as someone to pity. As sad, pathetic people who need sympathy.

It allows them to feel good about themselves for "accepting" us despite never actually seeing us for who we are.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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wtafc.bsky.social
This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
racheledini.bsky.social
This is the winner right here.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
What would happen if this shit collapsed? Some rich fucks would have to live slightly less delusionally privileged lives. The end. Let it fucking die.
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
Don’t look away.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart…This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.”
Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves
In her first UK interview Megan Garcia speaks to Laura Kuenssberg about the death of her teenage son.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM