Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)
@scarletwitchy.bsky.social
Beautiful but Sinister Forest Spirit 📍 Philly
🥀 Rosemont MFA 📝🤓💭🦄
🍒 TU LGBT+ Studies/GSWS 💁🏼♀️🏳️🌈
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🥀 Rosemont MFA 📝🤓💭🦄
🍒 TU LGBT+ Studies/GSWS 💁🏼♀️🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/scarletwitchy
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Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
February 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”
To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI
Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”
The woman who ICE killed was a poet.
"i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.
"i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 AM
The woman who ICE killed was a poet.
"i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.
"i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.
Ok then.
January 1, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Ok then.
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I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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“I think angels probably communicate wordlessly / Through strange coincidences or through / Other people when you actually listen to them”
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“I think angels probably communicate wordlessly / Through strange coincidences or through / Other people when you actually listen to them”
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Animorphs is better than The Chronicles of Narnia.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Animorphs is better than The Chronicles of Narnia.
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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Poetry to jailbreak an AI, chalk rings to trap a self-driving car. Technology is going to turn us all into witches.
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Poetry to jailbreak an AI, chalk rings to trap a self-driving car. Technology is going to turn us all into witches.
Thank you @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social !!!
The letter is in the post so I can officially announce our Pushcart prize nominees! Congratuations to @scarletwitchy.bsky.social , @morganblackarts.bsky.social , Richard Oyama, BA Didcock, Andrew McKeown, and Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya. #litmag #pushcartprize
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thank you @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social !!!
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Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
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I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲
Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽
Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲
Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽
Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽
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Let’s mock them still
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Let’s mock them still
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Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
September 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
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Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them