Andrea L
@andrea-a-l.bsky.social
English teacher, ex-medievalist, interested in books, Judaism, gender studies, queerness.
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Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
September 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
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there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up
August 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Thank you @alabamashakes.com for this reminder. We got each other and we gonna be alright.
July 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Thank you @alabamashakes.com for this reminder. We got each other and we gonna be alright.
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From their research, Whitin Badger and Dwight Cooke had long exciting lives together.
Whitin was an author and Dwight a journalist. They traveled the world together and lived in Santa Barbara until their deaths. They were buried together because Badger’s family had a plot in Princeton.
Whitin was an author and Dwight a journalist. They traveled the world together and lived in Santa Barbara until their deaths. They were buried together because Badger’s family had a plot in Princeton.
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
From their research, Whitin Badger and Dwight Cooke had long exciting lives together.
Whitin was an author and Dwight a journalist. They traveled the world together and lived in Santa Barbara until their deaths. They were buried together because Badger’s family had a plot in Princeton.
Whitin was an author and Dwight a journalist. They traveled the world together and lived in Santa Barbara until their deaths. They were buried together because Badger’s family had a plot in Princeton.
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The line of poetry caught me first, followed by the realization it was two men buried together who had died in the same year.
I went back to my hotel room, did some light googling, and found out that Whitin Badger had written a book of poetry called Unicorn, which I thought was pretty neat.
I went back to my hotel room, did some light googling, and found out that Whitin Badger had written a book of poetry called Unicorn, which I thought was pretty neat.
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The line of poetry caught me first, followed by the realization it was two men buried together who had died in the same year.
I went back to my hotel room, did some light googling, and found out that Whitin Badger had written a book of poetry called Unicorn, which I thought was pretty neat.
I went back to my hotel room, did some light googling, and found out that Whitin Badger had written a book of poetry called Unicorn, which I thought was pretty neat.
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Hey, who wants something nice?
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hey, who wants something nice?
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
Godspeed.
The Onion is in a unique spot: We're independent and not beholden to anyone, in a time when that's increasingly both rare and necessary. We're one of the rare media organizations allowed, and expected, to say things no one else can say, but everybody knows is true.
We'll be exploiting that in 2025.
We'll be exploiting that in 2025.
April 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Godspeed.
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NEW: My review of Broadway's Pirates! The Penzance Musical (★★★★)—to be sung, if you dare, to the tune of you-know-what
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www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...
Broadway review: Pirates! (★★★★), but no longer of Penzance
A Gilbert and Sullivan favorite gets a New Orleans reset
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April 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
NEW: My review of Broadway's Pirates! The Penzance Musical (★★★★)—to be sung, if you dare, to the tune of you-know-what
www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...
www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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I'm not a scientist and I don't even play one on TV. I need scientists so I can do my job advocating for America's parks and public lands. We all do.
That's why I'm going to #standupforscience at the Colorado State Capitol tomorrow.
That's why I'm going to #standupforscience at the Colorado State Capitol tomorrow.
Catch our Deputy Director @aweiss.bsky.social speak about science and #publiclands tomorrow at the CO Capitol in Denver!
#standupforscience2025
RSVP below or just show up!
#standupforscience2025
RSVP below or just show up!
Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver, CO
Eventbrite - Stand up for Science presents Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver, CO - Friday, March 7, 2025 at 200 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO. Find event and ticket information.
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March 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm not a scientist and I don't even play one on TV. I need scientists so I can do my job advocating for America's parks and public lands. We all do.
That's why I'm going to #standupforscience at the Colorado State Capitol tomorrow.
That's why I'm going to #standupforscience at the Colorado State Capitol tomorrow.
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Thys ys not just for California. And not just about higher ed. Thys ys about hope, and communitye, and what ys righte. Plese repost. Plese share. Plese take a litel of your tyme to learne about the fight against cuts at Sonoma State Universitye.
SAVE SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITYE (CSU, ROHNERT PARK CALIFORNIA): "'Sonoma State is not corporate America, it's not Tesla, simply cutting your way out of this isn't going to be successful,' McGuire said."
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Sonoma State agrees to provide 'comeback plan' to lawmakers within amid sweeping cuts
Sonoma State's president told the legislators during Friday's hearing that they would see a plan within the requested timeframe of 30 to 60 days.
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February 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thys ys not just for California. And not just about higher ed. Thys ys about hope, and communitye, and what ys righte. Plese repost. Plese share. Plese take a litel of your tyme to learne about the fight against cuts at Sonoma State Universitye.
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NYC restaurants are empty and thousands of kids are skipping school in fear under Eric Adams' devil's bargain to give Trump's ICE goon squad free rein in his city so he can keep himself out of prison
A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
The real victims of Eric Adams’ NYC corrupt bargain might go to Gitmo
Thousands of NYC immigrants are in the crosshairs of the corrupt deal Eric Adams made with Trump's Justice Department.
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February 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
NYC restaurants are empty and thousands of kids are skipping school in fear under Eric Adams' devil's bargain to give Trump's ICE goon squad free rein in his city so he can keep himself out of prison
A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
A look at the real victims of NYC's corrupt deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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TODAY YN CALIFORNIA HIGHER ED: 'BROKEN HEART DAY' PROTEST AT SONOMA STATE. PLESE REPOST & SHARE: "As Sonoma State University stares down massive funding cuts, a Valentine's Day-themed protest is set to pour on pressure to reverse the decision."
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'Broken Heart Day' protest at Sonoma State over cuts to degree programs and athletics
"We're in a fight for our lives": As Sonoma State University stares down massive funding cuts, a Valentine's Day-themed protest is set to pour on pressure to reverse the decision.
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February 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
TODAY YN CALIFORNIA HIGHER ED: 'BROKEN HEART DAY' PROTEST AT SONOMA STATE. PLESE REPOST & SHARE: "As Sonoma State University stares down massive funding cuts, a Valentine's Day-themed protest is set to pour on pressure to reverse the decision."
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abc7news.com/post/sonoma-...
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[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke]
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
[George Eliot tries to tell a joke]
One night, walking into a bar, a beautiful woman—but why always a beautiful woman? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this joke? I pity the poor barkeep subjected to such endless torrents of beautiful women, priests, rabbis, parrots, dogs,
One night, walking into a bar, a beautiful woman—but why always a beautiful woman? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this joke? I pity the poor barkeep subjected to such endless torrents of beautiful women, priests, rabbis, parrots, dogs,
[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
February 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke]
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
@natewolff.bsky.social No pressure, but you got any more 19c lit jokes?
February 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
Moving, funny, beautifully descriptive and cracklingly intelligent. Iona Datt Sharma is one of the most exciting authors on my radar and I have no idea why Tor or someone isn't kicking her door down.
Blood Sweat Glitter
The Primrose Glitter Girls play ROLLER DERBY and they’r…
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January 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine
By Faith Lawrence
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Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine
By Faith Lawrence
aeon.co/essays/rilke...
Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos | Aeon Essays
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine
aeon.co
January 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The listening gift
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine
By Faith Lawrence
aeon.co/essays/rilke...
Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine
By Faith Lawrence
aeon.co/essays/rilke...
Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
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Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
January 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
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ProPublica is interested in covering these developments and will keep communications private and secure. You can reach out to www.propublica.org/people/annie...
January 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ProPublica is interested in covering these developments and will keep communications private and secure. You can reach out to www.propublica.org/people/annie...
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I’m really tired of this notion that because things have historically sucked, they will always suck, and we are permanently beholden to that past. No! Things can get better!
THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH.
THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH.
January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m really tired of this notion that because things have historically sucked, they will always suck, and we are permanently beholden to that past. No! Things can get better!
THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH.
THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH.
Something something Sophocles and the ship of state
The 'SS United States' appears to be stuck for the foreeeable future at its berth next to the Ikea in Philadelphia, as its new owners quarrel with the United States Coast Guard over requirements for moving it. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/01/obst...
‘Obstructionist’: Tensions flare over U.S. Coast Guard’s handling of SS United States | NJ Spotlight News
It was not just stormy weather that delayed the planned departure of the ocean liner from its Philadelphia pier in November
www.njspotlightnews.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Something something Sophocles and the ship of state
love an early modern recipe
In a piece about risotto in the @newyorker.com there was reference to an 1809 recipe being early, so I wrote in with two 1549 recipes and… my letter got published?! (I’ve never written a letter to the editor before in my life!)
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
love an early modern recipe
Tech zillionaires' toxic masculinity as applied to planet names
I absolutely love that *Venus* is a far more realistic candidate for some form of permanent human presence than Mars
And yet the space chuds never talk about it afaik
And yet the space chuds never talk about it afaik
The surface of Venus is a lethal crushing inferno BUT about 50km up in the atmosphere you have:
* Earth-like temperatures
* 1 Bar pressure
* sunlight for power
Aerostats filled with breathable air would float! We could live in cloud cities and even go *outside* wearing little more than scuba gear!
* Earth-like temperatures
* 1 Bar pressure
* sunlight for power
Aerostats filled with breathable air would float! We could live in cloud cities and even go *outside* wearing little more than scuba gear!
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tech zillionaires' toxic masculinity as applied to planet names