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andreawestcot.bsky.social
@andreawestcot.bsky.social
In which I try to make sense of what’s happening, as a sort of record of what I’m thinking. History, politics, education.
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We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
And has anyone summed up the male gaze better than “he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with tender reverence for her abysmal purity.” Abysmal! I die.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Chapter 1: “an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.” I die.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a post about AI.
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’m so glad he read that article so I didn’t have to. I would have blown a gasket.
April 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If one more person says to me “if you want better writing from AI, you need to give it more and more specific prompts”…..

So, dear admin, what you’re saying is that this shit sandwich would taste better if I seasoned it? No thank you.
April 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM