Annie Are You Oakley
@anniesredpen.bsky.social
Editor of science, advocate of libraries, co-hoster of podcasts. The Ink Sink podcast (linktr.ee/inksinkpodcast) is everywhere you listen!
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Pink peppercorn and cherry with a spicy book of gestures that I apparently acquired in high school at some point and forgot about until rediscovering it in a box recently?
Day 18 of #ThisIsMyJam
Day 18 of #ThisIsMyJam
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Pink peppercorn and cherry with a spicy book of gestures that I apparently acquired in high school at some point and forgot about until rediscovering it in a box recently?
Day 18 of #ThisIsMyJam
Day 18 of #ThisIsMyJam
Euryale tends every one of her sheep like it is a child. Sthenno learned to cook so she could feed me when I was little. They care about me and protect me. That is beauty.
- Natalie Haynes, "Stone Blind"
Precious bb Medusa 😭😭😭
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
- Natalie Haynes, "Stone Blind"
Precious bb Medusa 😭😭😭
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Euryale tends every one of her sheep like it is a child. Sthenno learned to cook so she could feed me when I was little. They care about me and protect me. That is beauty.
- Natalie Haynes, "Stone Blind"
Precious bb Medusa 😭😭😭
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
- Natalie Haynes, "Stone Blind"
Precious bb Medusa 😭😭😭
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
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Bring me no more reports, let them fly all.
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Bring me no more reports, let them fly all.
"They have been trained from their earliest years to pass exams and write essays so that they may one day be lucky enough to study for their finals in an Ivy League classroom where, randomly, at any moment, a shooter might open fire."
- Xochitl Gonzalez www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Xochitl Gonzalez www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
America Is Failing Its Children
Yesterday’s attack at Brown University is just the latest example.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"They have been trained from their earliest years to pass exams and write essays so that they may one day be lucky enough to study for their finals in an Ivy League classroom where, randomly, at any moment, a shooter might open fire."
- Xochitl Gonzalez www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Xochitl Gonzalez www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
-- Rob Reiner
-- Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
-- Rob Reiner
-- Rob Reiner
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FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
I have no idea what a mail merge is. And at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I have no idea what a mail merge is. And at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.
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Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes"
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
One of the things we've enjoyed the most about the six-seven phenomenon is the way it comes with a gesture, which we've also seen represented in emoji form as:
🫴 six-seven 🫳
🫴 six-seven 🫳
“6-7” belongs in the dictionary, actually
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes"
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger"
Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!
I never read Isaacson’s Musk biography. But finding out he describes Elon as a “man-child who resists potty training” is sending me 🤭
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I never read Isaacson’s Musk biography. But finding out he describes Elon as a “man-child who resists potty training” is sending me 🤭
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
How can one person make a difference?
"Find stuff to do every day. Make it part of your identity. Do it with other people. Don't let the big goal distract you from the small stuff that [helps make] that goal present in your community, in your daily life, for people around you."
youtu.be/A0O6p4p_vfs
"Find stuff to do every day. Make it part of your identity. Do it with other people. Don't let the big goal distract you from the small stuff that [helps make] that goal present in your community, in your daily life, for people around you."
youtu.be/A0O6p4p_vfs
Philosophers Explain How One Person Can Make a Difference with Alex Madva and Michael Brownstein
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
How can one person make a difference?
"Find stuff to do every day. Make it part of your identity. Do it with other people. Don't let the big goal distract you from the small stuff that [helps make] that goal present in your community, in your daily life, for people around you."
youtu.be/A0O6p4p_vfs
"Find stuff to do every day. Make it part of your identity. Do it with other people. Don't let the big goal distract you from the small stuff that [helps make] that goal present in your community, in your daily life, for people around you."
youtu.be/A0O6p4p_vfs
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"Banning books just brings them attention!" is a good hope.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Banning books just brings them attention!" is a good hope.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
But let's be real: banning books is an act by those in power to restrict education under the guise of "appropriateness."
Vanishingly few banned books go viral. And those left behind also deserve support.
Get involved in your community.
"It's early! I don't have any words. All my words are still asleep."
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"It's early! I don't have any words. All my words are still asleep."
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
- My husband, with three new indescipherable utterances
Found out last night that my friend has 16,000+ unread emails in their inbox. These effing heathens!
October 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Found out last night that my friend has 16,000+ unread emails in their inbox. These effing heathens!
TWO new books out, both titled “What a Time to Be Alive” @nytbookreview.bsky.social
In other news, we live in a simulation.
In other news, we live in a simulation.
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
TWO new books out, both titled “What a Time to Be Alive” @nytbookreview.bsky.social
In other news, we live in a simulation.
In other news, we live in a simulation.
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Listen to me ruin Kali's innocence while I explain what a "shadow daddy" is:
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
4.2: Roman Empires and Shadow Daddies
YouTube video by Ink Sink Podcast
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September 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Listen to me ruin Kali's innocence while I explain what a "shadow daddy" is:
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
youtu.be/p3lwKayw4B8
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Tom Clancy’s Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir
Torn between Tom Clancy’s Gravity’s Rainbow (that manages to sound like a real Clancy licensed product) and Tom Clancy’s Holy Bible with Apocrypha.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title
“Tom Clancy’s Principia Mathematica”
“Tom Clancy’s Principia Mathematica”
August 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tom Clancy’s Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir
- People like certainty more than they like hope.
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
- People like certainty more than they like hope.
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
- Oh god, that's true. Put that on a tea towel. And then never sell a unit because it's too sad.
(Josie Duffy Rice and Sarah Marshall on "You're Wrong About")
@jduffyrice.bsky.social @sarcher.bsky.social @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
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I admit, we've looked at properties in other states, and while it's useful to know things like average income, nearby schools, and weather norms...
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
August 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I admit, we've looked at properties in other states, and while it's useful to know things like average income, nearby schools, and weather norms...
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
What I really want to know is which five authors get requested most often at the local bookstore.
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Some of y'all don't need Jesus, you need fact checkers and just the tiniest bit of critical thinking skill
August 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some of y'all don't need Jesus, you need fact checkers and just the tiniest bit of critical thinking skill
Once again reminded of this.
August 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Once again reminded of this.
"Women smile and laugh, but mid-century men, apparently, can only grin and chuckle. At this stage of research, we cannot fully explain this odd phenomenon..."
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
August 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Women smile and laugh, but mid-century men, apparently, can only grin and chuckle. At this stage of research, we cannot fully explain this odd phenomenon..."
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)
(Underwood, Bamman, Lee, "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018)