Brynne Jones
brynnejones.bsky.social
Brynne Jones
@brynnejones.bsky.social
she/her | writer/stay-at-home astronaut | shorties in The Iowa Review & The Missouri Review online
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"It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing."
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
buff.ly
May 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Y'all mf's till posting on Twitter
May 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
as a connoisseur of step-parents, been thinkin lately that the motherhood i crave is actually stepmotherhood
May 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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And yes this is bad on an individual student level. It demonstrates a concerning lack of intellectualism, drive, and integrity, but it's going to truly fuck with the rest of us to. These students will go on to be our nurses, lawyers, teachers, admins, etc. without ever actually learning anything.
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Seven ChatGPT written finals and counting. I don't think anyone outside of academia really understands how big of an issue this is. We're about to be begin graduating generations of students who have offloaded the entire learning process of their degrees onto predictive algorithms.
May 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Today in @thenation.com: After 3 yrs of carving a home in U.S. exile, I fled again fearing an ICE arrest. The risk wasn’t just deportation, but life in prison back in Egypt.

What myths does the US empire uphold about itself? When does fascism stop "descending"?

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why I Had to Flee the United States
I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America.
www.thenation.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Our fiction editors are so excited about the World's Best Short-Short Story Contest long list that they couldn’t wait to share!

#shortshortstories #literarymagazine #writingcontest #flashfiction
February 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨

The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
January 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
also, what are we calling these? am i skying right now? is this a blue? am i bluing myself?
December 4, 2024 at 1:06 AM
i briefly reactivated my twitter/x/hell account to retrieve someone’s contact info, and omg do not go back there
December 4, 2024 at 1:04 AM