Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn
@carrielynnland.bsky.social
#PhD candidate in #ScienceFiction; master's on #Dune; podcaster & host of New Books in #Secularism; #academicsky
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
Where do you sell that?
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Where do you sell that?
Loved these books as a kid. My teacher read the first one to the class and I read the sequels the library had.
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Loved these books as a kid. My teacher read the first one to the class and I read the sequels the library had.
I love a good “adversarial”, “malicious” poetry story 📚
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I love a good “adversarial”, “malicious” poetry story 📚
Always exciting to see a Musk property so embarrassingly surpassed 🛰️
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Always exciting to see a Musk property so embarrassingly surpassed 🛰️
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Um … I literally don’t know what any of those words mean.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Um … I literally don’t know what any of those words mean.
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Smart people keep saying…
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Smart people keep saying…
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
“AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”
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Please reply with your favorite No Kings photos!
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Please reply with your favorite No Kings photos!
Mange la résistance ! 💪🏻🥰
Someone in Sacramento made these great 'Protest Cookies' for the No Kings rally
October 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Mange la résistance ! 💪🏻🥰
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
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Friends...it's Wednesday. Do you feel like something is missing?
It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that!
Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer.
🗃️🧪
It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that!
Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer.
🗃️🧪
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Friends...it's Wednesday. Do you feel like something is missing?
It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that!
Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer.
🗃️🧪
It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that!
Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer.
🗃️🧪
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Myth, Magick and Mystery is on at Colchester Castle today. Come for the legends, stay for the science.
Plan your visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/myth-magick
Plan your visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/myth-magick
Myth, Magick and Mystery | Colchester Museums
A weekend of folklore, fortune-telling and the uncanny at Colchester Castle. Book talks, readings, workshops and paranormal investigations.
colchester.cimuseums.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Myth, Magick and Mystery is on at Colchester Castle today. Come for the legends, stay for the science.
Plan your visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/myth-magick
Plan your visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/myth-magick
I was so fascinated/freaked out by mantises when I was small. Wish I could have seen this 🌸
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I was so fascinated/freaked out by mantises when I was small. Wish I could have seen this 🌸
@piatpod.bsky.social have you guys seen “Mazes and Monsters”? Tom Hanks goes crazy from playing (essentially) D&D!! 🤯
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
@piatpod.bsky.social have you guys seen “Mazes and Monsters”? Tom Hanks goes crazy from playing (essentially) D&D!! 🤯
New nickname for the ex-husband 👍🏻
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
September 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New nickname for the ex-husband 👍🏻
Look forward to this every year 😎
Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is?
1024 x 768
1024 x 768
September 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Look forward to this every year 😎
The Wrong Machine is the best nickname I’ve heard for AI!
Good news, were bolstering the power grid as it's needed for decades.
No, you can't use it. It's for our Wrong Machine.
No, you can't use it. It's for our Wrong Machine.
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Wrong Machine is the best nickname I’ve heard for AI!
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Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.
STEM-in-Society Programs Deserve Institutional Support
STEM-in-society programs have proven their utility and have never been more needed—but they are in jeopardy nationwide.
issues.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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After the Trump admin uprooted the funding that has upheld most colleges’ scientific research, there were some who optimistically felt this moment might bring the sciences to the side of the humanities, which have been fighting against flagging funds for some time. I was skeptical, and this is why.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
After the Trump admin uprooted the funding that has upheld most colleges’ scientific research, there were some who optimistically felt this moment might bring the sciences to the side of the humanities, which have been fighting against flagging funds for some time. I was skeptical, and this is why.
Slightly diminish a band: Eight Inch Nails.
Slightly diminish a band: Huey Lewis and the Social Media
Slightly diminish a band: The Only Mostly Dead Kennedys
August 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Eight Inch Nails.