Dopetruffles
@hannabonanza.bsky.social
I read books and then write things about them.
I think about Decay a lot.
What if we built something’s end into its creation?
I think about Decay a lot.
What if we built something’s end into its creation?
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Dopetruffles
@hannabonanza.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Issue V
Full Journal Download Please use the hyperlinked contents page in the full journal download to navigate your way around Issue V. Contents Foreword, Elizabeth Parker and Harriet Stilley Introduction…
gothicnaturejournal.com
I am thrilled to share that the issue of the Gothic Nature Journal Issue V is out now and includes my essay, "'Life is Precious in Syl Anagist': Decolonizing Magic and Technology in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy".
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
Abstract below.
#Gothic #Literature
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
Abstract below.
#Gothic #Literature
“For various American ideals to be fully realized, the country will need to recover its ethos of building, which I believe will solve most of its economic problems and many of its political problems too."
From Dan Wang's Breakneck (2025)
#booksky 💙📚
From Dan Wang's Breakneck (2025)
#booksky 💙📚
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“For various American ideals to be fully realized, the country will need to recover its ethos of building, which I believe will solve most of its economic problems and many of its political problems too."
From Dan Wang's Breakneck (2025)
#booksky 💙📚
From Dan Wang's Breakneck (2025)
#booksky 💙📚
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social I finished reading Dan Wang's "Breakneck," and I'm curious to hear what you think about his position that China has rejected "advanced technology with American characteristics." He goes on to say that China is leaning into hardware manufacturing over virtual tech.
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social I finished reading Dan Wang's "Breakneck," and I'm curious to hear what you think about his position that China has rejected "advanced technology with American characteristics." He goes on to say that China is leaning into hardware manufacturing over virtual tech.
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NO FUCKING SYMPATHY. Sloppers be sloppin' through the slop.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NO FUCKING SYMPATHY. Sloppers be sloppin' through the slop.
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees | Division of Arts & Humanities
artshumanities.berkeley.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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This, absolutely. It's why I accepted an offer from a librarian to ship me boxes of discontinued cards. It isn't quite the same but perusing them from time to time has given me some great ideas and reads.
The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This, absolutely. It's why I accepted an offer from a librarian to ship me boxes of discontinued cards. It isn't quite the same but perusing them from time to time has given me some great ideas and reads.
"American manufacturers constantly asked themselves whether making masks and cotton swabs was part of their ‘core competence.’ Most of them decided not...Chinese companies decided that making money is their core competence, therefore they go and make masks, or whatever else the market needs."
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"American manufacturers constantly asked themselves whether making masks and cotton swabs was part of their ‘core competence.’ Most of them decided not...Chinese companies decided that making money is their core competence, therefore they go and make masks, or whatever else the market needs."
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
"The fundamental tenet of the engineering state [China] is to look at people as aggregates, not individuals" (6).
from Breakneck (2025), by Dan Wang
#booksky📚💙
from Breakneck (2025), by Dan Wang
#booksky📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"The fundamental tenet of the engineering state [China] is to look at people as aggregates, not individuals" (6).
from Breakneck (2025), by Dan Wang
#booksky📚💙
from Breakneck (2025), by Dan Wang
#booksky📚💙
“The United States...has a government of the lawyers, by the lawyers, and for the lawyers. Five out of the last ten presidents attended law school. In any given year, at least half the US Congress has law degrees, while at best a handful of members have studied science or engineering."
#booksky💙📚
#booksky💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“The United States...has a government of the lawyers, by the lawyers, and for the lawyers. Five out of the last ten presidents attended law school. In any given year, at least half the US Congress has law degrees, while at best a handful of members have studied science or engineering."
#booksky💙📚
#booksky💙📚
“Since 1980...China has built an expanse of highways equal to twice the length of the US systems, a high-speed rail network twenty times more extensive than Japan’s, and almost as much solar and wind power capacity as the rest of the world put together."
From Breakneck (2025) by Dan Wang
#booksky💙📚
From Breakneck (2025) by Dan Wang
#booksky💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Since 1980...China has built an expanse of highways equal to twice the length of the US systems, a high-speed rail network twenty times more extensive than Japan’s, and almost as much solar and wind power capacity as the rest of the world put together."
From Breakneck (2025) by Dan Wang
#booksky💙📚
From Breakneck (2025) by Dan Wang
#booksky💙📚
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🔵 This VICTORY right here
So totally EPIC 💙🇺🇲✊🏾✊🏻🐥
So totally EPIC 💙🇺🇲✊🏾✊🏻🐥
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🔵 This VICTORY right here
So totally EPIC 💙🇺🇲✊🏾✊🏻🐥
So totally EPIC 💙🇺🇲✊🏾✊🏻🐥
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“controversial belief that all children should be safe and happy”
I was looking up Miss Rachel’s website and forgot to type -ai
August 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“controversial belief that all children should be safe and happy”
"He looked up at the empty clouds, and just as he died, he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one."
The Bright Sword (2024) by @levgrossman.com
#booksky 💙📚
A MUST read.
The Bright Sword (2024) by @levgrossman.com
#booksky 💙📚
A MUST read.
August 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"He looked up at the empty clouds, and just as he died, he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one."
The Bright Sword (2024) by @levgrossman.com
#booksky 💙📚
A MUST read.
The Bright Sword (2024) by @levgrossman.com
#booksky 💙📚
A MUST read.
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Did they arrest Obama or release the Epstein files yet? Is Hillary locked up? Did they figure out who in the Deep State is creating chemtrails?
July 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Did they arrest Obama or release the Epstein files yet? Is Hillary locked up? Did they figure out who in the Deep State is creating chemtrails?
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It's up to us to make sure everyone knows they won't feel the bad stuff for a couple years, specifically because Republicans planned it that way so people will think the bill was good and vote for them again. Warn people it's coming.
The ugly cuts to Medicare and support programs don't come until 2026 and we know why. Between now and then Trump will continue to lie about it, and it won't hit home until after the election.
Dems will continue to predict that the sky is falling, soon. And everyone will write it off as politics.
Dems will continue to predict that the sky is falling, soon. And everyone will write it off as politics.
July 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's up to us to make sure everyone knows they won't feel the bad stuff for a couple years, specifically because Republicans planned it that way so people will think the bill was good and vote for them again. Warn people it's coming.
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Noting that “beautiful” is Trump’s standard term for the conscious abuse of large numbers of people, as in the promise to deport Gazans to some “beautiful” place. This language has to be treated as a subject in itself and not repeated.
When Dems considered an agenda called “Build Back Better,” mainstream news outlets agonized publicly about how they couldn’t use the term, and would instead call it, e.g., “Biden’s spending bill.” With Republicans in charge, calling their agenda One Big Beautiful Bill, that’s all out the window.
July 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Noting that “beautiful” is Trump’s standard term for the conscious abuse of large numbers of people, as in the promise to deport Gazans to some “beautiful” place. This language has to be treated as a subject in itself and not repeated.
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"Think about what the United States was when it was founded versus what it is now. We were an agrarian society that lacked indoor plumbing. The population was about one percent of what it is now, and we had only thirteen states."
The Founders Would Like to Remind You They’ve Been Dead for Nearly Two Hundred Years
In the current era of hyper-partisanship, many have taken to using out-of-context quotes by us and asking what we would think of pretty much any po...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Think about what the United States was when it was founded versus what it is now. We were an agrarian society that lacked indoor plumbing. The population was about one percent of what it is now, and we had only thirteen states."
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I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.
July 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.
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Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
July 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
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We are ONE step away from successful autocracy transition. All things we’ve touched on. We have no more checks and balances. Tbf even if Court can “enforce” there are no guardrails to force the executive to force itself. If we can’t defend the country we must defend our State. @governor.ca.gov
July 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We are ONE step away from successful autocracy transition. All things we’ve touched on. We have no more checks and balances. Tbf even if Court can “enforce” there are no guardrails to force the executive to force itself. If we can’t defend the country we must defend our State. @governor.ca.gov
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“Ladies and gentleman” they say to absolutely no one
July 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“Ladies and gentleman” they say to absolutely no one