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Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉
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Writer. Syrian, Mvskoke, genderplural, bisexual. I love cartoons.
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2024 NEA Fellow in Creative Writing

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Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉 @keychanged.bsky.social · Jan 24
In the words of Palestinian artist Kiki Salem: "One day, I will celebrate this milestone."

If you want to congratulate me, or ask what I'm writing lately, I'm writing to my elected officials. I urge you to write to yours. Ask them to work to end the apartheid every day until it's done.
Key K. Bird
Profile of 2024 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose recipient Key K Bird.
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I still think people should be given mandatory time off to both go get and recover from vaccines tho.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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dcmigrantmutualaid.org
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
ICE agent carrying away a yard sign that says “ICE kidnapping happened here”
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
If you have been framing your work as involving/in relation to "AI", what do you mean by "AI"? How would you describe your work without using that phrase?

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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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cait.bsky.social
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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njsmith.bsky.social
News from Chicagoland. This might be the most inspiring thing you read all day. West Coast, Midwest, South and East Coast. Everybody activated. We see each other. Do one thing. The one thing you can do today. And then the next one thing. And remember, you’re not alone. 🙏🏼
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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boltsmag.org
Voters are deciding races in dozens of states today, with early returns in coming hours.

Throughout the night, our team will bring you results from key races, so be sure to follow us.

And until then, explore our cheat sheet of the races we're tracking:
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts
Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More
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November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
It’s insane that these companies can do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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briesmith.xyz
Got off the runway and crashed just outside the airport. Looks like they had an engine failure at a point where they couldn’t stop and didn’t have the power to take off completely, it just skimmed into the buildings nearby
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
Horrific explosion at Louisville, KY, international airport, a UPS plane fully fueled and headed for Hawaii appears to have caught fire and exploded on runway. Praying for everyone affected.
Aerial view of SDF, flames and plumes of smoke
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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velodus.bsky.social
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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mondoweiss.net
The new documentary "Gaza: Journalists Under Fire" honors the remarkable bravery and work of Palestinian journalists reporting on the Gaza genocide, including those who have been killed by Israel simply for sharing the truth.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/film...

#Palestine #Israel
Film Review: Reporting under fire in Gaza
The new documentary “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire” honors the remarkable bravery and work of Palestinian journalists reporting on the Gaza genocide, including those who have been killed by Israel...
mondoweiss.net
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
keychanged.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
This is an accurate, informative headline, unlike the ones atop some of the other news stories on this topic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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genocidescholars.bsky.social
Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.
mrothberg.bsky.social Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Sep 18
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
drive.google.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
keychanged.bsky.social
Small things are helping me get through these very heavy days.

A small thing that made me smile:

Saidiya Hartman's first name rhymes with "idea." That feels so appropriate.
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
keychanged.bsky.social
As a former bookseller, I co-sign all of this.
joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · Sep 16
Hey #BookSky For many bookstores & small retail in general, the holiday season is make or break for the year for them. Of course, money is tight for everyone this year so here's a thread of ways to support your local bookstore WITHOUT spending more $$ than you already intended to...
September 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
It's truly funny that Silver thinks "read[ing] a lot of Substacks" is a suitable replacement for reading academic journals, and yet calls BlueSky a circle jerk
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Sep 16
I had missed this exchange last month between Nate Silver and Tyler Cowen in which Silver more or less admits that the academic conversation has moved to Bluesky, but rather than thinking that this shows how Bluesky has become more important, he claims it's why they've "lost influence."
COWEN: What was the last interesting thing you learned from the academic political science literature? SILVER: Oh boy, this is going to seem like an insult. [laughs] COWEN: No, no, we’re all for insults here. SILVER: Look, I read a lot of Substacks and things like that. Oh, my gosh. I don’t know. COWEN: I think that might be the right answer, to be clear. [laughter] SILVER: I think in some ways, what has come out of academic circles has been interesting. I think effective altruism has been interesting, for example. Certainly, critical theory or whatever, the origins of wokeness have had a lot of influence on the discourse more broadly. But I don’t really read a lot of journal articles anymore. Also, a lot of it’s gone on Bluesky, I think, and I can’t tolerate Bluesky, really. It’s too much of a circle jerk. I think academics have maybe lost influence in that respect. Even though I have great experiences talking to academics, and I’ll do events at universities a couple of times a year.
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM