Linda Steer
@lindasteer.bsky.social
Art historian researching photography & drug use. Author of Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Routledge, 2017). Art history teaching podcast https://unboxingthecanon.podbean.com
Partner, stepmom, and cat mom. 🐈⬛🐈⬛ 🇨🇦🌷🌸🌻
Partner, stepmom, and cat mom. 🐈⬛🐈⬛ 🇨🇦🌷🌸🌻
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Happy 80th birthday to Canada's great rebel warrior. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Glastonbury 2009)
YouTube video by TheGRStars
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November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Happy 80th birthday to Canada's great rebel warrior. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
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Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
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Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
September 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
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1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this:
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
'There's no need to test'.
Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.
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“We need better air quality in our public spaces,” Vipond said. “We need to be treating our air they way we treat our water, not just because of COVID but to prepare for the next airborne pandemic.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent
We still aren’t doing enough to mitigate the spread of the virus
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“We need better air quality in our public spaces,” Vipond said. “We need to be treating our air they way we treat our water, not just because of COVID but to prepare for the next airborne pandemic.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
This week’s reading.
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This week’s reading.
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Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
Happy back-to-school to all who celebrate!
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy back-to-school to all who celebrate!
Yep! Our history of art and visual culture grads are doing well.
August 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yep! Our history of art and visual culture grads are doing well.
Sounds like a good summer read!
Congrats to @kashana.bsky.social on this book which I think will make me laugh, cry, and want to strangle someone lol
"When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her student loan company with the help of two mall coworkers" #BookSky
"When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her student loan company with the help of two mall coworkers" #BookSky
July 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sounds like a good summer read!
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Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
This weeks reading: a fascinating little book of letters between C. Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth about photography, poetry, incarceration, imagination, contemporary culture and politics, friendship and more.
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This weeks reading: a fascinating little book of letters between C. Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth about photography, poetry, incarceration, imagination, contemporary culture and politics, friendship and more.
I find this fascinating / terrifying.
Users on TikTok are asking ChatGPT what their "curse" is. What does it mean for us to want surveillance? To crave it? To feel comforted by being intimately known by software?
open.substack.com/pub/holyscro...
open.substack.com/pub/holyscro...
ChatGPT, What is My Curse?
What does it mean to feel seen by a machine?
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I find this fascinating / terrifying.
So, what’s everyone reading this summer? Any suggestions? I’m looking for good novels.
July 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So, what’s everyone reading this summer? Any suggestions? I’m looking for good novels.
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The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?
I only really care about "cheating" on assignments insofar as I give them the assignments to try to get them to use their minds. If that's not happening for one reason or another then I have a bigger problem than rule-following
Sometimes people ask if for me as an educator the most frustrating part of “AI” is students cheating and like yeah I don’t love that but I’m much more worried about their brains atrophying than whether they’re being honest in my class
June 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?
This.
Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce
It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health
It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives
It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health
It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives
Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United
Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes us
www.cmu.fr
June 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This.
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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.
June 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.
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Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
A retrospective of the Duch Golden Age painter has been organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the MFA Boston.
www.artnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
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And it’s rather good!
Stop. #TalkingHeads have done a new video for Psycho Killer starring Saoirse Ronan
youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...
youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
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June 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And it’s rather good!
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A picture by one person, for one person: Las Meninas, 1656. It doesn't get any better than this. Some paintings by me on the back wall (thank you Diego), but they are not the stars of this show! Diego Velazquez, born OTD 1599.
June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A picture by one person, for one person: Las Meninas, 1656. It doesn't get any better than this. Some paintings by me on the back wall (thank you Diego), but they are not the stars of this show! Diego Velazquez, born OTD 1599.
Signs of hope.
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
June 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Signs of hope.
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We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.
May 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.
Interesting video on the rhetoric around generative AI and universities.
I really enjoyed being in conversation with @tinariversryan.bsky.social to discuss my article in the April issue of @artforum.com. You can check out the recording of our conversation here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...
Sonja Drimmer on the empty rhetoric of generative AI | UNDER THE COVER
YouTube video by Artforum
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April 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Interesting video on the rhetoric around generative AI and universities.