Tara Shea
@tsbhoney.bsky.social
most alive under the trees and blue 💙
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The idea that we must be Very Useful Engines will kill us.
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The idea that we must be Very Useful Engines will kill us.
dang this is a banger
HELLO FRIENDS I HAVE POEMS OUT IN THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER @therumpus.net A SONNET AND SOMETHING ELSE SO MANY THANKS TO @theferocity.bsky.social FOR MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A POET !!!!
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December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
dang this is a banger
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To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.
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Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
Fueled by private equity and a subscription-based business model, the auto wash industry is flooding the US with new outlets. Some towns and cities have had enough.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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“A beet is a serious thing. It sleeps in the ground while the apple trees thrash all night in the wind’s red darkness.”
— Richard Siken from “Beet Soup” in I Do Know Some Things
— Richard Siken from “Beet Soup” in I Do Know Some Things
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“A beet is a serious thing. It sleeps in the ground while the apple trees thrash all night in the wind’s red darkness.”
— Richard Siken from “Beet Soup” in I Do Know Some Things
— Richard Siken from “Beet Soup” in I Do Know Some Things
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URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision.
Please sign
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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision.
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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It’s hard not to think of this entire poem every time I read the news
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It’s hard not to think of this entire poem every time I read the news
Made Mara watch the film version this weekend and I still cry 😭.
I used to wonder how I ended up the way I am from truly broken family, then I rewatch my favorite movies and shows and books and there I am.
I used to wonder how I ended up the way I am from truly broken family, then I rewatch my favorite movies and shows and books and there I am.
"When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts."
Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
![[photo of page from The Neverending Story]: "Whatever they please. When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. That's why I sided with the powerful and served them - because I wanted to share their power.'
'I want no part in it!' Atreyu cried out.
'Take it easy, you little fool,' the werewolf growled.
'When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them. Yes, you little Fantastican, big things will be done in the human world with your help, wars started, empires founded..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreih4s2uzfh5jnzmrjlsrd4tgpjus7k4flyezj4q3a3c76mwrwy424q@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Made Mara watch the film version this weekend and I still cry 😭.
I used to wonder how I ended up the way I am from truly broken family, then I rewatch my favorite movies and shows and books and there I am.
I used to wonder how I ended up the way I am from truly broken family, then I rewatch my favorite movies and shows and books and there I am.
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I first read this poem in my father's final days. It took my breath away. Tomorrow will mark one week since we lost him, but I know he's still with us. So grateful to have (finally!) read _The People's Project_, edited by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, where it appears.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I first read this poem in my father's final days. It took my breath away. Tomorrow will mark one week since we lost him, but I know he's still with us. So grateful to have (finally!) read _The People's Project_, edited by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, where it appears.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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I asked said person, “just so I’m clear, you’re refuting my account of my marital status based on a claim that AI is making about me? Do I have that right?”
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I asked said person, “just so I’m clear, you’re refuting my account of my marital status based on a claim that AI is making about me? Do I have that right?”
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres. All authors are welcome to submit manuscripts during our reading period! Submissions are free from 12/1-12/14! www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres. All authors are welcome to submit manuscripts during our reading period! Submissions are free from 12/1-12/14! www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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I wish we academics had a better social media platform because everything is way too fragmented. A lot of folks on here, FB, IG, Tik Tok are talking about the same problems (AI, closings/layoffs, political repression/union busting, etc), but its pretty hard to mobilize b/c we're in different silos
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I wish we academics had a better social media platform because everything is way too fragmented. A lot of folks on here, FB, IG, Tik Tok are talking about the same problems (AI, closings/layoffs, political repression/union busting, etc), but its pretty hard to mobilize b/c we're in different silos
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There’s a big beautiful moon out right now. Go look at it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
There’s a big beautiful moon out right now. Go look at it.
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You can find all the 75+ "How to Report ICE" zines (English & Spanish versions) in the link in my bio.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You can find all the 75+ "How to Report ICE" zines (English & Spanish versions) in the link in my bio.
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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it feels gross that Substack does auto/non-consensual sign-ups. It’s a pretty schlocky growth strategy.
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
it feels gross that Substack does auto/non-consensual sign-ups. It’s a pretty schlocky growth strategy.
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I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
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"'Everyone knows' this thing, I'm gonna try to find out whether it's true" is the recipe behind some of the most interesting journalism of the century. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't but you need to do the work of finding out rather than just assuming the 'everyone knows' part is enough.
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"'Everyone knows' this thing, I'm gonna try to find out whether it's true" is the recipe behind some of the most interesting journalism of the century. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't but you need to do the work of finding out rather than just assuming the 'everyone knows' part is enough.
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I tire of the culture that asks us to classify and pathologize every personality quirk or idiosyncrasy. At the same time, I recognize how we live in systems that require us to identify our “deficiencies” in order to get support. Exhausting, all of it, really.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I tire of the culture that asks us to classify and pathologize every personality quirk or idiosyncrasy. At the same time, I recognize how we live in systems that require us to identify our “deficiencies” in order to get support. Exhausting, all of it, really.
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥