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Emily Zhou

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go get yourself an agon // author of girlfriends editor at littlepuss press / anecdata.substack.com


Emily Zhou's avatar Emily Zhou @emializh.bsky.social
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the reading series my good friend Jules and I run in Queens is returning on the 18th -- if you're in NYC and you want to come, DM me for the address!

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so is it just going to be 90 degrees in new york forever or

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Lyta Gold's avatar Lyta Gold @lytagold.bsky.social
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PSA: recycling twitter jokes into lines in yr novel 1) is annoying 2) necessarily makes your book sound dated immediately

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Vicky ACAB's avatar Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social
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Its always good to be reminded that when they want to the national media can sustain a single minded political attack for weeks, and to be reminded when and why they choose to do it.

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this is the experience of someone who has never had to rely on the Internet to find people who won’t abuse you to death— you can reach out to *anyone* by posting, and if all you accomplish is gathering a following of moral nihilists and navel gazers, that is a skill issue

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this place is sort of the reddit of twitter

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my account on here keeps getting a "warning label" placed on it for being "sexually suggestive." if this is because one of you is reporting it please stop that

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when I was 10 I found a copy of Men's Health in my parents' room and I remember an article in there that gave advice about what to think if you walk in on your gf/wife masturbating. the conclusion was "you're probably doing fine, if she's having good sex she'll probably be thinking more about sex"

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aha this seems to be the real answer! lemme see if I can get it from my library

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Is the rule Britain and France can't both not have a right-wing government at the same time? Is this something they worked out after the Hundred Years' War?

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everyone in north america should be able to live in manhattan

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

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for some reason i decided to translate Petronius Poem 28 happy monday everyone

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worse than valueless, the true horror of human life is the delirium of the marketplace, your body rebounding off the world’s oldest price fixing scandal over and over again— flesh against concrete.

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Shannon Mattern's avatar Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social
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Every year I get the sense that people forget that library budget cuts — sometimes a lot, sometimes a little — are threatened pretty much every year 🤷‍♀️

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the one thing that bluesky has an edge over twitter on is that there isn't this automatic assumption that you're doing what you're doing for clout

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I honestly don't care who the Democratic candidate is so long as they stop the slaughter in Gaza. Barring that it makes no difference.

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A trust fund kid is allowed to be Raymond Roussel (impossibly weird great artist), James Laughlin (publisher of impossibly weird great artists), the Tappan brothers (patron of radical benevolent causes), or Pannonica Rothschild (fucked cool people)

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if you're a trust fund kid your role is to either gleefully and unthinkingly participate in the lowest forms of culture or to lock yourself in a tower somewhere and work on some idiosyncratic project. anything else is annoying

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become one of those people who gets depressed if I don't write for a few days. and if I forget my progesterone which is probably what's actually happening here but

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Angel Perez's avatar Angel Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social
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this one is cool. The exhibit is a bunch of white screens, that change when you put on 3d glasses. Exhibit is called Privacy Screen, by Carta Monir

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sometimes I think the real reason I go out is to experience the preternatural stillness of the city at 4:30 am as I walk home afterwards

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not emotionally ready for another andrea long chu essay

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maybe this aesthetic judgement isn't quite in line with my political ideals but I think it's weird when a guy has a lot of gimmicky flash tattoos

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I'm assuming they're in it for the data but also it has a disconcerting amount of sway in the publishing industry despite it being easily manipulated/subject to the whims of booktok types, sort of a bad state of affairs all around

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alright I'm gonna schedule an ffs consult

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hey any minute now this decades-long experiment in fashioning online community by talking about everything we want in an community, and how we want to hold people accountable to their community, i think it's finally coming together. everyone just has to become as ethical as me right this instant

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Shannon Mattern's avatar Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social
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East Village Zine Fair — what a lovely day!

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Canada has a lot on the US but tbh the whole assisted suicide for disabled people in a structurally anti-disability system is a real big negative on the counter for me

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Shannon Mattern's avatar Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social
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"As faculty from CalState LongBeach elucidated, Boeing—one of the IDF’s longtime partners—has taken over the university. Driven by the twin pressures of austerity + militarization... 'the College[s] of Engineering [+] Business [have] quite literally transformed into Boeing’s labor-supply mill.'"

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Emily Zhou's avatar Emily Zhou @emializh.bsky.social
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good point. something that oddly scratches the itch but takes it in a completely orthogonal direction

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realizing at some point that you don't get the social media addiction brain cells back, just like quitting smoking will make you feel better but you probably won't ever be a triathlete

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

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drow zelensky's avatar drow zelensky @dov.bsky.social
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"It is a good market to play financial games in at the expense of the have nots if you are one of the haves" is a dipshit's argument and if anything makes me want to be real punitive towards the haves out of revenge

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How do I put this as bluntly as possible: homeowners celebrating equity increases aren't remotely as important as people struggling to pay rent

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Erin Bartram's avatar Erin Bartram @erinbartram.bsky.social
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"enjoy grad school and don't let it bum you out when you don't get a job" is not the correct response to all this, but it's a good clue to the dynamics that we still won't really talk about: that class background/family resources matter, and that grad funding disparities between universities matter.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸's avatar Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city
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this is true but these people are a small minority allied with strict geopolitical realists both Dem and GOP who see Israel as a base by which to expand American imperial power in the region, and the religious nut jobs can only function via the arms of the imperial state

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