@NickWhiteheadMN @BachmannRudi What was the wording on the ballot in Texas? Presumably that wording was neutral and better, resulting in a free and fair election?
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Mitchell Jacobs
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Mitchell Jacobs
@mitchelljacobs
I like my cocktails pink and my prose purple. PhD candidate @USC | Managing Editor @RicochetEds | Work in @pleiadesmag @CincinnReview @pshares @slowdownshow
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Ocak 2015
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@BachmannRudi The ballot question was misleading and not worded in a neutral fashion. It presumed that the current map was unfair. This wording should never have been approved by the officials overseeing a free and fair election.
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Can conservatives from the US explain to me why the VA gerrymander (which was approved by voters) is not OK, while the one in TX and others in the South are? Please make a serious, good-faith effort. No German random posters please.
PS: I think all gerrymandering is bad.
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Ohh good! I've been waiting for this to be a book and now it is a book. Check out Rogue Astronaut by @mitchelljacobs
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Doesn’t have to be through an oral examination but I am convinced that everyone in academia could stand to be asked “What do you mean by that word? What does that phrase mean?” way more often.
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
"Some professors have for many years been giving oral examinations in the old Oxford and Cambridge tutorial style, where students read their papers aloud, and the professor interrupts to ask questions like 'What do you mean by that word? What does that phrase mean?'"
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Ah yes, inspired by the picture of architects eating lunch up on a steel beam, the picture that famously dramatized how architects bravely risk their lives every day
TIME@TIME
2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year. time.com/7339685/person…
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My book is real! It's got aliens and Jesus and hot sex and cuttlefish--and you can pre-order it now
Univ. of Arkansas Press@uarkpress
Available for pre-order! ROGUE ASTRONAUT by @mitchelljacobs, finalist for the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize uapress.com/product/rogue-…
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Thrilled to learn that Early Sobrieties has won the PEN/Hemingway Award (sticker forthcoming….)
@astrahousebooks @PENamerica
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"I'd close my eyes and imagine the butcher's glass, // choosing a cut of marbled pork, the cold weight handed to me / from the scale"
Also I think I really am going to try this envisioning the grocery store trick to pass time
charlie peck@chip_nutter
“Going to Publix” in the new @IndianaReview !
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Once I was at a diner and "Margaritaville" was playing on the jukebox and the waitress said "This should be the national anthem"
⚓️🏴☠️🏴☠️Spicy🏴☠️🏴☠️⚓️@SpicyMcCall44
Hear me out……
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"our country moving closer to its own truth and dread"
Adrienne Rich writing over 30 years ago, but also for today
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If you so much as quote T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets in a piece of writing, you still have to pay. It is basically a denial of Eliot's cultural impact to insist that this work belongs to an estate and not to human culture.
Anyway, happy Public Domain Day!
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That would leave someone like Agatha Christie, who published her first book at 30 and lived to 85, only 5 years without the rights to that book. Keep in mind that her last book, under current law, will not enter the public domain until 2072, 96 years after her death. [14/15]
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When you know what's in the public domain, it attunes you how it shapes what we see at the book store. It's more than just volunteer efforts like Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, where you can download entire books for free. It's business. [1/15]
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