Erin Grievances

It's 12:22am and this is on the TV.

Nook Farm is looking well this time of year.

Got a whole stalk of brussels sprouts from the CSA this week and I am excited to make this winner again.

Just did a thing I've been putting off for several weeks and it took me 3 painless minutes. Please clap. (No, I will not be learning anything from this experience.)

When I was little, the asthma medicine I was on meant that I had to get my blood drawn every two weeks to make sure I didn't have too much in my body. Then for a long time I had 3 inhalers + nebulizer + ER visits. Now I take 1 inhaler once a day. My asthma's still very bad. The meds are much better.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Yes, it challenged me with problems like fording the river vs paying for a ferry, dysentery, and having to leave behind 90% of the buffalo I'd shot. It helped me learn important lessons like "your life will be full of problems you do not understand and can't solve."

Novelist David Baldacci was stunned when his son showed him a story he’d asked ChatGPT to generate in the style of his father’s work. Since then, he has been at the forefront of the legal fight to protect copyright—and the future of writing and reading—in the United States.

Lydia Millet, writer and winner of the 2026 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, will also join us for award night on November 6 and as a panelist for “Creative Writing in the Age of AI," on November 7. @lydiamillet.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

Hey historians! What are some of your favorite books/articles on labor and working class history? Please and thank you! 🗃️

"I really felt like it was my duty," Ebro Ahmed, 27, told ABC News. "Also, too, it’s kids we’re talking about, you know. Even if I were to die, it would still be worth it." “Ahmed also credited the long-running TV drama "Grey's Anatomy" for helping him stay calm in the heightened situation.”

I appreciate that we are trying not to sexualize girls at Halloween but maybe the pendulum has swung too far.

Well, I emailed 100+ authors houses across the country and every English department, ed school, writing center, and T&L center in CT, RI, and Western MA and the result is . . . all of my ads, on every platform, on work and personal devices, are for MFA programs.

In 2022, even before ChatGPT was publicly available, Jane Rosenzweig argued that the danger of AI writing was that we would “lose our commitment to the idea that we ought to believe what we say and write.” @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

Bhamati Viswanathan, visiting assistant professor at Suffolk University Law School, has testified before Congress on generative AI companies, digital piracy, and the effects on authors and copyright.

“Instead of taking the lead in assuring safe, responsible use of genAI, UConn’s top administrators are allowing students, faculty and staff to be exploited as customers and products.” Opinion piece by @uconnaaup.bsky.social executive committee (which includes me): dailycampus.com/2026/10/20/w...

"New York, as we know it, will not exist tomorrow."

I mean, not understanding my discipline doesn't really stop anyone on here from speaking on it with confidence, so sauce for the goose, I guess.

a good soup makes you feel like everything's right in the world. to be clear though, it's not. the soup lies.

A weird request I really need some help with: I'm looking for great quotes about history written/said BY WOMEN (and yes, I know Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, obv)

Well I sure was sleeping on Haunted Hotel.

The Mail misquotes Macbeth here - a scene where Macduff, here the avatar of moral good & righteousness, explicitly shows it by welcoming a stranger as kin: MACDUFF: See, who comes here? MALCOLM: My countryman, but yet I know him not. MACDUFF: My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.