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Researcher(liberal arts and social sciences), fiction writer, crazy cat lady. Escaped academic.
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This is part of what makes libraries so magical. It’s where the other people, the safe ones, live. Bookstores and rooms with stacks and stacks of books work, too.
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1 day ago
I’d LOVE to see Sinatra put PeeWee German in his place!
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary
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Little Clementine came here because her 97 year old owner could no longer care for her. She is elderly, nearly blind and has no record of vetting so she needs extensive dental, hoof, and medical care. Can you help us meet a $12,500 matching goal to help animals like her?
donorbox.org/end-of-year-...
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Rebecca WB
2 days ago
This. If the menswear guy comes for me, I'm not fighting, I've done something wrong. It's like if Chotiner ever asks to interview me a) no, and b) it's time to walk into the sea.
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Jay Hulme
1 day ago
Multiple people have sent me this like "this u" but they've all put the dot that's supposed to be me in a different place, and I think that's beautiful.
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Peter
1 day ago
There’s plenty of protest music out there, but Bad Bunny and Run the Jewels lack the same characteristics for a certain consumer and media demographic as Living Colour and Tracy Chapman did a few decades ago.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today
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Victoria Duncan
2 days ago
It's always a good time to be reminded that "whiteness" is an invented concept used to justify subjugating others. Its boundaries have been redrawn over time to suit powerful interests. It is not an ethnicity, it's not real, it's not even stable. It's a pretext for genocide and oppression.
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Robert Reich
2 days ago
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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A Very Hipster Viking Amy Christmas
2 days ago
Have I ever told you about the time I read an article called “What It’s Like to Live With Social Anxiety” and I was mad I’d wasted time reading an article describing nothing but dead normal human experience for like an hour before the penny dropped?
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote
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David M. Perry
2 days ago
what!!!!!
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Sherrilyn Ifill
2 days ago
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Edmonds Scanner
3 days ago
My wish for you: May you always feel safe and warm, may your tea supply never run dry, and may you always find more space on your crowded bookshelves for books that you cannot live without.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve
5 days ago
The innkeeper isn't the bad guy in the story, he's a *good guy* in the story. He *doesn't have room in his inn* and then *finds a spot for Mary anyway*. And this act of kindness is why Jesus is born in a manger -- warm, dry, safe, surrounded by people that love him -- instead of out in the desert
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET
3 days ago
Truth this Christmas 🙏
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Leigh Walton
4 days ago
One of the great pleasures of reading the original text is learning that Gonzo’s line reading perfectly captures Dickens’ use of all-caps here
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Mikki Kendall
3 days ago
I love us
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People are pretty great.
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John Rogers
3 days ago
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Jennifer Ouellette
3 days ago
Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
3 days ago
This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.
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ᒍᗩᗴ 🇿🇦 ᖇOK
4 days ago
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
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Sonja Drimmer
4 days ago
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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Greg Pak
5 days ago
Thanks for sharing this document,
@rweingarten.bsky.social
. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Just Jack
5 days ago
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
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Jed Brown
5 days ago
I remember when a Canadian court ruled that Air Canada's chatbot was a representative of the company (so the company had to honor commitments it had made) and they yanked it immediately.
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Anthony Moser
5 days ago
if you don't have the confidence to personally assume criminal liability for the output of your statistical word assembler maybe it's not ready for the public
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Paul Scheer
5 days ago
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K)
5 days ago
I’m Billie! I’m not on the Epstein Files but I’m on the euthanasia list at
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Anthony Moser
5 days ago
As a starting point I think the CEO of every company offering chatbots should be *personally* liable for all the text their chatbots produce. as though it was a direct conversation with them
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken
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Jonathan Heaps
5 days ago
Omg this one is even better
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Scott Horton
5 days ago
This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.
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Christopher Moore
5 days ago
Every Democratic congressional staffer better be spending the day unredacting Epstein files before they are "fixed".
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Premee Mohamed
5 days ago
"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower
5 days ago
Happy holidays 🤭🙂↕️
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southpaw
5 days ago
a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control
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John Cluverius
6 days ago
Don’t fuck with archivists. They are librarians with sociopathic tendencies.
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Asha Rangappa
6 days ago
I think she really thought it wouldn’t get out. I also think she may not be that bright?
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Michael
6 days ago
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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6 days ago
and such a fuck up, to handle this so badly and then let it immediately get out. The whole "DEI actually harmed me, the white person" must be a mental cover for knowing they're an idiot deep down.
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Ann M. Lipton
6 days ago
i came out to have a good time and honestly....
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It's ME(Jaime)
6 days ago
Alt in comments-- FCC's response to CNN throttling the 60 minutes piece.
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Jed Brown
8 days ago
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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NYC Plover Project
7 days ago
Endangered Species Act Under Threat! Final hours to comment! Endangered Species Act regulations comment period ends Monday 12/22 at 11:59 pm ET. Easy-to-use comment guide with direct links to comment:
shorturl.at/NL623
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Ian Boudreau
7 days ago
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦
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Daniel José Older
8 days ago
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
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Matt Novak
8 days ago
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
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