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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 37m

I have, however, given up caring if my continuing to talk about COVID makes people feel bad.

My mother died of COVID complications this year. And one thing everyone told me was "I didn't realize COVID was still around/could do this" and it still makes me angry enough to spit teeth.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

If this makes you feel like shit, imagine how it makes me feel.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 1h

I've repeatedly had editors help me to find the thing that strengthens my story endings. I love it when they help me grow.

Hat tip to @diabolicalplots.com , @jenalbert.bsky.social , @khaalidah.bsky.social , Graeme Dunlop, and Trevor Quachri.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 3h

I think about this tweet a lot, due to the changes in the world

DVS
@DVSblast
"ok did everyone DOWNLOAD a pencil?" -how school is like now i bet. due to the changes in the world
5:23 PM • Nov 3, 2014

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 3h

Look, I was all in for the taco trucks, but if they wanna imagine us sweetening the deal….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 6h

This and the Garbage debut’s 30th in the same year is sending me (to the doc for back pain).

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 8h

Bari gets rightfully mocked as a hack, but I will suggest that she is also a person who has no original ideas

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8h

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8h

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 14d

One of the smartest things Costco does is assigning every shopper a “Costco Enemy,”who stays in front of them putting carts in stupid places and blocking the aisle and going really slowly. This gives the shopper 30% more browsing time and creates a memorable, provocative experience

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 9h

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 10h

We should universally replace Lee Greenwood with Lee Hazlewood. And also occasionally Nancy Sinatra duetting.

youtu.be/IVe_DsEi4pY?...

Summer Wine - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

YouTube video by My Favourite English Songs / 我喜歡的英文歌 - Steve Ma

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 10h

Does Greenwood even HAVE other songs? Not being of the War on Terror–era flag-worshiper ilk, I never got past turning his one hit off anytime I heard it on the radio.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26

People *without* executive dysfunction are finding that using chatgpt buries them under multitasking: they have to expend more effort and attention in more tasks to check that it hasn't outputted *absolute fucking nonsense*

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10h

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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SGS @sgswritereditor.bsky.social · 11h

Reposting to indicate this is a 🧵.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 12h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 20h

the stunning hubris it takes to think the only politician to have ever beaten Andrew Cuomo at political and legal hardball is a good choice to be one of the *test cases* of nakedly political prosecution...

Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 20h

Tish James said “there’s a nonzero chance this bullshit turns me into the President let’s go motherfucker.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 23h

party themes are getting too niche these days

a text to D saying "do you want to come to the urology holiday party"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Ian Carroll is a bad dude. He appears on Alex Jones and regularly dabbles in anti-semitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the holocaust.

If Ro Khanna is not only sharing his videos but sitting down to talk with him or his allies, something is fundamentally broken within the Democratic Party.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Holy shit, they finally did it (for those who don't know, this has been used as the legal justification for a SHITTON of unrelated stuff since)

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 22h

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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