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@abbiestev.bsky.social
Experimental public programs in sci + art + tech, extronomer, nerd doctor of black holes & neutron stars, Michigoose, toddler mom, neurospicy, sober, pro-trans, she/her #BiinSci #WomenInSTEM #UglyDogs
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@abbiestev.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hi there #Newskies! I'm Abbie, a museum person and former astronomer. I skeet about #altAc, science literacy, #sciComm, astro/physics, #academicMom / #Momademia, #AcademicMentalHealth, Michigan #MIpol, science shitposting (shitskeeting?), gardening, knitting, and whatever the fuck else I want!
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Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie
How “foodie” went from badge of honor to cringey term to pejorative smear and all the way back again.
www.eater.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...
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you can frame the European-American differences in a lot of ways but 'Europeans are poorer than Americans but also more secure' is probably the fairest one. American life is richer in many, many ways, and also far more dependent on your job *and your family* than European life.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
you can frame the European-American differences in a lot of ways but 'Europeans are poorer than Americans but also more secure' is probably the fairest one. American life is richer in many, many ways, and also far more dependent on your job *and your family* than European life.
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I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.
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“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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"Being online feels like being in the basement of a haunted house. Who knows what you’ll see, or be forced to attempt to unsee. Are you being informed or misled? You can’t Google it either."
“I know I’m protecting my kids, but it feels like I’m failing them too.”
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social on landlines, the internet and connection. ☎️
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social on landlines, the internet and connection. ☎️
Why 2025 Was the Loneliest Year | The Tyee
Connection online has rotted on the vine. With few alternatives, I’ve found myself more isolated than before.
thetyee.ca
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Being online feels like being in the basement of a haunted house. Who knows what you’ll see, or be forced to attempt to unsee. Are you being informed or misled? You can’t Google it either."
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The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
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Hi there,
A Bluesky account you control
posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse by being both Funny and Correct in the direction of an impotent soul sucking tech bro.
Best regards,
Bluesky Moderation Team
A Bluesky account you control
posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse by being both Funny and Correct in the direction of an impotent soul sucking tech bro.
Best regards,
Bluesky Moderation Team
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hi there,
A Bluesky account you control
posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse by being both Funny and Correct in the direction of an impotent soul sucking tech bro.
Best regards,
Bluesky Moderation Team
A Bluesky account you control
posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse by being both Funny and Correct in the direction of an impotent soul sucking tech bro.
Best regards,
Bluesky Moderation Team
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Sharks are older than ALL trees.
Also, when trees first evolved the substance called lignin which gives wood its stiffness had no bacteria which could break it down, and dead trees could remain standing for eons.
Also, when trees first evolved the substance called lignin which gives wood its stiffness had no bacteria which could break it down, and dead trees could remain standing for eons.
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sharks are older than ALL trees.
Also, when trees first evolved the substance called lignin which gives wood its stiffness had no bacteria which could break it down, and dead trees could remain standing for eons.
Also, when trees first evolved the substance called lignin which gives wood its stiffness had no bacteria which could break it down, and dead trees could remain standing for eons.
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It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
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calling every living relative to finally answer their 35yo question: "english? what are you gonna do with an english degree?"
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
calling every living relative to finally answer their 35yo question: "english? what are you gonna do with an english degree?"
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Send in the poets.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Send in the poets.
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
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The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
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This rare burn generator is getting used so much I added an admin panel 🤣
Now you can suggest new insults! A bunch still need to be edited out or improved, but - COME! Defeat your online enemies with snark!
Now you can suggest new insults! A bunch still need to be edited out or improved, but - COME! Defeat your online enemies with snark!
Rare Insults 🔥
For your enemies online
dr.eamer.dev
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This rare burn generator is getting used so much I added an admin panel 🤣
Now you can suggest new insults! A bunch still need to be edited out or improved, but - COME! Defeat your online enemies with snark!
Now you can suggest new insults! A bunch still need to be edited out or improved, but - COME! Defeat your online enemies with snark!
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always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights
this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently
this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights
this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently
this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
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Us: hey military, don’t follow illegal orders
Them: death to members of Congress
Media: job market is slow this month
Them: death to members of Congress
Media: job market is slow this month
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Us: hey military, don’t follow illegal orders
Them: death to members of Congress
Media: job market is slow this month
Them: death to members of Congress
Media: job market is slow this month
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8 in 10 Americans support legal abortion. That makes it popular!! 🩷💚
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
8 in 10 Americans support legal abortion. That makes it popular!! 🩷💚
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Breaking news is that the actors' performances seem to have been recorded 15 years ago for an audiobook and no one told them about this: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New FOX Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her
FOX's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.
www.rollingstone.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Breaking news is that the actors' performances seem to have been recorded 15 years ago for an audiobook and no one told them about this: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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It's time to wheel this one out again...
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's time to wheel this one out again...
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Curmudgeonly compaint to ignore: Even as I recognize its necessity, I don't like "we're going to win" rhetoric. I think it implies "norms" can be restored, that there'll come a day when this is "over"--vs. a long struggle in which there're victories but no final victory, because this isn't a movie.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Curmudgeonly compaint to ignore: Even as I recognize its necessity, I don't like "we're going to win" rhetoric. I think it implies "norms" can be restored, that there'll come a day when this is "over"--vs. a long struggle in which there're victories but no final victory, because this isn't a movie.
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...