tiffany
@affynti.bsky.social
we’re all worthy of love, btw. writer & filmmaker. harvard alumna. big book luvr. @affynti everywhere.
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If a system produces unjust outcomes time and time again, then we can’t *just* focus on individual cases of injustice. Because there will always be more, and never enough attention to go around for all of them. The entire system has to be reworked and/or abolished.
February 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
If a system produces unjust outcomes time and time again, then we can’t *just* focus on individual cases of injustice. Because there will always be more, and never enough attention to go around for all of them. The entire system has to be reworked and/or abolished.
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I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
I’m not invested in the guilt of ppl in the files. For me, fraternizing with a known abuser w/o concern for their capacity to harm again is a kind of complicity that isn’t isolated to the richest. I’ve seen that overt complicity in among many people in my personal life. I do not like those people.
February 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I’m not invested in the guilt of ppl in the files. For me, fraternizing with a known abuser w/o concern for their capacity to harm again is a kind of complicity that isn’t isolated to the richest. I’ve seen that overt complicity in among many people in my personal life. I do not like those people.
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Sick and tired of seeing people make jokes and viral content about Epstein at the expense of victims. When your only reaction to sexual abuse is to laugh you contribute directly to a rape culture that trivializes and minimizes these crimes
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Sick and tired of seeing people make jokes and viral content about Epstein at the expense of victims. When your only reaction to sexual abuse is to laugh you contribute directly to a rape culture that trivializes and minimizes these crimes
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Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
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My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
January 31, 2026 at 3:28 PM
My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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Autumn delight
#palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #photography
#fall #autumn #japanesemaples #gardens #water #bloomscrolling
#trees
#palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #photography
#fall #autumn #japanesemaples #gardens #water #bloomscrolling
#trees
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing.
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing.
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
Digitally legible format shown; printable version at link.
drive.google.com/file/d/1YJfs...
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The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
3 hehe
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
3 hehe
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I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.
if there are zero “One battle after another” haters, i’m dead.
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
if there are zero “One battle after another” haters, i’m dead.
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
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Toni Morrison said that professional success “will never substitute for comfort, friends and love, and doing something you respect,” and she wanted to be remembered by loved ones as “an honest, trustworthy person.”
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day.”
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day.”
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Toni Morrison said that professional success “will never substitute for comfort, friends and love, and doing something you respect,” and she wanted to be remembered by loved ones as “an honest, trustworthy person.”
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day.”
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day.”
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.