Arditi d Popolo
@arditidpopolo.bsky.social
Intellectual lightweight. Aspiring sciura. erstwhile never was. lawyer. TCK. she/her. dream big. have a plan. stay out of trouble. fight like hell. eppur bisogna ardir.
Not using earbuds in public is a pet peeve.
I don’t want to hear your sports match or talk radio. I have a headache.
I don’t want to hear your sports match or talk radio. I have a headache.
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Not using earbuds in public is a pet peeve.
I don’t want to hear your sports match or talk radio. I have a headache.
I don’t want to hear your sports match or talk radio. I have a headache.
Truth
The only time I ever cut class was to go to a Yo-Yo Ma masterclass (yes I did get in trouble for this) and this is completely accurate
I've been fortunate enough to see Yo-Yo Ma in a pretty small venue and all I can say, without hyperbole, is that there's an actual aura or energy that surrounds his performance and craft that's transcendent; it's an actual spiritual experience.
This is magnificent and Mayor Wu is no slouch!
This is magnificent and Mayor Wu is no slouch!
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Truth
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When Harvard loses we all win. Congratulations @arditidpopolo.bsky.social #BoolahBoolah
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When Harvard loses we all win. Congratulations @arditidpopolo.bsky.social #BoolahBoolah
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"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
One simple way to make sense of this wacky week is as a reminder that no man is all-powerful in our country, no matter what he may want you to think.
We still have a democracy until we don't.
#courageiscontagious
We still have a democracy until we don't.
#courageiscontagious
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One simple way to make sense of this wacky week is as a reminder that no man is all-powerful in our country, no matter what he may want you to think.
We still have a democracy until we don't.
#courageiscontagious
We still have a democracy until we don't.
#courageiscontagious
This. I may have moved up professionally but relationship wise I feel stuck
Without breaking confidences, many of them noted how deeply this affected their lives -- driving them out of chosen fields of study, or just traumatizing them as they continued to navigate a male-dominated world, and their own relationships. Even if they escaped the worst, a psychic meat grinder.,
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This. I may have moved up professionally but relationship wise I feel stuck
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
I don’t know why people are expressing surprise that no male journalist came to the aid of the female journalist.
In my experience men simply do not come to the aid of women in situations like this. They just don’t.
In my experience men simply do not come to the aid of women in situations like this. They just don’t.
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I don’t know why people are expressing surprise that no male journalist came to the aid of the female journalist.
In my experience men simply do not come to the aid of women in situations like this. They just don’t.
In my experience men simply do not come to the aid of women in situations like this. They just don’t.
This guy is playing video games sound up at 9am in Munich airport and I have not slept: do I want to start an international incident ?
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This guy is playing video games sound up at 9am in Munich airport and I have not slept: do I want to start an international incident ?
I thought Germans were supposed to be polite
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I thought Germans were supposed to be polite
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They certainly could remove him from teaching. The man is a sexual predator whose victims are his students.
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
They certainly could remove him from teaching. The man is a sexual predator whose victims are his students.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Zara ads are using music I used to go clubbing to a quarter century ago
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Zara ads are using music I used to go clubbing to a quarter century ago
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We're like five generations into modern feminism and women still have to assume that when you ask a colleague for feedback on a project, there's a good chance that he and a sex criminal will snigger about how it's evidence that you want his dick
Also they have made up a racist nickname for you
Also they have made up a racist nickname for you
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We're like five generations into modern feminism and women still have to assume that when you ask a colleague for feedback on a project, there's a good chance that he and a sex criminal will snigger about how it's evidence that you want his dick
Also they have made up a racist nickname for you
Also they have made up a racist nickname for you
Seems like a logical extrapolation from the current craziness
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Seems like a logical extrapolation from the current craziness
I love the fact that a kindle means I can read trashy romance novels on the train and for a few hours I can dream a little
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I love the fact that a kindle means I can read trashy romance novels on the train and for a few hours I can dream a little
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
Gross. Speaking from experience she probably wanted to be left alone or be mentored like male students, not hit on. Why are men.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Gross. Speaking from experience she probably wanted to be left alone or be mentored like male students, not hit on. Why are men.
It allows me to indulge my trashy Hello! habit
If you don't have a library card, you should get a library card. Once you have that library card, you should get the Libby app. Once you get the Libby app, go browse the newsstand. Good chance your library card gives you access to ALL THE MAGAZINES. I'm talking the real good shit. AND BACK ISSUES.
a woman in a red dress is reading a magazine titled bazaar
ALT: a woman in a red dress is reading a magazine titled bazaar
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It allows me to indulge my trashy Hello! habit
I have to pack and am uncharacteristically panicked
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I have to pack and am uncharacteristically panicked
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it is a difficult time to be a CSA/grooming survivor on the net right now so i encourage you to think a little carefully about how you talk about certain topics re: current events. it is beyond disheartening to watch society at large disparage what happens to so many of us with so little justice
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
it is a difficult time to be a CSA/grooming survivor on the net right now so i encourage you to think a little carefully about how you talk about certain topics re: current events. it is beyond disheartening to watch society at large disparage what happens to so many of us with so little justice
Remember when Senate Republicans led by Josh Hawley tried to go after then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her confirmation hearing by … claiming (falsely) that she had been "too easy" on child sex offenders when she served as a district court judge?
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Remember when Senate Republicans led by Josh Hawley tried to go after then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her confirmation hearing by … claiming (falsely) that she had been "too easy" on child sex offenders when she served as a district court judge?
This is why AI is garbage. This takeaway section was a total waste of time and I could have skimmed the article in the time it took to read these many words that say very little.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is why AI is garbage. This takeaway section was a total waste of time and I could have skimmed the article in the time it took to read these many words that say very little.
My friend Quil has been doing amazing work for decades. Have a listen here:
Part 1: A National Guard Veteran Battles PTSD and Incarceration : Up First from NPR
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
Part 1: A National Guard Veteran Battles PTSD and Incarceration : Up First from NPR
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
Carlson’s War: Part 1 : Up First from NPR
What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced
war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been
asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a...
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My friend Quil has been doing amazing work for decades. Have a listen here:
Part 1: A National Guard Veteran Battles PTSD and Incarceration : Up First from NPR
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...
Part 1: A National Guard Veteran Battles PTSD and Incarceration : Up First from NPR
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...