Bex, if you can keep it
@bextraordinary.bsky.social
🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
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-- I'm a criminal justice and public health scholar interested in the intersection of health and the criminal legal system, especially substance use, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. This year I left my tenured Assoc. Prof. position to work for a research & evaluation nonprofit. It's great!
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We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social
I was thinking yesterday that prepping & packing my orders takes longer than making them 😒 Painting/layering the details goes faster than the polishing, popping them into a foam board, gathering the correct attachments, wrapping them up, printing labels & affixing to packages..
The thing they don’t tell you about when you get a mini biz is all the time doing administrative work where you aren’t making or selling.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I was thinking yesterday that prepping & packing my orders takes longer than making them 😒 Painting/layering the details goes faster than the polishing, popping them into a foam board, gathering the correct attachments, wrapping them up, printing labels & affixing to packages..
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It really is
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
Our son got his first dose of HPV vaccine when he was 9
Vaccinating boys & men has benefits for BOTH women (e.g., helping to reduce HPV transmission to female sexual partners) AND men (e.g., reducing the risk of oral, head & neck, penile, & anal cancers)
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" but it's weird sex stuff.
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" but it's weird sex stuff.
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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these freaks are doing absolutely terrifying stuff on a wholesale basis. probably more horror than anyone will ever really know
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
these freaks are doing absolutely terrifying stuff on a wholesale basis. probably more horror than anyone will ever really know
The primary type of pie for most of my life. Fruit pies were a secondary type of pie. Both are good. A pie-based diet is achievable and desirable.
What about pies with meat in them
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The primary type of pie for most of my life. Fruit pies were a secondary type of pie. Both are good. A pie-based diet is achievable and desirable.
Game night 😇
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Game night 😇
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I stood with friends and colleagues today at this rally, listening to speaker after speaker highlight the fear felt by our immigrant neighbors and the urgency of taking action. I share that urgency. 1/2
Immigrant rights advocates called on Beacon Hill Democrats Tuesday to pass a trio of policies they argued would bolster protections for migrants who are being targeted for deportation amid a push by President Trump to increase federal immigration enforcement.
Immigrant groups want Beacon Hill to bolster protections for migrants in Massachusetts
Immigrant rights advocates called on Beacon Hill Democrats Tuesday to pass a trio of policies they argued would bolster protections for migrants who are being targeted for deportation amid a push by P...
www.wbur.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I stood with friends and colleagues today at this rally, listening to speaker after speaker highlight the fear felt by our immigrant neighbors and the urgency of taking action. I share that urgency. 1/2
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Here is a question for my BSky artist friends.
I'd like to store some flat things of varying sizes - pottery templates, stencils, etc. Some of them need to be kept together (multiple pieces for one design), others are annoyingly long shapes. What's a good, ADHD-friendly way to store these?
I'd like to store some flat things of varying sizes - pottery templates, stencils, etc. Some of them need to be kept together (multiple pieces for one design), others are annoyingly long shapes. What's a good, ADHD-friendly way to store these?
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Here is a question for my BSky artist friends.
I'd like to store some flat things of varying sizes - pottery templates, stencils, etc. Some of them need to be kept together (multiple pieces for one design), others are annoyingly long shapes. What's a good, ADHD-friendly way to store these?
I'd like to store some flat things of varying sizes - pottery templates, stencils, etc. Some of them need to be kept together (multiple pieces for one design), others are annoyingly long shapes. What's a good, ADHD-friendly way to store these?
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Alright, which former SLAC prof is now a writer on A Man on the Inside
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Alright, which former SLAC prof is now a writer on A Man on the Inside
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For 45 years, I basically was required to ignore what fulfills me, because it was in conflict with standard thinking about productivity, the things fulfilling to me are time consuming, and many require some solitude. I’m finding I have a limited understanding of my own fulfillment as a result.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
For 45 years, I basically was required to ignore what fulfills me, because it was in conflict with standard thinking about productivity, the things fulfilling to me are time consuming, and many require some solitude. I’m finding I have a limited understanding of my own fulfillment as a result.
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
You know when you're already stressed and busy and you're trying to do something relatively simple like print a document and suddenly your computer isn't recognizing ANY printers, refuses to open the printer properties, your software can't find any printers, and you think you might fully lose it?
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
You know when you're already stressed and busy and you're trying to do something relatively simple like print a document and suddenly your computer isn't recognizing ANY printers, refuses to open the printer properties, your software can't find any printers, and you think you might fully lose it?
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I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
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Being vulgar isn’t the goal of roasting. EARNING CAMARADERIE IS THE POINT. You display the empathy to accurately asses others’ vulnerabilities, the craft to make fun at them without destroying underlying respect for their humanity, and you earn satisfaction of earning their esteem.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Being vulgar isn’t the goal of roasting. EARNING CAMARADERIE IS THE POINT. You display the empathy to accurately asses others’ vulnerabilities, the craft to make fun at them without destroying underlying respect for their humanity, and you earn satisfaction of earning their esteem.
Letting your dog off-leash in an area not designated for it shrinks the world for other people and animals who can't risk unexpectedly meeting a loose dog. My dog is not dog-friendly. WE mind our own business, obey leash laws, and just want to have a nice walk.
"owners tend to downplay the situation, insisting their pet is friendly or disciplined and deserves a chance to roam."
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Unleashed dogs in Boston are a source of frustration for some people, and citations have risen - The Boston Globe
The clashes play out in parks, on baseball fields, and Facebook pages — often pitting neighbor against neighbor.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Letting your dog off-leash in an area not designated for it shrinks the world for other people and animals who can't risk unexpectedly meeting a loose dog. My dog is not dog-friendly. WE mind our own business, obey leash laws, and just want to have a nice walk.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
We played a game of Dread tonight with some friends and I was worried the horror themes might be too much for my 9yo.
Well, they were, but not the themes I expected. What moved him to tears was the survivor we found hiding in the lab, bc "What if he died scared & alone? 😭"
Well, they were, but not the themes I expected. What moved him to tears was the survivor we found hiding in the lab, bc "What if he died scared & alone? 😭"
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
We played a game of Dread tonight with some friends and I was worried the horror themes might be too much for my 9yo.
Well, they were, but not the themes I expected. What moved him to tears was the survivor we found hiding in the lab, bc "What if he died scared & alone? 😭"
Well, they were, but not the themes I expected. What moved him to tears was the survivor we found hiding in the lab, bc "What if he died scared & alone? 😭"
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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Elon (a massively insecure international oligarch) and a team of 20-something software developers had full access to all of the federal government’s data and copied it in ways that haven’t been investigated - and then walked away. wtf
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Elon (a massively insecure international oligarch) and a team of 20-something software developers had full access to all of the federal government’s data and copied it in ways that haven’t been investigated - and then walked away. wtf