Brandy
@brandyheinrich.bsky.social
Rustbelt born, Florida raised. Manic Pixie Nightmare Cryptid. I paint unicorns and hoard cats.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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A new study from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Marine Megafauna Foundation finds that young Caribbean manta rays often swim with groups of other fish, creating small, moving ecosystems that support a variety of marine species.
Manta rays create mobile ecosystems, study finds
A new study from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Marine Megafauna Foundation finds that young Caribbean manta rays (Mobula yarae) often swim...
phys.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A new study from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Marine Megafauna Foundation finds that young Caribbean manta rays often swim with groups of other fish, creating small, moving ecosystems that support a variety of marine species.
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It was never about "free speech", it was always about controlling who got to speak and about what. They didn't like that the academy (for all it's failings) was teaching critical thinking or holding up a mirror to evaluate history through a critical lens.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It was never about "free speech", it was always about controlling who got to speak and about what. They didn't like that the academy (for all it's failings) was teaching critical thinking or holding up a mirror to evaluate history through a critical lens.
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I keep seeing the data centre boom being presented as a sort of 'training gym' for infrastructure build-out, as if it's a tide that lifts all boats (particularly for renewables, transmissions etc).
The reality: it's a black hole whose gravity well is sucking resources from socially-useful stuff
The reality: it's a black hole whose gravity well is sucking resources from socially-useful stuff
December 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I keep seeing the data centre boom being presented as a sort of 'training gym' for infrastructure build-out, as if it's a tide that lifts all boats (particularly for renewables, transmissions etc).
The reality: it's a black hole whose gravity well is sucking resources from socially-useful stuff
The reality: it's a black hole whose gravity well is sucking resources from socially-useful stuff
I’m so exhausted by the proliferation of AI garbage.
I do a lot of unfollowing and blocking on various platforms to try to minimize being inundated by that trash and I hate having to put so much effort into controlling the flood. But it’s either that or give up entirely.
I do a lot of unfollowing and blocking on various platforms to try to minimize being inundated by that trash and I hate having to put so much effort into controlling the flood. But it’s either that or give up entirely.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’m so exhausted by the proliferation of AI garbage.
I do a lot of unfollowing and blocking on various platforms to try to minimize being inundated by that trash and I hate having to put so much effort into controlling the flood. But it’s either that or give up entirely.
I do a lot of unfollowing and blocking on various platforms to try to minimize being inundated by that trash and I hate having to put so much effort into controlling the flood. But it’s either that or give up entirely.
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I will never forgive the tech bros for ruining cute animal videos.
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I will never forgive the tech bros for ruining cute animal videos.
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“Show us your papers.”
Bite me.
I have a Real ID, that I had to provide documentation proving my identity, and pay an additional fee to procure. I’m not carrying my passport in my own goddamn fucking country.
Bite me.
I have a Real ID, that I had to provide documentation proving my identity, and pay an additional fee to procure. I’m not carrying my passport in my own goddamn fucking country.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Show us your papers.”
Bite me.
I have a Real ID, that I had to provide documentation proving my identity, and pay an additional fee to procure. I’m not carrying my passport in my own goddamn fucking country.
Bite me.
I have a Real ID, that I had to provide documentation proving my identity, and pay an additional fee to procure. I’m not carrying my passport in my own goddamn fucking country.
They won’t stop at just those with deportation orders…
Breaking News: The Trump administration is sharing all air travelers’ names with ICE officials to find people with deportation orders.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
They won’t stop at just those with deportation orders…
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I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
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Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Republicans Block Bill That Would Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Someone who gets fully subsidized healthcare and has zero awareness of the actual costs - and will not feel the impacts of this in any way.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Someone who gets fully subsidized healthcare and has zero awareness of the actual costs - and will not feel the impacts of this in any way.
GIRL shut the fuck up.
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
GIRL shut the fuck up.
I hate playing this game of “Black Mirror episode plot or actual horrific dystopian technocracy product.”
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I hate playing this game of “Black Mirror episode plot or actual horrific dystopian technocracy product.”
OF COURSE one of the first comments is about how what’s branded as American cheese isn’t “real” cheese.
Except it is literally cheddar cheese with sodium citrate added for meltability. That is why it’s labeled as a “processed cheese food” because there’s an additive in the process of manufacture. 🧀
Except it is literally cheddar cheese with sodium citrate added for meltability. That is why it’s labeled as a “processed cheese food” because there’s an additive in the process of manufacture. 🧀
If you're gonna spam a thread arguing about what's "real" cheese...
...you're not just unhinged.
Hinge was never an option.
...you're not just unhinged.
Hinge was never an option.
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
OF COURSE one of the first comments is about how what’s branded as American cheese isn’t “real” cheese.
Except it is literally cheddar cheese with sodium citrate added for meltability. That is why it’s labeled as a “processed cheese food” because there’s an additive in the process of manufacture. 🧀
Except it is literally cheddar cheese with sodium citrate added for meltability. That is why it’s labeled as a “processed cheese food” because there’s an additive in the process of manufacture. 🧀
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
This is…idiotic. Imbecilic. Jesus fuck, we’re really going to advocate outsourcing parenting to the slop machine and laugh about it. Just call your mom, Sam! Or is she not speaking to you because you’re a weird loser who needs the robots to tell you how to change your own baby’s diaper?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is…idiotic. Imbecilic. Jesus fuck, we’re really going to advocate outsourcing parenting to the slop machine and laugh about it. Just call your mom, Sam! Or is she not speaking to you because you’re a weird loser who needs the robots to tell you how to change your own baby’s diaper?
If Sean Duffy can publicly be so unflinchingly useless while projecting completely unearned confidence in his own authority there’s no reason for anyone to suffer from imposter syndrome, ever.
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If Sean Duffy can publicly be so unflinchingly useless while projecting completely unearned confidence in his own authority there’s no reason for anyone to suffer from imposter syndrome, ever.
…more sweaty, drunk dickheads at the airport. That’ll definitely compel me to pick flying over driving. 🤨What an absolute chode.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
…more sweaty, drunk dickheads at the airport. That’ll definitely compel me to pick flying over driving. 🤨What an absolute chode.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.
Tarantino is incredibly overrated and I’m not sure why anyone takes the things he says seriously.
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Tarantino is incredibly overrated and I’m not sure why anyone takes the things he says seriously.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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When a journalist asserts that USPS posts losses, they lose all credibility. USPS cannot post losses because USPS is not a business—it is a constitutionally-mandated public service.
You know what else kills their credibility, Jacob? When they frame a story about the newspaper owner obsequiously.
You know what else kills their credibility, Jacob? When they frame a story about the newspaper owner obsequiously.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When a journalist asserts that USPS posts losses, they lose all credibility. USPS cannot post losses because USPS is not a business—it is a constitutionally-mandated public service.
You know what else kills their credibility, Jacob? When they frame a story about the newspaper owner obsequiously.
You know what else kills their credibility, Jacob? When they frame a story about the newspaper owner obsequiously.
It is never not *super telling* that any assertion of trans rights results in TERFs showing up to freak out about “men in women’s spaces” because they singularly focus on trans as a feminine-oriented identity & fail to acknowledge transmasc existence. Anecdotal, but I personally know 2x the latter…
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It is never not *super telling* that any assertion of trans rights results in TERFs showing up to freak out about “men in women’s spaces” because they singularly focus on trans as a feminine-oriented identity & fail to acknowledge transmasc existence. Anecdotal, but I personally know 2x the latter…