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Witch Cabell, PhD

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Pink-haired professional bisexual witch. Contingent sociologist & bath bomb artist—order at witchqueen.net! She/her. “Cabell” rhymes with “Scrabble.”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · Jul 29

It has been _2_ days since our last Glitter Incident

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16h

We remember trailblazing transgender activist Miss Major, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major began organizing before 1969’s Stonewall riots, and her love for her community has turned her into a mother figure to thousands of queer and trans people around the world.

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 15h

It IS baffling! It’s like a 5-minute waiting period and drivers exit the bus during it all the time. Like there is legit no explanation that I or anyone I know has been able to come up with other than “mean and drunk with power” 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 16h

Right?! From jump I didn’t believe he actually thought this was policy bc it just so clearly isn’t, but with him calling Dispatch this morning I really don’t know WHAT to think—like it could def still be him tripling down bc he didn’t think I’d call his bluff but I just don’t know!

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 16h

It’s clearly an unforced access error but also, for my morning commute, it makes MUCH more sense for me to stay on one bus & work on my laptop rather than get off halfway to the Square & wait 10-20 min for a transfer that will get me to the office MAYBE 15 min sooner, even when the weather is nice!

Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 16h

It was him insisting that all passengers must disembark at the Square when the bus reaches the end of one route/starts a new one & walk three blocks to REBOARD THE SAME BUS. That has NEVER been the policy & Metro’s own online trip planner tells you to stay on board when the route changes!

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 16h

Two different customer service reps actually responded to my complaint last week and one of them appears to be In Charge, so I just sent them a LENGTHY follow up email. Like legit this dude should not be interacting with the public!

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

I STILL remember the home phone numbers of my two best friends from childhood. One of them still “works” altho I can’t imagine why I’d call their landline. 😂

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

The older I get the more I feel like Plato was possibly right about the inadvisability of writing

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

He was such a lovely, warm person. I feel incredibly lucky to have met him and also shocked it was only the one time he was able to come to WisCon—I felt like we must have spent more time together. 💜

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. 😢

Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

God, so many people who are just planning to brute force their way through law school

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf I was mostly seeing it as a react on Discord and the reduced scale didn’t help 🤦🏻‍♀️

Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

It took me about a YEAR to figure out this wasn’t some kind of weird Disneyfied silhouette of a piece of cheese with mouse ears

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 1d

My phone choice is >90% about how the OS renders emoji and I don’t care how ridiculous that is 😂

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I’d expect Special FX to be totally fine even now if it’s a sealed bottle. There’s a LOT of variability in shelf life but it always stood out on this factor too.

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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 3d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 3d

ChatGPT itself is a lazy nepo baby failson that constantly bullshits you about work it can't understand and blows off, but you somehow can't fire because it got this job as a favor to its parent company, as above so below etc

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 2d

Enter the Alcoholics Anonymous model of addiction, which is already an incredibly specifically Protestant theological framework (sinners in the hands of an angry god etc) with no scientific evidentiary basis whatsoever—so of course it’s very popular with Evangelicals so why NOT also use it for porn?

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 2d

…so basically “porn addiction” is just sparkling cognitive dissonance.

BUT typical routes to resolve it don’t work—ppl don’t want to stop behavior but can’t change belief when it’s constantly reinforced in their community. So they need an excuse for not stopping that ISN’T “Porn is great, actually”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hey it’s the article I added to my human sexuality syllabus this year!

To expand: Self-reports of porn addiction or other “problems with porn” are not predicted by frequency of use or quality of materials consumed, ONLY by personal belief that porn is bad combined w/any consumption of any porn+

kalina2hu.bsky.social @kalina2hu.bsky.social · 2d

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome... regular reminder that porn addiction is a right wing christofascist idea invented for the purposes of misogyny, eugenics, censorship, and a host of other nasty stuff

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 2d

Live your life in a way where you saying “I don’t think I’m going to heaven,” doesn’t cause EVERYONE to say “You right.”

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 2d

😱😱😱

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

But then I started exploring the company servers and discovered hundreds of hours of downloadable entertainment media, and I figured, what’s the hurry? I can always kill the humans after the next series ends.

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god, the woman who tried to tell me “THEY’RE THE ONLY ORG WITH A WOMEN’S SHELTER” specifically!!!