Christina Moss
@christinaemoss.bsky.social
Occasional historian, amateur baker and crafter, sleepless reader, toddler mom, exvangelical Mennonite. She/her.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
I'm sorry, the French version calls Frog and Toad what?!?!
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm sorry, the French version calls Frog and Toad what?!?!
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
Sports is generally my worst Learned League category, but you had best believe I know the answer to today's question.
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Sports is generally my worst Learned League category, but you had best believe I know the answer to today's question.
Can I just say to any Americans loving this thread that you should absolutely Google "Vinyl Cafe Dave Turkey."
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Can I just say to any Americans loving this thread that you should absolutely Google "Vinyl Cafe Dave Turkey."
Time for the last lecture of term, my "warfare in early modern Europe" lecture where students are like "finally a class that's not about religion" and I get to be like "surprise, guess what all these wars are about?!"
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Time for the last lecture of term, my "warfare in early modern Europe" lecture where students are like "finally a class that's not about religion" and I get to be like "surprise, guess what all these wars are about?!"
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this is a metaphor for waking up and logging on
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this is a metaphor for waking up and logging on
Just saw a care and feeding letter from someone whose sibling had chosen a name for their niece that would make her initials FUK and I have an out of the box solution she can propose to the parents to be: a second middle name that starts with N, and singing baby a lot of funk music.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just saw a care and feeding letter from someone whose sibling had chosen a name for their niece that would make her initials FUK and I have an out of the box solution she can propose to the parents to be: a second middle name that starts with N, and singing baby a lot of funk music.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
So I'm currently watching Ally McBeal because I've run out of new TV to stream and I just need to know, is this an Always Sunny situation where we're supposed to think the characters suck? Or is it a Rory Gilmore situation where the writers mistakenly think they're charming?
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
So I'm currently watching Ally McBeal because I've run out of new TV to stream and I just need to know, is this an Always Sunny situation where we're supposed to think the characters suck? Or is it a Rory Gilmore situation where the writers mistakenly think they're charming?
What do we figure are the odds that Olivia Nuzzi tried to but on Biden and didn't get anywhere and that's the root of her animosity toward him
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What do we figure are the odds that Olivia Nuzzi tried to but on Biden and didn't get anywhere and that's the root of her animosity toward him
My energy for making fancy desserts is greatly diminished since EG was born but I used up some of it this weekend to make this London Fog Basque Cheesecake with blueberry sauce and it was divine
www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/lond...
www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/lond...
London Fog Basque Cheesecake with Blackberry Sauce - Rhubarb & Lavender
Creamy basque cheesecake is flavoured with fragrant earl grey tea and vanilla in this London Fog basque cheesecake topped with a tangy blackberry sauce.
www.rhubarbandlavender.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My energy for making fancy desserts is greatly diminished since EG was born but I used up some of it this weekend to make this London Fog Basque Cheesecake with blueberry sauce and it was divine
www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/lond...
www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/lond...
Second night in a row spending literally two hours at my daughter's bedside while she refuses to sleep and cycles through every possible human emotion at least 3 times. She is currently having a meltdown because she remembered dentists exist.
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Second night in a row spending literally two hours at my daughter's bedside while she refuses to sleep and cycles through every possible human emotion at least 3 times. She is currently having a meltdown because she remembered dentists exist.
November 9th is outrageously early to have this much snow but EG was over the moon to get to make a snowman
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
November 9th is outrageously early to have this much snow but EG was over the moon to get to make a snowman
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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One of you (@taylorschu.bsky.social?) recently recommended If the S in Moose Comes Loose by Peter Hermann and it's a hit in our house. EG cannot get enough, she makes me read it multiple times a day and loses it laughing every time.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One of you (@taylorschu.bsky.social?) recently recommended If the S in Moose Comes Loose by Peter Hermann and it's a hit in our house. EG cannot get enough, she makes me read it multiple times a day and loses it laughing every time.
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a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
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 9:19 PM
a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
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Please enjoy this cursed thought that just occurred to me: a Beastie Boys style cover of the hymn There Is A Fountain
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Please enjoy this cursed thought that just occurred to me: a Beastie Boys style cover of the hymn There Is A Fountain
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We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for
People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...
news.un.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for
My sister unearthed this card that I guess I gave my dad for his birthday when I was in middle school and I am literally doubled over with laughter rn
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My sister unearthed this card that I guess I gave my dad for his birthday when I was in middle school and I am literally doubled over with laughter rn
We generally include Halloween pencils and stickers alongside our candy offerings for trick or treaters and every year I am flabbergasted all over again that they are by far the most popular items.
November 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We generally include Halloween pencils and stickers alongside our candy offerings for trick or treaters and every year I am flabbergasted all over again that they are by far the most popular items.
So after weeks if not months of "when is it Halloween? When can I go trick or treating?" EG is suddenly insisting that she can't go yet because "it's not the darkest dark"
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So after weeks if not months of "when is it Halloween? When can I go trick or treating?" EG is suddenly insisting that she can't go yet because "it's not the darkest dark"
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Anyone who wants to argue needs to post an example of media in which a right winger makes a good-faith effort to listen to and understand the rest of us.
We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Anyone who wants to argue needs to post an example of media in which a right winger makes a good-faith effort to listen to and understand the rest of us.