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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 58m

that sounds super peaceful

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 2h

Especially if you grew up the good way

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 2h

It is so so difficult

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · Sep 9

NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.

www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.

Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.

www.thebulwark.com

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 12h

Yes and also how does one “denaturalize” a person born in New York

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 23h

Ooooooohhhhh

EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 1d

Have they … met geese ever

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven forfend that there should be any other reason for this therapy

good goddess

UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care @ucliehc.bsky.social · 1d

New research: Early menopause and surgical menopause impact women’s labor market trajectories 💼

This study suggests that hormone therapy within the early years of the final menstruation may help women remain employed.

#menopause @elsa-study.bsky.social

journals.lww.com/menopausejou...

journals.lww.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m all that and a bag of Keebler Chips Deluxe”

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s sort of a reverse Pinocchio thing. Every time I say something fascist, I shrink by 1/1000th of an inch. Darndest thing.”

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 1d

All of the examples of the formal greeting it gives require that a name follow, which is not done in the email itself thx

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant Minds this weak has a non-speaking “severely” Autistic character.

The situation makes it look like the Autistic person might have done something harmful … but I am guessing it won’t be that way.

The episode is using the term nonspeaking and talks avoht AACs.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdly, that email does not follow its own advice

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Banned an autistic Black man for an image description that described ... the image.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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