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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻

@erinaceousphd.bsky.social

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Grumpy crone who likes to think and explore (and seek mindfulness). In pfp: a hedgehog with a kente kufi on its head, and red laser eyes. Not chill. Currently rearing an unsociable 🦔 rescue.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · Nov 18

Quick intro:
- mid-30s, Fenty 450, Niger Deltan descent 👋🏿
- known elsewhere for locked account where I vented about bad grad school XP
- older now; venting isn’t good for my blood pressure
- non-professional account: expect cooking, plants, mourning pets, deconstruction of fundie upbringing (1/)

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, I agree! The responses are definitely canned. 😩😩😩

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 5h

I did some digging and I think it’s this class. Not sure why they’re having discussion groups on here, but the class name, course number and section numbers as hashtags check out.

hunter-undergraduate.catalog.cuny.edu/courses/0300...

Hunter College Catalog

hunter-undergraduate.catalog.cuny.edu

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 6h

Shh 🤫 Just relax 🧘🏽‍♀️

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Princess @themultiplemom.bsky.social · 1d

They all had bad wigs in their first movies, even Captain America was homely in that first one. A mess.

But not my king tho.

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Spooky beige 🧌 @rellmidnight.bsky.social · 9h

Ima start doing this when it’s time to get off work

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 9h

No worries, and thank you. I tucked myself in for a nap earlier and woke up even better. Washing my sheets today, and will follow up with the rest of laundry tomorrow. ♥️♥️♥️

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 10h

I really hate how unbelievably angry this makes me

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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🌙 Orbiting Elegance 💫 @adornedalchemist.blacksky.app · 10h

Good riddance. They haven’t focused on music in like 20 years & they never wanted to play Black music until it was profitable for the channel.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 13h

One of my favorite things about stuff like this is that eventually they'll say the real reason they don't like a person. It's always vague and random then bam, "i think she's too hot"

@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 19h

This guy rocks (derogatory). You’re apparently a “thirst trap white woman” and were just all simps for thinking he’s a dumbass.

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As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they're smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like "they're a human being, don't police their expression of emotions!" This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 14m
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Just because you're simping for a leftist conventionally attractive thirst trap white woman doesn't make you any different from the people who spend all day doing the same on X for Elon Musk.

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 4d

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

Shivaphis celti, the Asian woolly hackberry aphid, also known as Shivaphis (Shivaphis) celti, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Pictured is schivapis celti, a small white bug that looks like a speck of lint, sitting on a leaf

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t head to the gym until nighttime, so I’m just lounging around as my laundry progresses. Sometimes, it’s nice to not do much of anything.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 14h

Watching the gen AI news bot network wake up again. Main account suspended (may come back, hey), and it looks like two “first name initial last name” accounts took a week off, and are back online.

Not naming them for now, just watching and screenshotting. 👀

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 20h

And this is ANOTHER thing. White people, go protest against CANADA. Go protest against FRANCE. Go protest against RUSSIA. HANDLE YOUR OWN FOLKS.

Glitter Bomb @captivation4.bsky.social · 20h

I know that’s not a Canadian popping over here! They keep finding unmarked graves at the residential schools they forced native kids to attend. They have enough of their own problems to worry about on that front

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Potential unmarked graves identified at B.C.'s Lejac residential school: First Nation | CBC News

The Nadleh Whut'en First Nation announced the preliminary findings of an ongoing search of the grounds of Lejac Indian Residential School on Saturday afternoon, with the nation saying a number of pote...

www.cbc.ca

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 16h

Rat on reporter’s desk 🤝 chair near reporter’s desk 🤝 three-handed reporter in other video 🤝 hovering wine glass in yet another video

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19h

What’s a young man to do when all the outlets he watches — ESPN, Paramount+, Peacock, Fox Sports — either own or have partnered with a sports book?

The effect of all that noise is to sell a tautology: that gambling is harmless fun when done in measure.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 16h

I already have a sensitive nose. *I* would lose it if I have to reek until my nose adjusts to the scent. 😭😭😭

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 16h

I’m surprised the pushback against this article didn’t end up on here.

Tl;dr: writer accepts her body odor.

I’m a low-fragrance person (most of what I use is no-fragrance due to allergies/sensitive nose), but I wear a lightly fragrant but chemically strong antiperspirant/deo for everyone’s sake.

The Cut @thecut.com · 3d

After decades of masking herself in fragrance, writer Molly Rosen is finally learning to live in her own scent. In this essay she revisits the way she used perfume to mask truths over the years and why and how she’s embracing her own natural scent.

My So-Scented Life — And Why I’ve Left It Behind

www.thecut.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, but Stevie Wonder gets a whole month.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 17h

Every couple of weeks someone great dies and we all make a big thing about how great they are (this week's is Diane Keaton) and it's always lovely because everyone is talking about fun things a cool person did. But I wish we could nominate one person a week we did that for *without* them dying.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores”

Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Sunday! It’s laundry and gym day here, so I’m easing into the afternoon after sleeping in. Logan is doing fine. ♥️♥️♥️

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday's induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A huge surprise and a big honor. By far, the biggest pleasure this weekend has been in meeting fellows and hearing about their very varied work and worlds.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 18h

Because when I zoom in to look at the bride’s expression, I’m like “wtf?” but when I watch the video again, it’s hard to keep an eye on her because of that big ass cake.