Erin Alberty
@erinalberty.bsky.social
Utah news reporter for Axios. Gardener, word puzzler, Pulitzer winner, mom. Happiest in the mountains.
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Erin Alberty
@erinalberty.bsky.social
· Jul 20
My kid just caught me dancing to Primus & ran away from me out of embarrassment as she described my style as:
"Kangaroo break dancing plus irish jig."
And, yes, she is 100 percent correct.
"Kangaroo break dancing plus irish jig."
And, yes, she is 100 percent correct.
A Utah music teacher 100 years ago created a Christmas carol tradition so beloved that kids in Murray are still singing his songs — and some folks are still discovering that Mr. Robinson's carols are only known in their hometown.
www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Mr. Robinson's opus
Murray residents gather each December to sing the carols of William Robinson, who started teaching music there in 1907.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A Utah music teacher 100 years ago created a Christmas carol tradition so beloved that kids in Murray are still singing his songs — and some folks are still discovering that Mr. Robinson's carols are only known in their hometown.
www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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This thread is the perfect example of what I mean. The quote is pulled from an entire conversation about wokeness in D&D. The author ignored the consensus (wokeness is fine) and cherry-picked the one comment he misread as confirming his thesis.
www.reddit.com/r/DnD/commen...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This thread is the perfect example of what I mean. The quote is pulled from an entire conversation about wokeness in D&D. The author ignored the consensus (wokeness is fine) and cherry-picked the one comment he misread as confirming his thesis.
www.reddit.com/r/DnD/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/DnD/commen...
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"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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why is this in the NYT Cooking newsletter, of all places!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
why is this in the NYT Cooking newsletter, of all places!!!!!
It's painful, the pity I feel when I hear a perfectly intelligent, moral guy saying perfectly intelligent, moral things in a forced deep voice. It's clearly become an unconscious habit, and all I can think is, "Oof, what did they do to you?"
It also makes my throat hurt vicariously.
It also makes my throat hurt vicariously.
My theory is that something like 30% of all men use a fake deep voice almost all the time. So many guys talk and I instantly think “Not your real voice. Now your coward’s soul is bare to me”
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's painful, the pity I feel when I hear a perfectly intelligent, moral guy saying perfectly intelligent, moral things in a forced deep voice. It's clearly become an unconscious habit, and all I can think is, "Oof, what did they do to you?"
It also makes my throat hurt vicariously.
It also makes my throat hurt vicariously.
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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My teenage son texted my husband and I “love you” from school last week and we both immediately panicked thinking there was a school shooting. Our country is so fucked up. He was fine, just a sweet kid who forgot to say it when he left for school. 😢
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My teenage son texted my husband and I “love you” from school last week and we both immediately panicked thinking there was a school shooting. Our country is so fucked up. He was fine, just a sweet kid who forgot to say it when he left for school. 😢
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And these are the same people who say gender isn't a social construct.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And these are the same people who say gender isn't a social construct.
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ELPHABA
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
ELPHABA
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2
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quickbooks has added "ai insight" to their service and since they did that every suggestion for the categorisation of every single piece of spending i've done has been wrong
great. just what I need, my tax software telling me to kill myself
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
quickbooks has added "ai insight" to their service and since they did that every suggestion for the categorisation of every single piece of spending i've done has been wrong
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REST IN POWER QUEEN
Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo, dies at about 141
Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. She died Nov. 20.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
REST IN POWER QUEEN
Someone really made an effort to spoof the big Festival of Trees on Facebook.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Someone really made an effort to spoof the big Festival of Trees on Facebook.
yins i need to beg for a primer on yimby/nimby left/right alignment
honestly my mind struggles with back & forth of economic incentives. its why covering health care melted my brain
anyway im prepared for some amount of "how can you be so ignorant" but i want the short version & google is no help
honestly my mind struggles with back & forth of economic incentives. its why covering health care melted my brain
anyway im prepared for some amount of "how can you be so ignorant" but i want the short version & google is no help
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
yins i need to beg for a primer on yimby/nimby left/right alignment
honestly my mind struggles with back & forth of economic incentives. its why covering health care melted my brain
anyway im prepared for some amount of "how can you be so ignorant" but i want the short version & google is no help
honestly my mind struggles with back & forth of economic incentives. its why covering health care melted my brain
anyway im prepared for some amount of "how can you be so ignorant" but i want the short version & google is no help
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I can relate to being inspired by practices that have survived from antiquity but "I like this theology because in my interpretation, it elevates me above those I consider my lessers" is generally about ideology rather than faith
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I can relate to being inspired by practices that have survived from antiquity but "I like this theology because in my interpretation, it elevates me above those I consider my lessers" is generally about ideology rather than faith
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This looks like the cover to an album that everyone already loves even though you're just finding out about it
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This looks like the cover to an album that everyone already loves even though you're just finding out about it
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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Trump, this morning:
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump, this morning:
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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
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Trixie wants more play time and less working on the basement time
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Trixie wants more play time and less working on the basement time
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The amazing thing about this is that in the past Fox has led multi-day freakouts over people offering tips like this. Specifically, I remember them losing their minds over a HuffPost blog about reducing travel during Thanksgiving.
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The amazing thing about this is that in the past Fox has led multi-day freakouts over people offering tips like this. Specifically, I remember them losing their minds over a HuffPost blog about reducing travel during Thanksgiving.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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Still going to teach undergrads. If you were a woman in his class, would you approach him for help or feedback?
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Still going to teach undergrads. If you were a woman in his class, would you approach him for help or feedback?
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"In 1811 Robert 'Cannibal' Esquith was allowed to continue teaching despite consuming 23% of his statistics class, and then, through study of their bones, developed the Esquith averaging function that we still use to this day. If we remove such original minds from our institute where will we be?"
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"In 1811 Robert 'Cannibal' Esquith was allowed to continue teaching despite consuming 23% of his statistics class, and then, through study of their bones, developed the Esquith averaging function that we still use to this day. If we remove such original minds from our institute where will we be?"