Erin S. Festivus
@erincikanek.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Rhymes with mechanic. Emotions, media, measurement, food, coffee, rowing, and dogs.
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Oh lawd she’s ventin’
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Oh lawd she’s ventin’
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everyone post vent cats
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
everyone post vent cats
<starts frantically searching the Internet for R tutorials for Chernoff faces>
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
<starts frantically searching the Internet for R tutorials for Chernoff faces>
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy's unChristmassy plaid dress in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL and how it reveals that we're watching Miss Piggy, not Emily Cratchit
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL - Tom + Lorenzo
Yesterday, a depressed holiday princess! Today, a fierce Christmas mama. We figured we needed to return to a more traditional vibe after that last entry
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December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy's unChristmassy plaid dress in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL and how it reveals that we're watching Miss Piggy, not Emily Cratchit
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This is a fabulous story about a Philadelphia trans icon "Harlow" who is speaking out now to remind people that trans people have always been here, and shouldn't have to live in the shadows. Gifted.
share.inquirer.com/hiCRF6
share.inquirer.com/hiCRF6
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is a fabulous story about a Philadelphia trans icon "Harlow" who is speaking out now to remind people that trans people have always been here, and shouldn't have to live in the shadows. Gifted.
share.inquirer.com/hiCRF6
share.inquirer.com/hiCRF6
'Every Accusation a Confession' Part 7352
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
'Every Accusation a Confession' Part 7352
Lumpy looks like my cat Lemon so I am contractually obligated to reskeet this
Hi if you are on Reddit please go tell Lumpy he's beautiful there so he can be as beloved on Reddit as he is on every other social media platform, thank you
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From the SupermodelCats community on Reddit: I was told to post Lumpy here
Explore this post and more from the SupermodelCats community
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December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lumpy looks like my cat Lemon so I am contractually obligated to reskeet this
Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are
BREAKING: Trump says he will sign an executive order this week that will limit states’ ability to regulate AI.
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are not laws. Executive orders are
Like other cantos, the reader is indeed being lead through hell.
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Like other cantos, the reader is indeed being lead through hell.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Local Chicago media is relentless in it's coverage of the dangerous, unprofessional, out of control on-going behavior by federal agents actions in our city. Here's another must read by @royalpratt.bsky.social & @joemahr.bsky.social:
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Local Chicago media is relentless in it's coverage of the dangerous, unprofessional, out of control on-going behavior by federal agents actions in our city. Here's another must read by @royalpratt.bsky.social & @joemahr.bsky.social:
We absentmindedly put this box on the radiator and Lemon has staked her claim.
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We absentmindedly put this box on the radiator and Lemon has staked her claim.
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this is AI, as should be obvious by the PICE vest, please stop sharing it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
this is AI, as should be obvious by the PICE vest, please stop sharing it.
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🚨Jobs!🚨
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Research Officer
Research Officer,
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</s...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🚨Jobs!🚨
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Murder
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Murder
I hope these keep coming because they make me feel SO MUCH BETTER about my own writing.
Truly sorry to keep posting these but I cannot believe this book is real.
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I hope these keep coming because they make me feel SO MUCH BETTER about my own writing.
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
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“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
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It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
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I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home