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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 2h

Certainly, I was fine without the critical mass for the moment but the BlueSky mod team has shown their whole ass these past couple of weeks, which makes me question if it deserves critical mass at all.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 3h

I unfortunately know exactly what this means, and my suffering is immense.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 3h

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 3h

Well, maybe Dr. Bunsen Honeydew should stop giving those bedroom eyes. 😤😤😤

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 3h

^^

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 4h

But it hardly feels worse than this, and the reach/my thoughts feel like they're thrown into the aether more here.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 4h

Going back to Twitter, morally, feels wack though.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 4h

This platform is genuinely so buns, and with all the stuff from the admin team, it's just like... I wonder if it's better to just go back to Twitter, or if I should just exit this platform as well.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 6h

This, but in organizing overall.

Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 4d

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 8h

Just thinking about John Goodman, I hope he's having a good day today.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 19h

Much like a teenager who has just discovered Sublime, James Gunn's hair only continues to get whiter and higher.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 20h

Hell yeah

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 23h

Immediately sent the full performance to my English co-teacher. Love it.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 1d

"He explicitly called you a pedophile in the song but, legally speaking, the song fucks."

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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Reposted by Eva Lees

RJ the Thatsnotmyrealmamewhatareyouacop Monarch @rjank.bsky.social · 1d

Got kind of emotional, may have cried a bit, doing my presentation on the history of gender-affirming care, because my research on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft made it pretty clear that Dora Richter, the first woman to receive a vaginoplasty was murdered by a Nazi during the May 1933 raid. How awful that this person who carried such a powerful part of our history, who had just succeeded in a massive breakthrough for her life and future, had her bright future cut short. How awfully symbolic.

Got very emotional, may have cried for real, doing a bit of casual extra research afterward and learning that last year researcher Clara Hartmann discovered primary documents showing that Dora Richter escaped, fled Nazi Germany, returned home to a rural German village in 1946, and lived with her boyfriend, as herself, as a well-loved and respected woman, to 74. How beautiful that this woman who carried such a powerful part of our history persevered, got to live her bright future. How beautifully symbolic.

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Eva Lees @evalees.bsky.social · 1d

This came up as a random recommendation on YouTube Music, I dug it, I Googled the band and I was like, "Ha, that looks like Jaskier from The Witcher... OH, IT IS JASKIER!!!!!"