mischa.
@faulttolerant.bsky.social
39|he/him | historian, Ph.D from UMD |fil-am| this isn't just your dream.
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The thing I have learned is that people are told all sorts of ridiculous shit about tea by people who do not know anything about tea.
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The thing I have learned is that people are told all sorts of ridiculous shit about tea by people who do not know anything about tea.
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Given what neo-Nazis did with Sora and MLK prompts, you are about to see some of the most vile racist sewage featuring Black Panther to ever be produced.
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Given what neo-Nazis did with Sora and MLK prompts, you are about to see some of the most vile racist sewage featuring Black Panther to ever be produced.
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They are pushing this because the trade war has made coffee in the US significantly more expensive. It already was without it, due to things like climate change, however it got worse in the US cause of tarrifs
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
They are pushing this because the trade war has made coffee in the US significantly more expensive. It already was without it, due to things like climate change, however it got worse in the US cause of tarrifs
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Important analysis from my colleague @sarahephilips.bsky.social speaking to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for her newsletter about how censorship legislation like KOSA would impact abortion access jessica.substack.com/p/texas-flor...
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Important analysis from my colleague @sarahephilips.bsky.social speaking to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for her newsletter about how censorship legislation like KOSA would impact abortion access jessica.substack.com/p/texas-flor...
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BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
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Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
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Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
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Too many to list.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Too many to list.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
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"But what if I enjoy clubbing?"
Then it's a hyperreal romp with a deeply frustrated heart, genre is sometimes a relationship between a text and audience
What I'm saying is the game is good and you could give me money
Then it's a hyperreal romp with a deeply frustrated heart, genre is sometimes a relationship between a text and audience
What I'm saying is the game is good and you could give me money
"Kayla do you have any horror games?"
"That depends, do you like clubbing?"
"No I don't like clubbing"
"Great, I got some horror just for you"
"That depends, do you like clubbing?"
"No I don't like clubbing"
"Great, I got some horror just for you"
Caught in the Remix by Rat Wave Game House
A tarot powered night club escape, set to music.
ratwavegamehouse.itch.io
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"But what if I enjoy clubbing?"
Then it's a hyperreal romp with a deeply frustrated heart, genre is sometimes a relationship between a text and audience
What I'm saying is the game is good and you could give me money
Then it's a hyperreal romp with a deeply frustrated heart, genre is sometimes a relationship between a text and audience
What I'm saying is the game is good and you could give me money
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do british people think everyone has forgotten the whole "centuries of colonialism and genocide" and "the sun never sets on the empire" thing lmao
Can confirm that this is how this Brit sees the USA
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
do british people think everyone has forgotten the whole "centuries of colonialism and genocide" and "the sun never sets on the empire" thing lmao
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Breaking: Nation founded on genocide and slavery that has economically held the world hostage for decades may be evil
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Breaking: Nation founded on genocide and slavery that has economically held the world hostage for decades may be evil
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It's so cool that Bsky is the social media of choice for people who were born yesterday
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It's so cool that Bsky is the social media of choice for people who were born yesterday
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for @thewalrus.ca I wrote about birth sovereignty and the decades-long efforts of Indigenous midwives to reclaim the right to give birth in community. honoured to have Amber Bracken's incredible photos accompanying the story:
thewalrus.ca/many-indigen...
thewalrus.ca/many-indigen...
Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds of Kilometres to Give Birth. Meet the Midwives Changing That | The Walrus
A resurgence of traditional midwifery is bringing deliveries back home
thewalrus.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
for @thewalrus.ca I wrote about birth sovereignty and the decades-long efforts of Indigenous midwives to reclaim the right to give birth in community. honoured to have Amber Bracken's incredible photos accompanying the story:
thewalrus.ca/many-indigen...
thewalrus.ca/many-indigen...
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Victims of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a legal claim against oil and gas company Shell in the UK courts, seeking compensation for what they say is the company's role in making the storm more severe
Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impact of fossil fuels
Survivors of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a claim against the UK's largest oil company.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Victims of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a legal claim against oil and gas company Shell in the UK courts, seeking compensation for what they say is the company's role in making the storm more severe
Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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My grandmothers would come back and haunt the ever-loving snot out of me for even thinking about it.
Their memory doesn’t sit in an algorithm. They don’t live in the wires. And this vile thing isn’t them, no matter what the Independent says.
I’ll keep my memories, and save the haunting.
Their memory doesn’t sit in an algorithm. They don’t live in the wires. And this vile thing isn’t them, no matter what the Independent says.
I’ll keep my memories, and save the haunting.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My grandmothers would come back and haunt the ever-loving snot out of me for even thinking about it.
Their memory doesn’t sit in an algorithm. They don’t live in the wires. And this vile thing isn’t them, no matter what the Independent says.
I’ll keep my memories, and save the haunting.
Their memory doesn’t sit in an algorithm. They don’t live in the wires. And this vile thing isn’t them, no matter what the Independent says.
I’ll keep my memories, and save the haunting.
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People can do what they want, and I only speak for myself (and sometimes a few billion eels), but fuck this nonsense.
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
People can do what they want, and I only speak for myself (and sometimes a few billion eels), but fuck this nonsense.
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Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
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The next issue of Time better be an article about the implosion of the us animation industry
« KPop Demon Hunters Is TIME’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year »
time.com/7338690/brea...
time.com/7338690/brea...
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The next issue of Time better be an article about the implosion of the us animation industry
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I know as artists it's hard not to be hard on yourself, especially online where there's always someone younger and better and more successful. But it's healthy and normal to love your art where it's at.
Show your present self some support in the moment when it needs it the most.
Show your present self some support in the moment when it needs it the most.
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I know as artists it's hard not to be hard on yourself, especially online where there's always someone younger and better and more successful. But it's healthy and normal to love your art where it's at.
Show your present self some support in the moment when it needs it the most.
Show your present self some support in the moment when it needs it the most.
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it is cheap, practical, and medically and morally sound to give children the freedom to decide what puberty they experience. anyone who disagrees is either uninformed, misinformed, or believes that they, personally, have a superseding right to the bodies of children
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
it is cheap, practical, and medically and morally sound to give children the freedom to decide what puberty they experience. anyone who disagrees is either uninformed, misinformed, or believes that they, personally, have a superseding right to the bodies of children
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because it matters, i want to say that "it should be legal for children to be prescribed puberty blockers" is the compromise position. we can, and will, construct a world where social and medical transition is an inalienable right for anyone of any age
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
because it matters, i want to say that "it should be legal for children to be prescribed puberty blockers" is the compromise position. we can, and will, construct a world where social and medical transition is an inalienable right for anyone of any age
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I know there's a lot of other massive problems with "AI," but as a techie and a PC builder I am GODDAMNED FUCKING SICK of some stupid hype bubble designed to fleece investors and nothing else ruining my hobby.
Your crypto shit took all the video cards. Your "AI" took GPUs *and* RAM.
Fuck you all.
Your crypto shit took all the video cards. Your "AI" took GPUs *and* RAM.
Fuck you all.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I know there's a lot of other massive problems with "AI," but as a techie and a PC builder I am GODDAMNED FUCKING SICK of some stupid hype bubble designed to fleece investors and nothing else ruining my hobby.
Your crypto shit took all the video cards. Your "AI" took GPUs *and* RAM.
Fuck you all.
Your crypto shit took all the video cards. Your "AI" took GPUs *and* RAM.
Fuck you all.
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115 democrats just voted to establish the first federal statutory definition of sex, which could now be used to
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
115 democrats just voted to establish the first federal statutory definition of sex, which could now be used to
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders