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I feel like everytime I try to focus on my PhD my partner falls apart and then I inevitably exhaust myself helping him. And then I recover and make a little progress, and then something new and batshit happens and the cycle repeats. I am so tired.
February 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I feel like everytime I try to focus on my PhD my partner falls apart and then I inevitably exhaust myself helping him. And then I recover and make a little progress, and then something new and batshit happens and the cycle repeats. I am so tired.
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I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities
It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
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"you're bringing up old shit" yeah because I want the younger gens to be aware of how blatant the colonizing was and just why figures like Epstein made it to where they got.
But Natives were being "oversensitive" while academics that upheld social Darwinism and eugenics were getting paid 20 mil. But we need to "calm down"'
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"Epstein funnelled as much as $20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology."
February 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
"you're bringing up old shit" yeah because I want the younger gens to be aware of how blatant the colonizing was and just why figures like Epstein made it to where they got.
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Time to open the schools
February 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Time to open the schools
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse.
But SO MANY ANECDOTES! Trust me, I am now the most efficient coder in the land. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are a fool.
But SO MANY ANECDOTES! Trust me, I am now the most efficient coder in the land. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are a fool.
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse.
But SO MANY ANECDOTES! Trust me, I am now the most efficient coder in the land. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are a fool.
But SO MANY ANECDOTES! Trust me, I am now the most efficient coder in the land. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are a fool.
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If you are not yet an abolitionist, please listen to this!🔥
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
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Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…
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February 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
If you are not yet an abolitionist, please listen to this!🔥
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I’ve never worked in hospitality and food service, and even *I* know it’s the Sunday afternoon church crowd and upper middle class and above white folks that tip for shit (or not at all) on most occasions. They’re the most selfish, rude, and disrespectful folks out there.
I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
I’ve never worked in hospitality and food service, and even *I* know it’s the Sunday afternoon church crowd and upper middle class and above white folks that tip for shit (or not at all) on most occasions. They’re the most selfish, rude, and disrespectful folks out there.
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howl’s many faces
(tattoo flash design)
(tattoo flash design)
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
howl’s many faces
(tattoo flash design)
(tattoo flash design)
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“None of us can be self-loving if our presence is not recognized and valued.” -bell hooks
She just understands my thought processes often. It’s one of my critiques of self-love culture.
She just understands my thought processes often. It’s one of my critiques of self-love culture.
February 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
“None of us can be self-loving if our presence is not recognized and valued.” -bell hooks
She just understands my thought processes often. It’s one of my critiques of self-love culture.
She just understands my thought processes often. It’s one of my critiques of self-love culture.
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This is also why it's very sus for medical providers to use genAI and claim they can guarantee patient privacy. GenAI companies blatantly do not care about privacy or HIPPA or trust and hospitals should be honest and act accordingly
I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
This is also why it's very sus for medical providers to use genAI and claim they can guarantee patient privacy. GenAI companies blatantly do not care about privacy or HIPPA or trust and hospitals should be honest and act accordingly
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sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually
Doing art badly is good and sacred
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually
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I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
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It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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This is evil. How monstrous does one have to be to do this to children?
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
This is evil. How monstrous does one have to be to do this to children?
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MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
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related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
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someone ask chatterton if he knows what the “lost cause” was
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
someone ask chatterton if he knows what the “lost cause” was
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His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it
www.theunpopulist.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
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I literally couldn’t care less who Breuning is.
As a historian of medicine and public health, there are better more respectful and careful ways to tell the actual real stories of people and families destroyed by measles than making it up, and confusing people.
It’s irresponsible.
And lazy.
As a historian of medicine and public health, there are better more respectful and careful ways to tell the actual real stories of people and families destroyed by measles than making it up, and confusing people.
It’s irresponsible.
And lazy.
People would be waaaay less mad about this Atlantic piece if it was a different author.
Imo it doesn’t seem particularly egregious
Imo it doesn’t seem particularly egregious
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I literally couldn’t care less who Breuning is.
As a historian of medicine and public health, there are better more respectful and careful ways to tell the actual real stories of people and families destroyed by measles than making it up, and confusing people.
It’s irresponsible.
And lazy.
As a historian of medicine and public health, there are better more respectful and careful ways to tell the actual real stories of people and families destroyed by measles than making it up, and confusing people.
It’s irresponsible.
And lazy.
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).