Jen Dick
@jendick.bsky.social
learning & teaching & books & writing & art & music & games • geek, nerd & dork • Channeler of Cosmic Angst, Lover of Genre Trash • she/her • caring & doing & being Too Much • Pls mask: vulnerable people are everywhere • typical atypical autistic
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it's deeply funny how maintaining the belief in fascism requires hiding any contrary information, and how every institution has to abase itself toward that end.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
it's deeply funny how maintaining the belief in fascism requires hiding any contrary information, and how every institution has to abase itself toward that end.
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For autistic people, wage theft is the absolute norm.
You're more likely to have your job expand far beyond its description, to voluntarily take on unpaid labor, to be persuaded by appeals to empathy for coworkers who'll be affected by you saying no, etc
You're more likely to have your job expand far beyond its description, to voluntarily take on unpaid labor, to be persuaded by appeals to empathy for coworkers who'll be affected by you saying no, etc
October 13, 2024 at 8:29 PM
For autistic people, wage theft is the absolute norm.
You're more likely to have your job expand far beyond its description, to voluntarily take on unpaid labor, to be persuaded by appeals to empathy for coworkers who'll be affected by you saying no, etc
You're more likely to have your job expand far beyond its description, to voluntarily take on unpaid labor, to be persuaded by appeals to empathy for coworkers who'll be affected by you saying no, etc
SFUSD is on strike & as rough as it is on kids and families, it's with good cause. The purposeful, chronic underfunding of anything that helps people for free being while there are always trillions for death and suffering has been true my entire life /Xennial
We don't have to live like this
We don't have to live like this
Weird how they keep finding more money to fund the gestapo that is damaging job numbers by deporting workers but can't find any for a universal healthcare system that will save money, a free housing for homeless folk program that will save money, or universal basic income that'll boost the economy.
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
SFUSD is on strike & as rough as it is on kids and families, it's with good cause. The purposeful, chronic underfunding of anything that helps people for free being while there are always trillions for death and suffering has been true my entire life /Xennial
We don't have to live like this
We don't have to live like this
I've had Kidney in a Cooler stuck in my head for a week now. Yesterday, after stumbling across a mention on here, I tried to sent Guantanamera after it—this earworm has had strong staying power in the past—to no avail. Trying to decide if it's worth making a devil's pact & mainlining TMBG
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I've had Kidney in a Cooler stuck in my head for a week now. Yesterday, after stumbling across a mention on here, I tried to sent Guantanamera after it—this earworm has had strong staying power in the past—to no avail. Trying to decide if it's worth making a devil's pact & mainlining TMBG
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Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
Folks in Gaza still need our help. Give if you can, share if you can't
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Folks in Gaza still need our help. Give if you can, share if you can't
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
A moment of quiet joy & gratitude: the wild deliciousness of just roasting potatoes, onions, and garlic with some thyme in olive oil. So much flavor from just a few things!
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
A moment of quiet joy & gratitude: the wild deliciousness of just roasting potatoes, onions, and garlic with some thyme in olive oil. So much flavor from just a few things!
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jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
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“This is a deliberate act of erasure,” the political leaders told Gay City News in the joint statement. “The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth."
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 AM
“This is a deliberate act of erasure,” the political leaders told Gay City News in the joint statement. “The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth."
Hang in there, folks. If the anxiety demon is munching on you, reflect that nothing you do today will be as awful as what 99.99999% of our leaders in every sector are choosing. And choose kindness when and as you're able.
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Hang in there, folks. If the anxiety demon is munching on you, reflect that nothing you do today will be as awful as what 99.99999% of our leaders in every sector are choosing. And choose kindness when and as you're able.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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It's like someone saw a magician for the first time, decided this was physics now, replaced all the physicists and engineers with magicians, and now 'anything is possible' but nothing actually works anymore.
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
It's like someone saw a magician for the first time, decided this was physics now, replaced all the physicists and engineers with magicians, and now 'anything is possible' but nothing actually works anymore.
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Step 1) Hype your "AI" as an all-in-one question answering truth machine
Step 2) Any time things go wrong from people using your "AI" as an all-in-1 question answering truth machine, tell them they shouldn't've done that; didn't they read the fine print???
Step 3) Truly Disgustingly Egregious Profit
Step 2) Any time things go wrong from people using your "AI" as an all-in-1 question answering truth machine, tell them they shouldn't've done that; didn't they read the fine print???
Step 3) Truly Disgustingly Egregious Profit
More info in the linked Wired story. Total abdication of responsibility by Microsoft. www.wired.com/story/micros...
December 15, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Step 1) Hype your "AI" as an all-in-one question answering truth machine
Step 2) Any time things go wrong from people using your "AI" as an all-in-1 question answering truth machine, tell them they shouldn't've done that; didn't they read the fine print???
Step 3) Truly Disgustingly Egregious Profit
Step 2) Any time things go wrong from people using your "AI" as an all-in-1 question answering truth machine, tell them they shouldn't've done that; didn't they read the fine print???
Step 3) Truly Disgustingly Egregious Profit
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"I know you think I’m evil. And a copycat. But I assure you, I’ve wanted to take out Causation long before Relative Risk stabbed Absolute Risk in the back at last month’s Stanford talk on the lethality of packaged, ready-to-eat kale."
I’m Correlation—Here’s Why I Shot Causation at a Harvard Medical School Conference
I know you think I’m evil. And a copycat. But I assure you, I’ve wanted to take out Causation long before Relative Risk stabbed Absolute Risk in th...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"I know you think I’m evil. And a copycat. But I assure you, I’ve wanted to take out Causation long before Relative Risk stabbed Absolute Risk in the back at last month’s Stanford talk on the lethality of packaged, ready-to-eat kale."
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"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism."
Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
www.insidehighered.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism."
Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Well, this is something nice to check out! Been off the Wait Wait wagon cause my weekend routines got borked, but 1. What a panel! 2. Love to be reminded that Reading Rainbow really did find a perfect successor to LeVar Burton and isn't that delightful?
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Well, this is something nice to check out! Been off the Wait Wait wagon cause my weekend routines got borked, but 1. What a panel! 2. Love to be reminded that Reading Rainbow really did find a perfect successor to LeVar Burton and isn't that delightful?
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Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
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My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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This is not unusual. At all.
There are hospitals that will roll patients out to the curb & leave them there if they have no one. This country has a disability problem, the problem is it's trying to kill us any way it can. None of any of this <broad gesture> is a surprise to anyone who is disabled.
There are hospitals that will roll patients out to the curb & leave them there if they have no one. This country has a disability problem, the problem is it's trying to kill us any way it can. None of any of this <broad gesture> is a surprise to anyone who is disabled.
During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
'What's wrong with the world?' Man in wheelchair found dead outside in freezing temps
The 61-year-old man had been released from a hospital the day before.
news4sanantonio.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This is not unusual. At all.
There are hospitals that will roll patients out to the curb & leave them there if they have no one. This country has a disability problem, the problem is it's trying to kill us any way it can. None of any of this <broad gesture> is a surprise to anyone who is disabled.
There are hospitals that will roll patients out to the curb & leave them there if they have no one. This country has a disability problem, the problem is it's trying to kill us any way it can. None of any of this <broad gesture> is a surprise to anyone who is disabled.
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All self-quantification tech will be used against you, eventually. If not by government, then by insurers
Fuck Oura to hell
Fuck Oura to hell
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
All self-quantification tech will be used against you, eventually. If not by government, then by insurers
Fuck Oura to hell
Fuck Oura to hell
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So many folks that begrudge feeling "lonely" don't even want to face the ways they compartmentalize things with everything they do. Or the ways enslavers conditioned oppressors to seek care from same ppl they harm as surrogates to the deficit their own ppl create.
August 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So many folks that begrudge feeling "lonely" don't even want to face the ways they compartmentalize things with everything they do. Or the ways enslavers conditioned oppressors to seek care from same ppl they harm as surrogates to the deficit their own ppl create.
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What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.
February 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM
What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.