Kaitlyn Burnell
@kaitlynburnell.bsky.social
Used to make videogames. Currently recovering from long COVID.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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We know it! According to the cdc 25%of adults are afraid of needles & 16% avoid vaccines because of needle fear. Our pro vax comms needs to stop showing images of needles & stop using violent language like “jab” or “shot”
I think a huuuuuuge part of vaccine hesitancy is sublimated fear of needles
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We know it! According to the cdc 25%of adults are afraid of needles & 16% avoid vaccines because of needle fear. Our pro vax comms needs to stop showing images of needles & stop using violent language like “jab” or “shot”
Yeah, we haven't turned on our heat yet in an attempt to save electricity, and our bill still doubled last month. WTF is going on?
hard to understand why the price of electricity isn't a more prominent story right now. it certainly would be under any dem president.
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah, we haven't turned on our heat yet in an attempt to save electricity, and our bill still doubled last month. WTF is going on?
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Periodically like to beg aloud for some platform to let me write about (mental) health and AI ... this shit's so bad folks ...
“TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Periodically like to beg aloud for some platform to let me write about (mental) health and AI ... this shit's so bad folks ...
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
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This was pretty much the exact experience I've had.
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This was pretty much the exact experience I've had.
TBH, the question on my mind is "why is the leadership on the right total quacks right now?"
Like...it wasn't like this a decade or two ago. And I meet regular people who identify as right leaning but are sensible grounded people. So why are those in power right now so out of touch?
Like...it wasn't like this a decade or two ago. And I meet regular people who identify as right leaning but are sensible grounded people. So why are those in power right now so out of touch?
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
TBH, the question on my mind is "why is the leadership on the right total quacks right now?"
Like...it wasn't like this a decade or two ago. And I meet regular people who identify as right leaning but are sensible grounded people. So why are those in power right now so out of touch?
Like...it wasn't like this a decade or two ago. And I meet regular people who identify as right leaning but are sensible grounded people. So why are those in power right now so out of touch?
My boss loaded a class schedule into an AI and told it to make the schedule better visually.
It deleted a class, and invented a class that didn't exist. We had to write the missing class back on with a sharpie, and cross out the nonexistent class.
It deleted a class, and invented a class that didn't exist. We had to write the missing class back on with a sharpie, and cross out the nonexistent class.
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My boss loaded a class schedule into an AI and told it to make the schedule better visually.
It deleted a class, and invented a class that didn't exist. We had to write the missing class back on with a sharpie, and cross out the nonexistent class.
It deleted a class, and invented a class that didn't exist. We had to write the missing class back on with a sharpie, and cross out the nonexistent class.
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In first grade, Logan wore his hair long to connect with his Native culture.
His school demanded he cut it, but after Logan and his family pushed back, the school updated its rules to allow for long hair on boys.
Native students have the right to honor their heritage in their expression.
His school demanded he cut it, but after Logan and his family pushed back, the school updated its rules to allow for long hair on boys.
Native students have the right to honor their heritage in their expression.
My Son's Hair is Part of a Thousand-Year-Old Tribal Culture. His School Called it a 'Fad.' | ACLU
The school’s requirement is a rejection of who he is and a demand that he sacrifice his culture and heritage to conform to baseless and unfair rules.
www.aclu.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
In first grade, Logan wore his hair long to connect with his Native culture.
His school demanded he cut it, but after Logan and his family pushed back, the school updated its rules to allow for long hair on boys.
Native students have the right to honor their heritage in their expression.
His school demanded he cut it, but after Logan and his family pushed back, the school updated its rules to allow for long hair on boys.
Native students have the right to honor their heritage in their expression.
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It’s that time of year again!
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s that time of year again!
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PLEASE MAKE THIS LAW EVERYWHERE
Woah!
Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you.
If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position.
The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI
Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you.
If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position.
The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
PLEASE MAKE THIS LAW EVERYWHERE
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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After that meeting, I'm never playing poker against Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
After that meeting, I'm never playing poker against Zohran Mamdani.
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you know what? good advice.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
you know what? good advice.
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
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In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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I had academic job interviews this way in the late 1990s.
All of us sitting on beds in hotel rooms.
All men but me.
Nothing happened.
But it was REALLY strange, to say the least.
All of us sitting on beds in hotel rooms.
All men but me.
Nothing happened.
But it was REALLY strange, to say the least.
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I had academic job interviews this way in the late 1990s.
All of us sitting on beds in hotel rooms.
All men but me.
Nothing happened.
But it was REALLY strange, to say the least.
All of us sitting on beds in hotel rooms.
All men but me.
Nothing happened.
But it was REALLY strange, to say the least.
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Enraging.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Enraging.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
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This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.