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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13h

salma kayak: thread

Salma Hayek in an orangish red and yellow dress..

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4h

This is the most autistic (complimentary) thing I've ever read.

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 22h

Kid named the Roomba "Odysseus," because they love to say, "aw, he's going on a lil' journey!" and also because sometimes he gets lost or stuck, which is his Scylla or Charybdis moment.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23h

I actually get more annoyed when people say they “just” use AI for their emails or to check their grammar. You’re killing people. For your banal shit. Not for some great discovery or curing cancer. Because you can’t write an email.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17h

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5h

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 22h

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 10h

This really resonated for me as an autistic person. I know I live with anger, shame and trauma but I don't know where it comes from because my experiences all seem so normal to me. This helps me understand.

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rabbi_shais_taub on Instagram: "Why is it so exhausting when people don’t understand what you’re saying?ㅤ#soulwisdom#communication#spiritualtruth#connectionView al…"

Why is it so exhausting when people don’t understand what you’re saying?ㅤ#soulwisdom#communication#spiritualtruth#connection

www.instagram.com

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 15h

Ways I (autistic) care for my ADHD spouse:
- I make lists of all their ideas. I make no attempt to act on all the ideas (that would be crazy). But I list the things & then read the lists to them sometimes so they can remember how smart they are.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 17h

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 19h

This is the BEST.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Veronika Bohrn Mena @vbohrnmena.bsky.social · 1d

Schon wieder gute Neuigkeiten: Heute kam es vor Gericht zur erstinstanzlichen Verurteilung der Medieninhaberin #FPÖ Wien als Betreiberin der Seiten von Wiener Parteichef #DominikNepp, Klubobmann #MaximilianKrauss und #LeoLugner 🎉 🎉🎉
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Erfolg gegen FPÖ Wien: Gericht urteilt wegen dutzender Hasskommentare

Erstinstanzliche Verurteilung von Medieninhaberin FPÖ-Wien als Betreiberin der Seiten von FPÖ-Funktionären Dominik Nepp, Maximilian Krauss und Leo Lugner

steady.page

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 20h

Traum erfüllt

Arnold Böcklin die Toteninsel Originalkunstwerk

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Wienschauen @wienschauen.bsky.social · 6h

... Im Inneren ist es quasi eine Zeitkapsel der 1980er-Jahre (Fertigstellung: 1985/1986).
Details im Artikel auf der Webseite: www.wienschauen.at/oktoneum-pos...

Oktoneum: Postmoderner Monumentalbau unter Denkmalschutz - WienSchauen

Das Amtshaus in der Radetzkystraße 2 ist mit seiner verspielten Architektur kein alltäglicher Anblick. Seit 2024 gilt Denkmalschutz.

www.wienschauen.at

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Wienschauen @wienschauen.bsky.social · 6h

Das Amtshaus in der Radetzkystraße 2 (3. Bezirk) ist mit seiner verspielten Architektur kein alltäglicher Anblick. Die postmoderne Fassadengestaltung des wuchtigen Gebäudes ist in Österreich einzigartig. Seit 2024 steht das Gebäude unter Denkmalschutz. ...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

There is no safe level of exposure to an idea. That is their power. That is why education is transformative, why things like good journalism are important, why our enemies try to warp the information environment in their favour (and claim - perhaps fairly - that we do the same).

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just glad we're reclaiming frogs from the Nazis.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 1d

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 1d

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and that this is bad for the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Matthias Meisner @meisnerwerk.bsky.social · 1d

„Der ideologische Sog, der alle Kritik in den Abgrund riss“ - unter dieser Überschrift lobt @renemartens.bsky.social im @altpapier.bsky.social das Buch „Die verdrängte Pandemie“ von Frédéric Valin und @paulschuberth.bsky.social. Danke für die Leseempfehlung! www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

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