Tricia Donovan
@misfitsguide.bsky.social
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This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
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One of the reasons we have such an established, thorough record of the lies ICE, Bovino, and DHS told about alleged aggression from protesters and observers in Chicago is that a group of protesters and media orgs sued ICE. Continuously grateful for the people and lawyers who waged that fight.
January 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
One of the reasons we have such an established, thorough record of the lies ICE, Bovino, and DHS told about alleged aggression from protesters and observers in Chicago is that a group of protesters and media orgs sued ICE. Continuously grateful for the people and lawyers who waged that fight.
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what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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Hi Darth,
When you asked this 2 months ago I replied I was working on a cookbook. It's now out—the PDF is FREE & print copies raise money for a food security & sovereignty charity. With 1 week to 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving it would mean so much if you'd be willing to share it! 🙏💜
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
When you asked this 2 months ago I replied I was working on a cookbook. It's now out—the PDF is FREE & print copies raise money for a food security & sovereignty charity. With 1 week to 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving it would mean so much if you'd be willing to share it! 🙏💜
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hi Darth,
When you asked this 2 months ago I replied I was working on a cookbook. It's now out—the PDF is FREE & print copies raise money for a food security & sovereignty charity. With 1 week to 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving it would mean so much if you'd be willing to share it! 🙏💜
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
When you asked this 2 months ago I replied I was working on a cookbook. It's now out—the PDF is FREE & print copies raise money for a food security & sovereignty charity. With 1 week to 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving it would mean so much if you'd be willing to share it! 🙏💜
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
What a fun Friday activity. Thanks @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
What a fun Friday activity. Thanks @clairewillett.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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For the Atlantic, I wrote about Christopher Marlowe, romantic ideals of genius, and how Stephen Greenblatt has finally pushed his speculations too far.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius
What two new books on the English Renaissance reveal about the appeal of speculative history
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
For the Atlantic, I wrote about Christopher Marlowe, romantic ideals of genius, and how Stephen Greenblatt has finally pushed his speculations too far.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time
Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time
CALABASAS, CA—Astounded that it had never come up at any point in the six years they had known each other, local woman Lucy Reed, 25, reported Tuesday that her friend Nicole Silberthau had apparently ...
theonion.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time
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You use ChatGPT? Wow. Crazy that I am your moral and intellectual superior.
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
You use ChatGPT? Wow. Crazy that I am your moral and intellectual superior.
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current AI policy on my class syllabus
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
current AI policy on my class syllabus
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it's giving this [complimentary]
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
it's giving this [complimentary]
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'Maps on Vinyl' by Damien Saunder is my first ever exclusive distribution deal! Find copies of this gorgeous book at Tunnel Records in San Francisco, Hey Books! in San Diego and Ward Maps in Cambridge. Know any book store owners who want in? Gimme a holler www.mapcenter.com/store/p/maps...
"Maps on Vinyl" by Damien Saunder — The Map Center
This truly unique atlas of album covers, each featuring a map, is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Presenting 415 album covers – beautifully reproduced, expertly laid out and accompanie...
www.mapcenter.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'Maps on Vinyl' by Damien Saunder is my first ever exclusive distribution deal! Find copies of this gorgeous book at Tunnel Records in San Francisco, Hey Books! in San Diego and Ward Maps in Cambridge. Know any book store owners who want in? Gimme a holler www.mapcenter.com/store/p/maps...
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
"It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke." Looks like I've found the tagline of every AI argument I have. Thanks Roxanne! 😍
And I resent the way companies are trying to force it. The other day Slack emailed saying they were adding AI to their product that already functions fine. I immediately cancelled that account. I don’t want it. It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke. I am happy on this hill even if I am alone
June 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke." Looks like I've found the tagline of every AI argument I have. Thanks Roxanne! 😍
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"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs...LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs...LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
@caseynewton.bsky.social Oof, this quote is ~embarrassing~
am i having a stroke
June 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@caseynewton.bsky.social Oof, this quote is ~embarrassing~
I searched Backstreet Boys on a whim and wasn't disappointed. This is a dream for a Millennial's inner child.
The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
GifCities
gifcities.org
June 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I searched Backstreet Boys on a whim and wasn't disappointed. This is a dream for a Millennial's inner child.
I get why he's ending it, but selfishly, I'm going to miss the shit out of this podcast. Consistent, good interviews from a guy who's not shilling protein powder/vague eugenics viewpoints is a rarity in the podcast world. He's a real one.
"I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he'd've wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopped up on caffeine." defector.com/there-will-n...
There Will Never Be Another "WTF With Marc Maron" | Defector
I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too…
defector.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I get why he's ending it, but selfishly, I'm going to miss the shit out of this podcast. Consistent, good interviews from a guy who's not shilling protein powder/vague eugenics viewpoints is a rarity in the podcast world. He's a real one.
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Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wanna see something cool?
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.
The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
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OMG I FIGURED IT OUT
UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY?
STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU
UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY?
STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU
May 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
OMG I FIGURED IT OUT
UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY?
STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU
UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY?
STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU