Partial Robot
@partialrobot.bsky.social
Social scientist; Cancer-haver; Baltimore- enjoyer; Special education and disability; Ambivalent about the discourse
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I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
aaaand I just heard a TikTok song about Trump blowing Bubba, so I think that’s enough internet today.
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
aaaand I just heard a TikTok song about Trump blowing Bubba, so I think that’s enough internet today.
He is exactly who we knew he was. 🤮
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
He is exactly who we knew he was. 🤮
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black girls can't ever just be. if it isn't church, a fear of being labeled fast, it's school rules. then it's trying to look professional. no wonder you see 50 year olds with blue hair. the girls don't get to do shit. hell, michelle obama JUST started wearing braids.
a woman speaking into a microphone with the words " i want us to be free " written below her
ALT: a woman speaking into a microphone with the words " i want us to be free " written below her
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
black girls can't ever just be. if it isn't church, a fear of being labeled fast, it's school rules. then it's trying to look professional. no wonder you see 50 year olds with blue hair. the girls don't get to do shit. hell, michelle obama JUST started wearing braids.
Pulling out the fleece-lined tights and switching to the winter shower routine, thinking it’s like 10:00 pm just because it’s dark out. Welcome to cozy season!
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Pulling out the fleece-lined tights and switching to the winter shower routine, thinking it’s like 10:00 pm just because it’s dark out. Welcome to cozy season!
I hope Leo makes all the tradcaths cry every day
NEW: During a Vatican audience, a prominent same-sex couple told Pope Leo XIV they were married.
The pope responded with overwhelming kindness — and a conversation about the day’s Wordle.
This quiet moment may signal something bigger: the kind of Church Pope Leo intends to build.
The pope responded with overwhelming kindness — and a conversation about the day’s Wordle.
This quiet moment may signal something bigger: the kind of Church Pope Leo intends to build.
Pope Leo Meets Prominent Married Gay Couple — And Talks Wordle
The story of Brian and Alex is more than a Wordle moment. It’s a sign of the Church Pope Leo is building.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I hope Leo makes all the tradcaths cry every day
You should ask anyone giving this advice if they’re worried about their own name appearing in the files, or if they’re just tryin to to protect their friends (or clients).
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You should ask anyone giving this advice if they’re worried about their own name appearing in the files, or if they’re just tryin to to protect their friends (or clients).
One time, when I was 8, watching Grease at a friends house with her whole family. When a condom was mentioned, my friend asked “what’s that?” and I confidently piped up “oh, it’s like an apartment but you own it” very proud of my vocabulary.
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
One time, when I was 8, watching Grease at a friends house with her whole family. When a condom was mentioned, my friend asked “what’s that?” and I confidently piped up “oh, it’s like an apartment but you own it” very proud of my vocabulary.
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we really have to do something about gambling but the problem is the guys who own the gambling sites have money to burn on politicians
Jesus Christ.
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
we really have to do something about gambling but the problem is the guys who own the gambling sites have money to burn on politicians
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“This can’t continue” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“This can’t continue” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
Sad to hear, what a tremendous force for justice. Rest in power.
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Sad to hear, what a tremendous force for justice. Rest in power.
Good evidence of this is that there were substantial variations in how long schools were closed in different places, and there’s no correlation between learning loss and the length of online instruction.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Good evidence of this is that there were substantial variations in how long schools were closed in different places, and there’s no correlation between learning loss and the length of online instruction.
Both Biden and Obama/Hillary electorally ate shit trying to use real economic data to tell people the economy was doing fine actually. So it’s really funny to see Trump try the same strategy, but using fake economic data.
Is the theory that it’ll work this time because it’s based on lies?
Is the theory that it’ll work this time because it’s based on lies?
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Both Biden and Obama/Hillary electorally ate shit trying to use real economic data to tell people the economy was doing fine actually. So it’s really funny to see Trump try the same strategy, but using fake economic data.
Is the theory that it’ll work this time because it’s based on lies?
Is the theory that it’ll work this time because it’s based on lies?
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You gotta wonder, at least a little bit, how much of the opposition to social safety nets is based on wanting a steady supply of desperate women and girls with nowhere to turn to for help except sugar daddy websites and skeezy “modeling” contracts
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You gotta wonder, at least a little bit, how much of the opposition to social safety nets is based on wanting a steady supply of desperate women and girls with nowhere to turn to for help except sugar daddy websites and skeezy “modeling” contracts
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1. "Barely legal" ick
2. 15-year-olds are not, by definition, "legal," "barely" or not!
2. 15-year-olds are not, by definition, "legal," "barely" or not!
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
1. "Barely legal" ick
2. 15-year-olds are not, by definition, "legal," "barely" or not!
2. 15-year-olds are not, by definition, "legal," "barely" or not!
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
A little too on the nose that their corporate motto used to be “don’t be evil” but then they changed it
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A little too on the nose that their corporate motto used to be “don’t be evil” but then they changed it
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
It’s so funny that he’s talking shit about ibuprofen, and praising MAHA for having a sensible skepticism about drugs—only supporting those that are necessary, safe and effective—when planet MAHA is a bottomless pit of sketchy supplements, colloidal silver, and useless animal medication.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s so funny that he’s talking shit about ibuprofen, and praising MAHA for having a sensible skepticism about drugs—only supporting those that are necessary, safe and effective—when planet MAHA is a bottomless pit of sketchy supplements, colloidal silver, and useless animal medication.
You can love someone deeply and truly and still not understand them.
I’ve been dealing with a sore, clogged ear all week. Today, I managed to finally flush out a knot of earwax. I asked my husband if he wanted to see what came out of my ear.
He said NO! 😮
We are very different people, turns out.
I’ve been dealing with a sore, clogged ear all week. Today, I managed to finally flush out a knot of earwax. I asked my husband if he wanted to see what came out of my ear.
He said NO! 😮
We are very different people, turns out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You can love someone deeply and truly and still not understand them.
I’ve been dealing with a sore, clogged ear all week. Today, I managed to finally flush out a knot of earwax. I asked my husband if he wanted to see what came out of my ear.
He said NO! 😮
We are very different people, turns out.
I’ve been dealing with a sore, clogged ear all week. Today, I managed to finally flush out a knot of earwax. I asked my husband if he wanted to see what came out of my ear.
He said NO! 😮
We are very different people, turns out.
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Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
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It’s not just that Trump is personally a rapist, though there’s lots of credible evidence to suggest that he is. It’s that he is promoting a fundamentally pro-rape ideology, and that the permissiveness for rape and entitlement to rape that are core to his worldview are central to his appeal for men.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s not just that Trump is personally a rapist, though there’s lots of credible evidence to suggest that he is. It’s that he is promoting a fundamentally pro-rape ideology, and that the permissiveness for rape and entitlement to rape that are core to his worldview are central to his appeal for men.