Patricia Eimer
@patriciaeimer.bsky.social
Writer trying to get back on my game. Soul mate of 20+ years. Feeder of a very spoiled big dog and (now) 3 bigger kids. I just want a cookie and a nap. She/her
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
I interviewed for a job at a prestigious university where the initial interview was 1 dude in a standard hotel room. I’m in my nicest suit bought on credit he was in sweatpants and scratched his crotch the whole time. Bypassed me for a guy with less qualifications
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I interviewed for a job at a prestigious university where the initial interview was 1 dude in a standard hotel room. I’m in my nicest suit bought on credit he was in sweatpants and scratched his crotch the whole time. Bypassed me for a guy with less qualifications
You know I thought the Trump sucked off Clinton thing was just weird propaganda until all these pathetic dem talking heads online started it’s not Bill it’s some other dude. Bills straight! Bill doesn’t like dudes. *laugh* how could Straight Straighty Straight Bill do a dude?
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You know I thought the Trump sucked off Clinton thing was just weird propaganda until all these pathetic dem talking heads online started it’s not Bill it’s some other dude. Bills straight! Bill doesn’t like dudes. *laugh* how could Straight Straighty Straight Bill do a dude?
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Imagine if global health meetings were actually hosted in places where the real problems and real solutions are?
Welcome to snowy Toronto for Trop Med 2025 - the irony is not lost on me!
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Imagine if global health meetings were actually hosted in places where the real problems and real solutions are?
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You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.
Youngests HS had its last football game/marching show of the year last night and when our team won the other team decided to riot. Today social media is flooded with parents explaining in all caps that yeah their kid left in handcuffs but obviously it’s someone else’s fault.
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Youngests HS had its last football game/marching show of the year last night and when our team won the other team decided to riot. Today social media is flooded with parents explaining in all caps that yeah their kid left in handcuffs but obviously it’s someone else’s fault.
Wait?!?! I’m confused — a Kardashian can read?
Kardashian netted a response from acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy after a clip of her "debunking" the moon landing started going viral.
www.avclub.com/kim-kardashi...
www.avclub.com/kim-kardashi...
NASA informs Kim Kardashian that Buzz Aldrin and "the other one" did, in fact, walk on the moon
NASA informs Kim Kardashian that Buzz Aldrin and "the other one" did, in fact, walk on the moon
www.avclub.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Wait?!?! I’m confused — a Kardashian can read?
I’ve never felt closer to a famous person in my life. I loved Emma Thompson before but I’m willing to be absolutely parasocially in love now
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I’ve never felt closer to a famous person in my life. I loved Emma Thompson before but I’m willing to be absolutely parasocially in love now
Adulting moment: I always thought that becoming an attorney was hard and meant you were smart. I’m on a community committee with a lawyer and misleading another committee member texted and asked me to shine a light on the attorneys ear — she wanted to see if the light passed through.
October 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Adulting moment: I always thought that becoming an attorney was hard and meant you were smart. I’m on a community committee with a lawyer and misleading another committee member texted and asked me to shine a light on the attorneys ear — she wanted to see if the light passed through.
Pimento cheese
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
October 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Pimento cheese
@kimbooyork.bsky.social did you see this?
You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover
Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida
Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.
www.insidehighered.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@kimbooyork.bsky.social did you see this?
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
So today at the volunteer gig was … weird. New volunteer shows up who has all sorts of *great* ideas and can’t understand why we don’t implement them. 🙄
September 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So today at the volunteer gig was … weird. New volunteer shows up who has all sorts of *great* ideas and can’t understand why we don’t implement them. 🙄
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This won't be enough--a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on--but it's an important start. You (the outlets in question) have endangered people carelessly, for clicks. Do what you can to undo it.
any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation
if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played
if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played
September 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This won't be enough--a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on--but it's an important start. You (the outlets in question) have endangered people carelessly, for clicks. Do what you can to undo it.
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I have read exactly three sports romances in my life and the other two were roller derby. I think possibly I only like sports romances with glitter and silly names involved?
(this one is bloody wonderful btw)
(this one is bloody wonderful btw)
K.J. Charles's review of Blood Sweat Glitter
On the surface of it this is an opposites attract novella about two women on a roller derby team that Must Win The League to Survive. It is *so much more* than that. It's a truly remarkable story abo...
www.goodreads.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I have read exactly three sports romances in my life and the other two were roller derby. I think possibly I only like sports romances with glitter and silly names involved?
(this one is bloody wonderful btw)
(this one is bloody wonderful btw)
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I read Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong, which is not just a sports romance but a sports romance about pro wrestling. I don't even know who I am any more. (Really enjoyed it.)
K.J. Charles's review of Hold Me Like a Grudge
What a magnificent title. M/m romance set in the world of pro wrestling (the kind that is basically violent pantomime). I know nothing whatsoever about this, so have no comment on how accurate the d...
www.goodreads.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I read Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong, which is not just a sports romance but a sports romance about pro wrestling. I don't even know who I am any more. (Really enjoyed it.)
Tom Clancy’s Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy’s to the title
Tom Clancy’s Superfudge
Tom Clancy’s Superfudge
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy’s to the title
Tom Clancy’s Ender’s Game
Tom Clancy’s The Subtle Art of not giving a f\*k
Tom Clancy’s Ender’s Game
Tom Clancy’s The Subtle Art of not giving a f\*k
August 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tom Clancy’s Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Apparently cute glucometer bags are not a thing? Like I can have something that looks all prairie home companion or I can have basic black nylon. There is no cute but stylish options for a thing I must carry everywhere
August 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Apparently cute glucometer bags are not a thing? Like I can have something that looks all prairie home companion or I can have basic black nylon. There is no cute but stylish options for a thing I must carry everywhere
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Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.
August 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.
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A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.
‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.
nbcnews.to
August 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.
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Did not forsee myself ever feeling old enough to non-ironically identify with "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written." yet every day it seems to resonate more for different reasons.
December 19, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Did not forsee myself ever feeling old enough to non-ironically identify with "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written." yet every day it seems to resonate more for different reasons.
I’m kinda exaggerating but not really bc people are asking about what is the breakpoint where it’s worth doing an in&out trip to Seoul just to load a suitcase with skincare in duty free.
July 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I’m kinda exaggerating but not really bc people are asking about what is the breakpoint where it’s worth doing an in&out trip to Seoul just to load a suitcase with skincare in duty free.
I remember in grad school talking to a prof whose expertise was Econ-history and his I know to much about this weird think was the black market in silk stockings in WW2 suddenly y’all it doesn’t even seem weird. We got women in FL planning Roundlab smuggling rings.
July 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I remember in grad school talking to a prof whose expertise was Econ-history and his I know to much about this weird think was the black market in silk stockings in WW2 suddenly y’all it doesn’t even seem weird. We got women in FL planning Roundlab smuggling rings.
Meanwhile I’m on 3 group text groups with no overlap with people live updating whose got “the good sunscreen” all over Orlando. Even the suburban mommies are losing their shit over RFKjr fucking with their SPF. If he comes for retinol they’ll probably riot
July 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Meanwhile I’m on 3 group text groups with no overlap with people live updating whose got “the good sunscreen” all over Orlando. Even the suburban mommies are losing their shit over RFKjr fucking with their SPF. If he comes for retinol they’ll probably riot