Lauren Merry Vale (they/she)
@pixielauren.bsky.social
Queer & genderqueer. Associate Professor. Creative writer. Backpacker. I teach LGBTQ Studies! 🌈 I'm obsessed with mushrooms & cats. Tiny farm in rural Ohio, USA. 🍀 🍄 🌸
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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
-- Kurt Vonnegut
THIS IS THE BATTLE THAT MUST BE FOUGHT AND WON.
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
THIS IS THE BATTLE THAT MUST BE FOUGHT AND WON.
Holy fucking shit, Zuckerburg is SO FUCKING EVIL
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Holy fucking shit, Zuckerburg is SO FUCKING EVIL
It was a bit more than a week ago that Donald Trump said "Quiet, piggy" to a reporter.
I really do not think anyone should have moved on from that.
Media, journalists, politicians, anybody with a voice or a platform: why have you moved on?
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I really do not think anyone should have moved on from that.
Media, journalists, politicians, anybody with a voice or a platform: why have you moved on?
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November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It was a bit more than a week ago that Donald Trump said "Quiet, piggy" to a reporter.
I really do not think anyone should have moved on from that.
Media, journalists, politicians, anybody with a voice or a platform: why have you moved on?
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I really do not think anyone should have moved on from that.
Media, journalists, politicians, anybody with a voice or a platform: why have you moved on?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
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I highly suggest a scroll through the replies on this post for a dose of the feel-goods ♥️
do you make up ridiculous longform versions of your dog's name? if so please share. I've been calling lambo "lamborghini wigglesworth" (mr. wiggles for short)
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I highly suggest a scroll through the replies on this post for a dose of the feel-goods ♥️
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Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I keep saying this. THEY PAID A THOUSAND GUYS TO SIT IN A ROOM AND REDACT TRUMP'S NAME and/or destroy the docs that had the bad shit about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
>1,000 FBI agents spent weeks of furious effort redacting Trump’s name (and others) this summer from the Epstein files, do we really think we’re gonna learn that much?
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I keep saying this. THEY PAID A THOUSAND GUYS TO SIT IN A ROOM AND REDACT TRUMP'S NAME and/or destroy the docs that had the bad shit about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
Do you really think he's gonna let the photos of him with a naked child get released?!
Bondi's loyal. Nothing new is gonna come out about Trump.
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The Gilded Age but for raping teens
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Gilded Age but for raping teens
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Nothing Trump does is a distraction. All of it is criminal, tyrannical, and treasonous. None of it is excusable, and all of it is impeachable.
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nothing Trump does is a distraction. All of it is criminal, tyrannical, and treasonous. None of it is excusable, and all of it is impeachable.
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Remain focused on the remedy: impeachment
Every single American university president must read this letter in full, today -- and then reflect on the futility of compliance on any level with the Trump Administration's threats and shakedowns.
Jim Ryan’s account of his forced resignation as UVA President makes plain the depth of misconduct and bad faith the faculty have long suspected of the BOV. Every member of the UVA community should read this letter and appreciate the need for new leadership.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Every single American university president must read this letter in full, today -- and then reflect on the futility of compliance on any level with the Trump Administration's threats and shakedowns.
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Let me get this straight: The Right has spent years calling trans people, drag performers, queers, teachers and librarians "groomers" -- but Epstein and Trump are NOT child molesters, because *checks notes* their victims were young-looking 15-year-olds?!
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Let me get this straight: The Right has spent years calling trans people, drag performers, queers, teachers and librarians "groomers" -- but Epstein and Trump are NOT child molesters, because *checks notes* their victims were young-looking 15-year-olds?!
Today maybe wasn't the best day for @nytimes.com to publish a story with a Toobin byline?
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today maybe wasn't the best day for @nytimes.com to publish a story with a Toobin byline?
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
If I hear someone say "The #metoo movement went too far!!!!" EVER AGAIN I'm gonna lose it oh my fucking god.
#metoo didn't go far ENOUGH. Rapists protect rapists while destroying survivor's lives and reputations.
I feel actually sick. I couldn't be angrier.
#metoo didn't go far ENOUGH. Rapists protect rapists while destroying survivor's lives and reputations.
I feel actually sick. I couldn't be angrier.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
It's not just Trump, Epstein, Maxwell.
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
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It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's not just Trump, Epstein, Maxwell.
It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
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It's a rot at the core of the billionaire class.
I want them drummed out of public life forever.
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IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.“
— the ever-quotable United States Constitution, Article II Section 4
— the ever-quotable United States Constitution, Article II Section 4
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
NEVER stop pressing your representatives to impeach our President, a child rapist and child sex trafficker.
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Another crisp fall day under the violent and oppressive pedophile regime
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Another crisp fall day under the violent and oppressive pedophile regime
The Democratic Party is as beholden to the billionaire class as the R's are -- and are thereby incapable of undoing the fascism. In case you hadn't noticed.
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Democratic Party is as beholden to the billionaire class as the R's are -- and are thereby incapable of undoing the fascism. In case you hadn't noticed.
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
Today's the day to join a progressive third party ♥️
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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