Leslie
@rbfchampion.bsky.social
Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️🌈 auDHD 🎓PhD candidate 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️ [insert upside down US flag here]
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Leslie
@rbfchampion.bsky.social
· Jan 21
I have been doing my podcast since April 2024. I started it as a way to share my thoughts on organizational psychology, applied psychology for media and technology, etc. to help people understand their world. Some episodes were intentionally very relevant to this moment. I’m resharing them today 🧵
If you missed it yesterday:
🎙️ Just published a new episode of PsyberSpace: Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love 📣 Reply to let me know what you think!
Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love
Understanding Limerence: The Psychological and Neurological...
share.transistor.fm
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you missed it yesterday:
These are the 10 richest people in the world right now.
The Top 10 Richest People In The World | December 2025
There’s a new No. 2 on Forbes’ ranking of the world’s wealthiest people.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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You mean the 10 top wealth hoarding creeps who are destroying everything they touch. We should stop acting like accumulating wealth is 1. a good accomplishment 2. not destructive as fuck to the rest of us.
These are the 10 richest people in the world right now.
The Top 10 Richest People In The World | December 2025
There’s a new No. 2 on Forbes’ ranking of the world’s wealthiest people.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You mean the 10 top wealth hoarding creeps who are destroying everything they touch. We should stop acting like accumulating wealth is 1. a good accomplishment 2. not destructive as fuck to the rest of us.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of PsyberSpace: Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love 📣 Reply to let me know what you think!
Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love
Understanding Limerence: The Psychological and Neurological...
share.transistor.fm
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of PsyberSpace: Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love 📣 Reply to let me know what you think!
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The White House “Media Offenders” list is the governmental equivalent of an author who defied the cardinal rule not to read the reviews and is now on a days-long goodreads screed against their critics. Folks, if you’re in the comments, you’re already losing.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The White House “Media Offenders” list is the governmental equivalent of an author who defied the cardinal rule not to read the reviews and is now on a days-long goodreads screed against their critics. Folks, if you’re in the comments, you’re already losing.
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ICE is disguising its vehicles as Uber and Lyft cars.
Pass the word
Pass the word
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
ICE is disguising its vehicles as Uber and Lyft cars.
Pass the word
Pass the word
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Hollywood worked VERY hard for this to be the dominant view in the US.
I just had a dude argue that war crimes don't apply during war, and I just don't know if our country can survive this level of stupid.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hollywood worked VERY hard for this to be the dominant view in the US.
Every day I wake up with a song stuck in my head. I call it my “morning DJ”. Today’s song is a blast from the distant past. 😆
a group of women are standing next to each other in a hallway .
Alt: We're clearly soldiers in petticoats
And dauntless crusaders for women's votes
Though we adore men individually
We agree that as a group they're rather stupid
Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus:
"Well done, Sister Suffragette!"
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Every day I wake up with a song stuck in my head. I call it my “morning DJ”. Today’s song is a blast from the distant past. 😆
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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don't forget it: Libraries BUY tons of books! And the more they circulate, the more they have to purchase more copies as they wear out (or the e-book checkouts expire). libraries and schools buy a huge portion of the books by new, local, and lesser-known authors. Use the library!
Yes exactly! Don't feel bad like you're not supporting authors if you use the library. You totally are & we're grateful!
Ooh, I feel that. But! The more that we use our libraries, the better funded they become, and they *do* pay for their books (including e-books!), so the author is still being paid for their work and you're supporting the librarians and excellent people who work right there in your community <3
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
don't forget it: Libraries BUY tons of books! And the more they circulate, the more they have to purchase more copies as they wear out (or the e-book checkouts expire). libraries and schools buy a huge portion of the books by new, local, and lesser-known authors. Use the library!
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As a Data Guy, these headlines make my life so much harder. Takes so much time to get folks to understand that AI tools aren't a shortcut around the foundational data work... that, if anything, they can compound the garbage in, garbage out problem.
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As a Data Guy, these headlines make my life so much harder. Takes so much time to get folks to understand that AI tools aren't a shortcut around the foundational data work... that, if anything, they can compound the garbage in, garbage out problem.
Waiting for someone to make the ✨very necessary ✨ Chrome, Safari, FireFox extensions to block all AI content, everywhere. In email, search results, tabs, research portals, online document environments like Office & GDocs, video, etc. (Yes, there are other browsers, but most folks won't adopt them)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Waiting for someone to make the ✨very necessary ✨ Chrome, Safari, FireFox extensions to block all AI content, everywhere. In email, search results, tabs, research portals, online document environments like Office & GDocs, video, etc. (Yes, there are other browsers, but most folks won't adopt them)
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I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
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When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday.
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
Why Fresh Collard Greens Are Becoming a Holiday Lifeline in These Communities
From farmers to churches, residents across the country are working together to provide free food for those in need this holiday season.
capitalbnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday.
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here
independentsage.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
somehow it's "hoarding" when I keep my old tech as long as possible and resent forced obsolescence
but not "hoarding" when billionaires and tech companies suck up all the money and burn though the planet in search of endless growth
but not "hoarding" when billionaires and tech companies suck up all the money and burn though the planet in search of endless growth
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Imagine today's college administrators not just defending freedom of expression and alternative perspectives on the American experience, but being chill about this comment on academia, painted 10 feet tall in the library:
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Imagine today's college administrators not just defending freedom of expression and alternative perspectives on the American experience, but being chill about this comment on academia, painted 10 feet tall in the library:
The messaging around climate change has always bothered me. The planet will adapt and continue. Humans won’t. Perhaps focusing on the impact on humans would have lived the needle on making polluters (corporations, data centers, etc) comply with changes.
www.floridatrend.com/feature/2025...
Sobering read: it's no longer how do we prevent or slow it down -- it's how do we deal with this reality.
Sobering read: it's no longer how do we prevent or slow it down -- it's how do we deal with this reality.
When Ice Melts
As Greenland’s ice melts at record speed, Nova Southeastern University wants to lead the fight against the resulting sea level rise in Florida.
www.floridatrend.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The messaging around climate change has always bothered me. The planet will adapt and continue. Humans won’t. Perhaps focusing on the impact on humans would have lived the needle on making polluters (corporations, data centers, etc) comply with changes.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old