Ms. Respex
@respexy.bsky.social
Early 30s, she/her, therapist, Unitarian Universalist. Officially too much of a bitch for Twitter.
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👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?
Parental restrictions on library access continues to remain incredibly unpopular for a fourth year in a row.
The vast majority of public school parents are not looking to limit their children’s access in the library.
www.fftrp.org/library_acce...
The vast majority of public school parents are not looking to limit their children’s access in the library.
www.fftrp.org/library_acce...
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?
It makes me really uncomfortable seeing visible-sternum thinness coming back into vogue, because I WAS that thin and I viscerally remember how it physically sucked. I was so exhausted, moody, my blood sugar would crash randomly, and my teeth would literally chatter at 50 degrees.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It makes me really uncomfortable seeing visible-sternum thinness coming back into vogue, because I WAS that thin and I viscerally remember how it physically sucked. I was so exhausted, moody, my blood sugar would crash randomly, and my teeth would literally chatter at 50 degrees.
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If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
Interesting thread
A theory about vibes:
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Interesting thread
I'm so good at being like "why am I having a nervous breakdown? my life is great, I have nothing to worry about" meanwhile I didn't get the loan repayment grant I applied for, my husband is partially furloughed, our hot water was out for most of the week, and my debit card information was stolen.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I'm so good at being like "why am I having a nervous breakdown? my life is great, I have nothing to worry about" meanwhile I didn't get the loan repayment grant I applied for, my husband is partially furloughed, our hot water was out for most of the week, and my debit card information was stolen.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
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the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Important 🧵!
There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.
There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.
Just wanted to say: Have been reading versions of this a lot.
If you've survived an abuse situation, you understand the *point* is that he insults her AND that nobody speaks up. Of course nobody does. The entire presentation is the propaganda. It's about the witnesses' compliance and complicity.
If you've survived an abuse situation, you understand the *point* is that he insults her AND that nobody speaks up. Of course nobody does. The entire presentation is the propaganda. It's about the witnesses' compliance and complicity.
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Important 🧵!
There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.
There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
It's sort of a bummer to me that the reaction to the Epstein emails has basically been "kids are actually fair game to traffic after puberty" on the right and "LMFAO TRUMP MIGHT HAVE DONE GAY SHIT" on the left.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's sort of a bummer to me that the reaction to the Epstein emails has basically been "kids are actually fair game to traffic after puberty" on the right and "LMFAO TRUMP MIGHT HAVE DONE GAY SHIT" on the left.
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sorry but i think it’s newsworthy every time someone wants to fuck rfk jr. and we’re never going to fully understand human psychology if we don’t figure it out
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
sorry but i think it’s newsworthy every time someone wants to fuck rfk jr. and we’re never going to fully understand human psychology if we don’t figure it out
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Put another way, I think people are more scared of drinking something that they think could kill anyone, versus experiencing a condition that they believe could never happen to them—even though it very well could
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Put another way, I think people are more scared of drinking something that they think could kill anyone, versus experiencing a condition that they believe could never happen to them—even though it very well could
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Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
Pointless engagement bait/idle curiosity: If you believe that you were hotter at some point in the past than you are now: what was your hottest age? And if you believe your hottest days lie ahead of you, at what age do you think you will be at your hottest?
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Pointless engagement bait/idle curiosity: If you believe that you were hotter at some point in the past than you are now: what was your hottest age? And if you believe your hottest days lie ahead of you, at what age do you think you will be at your hottest?
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genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
Despite the postcard on my refrigerator specifically instructing me not to, I must confess that I have, in fact, been letting the bastards grind me down.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Despite the postcard on my refrigerator specifically instructing me not to, I must confess that I have, in fact, been letting the bastards grind me down.
Maybe the reason I haven't been able to kick this depression for the past two months is because I haven't observed the Depression Ritual of posting the Bo Burnham Feeling Like Shit Song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJbR...
Bo Burnham - SHIT
YouTube video by Neddy
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Maybe the reason I haven't been able to kick this depression for the past two months is because I haven't observed the Depression Ritual of posting the Bo Burnham Feeling Like Shit Song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJbR...
Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed by my present political and historical moment, I close my eyes and say to myself, "All throughout written history there has been enormous wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few assholes and very little the average person could do about it."
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed by my present political and historical moment, I close my eyes and say to myself, "All throughout written history there has been enormous wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few assholes and very little the average person could do about it."
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this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
Bigots in the tent
What did you think winning meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
www.theargumentmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
Maybe my first Story Time thread on Bluesky.
A little over an hour ago our building caught on fire. It was successfully confined to two apartments, about two floors above us, but we had to throw our cats in their carriers and decamp to the other building's courtyard for a little while.
A little over an hour ago our building caught on fire. It was successfully confined to two apartments, about two floors above us, but we had to throw our cats in their carriers and decamp to the other building's courtyard for a little while.
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Maybe my first Story Time thread on Bluesky.
A little over an hour ago our building caught on fire. It was successfully confined to two apartments, about two floors above us, but we had to throw our cats in their carriers and decamp to the other building's courtyard for a little while.
A little over an hour ago our building caught on fire. It was successfully confined to two apartments, about two floors above us, but we had to throw our cats in their carriers and decamp to the other building's courtyard for a little while.
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This entire article uses the phrase "higher education" when what it actually means, contextually, is "business school."
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This entire article uses the phrase "higher education" when what it actually means, contextually, is "business school."
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I would love for more people to know and really process that "colleges and universities" are not a thing-- it is a complex, diverse, differentiated industry in which institutions have vastly different audiences, funding, even missions.
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I would love for more people to know and really process that "colleges and universities" are not a thing-- it is a complex, diverse, differentiated industry in which institutions have vastly different audiences, funding, even missions.
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We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.