Ethan
strangebirds.bsky.social
Ethan
@strangebirds.bsky.social
he/him. WI, USA
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Ppl stopped yelling the singularity is coming at me and have now started saying wow look at nano banana pro.

And expect me not to laugh.
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Also the feedback from the grad students was extremely thorough, professional, and respectful even while the student called their trans peers and instructors demonic!!
The essay is available online and it’s poorly written. All these articles say the student cited the Bible but she didn’t! She mentioned the “Bible says” but didn’t say where or give context that supported her claim. Citations need both. It earned its low grade.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.

In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The essay is available online and it’s poorly written. All these articles say the student cited the Bible but she didn’t! She mentioned the “Bible says” but didn’t say where or give context that supported her claim. Citations need both. It earned its low grade.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.

In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One can be "just asking questions;" I can be "just blocking them."
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The commonalities are access to weapons, living in the USA, no/low access to mental healthcare, and being veterans so we should outlaw all four of those, right?
One reason I raise this is bc Kristi Noem now says that Lakanwal was "radicalized" in the US (she has to say that or she herself is complicit in failing to vet him properly).

But then how is he different from other Afghan/Iraq veterans who murder?
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The vaccine is pretty astonishing. Just look at that green line.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.

Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Ah forgot to ask y'all the provocative key question:

If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...

Then...

What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.

I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️

Now let's talk cop killings
Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Trump administration has joined the war on HIV/AIDS, on the side of HIV/AIDS.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Does your threat model include this guy kicking an ATM apart and worming through a revolving door (both poorly)?
bicho eu to PASSANDO MAL
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
real question: if you are subsidizing something for people who are at 7x the federal poverty level, that number should be raised, no? Like time to admit that your threshold for poverty is too low.
I think @proptermalone.bsky.social can declare victory on his prediction that the GOP was eager to find a way to extend ACA subsidies (even if they've gone about it in a VERY dumb way). Two year extension + following details in the White House plan.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
that’s alright - lately google’s spellcheck suggests the same spelling as I’ve typed or a different word for a correct one or fails to offer suggestions for obvious errors.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM