SunnyAllison
@sunnyallison.bsky.social
(she/her), scientist, educator, feminist, former backstager, bookhoarder extraordinaire, & queen of the planning fallacy
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This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
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November 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
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Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
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It is somehow both “this has been the longest year in recorded history” and also “how is it the middle of November already” right now
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It is somehow both “this has been the longest year in recorded history” and also “how is it the middle of November already” right now
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Advent is a mere 3 weeks away!
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Advent is a mere 3 weeks away!
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
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CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
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Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
![them: "there's no hope of stopping global warming now"
me:
[image is Aragorn from the 1978 Lord of the Rings speaking to Frodo. Someone MSPainted a black bandana on Aragorn's face.]
"Then we must do without hope. There is always vengeance."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreic5gogoyf2gqurrb44ru5t4euqnmj3hvmalnmhqlnbvwotuc42ff4@jpeg)
November 8, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
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Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
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these are surprisingly still available. I know I’m not the only person who goes to concerts but maybe I am one of the only ones who goes alone
I lined up concerts around work trips I had. Due to the shutdown, the trips are canceled.
Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th
Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th
If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️
Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th
Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th
If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
these are surprisingly still available. I know I’m not the only person who goes to concerts but maybe I am one of the only ones who goes alone
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At #Ebooks Direct: the #YoungWizards 9-book box set is on #sale EARLY at its #BlackFriday price. Come grab yourself nine volumes of bestselling wizardry guaranteed free of toxic additives! ☺️ More info here: ebooks.direct/products/you...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
At #Ebooks Direct: the #YoungWizards 9-book box set is on #sale EARLY at its #BlackFriday price. Come grab yourself nine volumes of bestselling wizardry guaranteed free of toxic additives! ☺️ More info here: ebooks.direct/products/you...
They're both pseudoscience, but I just want to clarify physiognomy (assessing personality and other characteristics from external features) predates phrenology (determining aptitude from skull morphology) archive.blogs.harvard.edu/preserving/2...
» Face to Face: Physiognomy & Phrenology THE SHELF
archive.blogs.harvard.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
They're both pseudoscience, but I just want to clarify physiognomy (assessing personality and other characteristics from external features) predates phrenology (determining aptitude from skull morphology) archive.blogs.harvard.edu/preserving/2...
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hey Squad (by me and @lisasterle.bsky.social) is available for the extremely impossible to argue with price of $0 in eBook now.
So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you.
Don't suffer bad men. Eat them.
www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...
So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you.
Don't suffer bad men. Eat them.
www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...
Squad: A Graphic Novel
Amazon.com: Squad: A Graphic Novel eBook : Tokuda-Hall, Maggie, Sterle, Lisa: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
hey Squad (by me and @lisasterle.bsky.social) is available for the extremely impossible to argue with price of $0 in eBook now.
So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you.
Don't suffer bad men. Eat them.
www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...
So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you.
Don't suffer bad men. Eat them.
www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...
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Every so often I'm like "jfc I feel like I have been so scatter-brained all this year, why can't I focus on things, why am I always behind at work" and then it's like...
Oh. Right.
Oh. Right.
One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Every so often I'm like "jfc I feel like I have been so scatter-brained all this year, why can't I focus on things, why am I always behind at work" and then it's like...
Oh. Right.
Oh. Right.
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There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.
The whole state of Idaho banning all vaccine mandates should be bigger news! If you want your grandmother's nursing home or your daughter's day care to require nurses and teachers to vaccinate, you literally can't! None of them are allowed to require that.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Leverage always had fun with these kind of things, their clever plans coming up against reality, like the one where they give Eliot a USB drive to plug into a server, only to find it uses cassette tape storage…
I’m abandoning my heist script, what’s the point anymore
November 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Leverage always had fun with these kind of things, their clever plans coming up against reality, like the one where they give Eliot a USB drive to plug into a server, only to find it uses cassette tape storage…
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Currently obsessed with a local shelter cat called “Colin Feral”
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Currently obsessed with a local shelter cat called “Colin Feral”
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If your AI tool is soooo good I cannot even live without it, how come you gotta try to trick me into clicking on it or make it so I can't opt out of it? If it's such an incredible necessary product, how come I don't WANT to use it but am being BULLIED into using it? 🧐
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If your AI tool is soooo good I cannot even live without it, how come you gotta try to trick me into clicking on it or make it so I can't opt out of it? If it's such an incredible necessary product, how come I don't WANT to use it but am being BULLIED into using it? 🧐
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This quote is set to be on the intro slide of an undergraduate lecture, soon.
AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This quote is set to be on the intro slide of an undergraduate lecture, soon.
Not sure what it says about my mood, but my current playlist is leaning heavily on songs/albums featured as background music in early 2000-2010s tv shows (The Fray, Syml, Fink, etc.)
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Not sure what it says about my mood, but my current playlist is leaning heavily on songs/albums featured as background music in early 2000-2010s tv shows (The Fray, Syml, Fink, etc.)
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Folks is Seattle the government cause they’re shutting Washington down tonight
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Folks is Seattle the government cause they’re shutting Washington down tonight
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Fighting off the sadness of ordering a new book and, for the millionth time, being reminded I’m never be able to read all the books in existence.
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Fighting off the sadness of ordering a new book and, for the millionth time, being reminded I’m never be able to read all the books in existence.
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You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian (2024)
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian (2024)
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