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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname

@verbingnouns.bsky.social

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academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest); ai (llm) apologists go away; דאיקייט

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · Nov 16

Reupping this! You do not need to follow me to join the list -- just ask and then follow the rules! Your posts will only appear if you're on the list, you use the target characters, and the feed service I built it on is currently working.

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 12h

whimsy is antifa

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 12h

JD Vance

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 12h

Osama, again

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 19h

It doesn't look like a mechanical press, so we can rule that out at least! 😂

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 20h

But what's under control?

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin.

The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose.

#Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.

yeGADS

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw...

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A white dwarf may have been torn to shreds by a black hole

Just writing that sentence made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

I guess Wilkes-Barre doesn't count bc it's spelled so... opaquely?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

You are more thoughtful about it than me. I just feel revulsion and don't want to see it in my feed or see my friends interesting with it

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

Important info to be aware of, though it's hard to say what it means in practical terms

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect many of the actual faculty are feeling similar, but external pressures (or higher up or funding pressures) are tying their hands

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a posting that I would have coveted... and then there was ai and i noped tf out

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 1d

i think uh. i think im not gonna boost your faculty job ad in linguistics if it has ai in it

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 2d

"certain types of bodies are indicative of moral repugnance" is a fascist logic. i know you fucking know better! shut the fuck up! your jokes arent even good!

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 3d

My mom was just telling me the local car wash has a haunted car wash option now and the owner is so excited (and has perennial 12' skeletons outside). I miss US Halloween so much!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 3d

"By enabling policies of mass killing and displacement, and by repeatedly linking everyday Jewish life in the UK and the genocidal actions of Israel, the Government has created conditions of division and mistrust in which racism – including anti-Semitism – flourishes."

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Erin 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @erin.ruins.party · 3d

This is really neat! More information and link to the report in question here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Would love to see a similar programme tried here ❤️

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 3d

I have this thought, too. But we all have roles, even if we're not on the flotillas.

I'm learning community organizing and working with other groups to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia (specifically anti-Palestine sentiment) locally and nationally.

We all have our parts to play, I tell myself.

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so inspired by the flotillas. I haven’t joined one because I feel my primary purpose at this time is to raise the kids I brought into the world to the best of my abilities (you can call that cowardice or rationalization; it may be) but if my kids were out of the house I’d be like my hero Malcolm