valerie
@vfo.bsky.social
Academic librarian @CUNY | entering my crone season | ND AF | GLAMS: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66
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valerie
@vfo.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Data? I never even meta!
Desperately trying to find an article that discusses both ocd (not the personality disorder) and mirror neurons, including any connection between them whatsoever. I’m glad Google has decided to be a completely useless resource nowadays!
January 25, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Desperately trying to find an article that discusses both ocd (not the personality disorder) and mirror neurons, including any connection between them whatsoever. I’m glad Google has decided to be a completely useless resource nowadays!
Listen, I know we all like to shit on social media, but people really did need to meet more people. Way too many, too fast, sure. Greater minds would have wanted to find a way to acclimate the human mind for such a thing but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Listen, I know we all like to shit on social media, but people really did need to meet more people. Way too many, too fast, sure. Greater minds would have wanted to find a way to acclimate the human mind for such a thing but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey, now, let’s not forget the slightly insane ideologues who will use literally any lever of power they can get their hands on to promote their niche cause and don’t care who gets hurt in the process
It must be wild being a Republican. Literally no beliefs other than a burning desire to have a bigger, more confident man tell them what to do.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Hey, now, let’s not forget the slightly insane ideologues who will use literally any lever of power they can get their hands on to promote their niche cause and don’t care who gets hurt in the process
I bought a very pretty and lovely to write in journal to scrawl my ketamine thoughts into so you’re welcome bluesky
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
I bought a very pretty and lovely to write in journal to scrawl my ketamine thoughts into so you’re welcome bluesky
Oof. It’s gotta suck being a black person who is glad people are mad about people getting shot by authorities in America but also like wow yes a lot of people in these our current times do seem to value white lives more than black lives just by the attention paid and the uproar caused.
January 25, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Oof. It’s gotta suck being a black person who is glad people are mad about people getting shot by authorities in America but also like wow yes a lot of people in these our current times do seem to value white lives more than black lives just by the attention paid and the uproar caused.
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NYC people on Medicaid, is there a reliable psych/office you've found for ADHD meds? I've had a hell of a time trying to find someone who takes my state insurance and also prescribes real fucking medicine
January 24, 2026 at 8:59 PM
NYC people on Medicaid, is there a reliable psych/office you've found for ADHD meds? I've had a hell of a time trying to find someone who takes my state insurance and also prescribes real fucking medicine
lol we let too many neurodivergent people get law degrees we have a tendency to be attached to rules and fairness
I agree, and I think it's important that we on the left acknowledge/make this point. Don't ask me what it means or where that leads, but this past year the judiciary has done its part far more than most of the institutional forces in US life. Along with local organizing, it has helped a great deal.
imo of all the formal political institutions in US life, the judiciary has given the best account of itself by a pretty large margin (with the obvious exception of SCOTUS) and a younger me was way more dismissive of the courts than history would prove deserved
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
lol we let too many neurodivergent people get law degrees we have a tendency to be attached to rules and fairness
I notice it’s mostly men talking about declining birth rates perhaps they can figure out how to have babies and then I might allow them to have a say in this matter (beyond fixing the aspects of masculinity and the systems that make having babies such a burden and a risk for women.)
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I notice it’s mostly men talking about declining birth rates perhaps they can figure out how to have babies and then I might allow them to have a say in this matter (beyond fixing the aspects of masculinity and the systems that make having babies such a burden and a risk for women.)
ALSO, what the right is about to learn is that eventually other people WILL start to play by your rules. You cannot build your entire coalition on trusting the other side will always take the high road.
What you will let your government do to “others,” it will one day do to you.
Lying. Falsifying evidence. Attacking character.
Poisoning land and drinking water.
Summary extrajudicial execution.
Mass surveillance.
Mass incarceration.
Conditional citizenship.
United we stand; divided we fall.
Lying. Falsifying evidence. Attacking character.
Poisoning land and drinking water.
Summary extrajudicial execution.
Mass surveillance.
Mass incarceration.
Conditional citizenship.
United we stand; divided we fall.
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
ALSO, what the right is about to learn is that eventually other people WILL start to play by your rules. You cannot build your entire coalition on trusting the other side will always take the high road.
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Kind of think government murder squads roaming our streets is more upsetting than having to see pronouns in emails occasionally.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Kind of think government murder squads roaming our streets is more upsetting than having to see pronouns in emails occasionally.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence
Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes.
Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
January 23, 2026 at 9:02 PM
My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence
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I watched this whole thing and my mind kept replacing "Europe" with "US colleges and universities" and now I gotta sit in a corner and think for a bit
January 23, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I watched this whole thing and my mind kept replacing "Europe" with "US colleges and universities" and now I gotta sit in a corner and think for a bit
just gave a pep talk to a plant in the break room so that's how i'm doing
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
just gave a pep talk to a plant in the break room so that's how i'm doing
lol we're all so used to organized religion being absolutely hypocritical to the core that we are truly surprised when even some small percentage of them do the actual things they've been lecturing about since their inception. that said, good on ya for standing up for what you believe. we see you.
The general strike today, and the Whipple building blockade, and the march downtown - all amazing and incredible turnouts, but nothing is hitting me so hard as the masses of clergy who showed up to the airport to protest this morning. And I'm not even religious.
Singing
January 23, 2026 at 7:53 PM
lol we're all so used to organized religion being absolutely hypocritical to the core that we are truly surprised when even some small percentage of them do the actual things they've been lecturing about since their inception. that said, good on ya for standing up for what you believe. we see you.
princeton is looking for a new dean of libraries for almost half a mil a year hooooooboy
January 23, 2026 at 7:21 PM
princeton is looking for a new dean of libraries for almost half a mil a year hooooooboy
2 things i need from UI designers:
1) MAKE IT EASIER TO SIGN OUT PLEASE
2) if you give me the option to give feedback at a later date, i might not just summarily dismiss your always poorly-timed reminders to rate and review
/gripe
1) MAKE IT EASIER TO SIGN OUT PLEASE
2) if you give me the option to give feedback at a later date, i might not just summarily dismiss your always poorly-timed reminders to rate and review
/gripe
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
2 things i need from UI designers:
1) MAKE IT EASIER TO SIGN OUT PLEASE
2) if you give me the option to give feedback at a later date, i might not just summarily dismiss your always poorly-timed reminders to rate and review
/gripe
1) MAKE IT EASIER TO SIGN OUT PLEASE
2) if you give me the option to give feedback at a later date, i might not just summarily dismiss your always poorly-timed reminders to rate and review
/gripe
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i do not understand the phrase "will be canceled", without any sort of 'if' condition. isn't "will be canceled" just "canceled"? (as in, 'due to the impeding storm, garbage collection will be canceled on Monday') my weird nd brain is over here trying to suss out if this means some other secret thing
January 23, 2026 at 5:43 PM
i do not understand the phrase "will be canceled", without any sort of 'if' condition. isn't "will be canceled" just "canceled"? (as in, 'due to the impeding storm, garbage collection will be canceled on Monday') my weird nd brain is over here trying to suss out if this means some other secret thing
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smoking weed with kash patel and his eyes scare you so bad you call the police on yourself
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
smoking weed with kash patel and his eyes scare you so bad you call the police on yourself
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armadillo on a pillow
May 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
armadillo on a pillow
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"they gave he-man pronouns" has been rattling around in my head for nearly a full day. get it out
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"they gave he-man pronouns" has been rattling around in my head for nearly a full day. get it out
Or, say, forced the cancellation of an entire conference you agreed to host because the organization gives away a few small scholarships to underrepresented communities?
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
January 23, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Or, say, forced the cancellation of an entire conference you agreed to host because the organization gives away a few small scholarships to underrepresented communities?
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I read The Anxious Generation and once I saw he compared being trans to a contagion it immediately cast not only the rest of the book in doubt but everyone who has bought what he's selling hook line and sinker
It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts
Jonathan Haidt Promoted a Fringe Theory on Trans Youth — Assigned
The author of “The Anxiety Generation” told Margaret Hoover for PBS that young people become trans due to peer contagion effects. There is no evidence for this claim.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I read The Anxious Generation and once I saw he compared being trans to a contagion it immediately cast not only the rest of the book in doubt but everyone who has bought what he's selling hook line and sinker