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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 5h

I'm dying at the idea that someone who wants gummy bears in their sausages nevertheless might balk at MSG

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 6h

If you were expecting the Illinois State Police to be the heroes, bless your heart, but you cannot have been paying attention for the past 300 years

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 7h

This corn is squeaky on my teeth.
I knew I should have gotten more creamed corn instead.

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 7h

This is gorgeous!

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 9h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 9h

Though remember that the current crop of undergrads had a pandemic interrupt the exact years when English class would have done this for them.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 16h

the idea of AI being able to assess the "correctness" of a research paper, the intent of which is *producing new knowledge previously unknown to humans*, is so fucking wrongheaded i want to scream

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

That is like something out of NieR Automata

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

I was so excited to see all these books by a Reformed woman in the library until I saw an author photo of Loraine Boettner. 🙄

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 18h

Masks required again in all P.E.I. Health Facilities because “Masks are are known to be one of those easy measures that we can implement to ensure the safety and the health of our health-care workforce and our overall health-care system"

www.cbc.ca/news/canad%E...

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 | CBC News

Officials with Health P.E.I. say people will have to wear masks inside all of the provincial health authority’s facilities beginning next week.

www.cbc.ca

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 22h

Who is any member of the Michigan State marching band?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 1d

He is incapable of saying a number without making it bigger. He was *in court for lying about his properties* and was going "ten thousand, twelve thousand, fifteen thousand square feet"

All he knows is number bigger is number gooder.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

This was buried in one of my stories this week, but it feels notable that DHS promotional videos invoke faith while focusing not only on the agency's mass deportation efforts, but also *arrests of protesters.*

Footage of *protester* arrests is being used, quite literally, for *ICE* recruitment.

DHS, meanwhile, has also invoked faith — especially Christianity — to promote its actions. The agency has produced promotional videos that overlay Scripture on top of images of ICE agents conducting raids. And on Tuesday, the DHS X feed posted a new video with religious themes. As the song “Revival” by recording artist Zach Bryan plays, footage rolls of a recent ICE raid on a Chicago apartment building, an event Amnesty International condemned as an “attack on human rights.” The video then shifts to images of federal agents and local police pushing back protesters in front of the Broadview facility.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 1d

The alcoholic Bob analogy is going into my stack.

Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

CURMUDGUCATION: Should Students Get Help From AI, Or From Bob? curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/10/shou...

Should Students Get Help From AI, Or From Bob?

The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

curmudgucation.blogspot.com

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 2d

This is obviously correct. Y'all must not have read enough stories about girls going to Victorian schools and reading their primers when you were little.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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