amy en–dash 🇺🇦
@amynala.bsky.social
editor, struggling gardener, recovering anthropologist, screamer into the void
this meeting could have been an email
this meeting could have been an email
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LEAVITT: PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HUMORS 'INCREDIBLY' BALANCED
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
LEAVITT: PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HUMORS 'INCREDIBLY' BALANCED
Put me squarely in the “loathe” category.
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others. n.pr/4pyKudI
Is Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime' simply… horrible?
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Put me squarely in the “loathe” category.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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There aren't really shortcuts to writing, the process is bumpy, you take the thing in your head and try to explain it to others. You can't delegate that to a machine that can't really see into your head. 🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
You must struggle through it because the struggle is the point.
You must struggle through it because the struggle is the point.
The enshitification of scientific publishing marches on. First arXiv had to clamp down on submissions thanks to a flood of AI-written papers.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There aren't really shortcuts to writing, the process is bumpy, you take the thing in your head and try to explain it to others. You can't delegate that to a machine that can't really see into your head. 🧪🩺 #ScienceSky
You must struggle through it because the struggle is the point.
You must struggle through it because the struggle is the point.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
Can’t say I’m surprised, but great job by Bloomberg getting the receipts.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Can’t say I’m surprised, but great job by Bloomberg getting the receipts.
Dear Mr. Pope, I will go back to church if you excommunicate JD Vance.
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Dear Mr. Pope, I will go back to church if you excommunicate JD Vance.
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Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”
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There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
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🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
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Why does everything have to be SO FREAKING WEIRD
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Why does everything have to be SO FREAKING WEIRD
Poor lampreys.
The head of health services in the United States, letting parasitic lampreys bite his arms for some godforsaken reason.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Poor lampreys.
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Texas views from June '25 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll: In the conflict btw Russia & Ukraine, who do yu sympathize with more?
Rs: Ukraine 41%, Russia 5%, neither 49%, not sure 4%
Ds: Ukraine 81%, Russia 1%, neither 13%, not sure 6%
Ind: 56%/3%/37%/4%
More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/sear...
Rs: Ukraine 41%, Russia 5%, neither 49%, not sure 4%
Ds: Ukraine 81%, Russia 1%, neither 13%, not sure 6%
Ind: 56%/3%/37%/4%
More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/sear...
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Texas views from June '25 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll: In the conflict btw Russia & Ukraine, who do yu sympathize with more?
Rs: Ukraine 41%, Russia 5%, neither 49%, not sure 4%
Ds: Ukraine 81%, Russia 1%, neither 13%, not sure 6%
Ind: 56%/3%/37%/4%
More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/sear...
Rs: Ukraine 41%, Russia 5%, neither 49%, not sure 4%
Ds: Ukraine 81%, Russia 1%, neither 13%, not sure 6%
Ind: 56%/3%/37%/4%
More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/sear...
This “peace plan” sure sounds like the end of Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Good day to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Still.
But we are back in a reality where Ukraine is being pushed toward capitulation.
Myroslava wants her son to live in a free world.
She voiced The Counteroffensive's stance: Trump's peace plan is a roadmap to more war.
Still.
But we are back in a reality where Ukraine is being pushed toward capitulation.
Myroslava wants her son to live in a free world.
She voiced The Counteroffensive's stance: Trump's peace plan is a roadmap to more war.
Trump’s 'Peace' Plan Means More War
Myroslava voices Ukraine’s fear that the new US peace plan resembles capitulation. Despite fatigue and losses, the Counteroffensive team believes a just peace is possible only on Ukrainian terms.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This “peace plan” sure sounds like the end of Ukraine’s sovereignty.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
I learned the word “healthism” today—the idea that health and illness are solely a matter of individual morality and willpower, rather than the complex outcomes of biological and social processes, most of which are beyond individual control. In practice, this is what healthism sounds like.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I learned the word “healthism” today—the idea that health and illness are solely a matter of individual morality and willpower, rather than the complex outcomes of biological and social processes, most of which are beyond individual control. In practice, this is what healthism sounds like.
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
We should get 10 months of federal taxes refunded.
Sylvester Turner's Congressional seat #TX18, which has been without representation for 11 months, finally has a runoff date of January 31st.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/t...
Abbott sets Jan. 31 runoff for 18th Congressional District
The Houston-based seat will have been without representation for about 11 months.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We should get 10 months of federal taxes refunded.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
$2k is less than a lot of people’s deductibles but ok
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
$2k is less than a lot of people’s deductibles but ok
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This should have been the end of Larry Summers.
Why women are poor at science, by Harvard president
The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference, and discrimination is no longer a career barrier ...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This should have been the end of Larry Summers.
Exactly.
He’s just trying to buy himself more time by opening investigations so they can claim that they can’t release files.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Exactly.
If we could stop the Chomsky worship now, that’d be nice.
Remember when Noam Chomsky showed up as having flown on Epstein’s jet from Boston to New York and his excuse was he was just going to have dinner with Epstein and *Woody Allen* and he thought they was a *mitigating factor*? Good times
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If we could stop the Chomsky worship now, that’d be nice.