Dreamingintrees
@dreamingintrees.bsky.social
Wordsmith wending my way through the world. She/her. Read banned books, fight fascism and protect trans kids (and adults).
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Standing ovation from me at this bit right here
December 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Standing ovation from me at this bit right here
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For this and other reasons I consider AI chatbots unsafe at any exposure, we have NO idea who will be adversely mentally impacted and too many of these adverse episodes have ended in death. We have no idea what a safe usage level is, if it exists.
This specific usage, all chatbot style usage, puts people with no prior history of psychosis at risk of having a psychotic break and other serious mental health episodes 🫠
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
For this and other reasons I consider AI chatbots unsafe at any exposure, we have NO idea who will be adversely mentally impacted and too many of these adverse episodes have ended in death. We have no idea what a safe usage level is, if it exists.
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Forest Dwellers.
Today is the Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
"The last leaf falls,
Above the ground,
All looks lost,
Yet beneath the surface,
The dance continues evermore,
Until the Earth is burned."
eveale.bandcamp.com/track/lament...
Today is the Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
"The last leaf falls,
Above the ground,
All looks lost,
Yet beneath the surface,
The dance continues evermore,
Until the Earth is burned."
eveale.bandcamp.com/track/lament...
Lament of the Dryads, by Eveale
from the album Lament of the Dryads / The Enemy
eveale.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Forest Dwellers.
Today is the Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
"The last leaf falls,
Above the ground,
All looks lost,
Yet beneath the surface,
The dance continues evermore,
Until the Earth is burned."
eveale.bandcamp.com/track/lament...
Today is the Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
"The last leaf falls,
Above the ground,
All looks lost,
Yet beneath the surface,
The dance continues evermore,
Until the Earth is burned."
eveale.bandcamp.com/track/lament...
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Nor native Americans. We keep telling you: It's all about race. It's white nationalism.
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women
The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Nor native Americans. We keep telling you: It's all about race. It's white nationalism.
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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This sort of thing bugs me a lot. There are valuable use cases for machine learning, involving pattern recognition and sifting thru a ton of data quickly. Totally valid + useful.
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This sort of thing bugs me a lot. There are valuable use cases for machine learning, involving pattern recognition and sifting thru a ton of data quickly. Totally valid + useful.
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
These get lumped together with useless brain-eating plagiarizing chatbots under the umbrella term "A.I."
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I learned that Makary & his top vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a paper from Vaccine. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. The data had been presented publicly. It showed the benefits outweigh the risks of COVID vaccines for all ages.
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Whistleblowers say Makary silenced internal researchers who supported COVID-19 vaccine access. Their studies were buried or delayed. The agency meant to protect public health is now struggling to protect its own scientists from retaliation.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I learned that Makary & his top vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a paper from Vaccine. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. The data had been presented publicly. It showed the benefits outweigh the risks of COVID vaccines for all ages.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The Anti-Planner is not an "ADHD Book". It's an Anti-Procrastination Toolbox.
It helps you quickly identify your reasons for not doing a thing and then gives you quirky, fun methods for addressing it. It's well-written, funny, and incredibly easy to implement.
EVERYONE needs this.
It helps you quickly identify your reasons for not doing a thing and then gives you quirky, fun methods for addressing it. It's well-written, funny, and incredibly easy to implement.
EVERYONE needs this.
me: i should promote that i'm releasing 30 brand-new Anti-Planner PDFs on black friday for $9.95
🧠: probably
me: also if they buy a book they get all 60 PDFs for free
🧠: ok hear me out
me:
🧠: what if you overthink it & don’t post until saturday night
🧠: probably
me: also if they buy a book they get all 60 PDFs for free
🧠: ok hear me out
me:
🧠: what if you overthink it & don’t post until saturday night
All Products | Dani Donovan / Anti-Planner
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November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Anti-Planner is not an "ADHD Book". It's an Anti-Procrastination Toolbox.
It helps you quickly identify your reasons for not doing a thing and then gives you quirky, fun methods for addressing it. It's well-written, funny, and incredibly easy to implement.
EVERYONE needs this.
It helps you quickly identify your reasons for not doing a thing and then gives you quirky, fun methods for addressing it. It's well-written, funny, and incredibly easy to implement.
EVERYONE needs this.
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Just $801 left! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
The book community is working together to fund an African small press to translate two novels.
We need to close this today. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $801 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 6:37p EST / 01:37 SAST ($75)
#GivingTuesday #BookSky
We need to close this today. And we're in reach! Very grateful for your help.
We can do this!
Still needed: $801 (USD)
Last donation/purchase: 6:37p EST / 01:37 SAST ($75)
#GivingTuesday #BookSky
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Just $801 left! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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it is hard to think of another political figure in my lifetime I have turned on harder than Hillary Clinton. I am exactly the right flavor of Middle Aged White Lady to have been DEEPLY emotionally invested in her way back when, but every time she opens her mouth now I’m like “holy shit lady 🤯”
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
it is hard to think of another political figure in my lifetime I have turned on harder than Hillary Clinton. I am exactly the right flavor of Middle Aged White Lady to have been DEEPLY emotionally invested in her way back when, but every time she opens her mouth now I’m like “holy shit lady 🤯”
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During promotional visits for her perfume lines, Taylor would quietly visit AIDS hospices. In San Francisco, she asked patients “if she could arrange to have their dogs walked; she asked if she could call their mothers for them or write letters for them.”
“In the early days it was a lonely battle. Studio heads whom Taylor had made lots of money for hung up on her … Some of her friends and advisers told her to stay away from HIV and AIDS because it could end her career.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
During promotional visits for her perfume lines, Taylor would quietly visit AIDS hospices. In San Francisco, she asked patients “if she could arrange to have their dogs walked; she asked if she could call their mothers for them or write letters for them.”
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If you ever find yourself in Paris, visit Saint Eustache Church in Les Halles to see the altarpiece anytime
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you ever find yourself in Paris, visit Saint Eustache Church in Les Halles to see the altarpiece anytime
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...
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Only 2% of @wikipedia.org users support. I am one. As a professor in 2006, I hated it; thought my students would get wrong info. Instead, I found it a great starting point for them & me, plus *rigorously* corrected. Now it’s one of few places not skewed by misinformation. Low as $2.75 a month. Give!
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Only 2% of @wikipedia.org users support. I am one. As a professor in 2006, I hated it; thought my students would get wrong info. Instead, I found it a great starting point for them & me, plus *rigorously* corrected. Now it’s one of few places not skewed by misinformation. Low as $2.75 a month. Give!
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A🧵
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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I've sent at least one set of letters per day for the last 40 days with @resist.bot
Take one minute a day to help fight the regime.
Take one minute a day to help fight the regime.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've sent at least one set of letters per day for the last 40 days with @resist.bot
Take one minute a day to help fight the regime.
Take one minute a day to help fight the regime.
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She is sky-eyed; she is forest-tongued.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
She is sky-eyed; she is forest-tongued.
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I'm in the @chicagotribune.com today calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to protect the Illinois wetlands that keep floods out of our basements & our water clean.
EPA's new rule would strip the vast majority of Illinois wetlands of Clean Water Act protections.
Article by @adrianaperez.bsky.social
EPA's new rule would strip the vast majority of Illinois wetlands of Clean Water Act protections.
Article by @adrianaperez.bsky.social
Illinois lawmakers urged to ‘step up’ and ‘fight like hell’ as EPA moves to cut wetlands protections
New U.S. EPA rule would strip protections from 72% of the state’s remaining wetlands, which play a crucial role in mitigating flooding and filtering drinking water.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I'm in the @chicagotribune.com today calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to protect the Illinois wetlands that keep floods out of our basements & our water clean.
EPA's new rule would strip the vast majority of Illinois wetlands of Clean Water Act protections.
Article by @adrianaperez.bsky.social
EPA's new rule would strip the vast majority of Illinois wetlands of Clean Water Act protections.
Article by @adrianaperez.bsky.social
Not my birthday but this cause is very important to me and l would love to see them get their 10,000 match
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Not my birthday but this cause is very important to me and l would love to see them get their 10,000 match
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Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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www.classy.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.