Elizabeth Jardina
@ejardina.bsky.social
Writer, dawdler. SF Peninsula.
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Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.
December 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
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December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
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December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
Pat Spencer parody video guy on a generational run
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Pat Spencer parody video guy on a generational run
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Big ups to Gmail for constantly changing the search sort to "most relevant" which has literally never shown me what I'm looking for. I really, really hate every computer
October 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Big ups to Gmail for constantly changing the search sort to "most relevant" which has literally never shown me what I'm looking for. I really, really hate every computer
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She's correct that an effective formal "poster's strike" is highly unlikely, but she fails to recognize that the lightning bottles here is a culturally influential user base that came here to escape unchecked hatemongers and aren't going to stay on a site that allows them for long.
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
She's correct that an effective formal "poster's strike" is highly unlikely, but she fails to recognize that the lightning bottles here is a culturally influential user base that came here to escape unchecked hatemongers and aren't going to stay on a site that allows them for long.
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My alderperson was cuffed by ICE agents because she showed up and asked if they had a warrant. The agents are wearing masks and not displaying badges, in violation of city policy. My neighbors are organizing grocery pickup for perle afraid to leave their homes and standing watch over school pickup.
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My alderperson was cuffed by ICE agents because she showed up and asked if they had a warrant. The agents are wearing masks and not displaying badges, in violation of city policy. My neighbors are organizing grocery pickup for perle afraid to leave their homes and standing watch over school pickup.
Reading "A Room of One's Own" as I'm interrupted by a constant stream of volunteer requests from the school, and —
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reading "A Room of One's Own" as I'm interrupted by a constant stream of volunteer requests from the school, and —
Remembering Sarah Pitts today.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Remembering Sarah Pitts today.
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No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
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This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.
There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.
An unfortunate but true fact is that Ga***n N*ws*m is actually devastatingly handsome in person. It brings me no pleasure, etc.
August 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
An unfortunate but true fact is that Ga***n N*ws*m is actually devastatingly handsome in person. It brings me no pleasure, etc.
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I realize I scream about this on a nearly daily basis but why the FUCK does everything I open have some sort of 'ai' that I CANNOT TURN OFF
July 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I realize I scream about this on a nearly daily basis but why the FUCK does everything I open have some sort of 'ai' that I CANNOT TURN OFF
Revelling/Reckoning, Ani DiFranco
Getting to the Point is Beside It, I Love Math
Punisher, P. Bridgers
Catastrophe, Rainer Maria
Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird
A Badly Broken Code, Dessa
Norman F Rockwell, LDR
Vampire Weekend
Tunnel Vision, Beach Bunny
Getting to the Point is Beside It, I Love Math
Punisher, P. Bridgers
Catastrophe, Rainer Maria
Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird
A Badly Broken Code, Dessa
Norman F Rockwell, LDR
Vampire Weekend
Tunnel Vision, Beach Bunny
Okay you gave the Times your ten best movies of the century, but what about your ten best ALBUMS, hmm? Hit me with that shit.
July 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Revelling/Reckoning, Ani DiFranco
Getting to the Point is Beside It, I Love Math
Punisher, P. Bridgers
Catastrophe, Rainer Maria
Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird
A Badly Broken Code, Dessa
Norman F Rockwell, LDR
Vampire Weekend
Tunnel Vision, Beach Bunny
Getting to the Point is Beside It, I Love Math
Punisher, P. Bridgers
Catastrophe, Rainer Maria
Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird
A Badly Broken Code, Dessa
Norman F Rockwell, LDR
Vampire Weekend
Tunnel Vision, Beach Bunny
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parallel structure and sets of three are just good writing I am going to eat my phone
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
parallel structure and sets of three are just good writing I am going to eat my phone
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New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism
June 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism
I have a yuzu tree (California) and tried to do this once, and I immediately gave myself contact dermatitis from the citrus oils.
This is a capybara-only activity.
This is a capybara-only activity.
June 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I have a yuzu tree (California) and tried to do this once, and I immediately gave myself contact dermatitis from the citrus oils.
This is a capybara-only activity.
This is a capybara-only activity.
I did a whole riff on how there should be savory protein shakes and my husband and I realized simultaneously that I was just describing soup
June 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I did a whole riff on how there should be savory protein shakes and my husband and I realized simultaneously that I was just describing soup
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You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.
June 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.
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not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
June 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
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Is Newsom too busy podcasting, or
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Is Newsom too busy podcasting, or
The National opening for Modest Mouse opening for R.E.M.
*35 years olding so hard* the national opening for arcade fire
Who was the best opening act you've seen live?
June 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The National opening for Modest Mouse opening for R.E.M.
Stumbling on one of these stores was one of the most fascinating/upsetting things that's happened to me this year. This story captures the whole feeling of it perfectly.
(Also, sorry to the Earth, we really fucked everything up)
defector.com/seven-days-a...
(Also, sorry to the Earth, we really fucked everything up)
defector.com/seven-days-a...
Seven Days At The Bin Store | Defector
This spring, a new business opened on the main drag of my West Philadelphia neighborhood, provoking both excitement and trepidation. “I saw it just the other day and feared it,” one friend texted. “Li...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Stumbling on one of these stores was one of the most fascinating/upsetting things that's happened to me this year. This story captures the whole feeling of it perfectly.
(Also, sorry to the Earth, we really fucked everything up)
defector.com/seven-days-a...
(Also, sorry to the Earth, we really fucked everything up)
defector.com/seven-days-a...
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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.