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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 3h

The feeling of finishing up a long paper in the hours before it's due is an ELITE adrenaline rush that gives you the confidence of someone who thinks they killed god.

every young person should have the pleasure of this flash of self confidence. using AI is robbing yourself of yourself.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

Save maybe three times I was in one of my manic kicks, I wrote EVERY ASSIGNMENT I EVER TURNED IN the day/hours before it was due. I almost never did the reading. Not only did I win the poetry award, I got one of the highest standardized test writing scores in the state. Twice.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote my undergrad research paper (35 pages) in the day and a half before it was due, while crying

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 9h

Wanna hear some good news? My college students are using gen AI way less this year than in previous years. They LIKE drafting by hand, and their typed work is full of human heart (and errors).

It's a huge shift. ❤️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

boy is this a relevant observation

To create something, anything, good, takes time and desire. “A project that takes five years will accumulate those years’ inventions and richnesses. Much of those years’ reading will feed the work,” Annie Dillard wrote in The Writing Life. Good creative work draws on the well of your experience, on everything that you consumed and felt and saw over a period of time. If you dip into the well constantly without giving it time to refill, you end up with nothing but pieces of mud, nothing that will satiate a thirst for art.

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 1d

Do I know any VA employment attorneys?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 1d

'The Free Press' is not a news outlet. it's Thought Catalog for people who lose their fuckign minds when they see a pronoun in an email signature.

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 1d

Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

It’s elite.

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

I mean, that’s how I always read it

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

this is really the shocking part of the story

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe how many of y’all didn’t know she dated Kate McKinnon 😂

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm not talking about US politicians I'm talking about normal people.

I see people fighting back and organizing every fucking day. ICE hasn't met their recruitment goals. They haven't met their kidnapping goals. That's WHY they keep escalating.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

she works hard, she minds her business, and she loved her man in public. what's not to like?

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

this woman went up against the princeling of scientology and won. cower.

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

and as the pastor says: if your wife is horny for you WHAT ARE YOU DOING sir

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 2d

Nicole Kidman won the PR machine so hard in her last divorce that she became an iconic meme of the liberated woman trope.

Keith Urban is not prepared for what he has unleashed, he will not win in the court of the public opinion and stories like this just show how fucking good her team is.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

He knew that lady was horny when he met her!!!!

rome. @romewithadot.com · 2d

Keith Urban never watched Eyes Wide Shut because I don’t even like white women and that was enough to convince me.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 2d

So they changed the rules to ban Link but not Singal. Curious!

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 2d

You can now be banned for "Being disruptive to other users" yeah thats definitely going to be enforced consistently

Part of links suspension email outlining you cant be disruptive to other users

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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