Gnocchi’s Mom
@gnocchismom.bsky.social
Gnocchi is a extremely round fellow and I am his mom.
@markzuckerberg why have you not invented a calendar for taking the plans out of the group chat and making them happen! Like being able to see everyone’s availability would be SO helpful
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@markzuckerberg why have you not invented a calendar for taking the plans out of the group chat and making them happen! Like being able to see everyone’s availability would be SO helpful
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…this is insane????
March 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
…this is insane????
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While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
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Masculinity is always in crisis, no-one is always talking about young men...
It would be great if more people read @historygriffin.bsky.social wonderful discussion of what 'crisis talk' around men and masculinities actually *does* and *tells us*
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
It would be great if more people read @historygriffin.bsky.social wonderful discussion of what 'crisis talk' around men and masculinities actually *does* and *tells us*
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
March 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Masculinity is always in crisis, no-one is always talking about young men...
It would be great if more people read @historygriffin.bsky.social wonderful discussion of what 'crisis talk' around men and masculinities actually *does* and *tells us*
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
It would be great if more people read @historygriffin.bsky.social wonderful discussion of what 'crisis talk' around men and masculinities actually *does* and *tells us*
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
what happened salamily last night can never happen again
February 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
what happened salamily last night can never happen again
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Effective Altruism *was* Effective Sociopathy. It was a gloss on selfishness that presumed the existence of benevolent, omniscient billionaires who could do cost/benefit analysis encompassing the entire future of humanity. Funny how the math always worked out to "keep the money for later use."
For all the hand wringing about tech-world interest in Effective Altruism, it seems distinctly preferable to the currently empowered strain of Effective Sociopathy
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Effective Altruism *was* Effective Sociopathy. It was a gloss on selfishness that presumed the existence of benevolent, omniscient billionaires who could do cost/benefit analysis encompassing the entire future of humanity. Funny how the math always worked out to "keep the money for later use."
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When playing chess, one of the most devastating moves your opponent can play is the dreaded check mate. This pretty much fucks you
January 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
When playing chess, one of the most devastating moves your opponent can play is the dreaded check mate. This pretty much fucks you
they should invent a medication that i remember i have taken
December 30, 2024 at 10:49 PM
they should invent a medication that i remember i have taken
they should invent an action that doesn’t have consequences
December 19, 2024 at 8:31 PM
they should invent an action that doesn’t have consequences
Putting my hometown on my dating profile as “northern enough that it’s okay for me to be prejudiced against geordies”.
December 10, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Putting my hometown on my dating profile as “northern enough that it’s okay for me to be prejudiced against geordies”.
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And what did Arendt really mean by “the banality of evil”?
Later this evening Free Thinking on @bbcradio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Later this evening Free Thinking on @bbcradio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
And what did Arendt really mean by “the banality of evil”?
Later this evening Free Thinking on @bbcradio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Later this evening Free Thinking on @bbcradio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Telling my landlord I want to terminate my lease early and being WRACKED with guilt and anxiety. I have paid this man thousands of pounds and yet i am desperate for him to like me and not be mad at me. Cooked. Sick in the mind. Disturbed
December 2, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Telling my landlord I want to terminate my lease early and being WRACKED with guilt and anxiety. I have paid this man thousands of pounds and yet i am desperate for him to like me and not be mad at me. Cooked. Sick in the mind. Disturbed
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The answer to this headline question turns out to be 'no', in several interesting ways.
Tom Calver has written an informative data-oriented article here, showing how our system compares internationally, and how public opinion is significantly skewed.
www.thetimes.com/article/c28d...
Tom Calver has written an informative data-oriented article here, showing how our system compares internationally, and how public opinion is significantly skewed.
www.thetimes.com/article/c28d...
Have people stopped working because benefits are too generous?
How tough is Britain’s benefits regime? Not tough enough, according to the British public, by a growing majority — or so we have told YouGov. Soaring economic inactivity plus attempts by successive
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:12 AM
The answer to this headline question turns out to be 'no', in several interesting ways.
Tom Calver has written an informative data-oriented article here, showing how our system compares internationally, and how public opinion is significantly skewed.
www.thetimes.com/article/c28d...
Tom Calver has written an informative data-oriented article here, showing how our system compares internationally, and how public opinion is significantly skewed.
www.thetimes.com/article/c28d...
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quite apart from anything else, what graduate job is he training students for where they just have to remember huge amounts of information without any reference material and then regurgitate it into a handwritten document
Times Higher Ed has a column today about getting rid of accommodations for students with disabilities. It is breathtakingly ableist. It argues for the exclusion of people with disabilities from higher ed. I am not linking: it's click bait, but you can see the opening paragraph below.
October 23, 2024 at 9:11 PM
quite apart from anything else, what graduate job is he training students for where they just have to remember huge amounts of information without any reference material and then regurgitate it into a handwritten document
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Chapter 5 of www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... pinpoints the start of the dramatic fall as specifically the use of prontosil coming in. The paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... reported the results of use in mice & humans at same time - 22 to 26% mortality rate went to 8% (circa 2/3rds drop).
Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved
www.cambridge.org
September 28, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Chapter 5 of www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... pinpoints the start of the dramatic fall as specifically the use of prontosil coming in. The paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... reported the results of use in mice & humans at same time - 22 to 26% mortality rate went to 8% (circa 2/3rds drop).
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only halfway through but this one is *excellent*
highly recommend reading it
highly recommend reading it
This one's from the heart. From 1980 to 2020, polls wildly miscalled the outcome five of eleven times, yet people have made following polls the center of their political lives. That is disturbing. prospect.org/politics/202...
The Polling Imperilment
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?
prospect.org
September 25, 2024 at 3:12 PM
only halfway through but this one is *excellent*
highly recommend reading it
highly recommend reading it
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Talking about young and/or working class voters and the far right while ignoring turnout in these particular categories is not only misleading but amplifies the strength of the far right and participates in its mainstreaming
It really isn't that complicated
It really isn't that complicated
September 25, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Talking about young and/or working class voters and the far right while ignoring turnout in these particular categories is not only misleading but amplifies the strength of the far right and participates in its mainstreaming
It really isn't that complicated
It really isn't that complicated
We need to make a law against podcasts farming reddit for content. Like just reading out AITA posts? Lazy. Not creative. Waste of a podcast mic. GO OUT AND BE AN ASSHOLE YOURSELF. People don’t want to work anymore.
September 25, 2024 at 9:49 AM
We need to make a law against podcasts farming reddit for content. Like just reading out AITA posts? Lazy. Not creative. Waste of a podcast mic. GO OUT AND BE AN ASSHOLE YOURSELF. People don’t want to work anymore.
you know when you’re doing resting bitch face and a man says “smile… it might never happen” - what the fivk are they talking about ??
September 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
you know when you’re doing resting bitch face and a man says “smile… it might never happen” - what the fivk are they talking about ??
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damn wish coffee hit for me like it does for normies. unfortch i am built different
September 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
damn wish coffee hit for me like it does for normies. unfortch i am built different
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Extraordinary rendition (aka government kidnappings)
September 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Extraordinary rendition (aka government kidnappings)
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Here’s the thing about Nate Silver:
If I was a foreign intelligence service interested in swaying the US election and I found out the polling guru everyone listens to seems to have a serious gambling problem — I would do everything in my power to leverage his addiction to influence his polling.
If I was a foreign intelligence service interested in swaying the US election and I found out the polling guru everyone listens to seems to have a serious gambling problem — I would do everything in my power to leverage his addiction to influence his polling.
my only real thought about nate silver is i straight up don't think you should trust anyone who appears to have a serious gambling addiction
September 6, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Here’s the thing about Nate Silver:
If I was a foreign intelligence service interested in swaying the US election and I found out the polling guru everyone listens to seems to have a serious gambling problem — I would do everything in my power to leverage his addiction to influence his polling.
If I was a foreign intelligence service interested in swaying the US election and I found out the polling guru everyone listens to seems to have a serious gambling problem — I would do everything in my power to leverage his addiction to influence his polling.