Julia
@julesanew.bsky.social
Scientist, teacher, writer, Dodgers fan, parent, music lover. 🏳️⚧️♀.
Mostly bookposting, baseball posting, a smattering of science and politics.
Mostly bookposting, baseball posting, a smattering of science and politics.
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We're running out of good ideas. Providing food security, shelter security, and free at point of use healthcare will absolutely help us find new ones.
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We're running out of good ideas. Providing food security, shelter security, and free at point of use healthcare will absolutely help us find new ones.
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
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I know the most Christ-like response to this should be, thank you for reconsidering your positions, maybe we can turn your heart the rest of the way or whatever. But lmao fuck man, we've been saying this for 40 years and he's acting like this a brand new line of thinking he just this now invented. 🤣
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I know the most Christ-like response to this should be, thank you for reconsidering your positions, maybe we can turn your heart the rest of the way or whatever. But lmao fuck man, we've been saying this for 40 years and he's acting like this a brand new line of thinking he just this now invented. 🤣
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December 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Centrist dems: "Our tent is so big! Huge tent! In fact we're making it *even bigger*! Room for all the vile racists! Come on in!"
Also centrist dems: "Why won't anyone come into our tent?"
Also centrist dems: "Why won't anyone come into our tent?"
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Centrist dems: "Our tent is so big! Huge tent! In fact we're making it *even bigger*! Room for all the vile racists! Come on in!"
Also centrist dems: "Why won't anyone come into our tent?"
Also centrist dems: "Why won't anyone come into our tent?"
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
But I don’t wanna wait until May!
Long Live Evil was one of the best things I read last year. I am so excited for this. The trope-bending portal fantasy I hadn’t realized I needed and now I’m hopelessly hooked.
Long Live Evil was one of the best things I read last year. I am so excited for this. The trope-bending portal fantasy I hadn’t realized I needed and now I’m hopelessly hooked.
Truly thrilled to unleash the cover of All Hail Chaos.
Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky
geni.us/AllHailChaos
Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky
geni.us/AllHailChaos
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
But I don’t wanna wait until May!
Long Live Evil was one of the best things I read last year. I am so excited for this. The trope-bending portal fantasy I hadn’t realized I needed and now I’m hopelessly hooked.
Long Live Evil was one of the best things I read last year. I am so excited for this. The trope-bending portal fantasy I hadn’t realized I needed and now I’m hopelessly hooked.
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Still shipping brains and bacteria : ) 🧪🐡🧠🦠 artologica.etsy.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Still shipping brains and bacteria : ) 🧪🐡🧠🦠 artologica.etsy.com
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You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and you fear. You know the names of those who rule under the terrible one who knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. You fear the Reigndeer.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and you fear. You know the names of those who rule under the terrible one who knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. You fear the Reigndeer.
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1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
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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
Finish my current project. I've got another project that's been on the back burner for years that I want to outline while I let this one rest a couple weeks, but taking a break is likely to disrupt any momentum I've built up, so... carry on! #weeknightwriters
Q5: What are you planning to do after #FirstDraftFall? Finish your current project? Start a new one? Take a three-week nap? #WeeknightWriters
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Finish my current project. I've got another project that's been on the back burner for years that I want to outline while I let this one rest a couple weeks, but taking a break is likely to disrupt any momentum I've built up, so... carry on! #weeknightwriters
100K Word Pie! 🥧 #weeknightwriters
Q4: What will you do to celebrate completing #FirstDraftFall? (Other than signing up for our community at ko-fi.com/weeknightw... and coming to our wrap party, of course) #WeeknightWriters
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
100K Word Pie! 🥧 #weeknightwriters
The community's just been terrific. Supportive in the right ways, active, helpful, encouraging. #weeknightwriters
Q3: What have you enjoyed most about #FirstDraftFall - either about the challenge itself or your specific project?
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The community's just been terrific. Supportive in the right ways, active, helpful, encouraging. #weeknightwriters
First draft? No, definitely not by tomorrow (yikes!) but I'm committed to finishing by the end of the calendar year one way or the other. #weeknightwriters
Q1: #FirstDraftFall ends TOMORROW (not counting our members-only wrap party)
Do you think you'll wrap up your first draft before the challenge ends? #WeeknightWriters
Do you think you'll wrap up your first draft before the challenge ends? #WeeknightWriters
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
First draft? No, definitely not by tomorrow (yikes!) but I'm committed to finishing by the end of the calendar year one way or the other. #weeknightwriters
Still need to puzzle out the final con, but I'm not going to lose sleep over not getting the fine details yet. So much is going to change at the beginning with the next draft that I'm likely to just Belle-the-zero-draft-horse it and get to it in rewrites. #weeknightwriters
Q2: Is there anything specific you need help with to wrap up your #FirstDraftFall story? Let us know about it & we'll see how we can help! #WeeknightWriters
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Still need to puzzle out the final con, but I'm not going to lose sleep over not getting the fine details yet. So much is going to change at the beginning with the next draft that I'm likely to just Belle-the-zero-draft-horse it and get to it in rewrites. #weeknightwriters
Julia here with the kitchen sink WIP of heists, cons, antifascist resistance, love, betrayal, magic lost and regained, floating cities, magical billionaire tech bros and their downfall. Haven't written a lot this week but I can still hit that 100K word mark by the end of the week! #weeknightwriters
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! (Or not going, that's valid too)
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Julia here with the kitchen sink WIP of heists, cons, antifascist resistance, love, betrayal, magic lost and regained, floating cities, magical billionaire tech bros and their downfall. Haven't written a lot this week but I can still hit that 100K word mark by the end of the week! #weeknightwriters
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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I read a pre-print study re: teaching prompting in a business comm class, with success only being achieved by prompting with exact rhetorical context and multiple rounds of specific feedback.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
there’s a lot of irony around how writing a genuinely good prompt for LLMs requires the exact kind of clarity and precision in communication that is taught by good (human) writing instructors - who have now almost all been laid off by college admins
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I read a pre-print study re: teaching prompting in a business comm class, with success only being achieved by prompting with exact rhetorical context and multiple rounds of specific feedback.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
So much this, except even more because I am beyond 30 or 40 years old.
unless the game is primarily about crafting… then no crafting. or make a an “i am 30 or 40 years old and i do not have time for this” mode please
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So much this, except even more because I am beyond 30 or 40 years old.
The High King, Lloyd Alexander. Maybe the single most formative book in my life.
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The High King, Lloyd Alexander. Maybe the single most formative book in my life.
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
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Quails, man. Cannot get over quails
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Quails, man. Cannot get over quails
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A long walk home yesterday in a delightful snowstorm. I passed this person on their own walk going the opposite way. After they passed I turned and took this photograph .
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A long walk home yesterday in a delightful snowstorm. I passed this person on their own walk going the opposite way. After they passed I turned and took this photograph .
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10
#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis
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Super serious about this: please keep a list of the books, short stories, games, movies, albums, TV shows, etc. that came out this month (December) that you liked. In fact, please reply to this post with links.
December 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Super serious about this: please keep a list of the books, short stories, games, movies, albums, TV shows, etc. that came out this month (December) that you liked. In fact, please reply to this post with links.