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This is a great thread. I didn’t put mine up bc by the time I saw it the candles had gone out, maybe tomorrow? But it is a bright note in a world that so often seems so terrible.
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is a great thread. I didn’t put mine up bc by the time I saw it the candles had gone out, maybe tomorrow? But it is a bright note in a world that so often seems so terrible.
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Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
So, because this first night of Chanukah is marred by violence I want to share a good story. And why I have a soft spot for the Lubavitcher dudes who slog it out there all year, asking people if they are Jewish. /1
December 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So, because this first night of Chanukah is marred by violence I want to share a good story. And why I have a soft spot for the Lubavitcher dudes who slog it out there all year, asking people if they are Jewish. /1
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Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
So why in the most Jewish city in the US does CVS not carry Hanukah candles?
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So why in the most Jewish city in the US does CVS not carry Hanukah candles?
The evil thing, the shadow that hunts me, has no name, Charlie Brown.
You can be my wingman any time, Charlie Brown.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The evil thing, the shadow that hunts me, has no name, Charlie Brown.
YES. Please. AI refers to at least three different things and I am tired of of former colleagues just eating up everything the tech industry tells them.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
YES. Please. AI refers to at least three different things and I am tired of of former colleagues just eating up everything the tech industry tells them.
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I shared some of this already, but...
- U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea books, showed me sci fi/ fantasy could be lyrical, beautiful, and question tropes.
- Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide is the OG scifi satire that is hard to match.
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos. He made me want to do science.
- U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea books, showed me sci fi/ fantasy could be lyrical, beautiful, and question tropes.
- Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide is the OG scifi satire that is hard to match.
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos. He made me want to do science.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I shared some of this already, but...
- U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea books, showed me sci fi/ fantasy could be lyrical, beautiful, and question tropes.
- Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide is the OG scifi satire that is hard to match.
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos. He made me want to do science.
- U.K. LeGuin's Earthsea books, showed me sci fi/ fantasy could be lyrical, beautiful, and question tropes.
- Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide is the OG scifi satire that is hard to match.
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos. He made me want to do science.
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My little cousin in Belgium is paying a few hundred dollars a year for university
Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭
Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My little cousin in Belgium is paying a few hundred dollars a year for university
Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭
Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Yes and it also helps me to not feel the crushing despair that was becoming my default state
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Yes and it also helps me to not feel the crushing despair that was becoming my default state
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
So, apropos of Mamdani's win. one of the things he talks about is free buses.
The first response you often get is how the costs of buses could be covered by not having fares.
Well, a) most of the revenue for the MTA doesn't come from fares. b) the fare collection system costs money to maintain.
The first response you often get is how the costs of buses could be covered by not having fares.
Well, a) most of the revenue for the MTA doesn't come from fares. b) the fare collection system costs money to maintain.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
So, apropos of Mamdani's win. one of the things he talks about is free buses.
The first response you often get is how the costs of buses could be covered by not having fares.
Well, a) most of the revenue for the MTA doesn't come from fares. b) the fare collection system costs money to maintain.
The first response you often get is how the costs of buses could be covered by not having fares.
Well, a) most of the revenue for the MTA doesn't come from fares. b) the fare collection system costs money to maintain.
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ACAB includes people who report posts for celebrating Dick Cheney being dead.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ACAB includes people who report posts for celebrating Dick Cheney being dead.
There's another aspect to this, too. Henry Ford was a vicious anti-Semite and no leftist, but even he knew that for his company to function his workers (or people in their income bracket) had to be able to buy his cars.
Housing is in a crisis because we don't have that insight.
Housing is in a crisis because we don't have that insight.
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
There's another aspect to this, too. Henry Ford was a vicious anti-Semite and no leftist, but even he knew that for his company to function his workers (or people in their income bracket) had to be able to buy his cars.
Housing is in a crisis because we don't have that insight.
Housing is in a crisis because we don't have that insight.
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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They wear hats that say "make America great again" and shirts that say "freedom" while they destroy what little was good about the country, and take away everyone else's freedoms. They aren't a political party to vote against, they are fascists. They are today's Nazis.
October 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
They wear hats that say "make America great again" and shirts that say "freedom" while they destroy what little was good about the country, and take away everyone else's freedoms. They aren't a political party to vote against, they are fascists. They are today's Nazis.
Wolfers said this was expressing frustration about the AI debates in his part of the world - presumably he means among economists. Neither position is grounded in reality and that, one would think, would give one pause about economists' takes about this.
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Wolfers said this was expressing frustration about the AI debates in his part of the world - presumably he means among economists. Neither position is grounded in reality and that, one would think, would give one pause about economists' takes about this.
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I’m not sure if today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt of “happily ever after” is a thing that happens in real life but I thought of the great mathematician, writer and polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮🎢🐡🧪👩🏼🔬🔭#histsci Arguably the best thing that ever happened to her was when she became a 🧵1/n
September 29, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I’m not sure if today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt of “happily ever after” is a thing that happens in real life but I thought of the great mathematician, writer and polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮🎢🐡🧪👩🏼🔬🔭#histsci Arguably the best thing that ever happened to her was when she became a 🧵1/n
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oh ohohoh oh!
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
oh ohohoh oh!
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Video killed my freelance career
Video killed my freelance career
Zuck came in and kicked my rear
Video killed my freelance career
Zuck came in and kicked my rear
Has anyone done a "Video killed the freelance writer" parody version yet?
October 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Video killed my freelance career
Video killed my freelance career
Zuck came in and kicked my rear
Video killed my freelance career
Zuck came in and kicked my rear
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part of the reason people don't want the history of this period taught or understood is to make this illegible to people. it's easy to swallow thought ending cliches about which venerated figure was a "man of their times" if you remain studiously unaware of what their times actually were
October 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket