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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly. How about boosting women irl instead of making up very bad rhymes about it

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 13h

my alarm goes off for me to go to an appt. I say, I’m just gonna do x that will take 3 mins and then it’ll take me five mins to get there

but I do the thing for 20 mins, can’t find clean pants, and actually it only once took five mins to get there usually it takes 10

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 14h

ok so the problem isnt lack of calendars alarms alerts tracking systems etc etc (except when you procrastinate by researching better systems)

the problem is you ignore the alarms and alerts

or like for ex

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 16h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 16h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Asking a dude if he would ever take his partner’s last name eliminates a large portion of red flags at the outset of dating tbh

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, I’m sorry 💔

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

when I heard an unpolished sell side guy crowing about stock fundamentals on NPR one morning last week all I could picture was this guy

and know they are dumping their institutional positions and pushing their clients to buy

Ryan Goslings sleazy but not stupid character in Big Short

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jd for SP🎃🎃KY Streets 🚲🚸 @thedirte.bsky.social · 1d

Christian Bale in Big Short playing a character that shorted the market before the crisis. He is on the phone in this scene.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5d

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man yes my grandma hid the tabloids under a couch cushion

Later I found her stash of Joan Collins

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

keep offering my daughter $20 to finish a classic, her choice. alas

She reads romantasy and it’s fine. At her age, 14, I got into Anne Rice. Summer I turned 17 I gave myself the task of reading Hemingway*

Still time to develop into a reader (🤞 )

*(Didn’t finish. But, still, go teenaged me))

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

while I was reading the Les Mis book my uncle got me as a joke bc I was always reading big books

while I was reading Ursula Le Guin while I was reading The Maltese Falcon in my moms glasses to feel like an adult

loved EB!

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

I was the oldest of four kids and we *always had E B books lying around. I’d pick one up and read it just to procrastinate homework or anything else

Ate those things up

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

Victorian quackery

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 2d

It really doesn't make much sense to talk about right-wing media as distinct from legacy or mainstream media at this point.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

the [26] puts it over the top

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

These are literally the same guys who amused themselves for decades making waitresses cry

Come on I’m just teasing, as the wife writhes

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

Heh heh I’ve just been amusing myself for nine years making jokes about Bernie Bros and Pick Me Girls on FB, wandered over here but oh no! The tone police are gonna get me

[voice getting smaller] Lock me up girlies come on fight me please I hate my life

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

The previous week was Ezra Klein talking about his “big tent.” Few weeks ago they ran an interview with two sC experts one of whom calmly insisted the SC was committed to upholding democracy.

This summer, Tyler Foggatt who stood in for Jane Mayer et al dismissed Epstein as a “conspiracy theory”

Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this was fucking outrageous

It keeps popping up on the radio too, enraging me anew

The snippet I heard yesterday was this guy talking about how wokeness stifled free speech

The New Yorker has chosen a side here

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · 1d

sucks to try to use the internet for reading articles in 2025

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