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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d

LOL my mom set them up at her nail salon!!! Absolutely bonkers Vietnamese mother energy!!!

My books, The Magic Fish and Angelica the Bear Prince, are set up on a marble countertop under a sign that my mother made and printed with clip art! It says, “Need a Gift Idea? Perfect for any occasion.”

Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · 1d

i have started using feedback surveys, complaint forms etc to complain about AI features. it aint much but hey, anything to maintain a little dignity

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · 1d

if you need a basic general purpose PC right now for cheap, buy a liquidated windows 10 machine from wherever you can find one. install whatever linux distro you are comfortable with. you may/may not need to accessorize with a monitor or other peripherals.

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · May 19

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · May 19

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.

PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · May 18

if you talk to other trans people about their transitions and say "you want top surgery?? I wish I could have your boobs when you're done!!" or "you can have MY [insert hormone]!" congratulations: you made it all about you. dont say that stuff. try listening

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 30

A Goofy Movie freaking slaps

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · Apr 30

Greyhound been the getaway bus of choice since segregation. They know what it is.

José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you Greyhound!

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · Apr 22

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Sonic the Hedgehog news and updates! @tailschannel.com · Apr 14

Here’s #IDWSonic issue #80 Cover RI by Nathalie F! #SonicNews

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 22

really????????

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Apr 21

I don’t know who needs to hear this but those five bags of clothes for good will you’ve been driving around in your trunk for two years? You can just drop them off and it takes two seconds. Truly wild stuff!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · Apr 21

Can I get some recs for alt-history stories/novels in which indigenous population of Americas successfully push back (forex Pontiac’s Rebellion succeeds) & there is never more than a coastal foreign presence on the continent afterward? I know of a few but seeking more examples.

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · Apr 21

Journalists: I really want to go to this. You should too:

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 21

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

open.substack.com

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · Apr 21

There is no real feminism that embraces exclusionary definitions of womanhood based on patriarchal notions of gender. I don’t care how anyone defines “woman.” I care abt the people patriarchy oppresses & those who benefit & perpetuate that oppression

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 13

my attitudes changed when i realized that older folks arent more likely to be homophobic or whatever it's just that millions of my elders passed away cause of AIDS. they should be here and I owe them something

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Apr 13

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off

Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.

nymag.com

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 13

idk what the moon looked like when this was posted but i will always endorse this behavior

Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · Apr 13

Everyone go outside and look at the moon!!!

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Apr 12

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Apr 12

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Apr 12

It's all fun and games until …

"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Apr 11

Graduate students: looking to hone your writing skills? Apply by April 21 to be an #AHAPerspectives summer columnist! Columnists will write about a theme of their choosing in two related columns. Columnists will receive a 1-year AHA membership & honorarium. 🗃️

Want to Write for the AHA? – AHA

Submit your application by Monday, April 21!

www.historians.org

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Code Name Jay Elle @jay-elle-dee.bsky.social · Apr 12

You can submit a comment anonymously and without including any personal info. If you don't want to write your own, I wrote:

"I am strongly in favor of approving the 2025 version of Novavax. It has clinical advantages no other available vaccines have."

Edit as desired or just copy/paste.

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 11

history is just so much fun!!! everybody should have the chance to enjoy. thank u

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 10

YOU know the most important part of the thing you read and YOU know why you are including it so tell us about that instead of just asking us to read it. sometimes the exact wording is important but often its not. goes 3x for block/long quotes. someone wants the full text? thats why u cited it.

Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 10

common misconception I see in undergrads doing [history] writing assignments: quotes must come with a citation but not every citation has to have a quote. yes you have to use the sources to make ur case but you do not literally have to tell us exactly what they say- summarize and cite that 🗃️#writing

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 10

i was in an ace wrap postop and it was itchy etc but early on it also felt overwhelming to be out of it. i felt very fragile. but towards the end of my tenure under compression i was more and more ready to be out of it and in contact with the world. now of course i just exist

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · Apr 10

📣 The UUA has issued a powerful response to the recent anti-trans presidential proclamation. Trans people are sacred. Trans youth deserve safety, love, and affirmation—not hate.

💬 Read the full statement: www.uua.org/pressroom/pr...

#UU #UnitarianUniversalist #Transrights #belovedcommunity

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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · Apr 9

Help needed: if you know any public librarians in Mississippi who are committed to keeping at risk history accessible and safe, please have them email us at [email protected] or signal maigen.11

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Nola Aycock @nolaycock.bsky.social · Apr 10

i feel this way about sunflower seed butter

Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · Apr 9

Almond butter is so much more delicious than peanut butter, it sucks that it's like three times the price, ugh.

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