Smart Mouthed Wench in the Corner
@smrtmouthdwench.bsky.social
Knitter, non trad college student, fountain pen user, scribbler of stories, witch, bitch, easily amused with shiny things, caffeine imbiber, foul language affiacondo. Possibly part corvidae. She/they. LSG. TERFS, racists, & bigots can leave
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
For the record: telling ANY employee, let alone a female employee, to"smile" will get you the litany of why they aren't. And a polite fuck you
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For the record: telling ANY employee, let alone a female employee, to"smile" will get you the litany of why they aren't. And a polite fuck you
I work for a state university in their dining department. I am union. I am VERY pro union. And the campus just offered us a 2% pay raise. Which sounds good. Until you work out that it's 36.4 cents an hour for me.
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I work for a state university in their dining department. I am union. I am VERY pro union. And the campus just offered us a 2% pay raise. Which sounds good. Until you work out that it's 36.4 cents an hour for me.
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DOGE pushed out 'vital employee' at weather agency before Texas floods: report - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/doge-nws-wea...
DOGE pushed out 'vital employee' at weather agency before Texas floods: report
The National Weather Service, and the cuts made by President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, have been under scrutiny since the catastrophic floods in Central Tex...
www.rawstory.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
DOGE pushed out 'vital employee' at weather agency before Texas floods: report - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/doge-nws-wea...
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As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."
My latest:
My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.
"You can usually teach someone to do a job, but it is harder to teach someone to be an employee who cares."
*deep inhale*
*deep inhale*
July 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"You can usually teach someone to do a job, but it is harder to teach someone to be an employee who cares."
*deep inhale*
*deep inhale*
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we’ve totally normalized that he’ll interfere with private business if he’s not paid off. every legal expert said this suit was meritless.
July 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
we’ve totally normalized that he’ll interfere with private business if he’s not paid off. every legal expert said this suit was meritless.
Taking a break from the never ending Lenny Kravitz long cowl to bang out a wee little newborn vertebrae for a co worker's first grandbaby
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Taking a break from the never ending Lenny Kravitz long cowl to bang out a wee little newborn vertebrae for a co worker's first grandbaby
Fuck
Then they came for the trade unionists…
SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.
June 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fuck
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good morning friends 💚✨
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
good morning friends 💚✨
Still slogging away at this thing. By the time I'm done, I swear it will be a Lenny Kravitz length. It's already taller than I am, & I have about two or three feet more.
June 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Still slogging away at this thing. By the time I'm done, I swear it will be a Lenny Kravitz length. It's already taller than I am, & I have about two or three feet more.
"How was work?"
"Oh.. between 1.5 inches and two inches in seven and a half hours."
"Oh.. between 1.5 inches and two inches in seven and a half hours."
June 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"How was work?"
"Oh.. between 1.5 inches and two inches in seven and a half hours."
"Oh.. between 1.5 inches and two inches in seven and a half hours."
#wipwednesday
I have one. Fucking. Row left of this gray block. Of course I have to break open a new skein of gray. Because Reasons. And in less than an hour my WIP will be my final.
#knitsky #knitting
I have one. Fucking. Row left of this gray block. Of course I have to break open a new skein of gray. Because Reasons. And in less than an hour my WIP will be my final.
#knitsky #knitting
May 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#wipwednesday
I have one. Fucking. Row left of this gray block. Of course I have to break open a new skein of gray. Because Reasons. And in less than an hour my WIP will be my final.
#knitsky #knitting
I have one. Fucking. Row left of this gray block. Of course I have to break open a new skein of gray. Because Reasons. And in less than an hour my WIP will be my final.
#knitsky #knitting
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They have a communications leader, he's a Nazi, and no PR flack's spin is going to change that
Elon Musk's X wants to hire a communications leader to help improve its relationship with reporters and craft its public image.
Elon Musk's X is looking for a PR pro to boost its image
Elon Musk's X wants to hire a communications leader to help improve its relationship with reporters and craft its public image.
www.businessinsider.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
They have a communications leader, he's a Nazi, and no PR flack's spin is going to change that
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Tesla sales absolutely crashing out in Europe
France: 🔻59%
Netherlands:🔻74%
Sweden: 🔻81%
Germany: 🔻46%
UK: 🔻62%
Sucks to suck!
fortune.com/2025/05/03/e...
www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-...
France: 🔻59%
Netherlands:🔻74%
Sweden: 🔻81%
Germany: 🔻46%
UK: 🔻62%
Sucks to suck!
fortune.com/2025/05/03/e...
www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-...
Elon Musk’s European crisis deepens—initial April sales numbers prove devastating for Tesla
Four key EV friendly European markets reported high double-digit drops in Tesla volumes in April with only Norway showing some improvement.
fortune.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tesla sales absolutely crashing out in Europe
France: 🔻59%
Netherlands:🔻74%
Sweden: 🔻81%
Germany: 🔻46%
UK: 🔻62%
Sucks to suck!
fortune.com/2025/05/03/e...
www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-...
France: 🔻59%
Netherlands:🔻74%
Sweden: 🔻81%
Germany: 🔻46%
UK: 🔻62%
Sucks to suck!
fortune.com/2025/05/03/e...
www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-...
So. As a university employee, I submitted 2 tuition waivers-1 for summer, 1 for fall on 2/20/25. Summer classes start in a week. I have yet to hear back on if that fucking waiver has been accepted.
May 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So. As a university employee, I submitted 2 tuition waivers-1 for summer, 1 for fall on 2/20/25. Summer classes start in a week. I have yet to hear back on if that fucking waiver has been accepted.
In 15 days, I finished the bubble gum pink and a gray block, and started a totally new color: lilac purple. Each section is about 6in/15.25cm.
April 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In 15 days, I finished the bubble gum pink and a gray block, and started a totally new color: lilac purple. Each section is about 6in/15.25cm.
Transparency
I hope this continues.
Some businesses now showing the “Trump Tariff Fee” on their bills to customers.
April 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Transparency
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In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism.
Additional small reasons for modest optimism
11 from this week
robertreich.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns.
Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.
It’s been the plan for decades.
Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.
It’s been the plan for decades.
March 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns.
Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.
It’s been the plan for decades.
Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.
It’s been the plan for decades.
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Outraged Dem voters "stick it" to MAGA's new soft spots www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
Outraged Dem voters "stick it" to MAGA's new soft spots
One Democratic voter told AP she's "tired of the bullyism" under Trump.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Outraged Dem voters "stick it" to MAGA's new soft spots www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
The problem with this project is that it never looks like it's grown. I've gotten an inch at least done today so far.
March 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The problem with this project is that it never looks like it's grown. I've gotten an inch at least done today so far.