SunnyAllison
@sunnyallison.bsky.social
(she/her), scientist, educator, feminist, former backstager, bookhoarder extraordinaire, & queen of the planning fallacy
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Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
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Psst.
Choppy Choppy, both earrings and pendants are back in stock.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Choppy Choppy, both earrings and pendants are back in stock.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Becky's Choppy, Choppy, The Earrings | Peculiarity Shop
It's time we did something about *gestures*. Components: Czech glass, base metal alloy.Some very minor variations in construction may apply. Lead/nickel free
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Psst.
Choppy Choppy, both earrings and pendants are back in stock.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Choppy Choppy, both earrings and pendants are back in stock.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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Hey, who wants to help me test the #Ebooks Direct store's new anti-fraud workflows, cheap? I've just dropped (as a standalone volume) a 14K-word novelette you may never have seen before. Want some hot Roman-gladiator action with a touch of magic? Try this: ebooks.direct/products/the...
The Fix
"This is Rome. Everybody bets."
In the home city of the world's first entertainment industry, the life-or-death games that are hundreds of thousands' citizens greatest passion are beginning one more d...
ebooks.direct
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hey, who wants to help me test the #Ebooks Direct store's new anti-fraud workflows, cheap? I've just dropped (as a standalone volume) a 14K-word novelette you may never have seen before. Want some hot Roman-gladiator action with a touch of magic? Try this: ebooks.direct/products/the...
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I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
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We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
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This is what they've done.
This is super cool bc:
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine
Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.
www.nbcnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is what they've done.
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Alice is no longer here to advocate for this organizing effort. But the rest of us are. bsky.app/profile/pipa...
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Alice is no longer here to advocate for this organizing effort. But the rest of us are. bsky.app/profile/pipa...
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PA Environment Digest Blog: Environmental Justice: What Happens When A.I. Data Centers Come To Town? -- Environmental, Economic, Grid Impacts paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2025/11/envi...
Environmental Justice: What Happens When A.I. Data Centers Come To Town? -- Environmental, Economic, Grid Impacts
On November 12, Dr. Ben Green , Assistant Professor of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, gave a pres...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
PA Environment Digest Blog: Environmental Justice: What Happens When A.I. Data Centers Come To Town? -- Environmental, Economic, Grid Impacts paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2025/11/envi...
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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Asymptomatic transmission of H5N1 - apparently including a human-to-human case - seems troubling. Violet Blue’s reporting and links are worth following (when you have the bandwidth and stamina to think about this aspect of current affairs).
New: Asymptomatic human H5N1 cases confirmed, rare, but real, and documented with molecular + serologic testing. This is the kind of early signal you always track. Also, we're filling ongoing CDC Covid data blackout gaps, new/nextgen prevention tools + vaccines, more: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...
Covid: November 13, 2025 | Threat Model
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November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Asymptomatic transmission of H5N1 - apparently including a human-to-human case - seems troubling. Violet Blue’s reporting and links are worth following (when you have the bandwidth and stamina to think about this aspect of current affairs).
In mundane accomplishments, I just updated the email for a program that I initially signed up for via my (old) work email, but pay for personally (& did not install on my new work computer), so it is now linked to my personal email instead.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
In mundane accomplishments, I just updated the email for a program that I initially signed up for via my (old) work email, but pay for personally (& did not install on my new work computer), so it is now linked to my personal email instead.
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*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
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Hi! Thirty new things, holiday stuff, random other stuff, LGBTQIA+ stuff. Come see?
www.peculiarityshop.com
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Hi! Thirty new things, holiday stuff, random other stuff, LGBTQIA+ stuff. Come see?
www.peculiarityshop.com
www.peculiarityshop.com
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This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
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November 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
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Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
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It is somehow both “this has been the longest year in recorded history” and also “how is it the middle of November already” right now
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It is somehow both “this has been the longest year in recorded history” and also “how is it the middle of November already” right now
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Advent is a mere 3 weeks away!
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Advent is a mere 3 weeks away!
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
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CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
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Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
![them: "there's no hope of stopping global warming now"
me:
[image is Aragorn from the 1978 Lord of the Rings speaking to Frodo. Someone MSPainted a black bandana on Aragorn's face.]
"Then we must do without hope. There is always vengeance."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreic5gogoyf2gqurrb44ru5t4euqnmj3hvmalnmhqlnbvwotuc42ff4@jpeg)
November 8, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work
take the Ring, though you do not know the way
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Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
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these are surprisingly still available. I know I’m not the only person who goes to concerts but maybe I am one of the only ones who goes alone
I lined up concerts around work trips I had. Due to the shutdown, the trips are canceled.
Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th
Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th
If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️
Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th
Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th
If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
these are surprisingly still available. I know I’m not the only person who goes to concerts but maybe I am one of the only ones who goes alone