Kelli Carlson
@thewhiteviolet.bsky.social
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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You have got to be fucking kidding me.
That’s it. I quit the internet. I draw the line at butt phrenology.
That’s it. I quit the internet. I draw the line at butt phrenology.
I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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How a bigger-looking butt could be a sneaky sign of autism and ADHD
Your backside might reveal a thing or two about your brain.
nypost.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
That’s it. I quit the internet. I draw the line at butt phrenology.
That’s it. I quit the internet. I draw the line at butt phrenology.
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There are 20 million people in the US with long covid, and tens of millions more with a high risk/immunocompromised condition.
Why, in 2025, are you mocking disabled and sick people??
Why, in 2025, are you mocking disabled and sick people??
Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
December 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There are 20 million people in the US with long covid, and tens of millions more with a high risk/immunocompromised condition.
Why, in 2025, are you mocking disabled and sick people??
Why, in 2025, are you mocking disabled and sick people??
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This is exactly what I was saying would happen. You take a society with a population this size and run off it's working age population with anti immigrant bigotry, you kill the industries your tariffs don't.
December 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is exactly what I was saying would happen. You take a society with a population this size and run off it's working age population with anti immigrant bigotry, you kill the industries your tariffs don't.
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I cannot emphasize enough how good reviews provide your fave authors with both happiness and algorithmic favor.
Most people find new books via Amazon, and Amazon picks the books they want to show you (in part) from sales velocity and reviews.
Most people find new books via Amazon, and Amazon picks the books they want to show you (in part) from sales velocity and reviews.
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I cannot emphasize enough how good reviews provide your fave authors with both happiness and algorithmic favor.
Most people find new books via Amazon, and Amazon picks the books they want to show you (in part) from sales velocity and reviews.
Most people find new books via Amazon, and Amazon picks the books they want to show you (in part) from sales velocity and reviews.
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This whole thread.
To add, I feel like "what makes your work stand out?" is such a normal-ass question and if you can't answer it, you're not ready.
To add, I feel like "what makes your work stand out?" is such a normal-ass question and if you can't answer it, you're not ready.
I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This whole thread.
To add, I feel like "what makes your work stand out?" is such a normal-ass question and if you can't answer it, you're not ready.
To add, I feel like "what makes your work stand out?" is such a normal-ass question and if you can't answer it, you're not ready.
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This trend is dreadful. I never minded podcast interviews because I could roll up in my pajamas. Now I have to do hair and makeup and it suuuuuuuucks.
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This trend is dreadful. I never minded podcast interviews because I could roll up in my pajamas. Now I have to do hair and makeup and it suuuuuuuucks.
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That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
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I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
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Oh come on @nytimes.com—you do this type of enabling bullshit and Trump still targets you. Show some journalistic spine, ffs.
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Oh come on @nytimes.com—you do this type of enabling bullshit and Trump still targets you. Show some journalistic spine, ffs.
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Big problem for many journalists, unf.:
One of the worst things that we've done as a society is push the idea that all viewpoints are valid and up for debate. This is legit why so many people think those bullshit jubilee debates are a form of education and not just a way to socially manipulate people into being open to fascism.
December 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Big problem for many journalists, unf.:
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So after finishing Heated Rivalry last night it’s clear we need a full resurgence of actually soft romantic films and tv shows with people who can actually act. The whole cast was great but Connor and Hudson just did an excellent job.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So after finishing Heated Rivalry last night it’s clear we need a full resurgence of actually soft romantic films and tv shows with people who can actually act. The whole cast was great but Connor and Hudson just did an excellent job.
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I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
'Heated Rivalry' Creator Reveals the Finale's Biggest Changes From the Book and the Status of Season 2
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney discusses the finale's biggest changes from the book, those new end credits, the status of Season 2, and more.
collider.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
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Welp, I just spent the last hour alternately squeeing and crying. What a beautiful moment of queer joy. Ilya and Shane, Scott and Kip, my boys.
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Welp, I just spent the last hour alternately squeeing and crying. What a beautiful moment of queer joy. Ilya and Shane, Scott and Kip, my boys.
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“movies are too long” shut up im watching a MOVING PICTURE!!!!!!
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“movies are too long” shut up im watching a MOVING PICTURE!!!!!!
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I told my oldest something about gas being 69 cents a gallon when I was a kid & she asked me if I was secretly from the 1950s. She couldn't imagine gas under $3 a gallon
The gas in Die Hard was 75 cent a gallon.
December 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I told my oldest something about gas being 69 cents a gallon when I was a kid & she asked me if I was secretly from the 1950s. She couldn't imagine gas under $3 a gallon
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Murderbot is checking the perimeter. Ilya and Shane are going to the cottage. Even in the darkest times, our imaginations create places for love and safety.
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Murderbot is checking the perimeter. Ilya and Shane are going to the cottage. Even in the darkest times, our imaginations create places for love and safety.
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Is it “internet chatrooms advising no contact” or is it family behavior making people think “I probably shouldn’t be talking to this MF?”
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Is it “internet chatrooms advising no contact” or is it family behavior making people think “I probably shouldn’t be talking to this MF?”
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The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.
24 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge overturns CA school policy on outing trans kids, rules parents have right to know & teachers a right to tell them but no mention of child's rights. Case likely bound for Supremes. Weirdly CA law allows abortion w/o parental notification.
Federal judge rules California teachers are allowed to ‘out’ transgender students to parents
The ruling applies to all public schools in California and is a victory for two teachers who claimed that district policies violated their constitutional free speech and religious rights.
edsource.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Also the genre fucking rocks and is full of some amazing, creative, intelligent people who are absolutely doing incredible things and who are about as politically plugged in as any force can be.
But anyway.
But anyway.
December 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Also the genre fucking rocks and is full of some amazing, creative, intelligent people who are absolutely doing incredible things and who are about as politically plugged in as any force can be.
But anyway.
But anyway.
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YES!!! The pandemic, shit marketing and executives cancelling. That show was perfect.
I think a league of their own (the tv series) is the closest comparison. that didn't have the tight focus on one couple, but it had all the other elements (would love if a streaming service revived it)
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
YES!!! The pandemic, shit marketing and executives cancelling. That show was perfect.
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oh my god this actually reminded me that someone *said this to me on twitter* during this.
like literally, "can you even violate copyright on romance, they're basically all the same"
anyway I wish I had not unlocked that memory and also that I didn't have so many similar ones to unlock lolcry
like literally, "can you even violate copyright on romance, they're basically all the same"
anyway I wish I had not unlocked that memory and also that I didn't have so many similar ones to unlock lolcry
If you did not give a shit about it, or saw something out of the corner or your eye and was like, enh, whatever, who cares about downloading books from romance authors, they're all alike...
Just please, please think for a second.
Just please, please think for a second.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
oh my god this actually reminded me that someone *said this to me on twitter* during this.
like literally, "can you even violate copyright on romance, they're basically all the same"
anyway I wish I had not unlocked that memory and also that I didn't have so many similar ones to unlock lolcry
like literally, "can you even violate copyright on romance, they're basically all the same"
anyway I wish I had not unlocked that memory and also that I didn't have so many similar ones to unlock lolcry
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what a bleak fucking paragraph
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
what a bleak fucking paragraph
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Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.