Bex, if you can keep it
@bextraordinary.bsky.social
🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
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Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
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-- I'm a criminal justice and public health scholar interested in the intersection of health and the criminal legal system, especially substance use, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. This year I left my tenured Assoc. Prof. position to work for a research & evaluation nonprofit. It's great!
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January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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If you want your brand to be associated with profoundly fucked-up people offending against the laws of man, God, nature, civilisation, and common sense, my DMs are open.
January 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
If you want your brand to be associated with profoundly fucked-up people offending against the laws of man, God, nature, civilisation, and common sense, my DMs are open.
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As this poster points out, Grok does not have agency. Grok is a computer program, like Photoshop. Grok is not doing these things. Twitter users are.
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Grok is not undressing women, men commit sexual violence on the internet for fuck's sake.
January 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
As this poster points out, Grok does not have agency. Grok is a computer program, like Photoshop. Grok is not doing these things. Twitter users are.
bsky.app/profile/miss...
bsky.app/profile/miss...
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The phrase "Grok is undressing women" is incorrect. It's mostly men using Grok to undress women. And it's also manmade that Grok obeys to these prompts.
January 7, 2026 at 7:56 AM
The phrase "Grok is undressing women" is incorrect. It's mostly men using Grok to undress women. And it's also manmade that Grok obeys to these prompts.
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It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
My 5yo wanted to write a title on my drawing.
January 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
My 5yo wanted to write a title on my drawing.
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
Dropping a trap bar on the top of your foot will really ruin your day.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Dropping a trap bar on the top of your foot will really ruin your day.
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lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
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that's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 AM
that's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ
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Hello! I would love to speak to women who are fans of Heated Rivalry, including those who are new to MM romance and those who aren't, for an article I'm working on exploring the genre's appeal to women.
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
January 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Hello! I would love to speak to women who are fans of Heated Rivalry, including those who are new to MM romance and those who aren't, for an article I'm working on exploring the genre's appeal to women.
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
My DMs are open or I'm at juliacarriewong.11 on Signal and julia.wong@theguardian.com on email
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And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
January 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
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Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.
Okay, Blue Prince has me completely enthralled. I've on day 40-something and I feel like I've only scratched the surface of everything there is to find! I've staunchly avoided looking anything up and I feel like a genius every time I solve a new puzzle 😅 I'm eager to uncover the whole story!
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Okay, Blue Prince has me completely enthralled. I've on day 40-something and I feel like I've only scratched the surface of everything there is to find! I've staunchly avoided looking anything up and I feel like a genius every time I solve a new puzzle 😅 I'm eager to uncover the whole story!
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Racism murders us
January 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Racism murders us
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Just in time! I'm teaching Positive Psych this Spring.
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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I think the "no self-promotion" rule in hobbyist groups is one of the most difficult to enforce. I understand the need for it - without it, groups meant for sharing get inundated with ads. But then it's like, well, is sharing *anything* a form of self-promo?
January 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I think the "no self-promotion" rule in hobbyist groups is one of the most difficult to enforce. I understand the need for it - without it, groups meant for sharing get inundated with ads. But then it's like, well, is sharing *anything* a form of self-promo?
Textured pieces ready to be dropped off at the pottery studio 🫡
I'm feeling a bit lonely in clay these days. Not being in a class or having much studio time is isolating me. I'd like to find more potters for community, especially on Instagram. Drop your handle here so I can see your cool stuff? 🙏🏼
I'm feeling a bit lonely in clay these days. Not being in a class or having much studio time is isolating me. I'd like to find more potters for community, especially on Instagram. Drop your handle here so I can see your cool stuff? 🙏🏼
January 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Textured pieces ready to be dropped off at the pottery studio 🫡
I'm feeling a bit lonely in clay these days. Not being in a class or having much studio time is isolating me. I'd like to find more potters for community, especially on Instagram. Drop your handle here so I can see your cool stuff? 🙏🏼
I'm feeling a bit lonely in clay these days. Not being in a class or having much studio time is isolating me. I'd like to find more potters for community, especially on Instagram. Drop your handle here so I can see your cool stuff? 🙏🏼
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wine moms (extremely complimentary)
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
wine moms (extremely complimentary)
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we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
One day I'm gonna feel like I have any idea at all what I'm doing and won't that be a special treat.
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
One day I'm gonna feel like I have any idea at all what I'm doing and won't that be a special treat.
I would like to read thoughtful responses to Walz stepping down, bc I'm not up on MN politics and I don't fully understand why/what the long game is (if there is one! Maybe there's not!).
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I would like to read thoughtful responses to Walz stepping down, bc I'm not up on MN politics and I don't fully understand why/what the long game is (if there is one! Maybe there's not!).
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I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643
The media coverage normalizing the Venezuela thing is making me feel insane.
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The media coverage normalizing the Venezuela thing is making me feel insane.
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If what comes next is just a return to the deeply insufficient status-quo ante that gave rise to Trumpism in the first place, now additionally burdened with the devastations of Trumpism in power and discredited even further by American elites acquiescing and appeasing, it won’t last.
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
If what comes next is just a return to the deeply insufficient status-quo ante that gave rise to Trumpism in the first place, now additionally burdened with the devastations of Trumpism in power and discredited even further by American elites acquiescing and appeasing, it won’t last.