Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
· Feb 3
No Elon, No Coup, No Fascist Shiba Inu!
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Mammalian clavicles stabilize our forelimbs, particularly overhead, but the tradeoff is reduced scapular flexibility—aka slower quadrupedal amb—so order Carnivora said no thx, as did their primary prey, Artiodactyla. (Remnants aside.) Everybody else has real clavicles for the most part.
this is blowing my mind
“bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT
“bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT
They less abandoned him, and more
that this is how places handle this.
When I lived in the N.C. mountains, there was a ton of messaging to bear proof your property for the winter, and it always ended with “And if you don’t, leave the bear alone until spring.”
that this is how places handle this.
When I lived in the N.C. mountains, there was a ton of messaging to bear proof your property for the winter, and it always ended with “And if you don’t, leave the bear alone until spring.”
January 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Mammalian clavicles stabilize our forelimbs, particularly overhead, but the tradeoff is reduced scapular flexibility—aka slower quadrupedal amb—so order Carnivora said no thx, as did their primary prey, Artiodactyla. (Remnants aside.) Everybody else has real clavicles for the most part.
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Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?
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Remember, folks.
We the people have power.
It’s easy to overlook.
But it matters.
Profoundly.
Let’s step it up.
We the people have power.
It’s easy to overlook.
But it matters.
Profoundly.
Let’s step it up.
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Remember, folks.
We the people have power.
It’s easy to overlook.
But it matters.
Profoundly.
Let’s step it up.
We the people have power.
It’s easy to overlook.
But it matters.
Profoundly.
Let’s step it up.
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As my teenager pointed out, the problem here isn't that an AI issued a meaningless apology, the problem is that the world's richest man is running a child pornography machine.
If my teenager understands this, why don't the actual journalists writing these stories?
If my teenager understands this, why don't the actual journalists writing these stories?
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
As my teenager pointed out, the problem here isn't that an AI issued a meaningless apology, the problem is that the world's richest man is running a child pornography machine.
If my teenager understands this, why don't the actual journalists writing these stories?
If my teenager understands this, why don't the actual journalists writing these stories?
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"Edtech presents its agenda as apolitical, as a matter of efficiency or smart management, concealing a far more insidious mission: the monetization of teaching and learning" - late to this by @ehayot.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social but it's great to see such analysis out there
archive.md/PHqyF
archive.md/PHqyF
January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
"Edtech presents its agenda as apolitical, as a matter of efficiency or smart management, concealing a far more insidious mission: the monetization of teaching and learning" - late to this by @ehayot.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social but it's great to see such analysis out there
archive.md/PHqyF
archive.md/PHqyF
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“I am happy from the bottom of my heart to see others in the streets,” a young woman who took part in protests on Wed. “But I also know that we are economically fucked and things won’t get better anytime soon. We also have no easy way of winning against these bastards. It is hard to be hopeful.”
Iranians Have Had Enough
The demonstrations erupting across the Islamic Republic reflect deep economic and political discontent.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
“I am happy from the bottom of my heart to see others in the streets,” a young woman who took part in protests on Wed. “But I also know that we are economically fucked and things won’t get better anytime soon. We also have no easy way of winning against these bastards. It is hard to be hopeful.”
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Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Ignoring convention, and, at times, the law, #Trump made vast changes. But by year’s end his popularity had sunk to historical lows, as Americans recoiled from his brutality extremism. Above all, they fretted about his failure to improve their economic well-being.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts (Gift Article)
Steven Rattner recaps the year of Trump in charts.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Ignoring convention, and, at times, the law, #Trump made vast changes. But by year’s end his popularity had sunk to historical lows, as Americans recoiled from his brutality extremism. Above all, they fretted about his failure to improve their economic well-being.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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And they can't seem to keep subscribers logged in when you want ti be. Anyway, gift link just in case.
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
And they can't seem to keep subscribers logged in when you want ti be. Anyway, gift link just in case.
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
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Nick Shirley’s lies: just click play.
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Nick Shirley’s lies: just click play.
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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I've been partnering with her almost 4 years now, and knew her from before the February 2022 invasion through her whale research (I interviewed her for a piece I was working on). I last met up with her in Warsaw a few months ago to deliver supplies. She's painfully honest and beyond dedicated.
January 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I've been partnering with her almost 4 years now, and knew her from before the February 2022 invasion through her whale research (I interviewed her for a piece I was working on). I last met up with her in Warsaw a few months ago to deliver supplies. She's painfully honest and beyond dedicated.
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For New Year's, talked to my friend Olga, who runs goods to the front lines from Kharkiv. She's moved everything from generators to a mobile hospital and ambulances. As seen in Mother Jones (below), CNN, NYT, and elsewhere. The work is staggeringly challenging. DM me if you would like to donate.
She was on the front lines of whale conservation. Now she's on the front lines of war.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended Olga Shpak's life—and a generation of science.
www.motherjones.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
For New Year's, talked to my friend Olga, who runs goods to the front lines from Kharkiv. She's moved everything from generators to a mobile hospital and ambulances. As seen in Mother Jones (below), CNN, NYT, and elsewhere. The work is staggeringly challenging. DM me if you would like to donate.
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I got a Chicago Manual of Style tshirt belatedly for Hanukah, and it's making me very happy to wear today. 🤓😎🗃️ #CMS
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chicagomanual.threadless.com/designs/clas...
classic logo (yellow) Women T-Shirt | The Chicago Manual of Style
Shop classic logo (yellow) – available on Women T-Shirt
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January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I got a Chicago Manual of Style tshirt belatedly for Hanukah, and it's making me very happy to wear today. 🤓😎🗃️ #CMS
chicagomanual.threadless.com/designs/clas...
chicagomanual.threadless.com/designs/clas...
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Nobel Peace Prize worthy
Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025:
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
January 3, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Nobel Peace Prize worthy
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DHS wants mug shots, fingerprints, palm prints, iris & retina scans, voiceprints, & DNA samples from anyone "associated with" any applicant for US admission, residency, or citizenship:
papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/0...
Submit comments before midnight ET tonight:
www.regulations.gov/document/USC...
papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/0...
Submit comments before midnight ET tonight:
www.regulations.gov/document/USC...
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
DHS wants mug shots, fingerprints, palm prints, iris & retina scans, voiceprints, & DNA samples from anyone "associated with" any applicant for US admission, residency, or citizenship:
papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/0...
Submit comments before midnight ET tonight:
www.regulations.gov/document/USC...
papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/0...
Submit comments before midnight ET tonight:
www.regulations.gov/document/USC...
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We have some great books coming out this month, including "P FKN R," by Bad Bunny Syllabus creators Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau. See all of January's #NewBooks on our blog! buff.ly/alCform
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
We have some great books coming out this month, including "P FKN R," by Bad Bunny Syllabus creators Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau. See all of January's #NewBooks on our blog! buff.ly/alCform
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Authors @naylandblake.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, and @margaretprice.bsky.social all have events in January. Perhaps you can make it to one!
buff.ly/KKvMEsd
buff.ly/KKvMEsd
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Authors @naylandblake.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, and @margaretprice.bsky.social all have events in January. Perhaps you can make it to one!
buff.ly/KKvMEsd
buff.ly/KKvMEsd
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Congratulations Jacob Engelberg! Love seeing this - a brilliant book (that had its origins from a brilliant Phd diss at King’s I had the pleasure to co-supervise w Rosalind Galt.) Bravo!
We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform
January 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Congratulations Jacob Engelberg! Love seeing this - a brilliant book (that had its origins from a brilliant Phd diss at King’s I had the pleasure to co-supervise w Rosalind Galt.) Bravo!
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We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform
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The grotesque DHS post evokes not only the beach vacation that will follow the hard work of deportation, but also the expansionist phase of post-Reconstruction Florida, when white northerners and midwesterners could imagine themselves industriously settling the subtropical edge of the country.
January 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The grotesque DHS post evokes not only the beach vacation that will follow the hard work of deportation, but also the expansionist phase of post-Reconstruction Florida, when white northerners and midwesterners could imagine themselves industriously settling the subtropical edge of the country.
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I shouldn't be spending more time thinking about this than the DHS staffer who image searched "palm trees surf vintage car", but as I'm researching C19/C20 Florida development history, it's hard to avoid the similarities.
Here's the cover of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami. Palm trees/ocean/car.
Here's the cover of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami. Palm trees/ocean/car.
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I shouldn't be spending more time thinking about this than the DHS staffer who image searched "palm trees surf vintage car", but as I'm researching C19/C20 Florida development history, it's hard to avoid the similarities.
Here's the cover of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami. Palm trees/ocean/car.
Here's the cover of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami. Palm trees/ocean/car.
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Ooh, “failsons from Cul-de-Sac County” is a new one!
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Ooh, “failsons from Cul-de-Sac County” is a new one!
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I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.
January 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.