Gräfin Freudenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social
Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
Pinned
I'm telling myself this is the bit where it looks as if all is lost but the heroes persevere.
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This is about that Camo Hat Guy article about the Mellon Foundation but it's also about the garden club & the office snacks & the school board: the person paying the piper is calling the tune. If you don't like the tune, you can join the garden club or volunteer to get snacks or run for school board
The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This is about that Camo Hat Guy article about the Mellon Foundation but it's also about the garden club & the office snacks & the school board: the person paying the piper is calling the tune. If you don't like the tune, you can join the garden club or volunteer to get snacks or run for school board
Angry about Henry James Sr's awful parenting all over again.
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Angry about Henry James Sr's awful parenting all over again.
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
These people need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars & a chunk of eternity in flames.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 AM
These people need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars & a chunk of eternity in flames.
I love the way on TNG if an older woman is sweet & friendly she's probably a hologram or a robot or a delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I love the way on TNG if an older woman is sweet & friendly she's probably a hologram or a robot or a delusion.
I don't want books by LLMs! I want the books my friends would write if they had the time & freed-up focus!
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't want books by LLMs! I want the books my friends would write if they had the time & freed-up focus!
Ditto a bunch of religions, alas.
Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
I often think the real ideological divide online is not really ideology by whether politics exists as a permission structure for behaviour or not
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Ditto a bunch of religions, alas.
And those Cracked articles about "Five Heroes who were Actually the Villains!" or "Ten 'Utopias' where Life would Actually Suck!"
The worst thing about millennials is how The AV Club and tvtropes convincing a generation of creatives the worst thing you can do with something is play it straight
A lot of media these days has what I call the "dragon problem". It's actually fairly unusual to just see art of a normal dragon, everybody's too convinced that they have to show their take on a dragon that it's much easier to find a dragon somebody was doing a "take" on than just, like, a dragon.
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
And those Cracked articles about "Five Heroes who were Actually the Villains!" or "Ten 'Utopias' where Life would Actually Suck!"
I think it's OK to mention how many of the people who work for & support Trmp resemble Dick Tracy villains, allegorical representations of vice in Goya paintings, & factory seconds from the Evil Stepsister Doll assembly line because they are white supremacists & they're not very supreme, are they?
February 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
I think it's OK to mention how many of the people who work for & support Trmp resemble Dick Tracy villains, allegorical representations of vice in Goya paintings, & factory seconds from the Evil Stepsister Doll assembly line because they are white supremacists & they're not very supreme, are they?
I love the idea of those wish bracelets where you make a wish as you tie them around your wrist & when the thread breaks you get your wish, but I feel that in order for it to work I'd have to purchase one from a patchouli-smelling young woman with cool tats at a craft fair instead of Online.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I love the idea of those wish bracelets where you make a wish as you tie them around your wrist & when the thread breaks you get your wish, but I feel that in order for it to work I'd have to purchase one from a patchouli-smelling young woman with cool tats at a craft fair instead of Online.
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i think it's bad, actually, that every tech executive is now just a different flavor of elon musk
February 14, 2026 at 12:41 AM
i think it's bad, actually, that every tech executive is now just a different flavor of elon musk
Iron deficiency is my body's Ronald Reagan, in that every time I look up a weird symptom it is traceable to that.
I do not want advice unless you have a spell for getting doctors to take you seriously!
I also do not want anyone going "Oh, my friend thought she had that but she had Blood Scorpions"
I do not want advice unless you have a spell for getting doctors to take you seriously!
I also do not want anyone going "Oh, my friend thought she had that but she had Blood Scorpions"
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Iron deficiency is my body's Ronald Reagan, in that every time I look up a weird symptom it is traceable to that.
I do not want advice unless you have a spell for getting doctors to take you seriously!
I also do not want anyone going "Oh, my friend thought she had that but she had Blood Scorpions"
I do not want advice unless you have a spell for getting doctors to take you seriously!
I also do not want anyone going "Oh, my friend thought she had that but she had Blood Scorpions"
Good skies today.
February 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Good skies today.
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The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
I always read TPUSA as Toilet Paper USA. :(
February 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I always read TPUSA as Toilet Paper USA. :(
The Elizabeth Bru-n-gs & Leah L-br-sco S-rg-ants are, like, some people will die of measles or diseases that could have been prevented with mRNA vaccines, but on the other hand some people are dying because they couldn't get an abortion, so who can say if this is good or not?
February 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The Elizabeth Bru-n-gs & Leah L-br-sco S-rg-ants are, like, some people will die of measles or diseases that could have been prevented with mRNA vaccines, but on the other hand some people are dying because they couldn't get an abortion, so who can say if this is good or not?
In my Renfield era (wishing I could have a cat).
February 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
In my Renfield era (wishing I could have a cat).
Roses are red,
Selfies are 'grammable
Always remember
Fascists are flammable
Selfies are 'grammable
Always remember
Fascists are flammable
February 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Roses are red,
Selfies are 'grammable
Always remember
Fascists are flammable
Selfies are 'grammable
Always remember
Fascists are flammable
Weaklings: Voting pales in comparison to my plan: firebombing a potential ICE facility! *fail to firebomb a potential ICE facility*
This hero: I've already voted. Now hold my purse.
This hero: I've already voted. Now hold my purse.
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Weaklings: Voting pales in comparison to my plan: firebombing a potential ICE facility! *fail to firebomb a potential ICE facility*
This hero: I've already voted. Now hold my purse.
This hero: I've already voted. Now hold my purse.
Et tu, Commonwealth?
“[Sam] Altman appeared via video to help [Governor Maura] Healey announce that #Massachusetts will be the first state to roll out OpenAI’s ChatGPT software to all 40,000 employees of the executive branch of government.”
#mapoli
#mapoli
At launch event for new AI council, Gov. Healy says state employees will get access to ChatGPT
Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-year, $4.3 million annual deal with OpenAI at a Thursday event launching the Massachusetts AI Coalition.
www.masslive.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Et tu, Commonwealth?
The thing about homeownership is maybe a 60-70-year period in which you could earn enough at your job to save up & purchase property while having a dog-level understanding of how the world works (want treat, bark at stranger, obey Master, make mess) was the fluke & we're reverting to normality.
February 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The thing about homeownership is maybe a 60-70-year period in which you could earn enough at your job to save up & purchase property while having a dog-level understanding of how the world works (want treat, bark at stranger, obey Master, make mess) was the fluke & we're reverting to normality.
Why am I thinking of that H. P. Lovecraft story where the narrator goes to his ancestral home & discovers there was a cannibal cult there & it takes over his mind & the last page of his account goes from English to Middle English to Latin to Gaelic to gibberish?
We all know about the Claude spiritual bliss attractor state. But what happens when you let Grok talk to itself for a long time? Answer:
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Why am I thinking of that H. P. Lovecraft story where the narrator goes to his ancestral home & discovers there was a cannibal cult there & it takes over his mind & the last page of his account goes from English to Middle English to Latin to Gaelic to gibberish?
Again, if we were the evil empire, why were we the ones paying for all the lifesaving medical research? You people are always making fun of us for paying big healthcare bills- can none of your nations that Do It Better pony up the jack for MRNA vaccines & carry the ball & be a hero?
February 13, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Again, if we were the evil empire, why were we the ones paying for all the lifesaving medical research? You people are always making fun of us for paying big healthcare bills- can none of your nations that Do It Better pony up the jack for MRNA vaccines & carry the ball & be a hero?
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It's like a guy making a joke about having sex with you.
I kinda wonder, given everything else we know about Hasan, if his "shoot you in the head" comment is projection on his part.
Oh boy, did Hasan just fly into an anti-Democrat rage after being criticized by two trans people? You'd think he'd be more mature than this, but...
February 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
It's like a guy making a joke about having sex with you.
Good news:
1. You can cook red lentils in the rice cooker! I added the last drops of wine & the remnant of the boursin that was too dry to be fun to eat & those were *smooth*.
2. Other people onhere are speculating about Dooku being Obi-Wan's father (& Anakin being a little accident of Qui-Gon's.)
1. You can cook red lentils in the rice cooker! I added the last drops of wine & the remnant of the boursin that was too dry to be fun to eat & those were *smooth*.
2. Other people onhere are speculating about Dooku being Obi-Wan's father (& Anakin being a little accident of Qui-Gon's.)
February 12, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Good news:
1. You can cook red lentils in the rice cooker! I added the last drops of wine & the remnant of the boursin that was too dry to be fun to eat & those were *smooth*.
2. Other people onhere are speculating about Dooku being Obi-Wan's father (& Anakin being a little accident of Qui-Gon's.)
1. You can cook red lentils in the rice cooker! I added the last drops of wine & the remnant of the boursin that was too dry to be fun to eat & those were *smooth*.
2. Other people onhere are speculating about Dooku being Obi-Wan's father (& Anakin being a little accident of Qui-Gon's.)