Jeanette
@jeanette555.bsky.social
formerly known as @rabbit1080 on twitter. she/her.
Perth, Western Australia.
Perth, Western Australia.
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trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
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One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
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this is a deeply unsettling fact to have learned at 1am
Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle.
2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%.
The average human is around 20-40%, for reference.
They're *all* muscle.
2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%.
The average human is around 20-40%, for reference.
They're *all* muscle.
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
this is a deeply unsettling fact to have learned at 1am
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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"phishing" is right there
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"phishing" is right there
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Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
Wizard keeps throwing fireballs like confetti every combat while sorcerer keeps spending sorcery points trying to perfect subtle spells?
Problematic mage gap.
Problematic mage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Good news, everyone! I've finally added Astronomy Picture of the Day's RSS feed to my RSS reader. They have some spekky and really interesting stuff there.
RSS here: apod.com/feed.rss
Weird stuff about gravitational lenses on one of their posts here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25110...
RSS here: apod.com/feed.rss
Weird stuff about gravitational lenses on one of their posts here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25110...
APOD: 2025 November 2 – A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble
A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good news, everyone! I've finally added Astronomy Picture of the Day's RSS feed to my RSS reader. They have some spekky and really interesting stuff there.
RSS here: apod.com/feed.rss
Weird stuff about gravitational lenses on one of their posts here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25110...
RSS here: apod.com/feed.rss
Weird stuff about gravitational lenses on one of their posts here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25110...
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LET'S GO!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
LET'S GO!
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Bread! Is! A! UPF! Of course we eat UPFs daily because ‘ultra processed foods’ are foods derived from whole foods that have gone through ‘industrial methods of production’. Yes, if you only eat white bread, you will be unwell! Incredible!
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Bread! Is! A! UPF! Of course we eat UPFs daily because ‘ultra processed foods’ are foods derived from whole foods that have gone through ‘industrial methods of production’. Yes, if you only eat white bread, you will be unwell! Incredible!
Lil Enamel dish is happy to have served as a lid while I was cooking a small trial run of tamarind & date sauce in the air fryer.
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Lil Enamel dish is happy to have served as a lid while I was cooking a small trial run of tamarind & date sauce in the air fryer.
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I don't think I'm overestimating at all. I have spent a lot of time dealing with victims and their enablers.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don't think I'm overestimating at all. I have spent a lot of time dealing with victims and their enablers.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
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Me: 🎵🎶Soooooooooooooooo???🎶🎵
My husband: No. Stop.
My husband: No. Stop.
I love AWS outages as it's the only time I can ask my sys admin husband "Is the internet down again?" and he will very grudgingly admit "...yeah kind of."
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Me: 🎵🎶Soooooooooooooooo???🎶🎵
My husband: No. Stop.
My husband: No. Stop.
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I recently corresponded with a customer service rep in emails, cheerily and by name. She assured me she'd changed my order. Turns out 'she' hadn't, because 'she' didn't exist and the AI didn't do anything, just pretended to. I just felt mortified at being fooled. Will never buy from them again.
You turned all your frontline customer service reps into AI agents, now people perceive your company as having lower overhead, worse customer care and aren’t willing to pay as much for your product 🤡
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I recently corresponded with a customer service rep in emails, cheerily and by name. She assured me she'd changed my order. Turns out 'she' hadn't, because 'she' didn't exist and the AI didn't do anything, just pretended to. I just felt mortified at being fooled. Will never buy from them again.
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
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November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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6. If you try and use wholegrain bread for fairy bread you deserve to be cast into a hellish doompit where you will only ever be served desserts with--and this is important--no sugar added to them at all. Ever. And overly milky, very weak tea using a re-used soggy tea bag. (I do not make the rules.)
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
6. If you try and use wholegrain bread for fairy bread you deserve to be cast into a hellish doompit where you will only ever be served desserts with--and this is important--no sugar added to them at all. Ever. And overly milky, very weak tea using a re-used soggy tea bag. (I do not make the rules.)
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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I’m gonna disagree with this one.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’m gonna disagree with this one.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
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today’s wholesome masculinity at the boxing gym: all the guys standing around agreeing that ballerinas are way stronger than anybody gives them credit for and swapping stories about flaming out at barre classes
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
today’s wholesome masculinity at the boxing gym: all the guys standing around agreeing that ballerinas are way stronger than anybody gives them credit for and swapping stories about flaming out at barre classes
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New favourite example of structural ambiguity
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
New favourite example of structural ambiguity
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one dope thing about getting older is actually getting to see some shit you thought was neat many years ago bear fruit. I felt like this following the application of ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression for like 10+ years, only for it to be a real thing now that saved my life
So, a bunch of my friends back in college actually researched the potential future mRNA applications could have.
I genuinely thought it sounded magical, something that might happen in the next century.
And now it's real! It's effective!
I genuinely thought it sounded magical, something that might happen in the next century.
And now it's real! It's effective!
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
one dope thing about getting older is actually getting to see some shit you thought was neat many years ago bear fruit. I felt like this following the application of ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression for like 10+ years, only for it to be a real thing now that saved my life
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November 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”
I think about that often.
I think about that often.
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”
I think about that often.
I think about that often.