Kirsten
@kpteasdale.bsky.social
I have an infant but sure I have the time for more social media
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Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.
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The state of Staten Island’s local MTA bus service:
Customer satisfaction: ⬇️
2024 wait times: Nearly 2x the city average
Peak-hour service delivery: 90.6% (95.9% in the other boroughs)
“The service out here is very unpredictable.”
NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/23/s...
Customer satisfaction: ⬇️
2024 wait times: Nearly 2x the city average
Peak-hour service delivery: 90.6% (95.9% in the other boroughs)
“The service out here is very unpredictable.”
NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/23/s...
Staten Islanders Suffer From Bus Slowdown and Increasing Wait Times
Commuters in the oft-neglected borough say they are missing school and church because of buses that can’t seem to find the fast lane.
www.thecity.nyc
April 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The state of Staten Island’s local MTA bus service:
Customer satisfaction: ⬇️
2024 wait times: Nearly 2x the city average
Peak-hour service delivery: 90.6% (95.9% in the other boroughs)
“The service out here is very unpredictable.”
NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/23/s...
Customer satisfaction: ⬇️
2024 wait times: Nearly 2x the city average
Peak-hour service delivery: 90.6% (95.9% in the other boroughs)
“The service out here is very unpredictable.”
NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/23/s...
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The women’s health initiative has followed tens of thousands of women for more than 30 years and provided invaluable information on topics like hormone replacement and cancer.
Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.
Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The women’s health initiative has followed tens of thousands of women for more than 30 years and provided invaluable information on topics like hormone replacement and cancer.
Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.
Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.
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This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.
After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
April 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.
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Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
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This is... so grotesque. Absolute anarchy.
The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
April 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is... so grotesque. Absolute anarchy.
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
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The people who whine “but what can the Democrats do?” will always find their answer just looking at what the Republicans did when they had less power.
In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
March 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The people who whine “but what can the Democrats do?” will always find their answer just looking at what the Republicans did when they had less power.
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Efficiency was not the goal.
That’s pretend. Feudalism is the goal
That’s pretend. Feudalism is the goal
One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”
March 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Efficiency was not the goal.
That’s pretend. Feudalism is the goal
That’s pretend. Feudalism is the goal
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
media.tenor.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
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Hey here’s a tip: no account that claims to be an “alt” or “undercover” or whatever version of a federal department is real
March 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hey here’s a tip: no account that claims to be an “alt” or “undercover” or whatever version of a federal department is real
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Judges gotta start throwing these people in jail or else they're gonna continue to fuck around. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
February 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Judges gotta start throwing these people in jail or else they're gonna continue to fuck around. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Briefly going to use this as a jumping off point to talk about art! There's a concept in art history called kunstwollen or "will to art" introduced by Alois Riegel, who was a late 19th century Austrian art historian. It is often used to explain why certain motifs appear at certain times in history.
As part of this, I think it is also useful to emphasise that Henry Ford was a big fan of Hitler. Big technology has always been a close ally of authoritarianism, as we are witnessing in our own times, & that point needs to be made more frequently.
February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Briefly going to use this as a jumping off point to talk about art! There's a concept in art history called kunstwollen or "will to art" introduced by Alois Riegel, who was a late 19th century Austrian art historian. It is often used to explain why certain motifs appear at certain times in history.
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the elite oligarchy in america, through elon musk, are attempting to create a parallel establishment to usher in the destruction of the US government and the ascendency of a new technocracy
February 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the elite oligarchy in america, through elon musk, are attempting to create a parallel establishment to usher in the destruction of the US government and the ascendency of a new technocracy
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"Tens of thousands of American children studying in Pentagon schools serving US military families have had all access to library books suspended for a week while officials conduct a 'compliance review' under Donald Trump’s crackdown on DEI and gender equality."
Pentagon schools suspend library books for ‘compliance review’ under Trump orders
Revealed: defense department sends memo that it’s reviewing for books ‘related to gender … or discriminatory equity ideology topics’
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Tens of thousands of American children studying in Pentagon schools serving US military families have had all access to library books suspended for a week while officials conduct a 'compliance review' under Donald Trump’s crackdown on DEI and gender equality."
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At last, a health secretary who’ll do something about miasma
February 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
At last, a health secretary who’ll do something about miasma
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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...