Leila Stegemoeller
@ljsteg.bsky.social
English PhD candidate @ UCSB.
Very Bernarr-Macfadden coded -- American's physical culture who "often walked six hours and twenty-five miles" to work and whose motto was: "weakness is a crime! Don't be a criminal!" (See Mark Adams' excellent book Mr. America for more!)
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Very Bernarr-Macfadden coded -- American's physical culture who "often walked six hours and twenty-five miles" to work and whose motto was: "weakness is a crime! Don't be a criminal!" (See Mark Adams' excellent book Mr. America for more!)
There are so many dangerous details / insights into strange user fantasies in this analysis of ChatGPT's capitulation to its users desired answers (ex. it begins w/ "yes" 10x more than "no") -- but something about "censoring its own swear word" really stood out here. Pathetic! archive.ph/gKgWf
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There are so many dangerous details / insights into strange user fantasies in this analysis of ChatGPT's capitulation to its users desired answers (ex. it begins w/ "yes" 10x more than "no") -- but something about "censoring its own swear word" really stood out here. Pathetic! archive.ph/gKgWf
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
A devastating loss.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
A devastating loss.
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He will awake fresh, anew, unburdened by time or memory
tomorrow Mike Johnson will demolish his own world record least believable “I haven’t heard about that, haven’t seen that” establishing a new milestone that will stand undefeated for generations
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
He will awake fresh, anew, unburdened by time or memory
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
It was very surreal to teach students born c. 2003-2006 about this in my health humanities class last year (via Michael Moore, another ancient unknown for them!).
Remember, before ACA you were able to ✌️purchase your own much better healthcare✌️, except that it was completely unaffordable and insurance companies could deny you for preexisting conditions and/or raise your premiums/cancel your coverage when you used your healthcare insurance for HEALTHCARE.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It was very surreal to teach students born c. 2003-2006 about this in my health humanities class last year (via Michael Moore, another ancient unknown for them!).
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How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go
Getting into mudlarking YouTube (“The People’s Antiques Roadshow UK”). Appeals to my inner Little Mermaid.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Getting into mudlarking YouTube (“The People’s Antiques Roadshow UK”). Appeals to my inner Little Mermaid.
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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I miss you like the deserts miss the rain bro
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I miss you like the deserts miss the rain bro
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🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨
Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary
More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary
More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
October 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨
Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary
More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary
More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
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This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌
June 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌
“their findings were unequivocal: ‘The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data on the use of GAHT in pediatric patients with GD. However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion.’”
Today's newsletter is about the study Republicans in Utah ordered about trans youth... that they're now ignoring. www.readtpa.com/p/the-study-...
The Study Republicans Demanded About Trans Kids Just Backfired. Guess What the Media Isn't Covering?
Utah commissioned actual experts to review the science on gender-affirming care. The results? Inconvenient truths that don't fit the narrative.
www.readtpa.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“their findings were unequivocal: ‘The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data on the use of GAHT in pediatric patients with GD. However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion.’”
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There should be a country band that parodies Smiths songs, with titles like:
This Farming Man
Girlfriend in Oklahoma
Some Grills are Bigger Than Others
There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)
This Farming Man
Girlfriend in Oklahoma
Some Grills are Bigger Than Others
There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)
May 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There should be a country band that parodies Smiths songs, with titles like:
This Farming Man
Girlfriend in Oklahoma
Some Grills are Bigger Than Others
There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)
This Farming Man
Girlfriend in Oklahoma
Some Grills are Bigger Than Others
There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)
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“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Appeals Court Reverses Texas First Amendment Ruling
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 23 reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County, a Texas case challenging the re...
www.publishersweekly.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Well, I’ve done it: tomorrow the queen will give me her firstborn! I spun a bunch of straw into gold for her. The king was gonna off her if she didn’t (seems a messed up marital situation, but who am I to judge). Now to celebrate imp-style, hopping around my cottage and giving props unto my own name
August 24, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Well, I’ve done it: tomorrow the queen will give me her firstborn! I spun a bunch of straw into gold for her. The king was gonna off her if she didn’t (seems a messed up marital situation, but who am I to judge). Now to celebrate imp-style, hopping around my cottage and giving props unto my own name
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Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad.
nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
RFK’s ideas about “wellness farms” for young people are eugenic and unconstitutional
Before he became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted an idea about sending young people with substance abuse and other mental health issues to “we…
nursingclio.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad.
nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
A very relatable 1906 Westminster Review headline / subheading combo as I try and make use of *my* brain this afternoon (though you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to its author, "'scientific' phrenologist" Bernard Hollander. Source: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... )
May 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A very relatable 1906 Westminster Review headline / subheading combo as I try and make use of *my* brain this afternoon (though you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to its author, "'scientific' phrenologist" Bernard Hollander. Source: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... )
Researching feeding machines & came across this extraordinary woman: Bessie Blount gave her invention free to French WWII veterans; when asked later, said: "Forget me. It’s what we have contributed to humanity—that as a black female we can do more than nurse their babies and clean their toilets.”
The Woman Who Made a Device to Help Disabled Veterans Feed Themselves—and Gave It Away for Free
World War II nurse Bessie Blount went on to become an inventor and forensic handwriting expert
www.smithsonianmag.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Researching feeding machines & came across this extraordinary woman: Bessie Blount gave her invention free to French WWII veterans; when asked later, said: "Forget me. It’s what we have contributed to humanity—that as a black female we can do more than nurse their babies and clean their toilets.”
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Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island
Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island
Rescuers on Kangaroo Island say they are ‘overjoyed’ after the dog walked into one of their traps
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After 529 days on the run, Australia’s favourite fugitive has been caught at last.
Valerie the miniature dachshund, who went missing on Kangaroo Island way back in 2023, has been rescued by conservationists. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island
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To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.
Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
April 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.
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#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou
April 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou