Mara Thacker 🏳️🌈🦇
@maralina.bsky.social
Librarian, scholar, dancer, reader, writer, and friend to dogs. I talk about comics and India a lot. 🌈 💜🦄 🤘🏼
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
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Hahahahahahaha holy fuck not only did they get nothing they got worse than nothing! Absolute fucking idiots all of them!
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hahahahahahaha holy fuck not only did they get nothing they got worse than nothing! Absolute fucking idiots all of them!
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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POST THE BEST CRASHOUTS PLLLLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🥰
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
POST THE BEST CRASHOUTS PLLLLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🥰
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
I have never been so invested in the election of a mayor in a city I don’t live in but HECK YESSSSS ZOHRAN MAMDANI!!!! I just hope we get to keep seeing more and more of his brand of hopeful, optimistic, community-driven, kind politics and meta politics in this world. 💜💜💜💜💜
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I have never been so invested in the election of a mayor in a city I don’t live in but HECK YESSSSS ZOHRAN MAMDANI!!!! I just hope we get to keep seeing more and more of his brand of hopeful, optimistic, community-driven, kind politics and meta politics in this world. 💜💜💜💜💜
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They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop...
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop...
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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Humanities Librarian (African American Studies and English Literature) Tenure-Track faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #jobopenings 📚 #Skybrarians (FYI Im chairing this search)
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Humanities Librarian (African American Studies and English Literature) Tenure-Track faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #jobopenings 📚 #Skybrarians (FYI Im chairing this search)
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Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
![• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
• "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
• "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
• "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
• "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
• "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
• "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
• "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
• "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
• "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
• "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/bafkreicrg2pdihe5ntgygv6uxk37yldeygsbewwpbsjw7a7xwqjohmap6i@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
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A message to our broken media:
Stop reporting on what our government says, because it is all lies.
Start reporting on what our government does, because they are violating our rights.
Stop reporting on what our government says, because it is all lies.
Start reporting on what our government does, because they are violating our rights.
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A message to our broken media:
Stop reporting on what our government says, because it is all lies.
Start reporting on what our government does, because they are violating our rights.
Stop reporting on what our government says, because it is all lies.
Start reporting on what our government does, because they are violating our rights.
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Today in completely predictable outcomes of this absolutely unnecessary bullshit technology
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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today in completely predictable outcomes of this absolutely unnecessary bullshit technology
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Just did this with my Drive settings, and yeah it had Gemini ticked by default without ever asking me if that was something I wanted
October 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just did this with my Drive settings, and yeah it had Gemini ticked by default without ever asking me if that was something I wanted
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
And he’s for sensible regulation of AI! And money out of politics! Proud to support his campaign. You can follow him at @dylanthomasblaha.bsky.social!
One of these guys is running for Congress on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ platform. Hell yeah. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And he’s for sensible regulation of AI! And money out of politics! Proud to support his campaign. You can follow him at @dylanthomasblaha.bsky.social!
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You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
I want to boycott Spotify and I will but it makes me sad after nearly so many years of curating playlists and also finally shifting my local files so I can teach Zumba. I need an app that plays nicely with Sonos and Bluetooth, allows upload of local files, and isn’t owned by fascist sympathizers.
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I want to boycott Spotify and I will but it makes me sad after nearly so many years of curating playlists and also finally shifting my local files so I can teach Zumba. I need an app that plays nicely with Sonos and Bluetooth, allows upload of local files, and isn’t owned by fascist sympathizers.
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"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I had the pleasure of meeting Archita on my last trip to Kolkata and can attest that she is a wonderful human. If you have a little extra to spare, consider a donation and/or sharing to help her through some tough times. 💜