Melis
@merree.bsky.social
Neurodivergent AF.
Compassion is a love language.
If your feminism isn’t intersectional, you’re not doing it right.
Decolonize your reality.
刀子嘴豆腐心
Compassion is a love language.
If your feminism isn’t intersectional, you’re not doing it right.
Decolonize your reality.
刀子嘴豆腐心
The fastest way to get mediocre men to stop telling you their problems is to suggest therapy. Suddenly they have it all under control and there are excuses for everything.
May 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The fastest way to get mediocre men to stop telling you their problems is to suggest therapy. Suddenly they have it all under control and there are excuses for everything.
Silly rabbit. Why would we regulate anything that is could be weaponized against you conveniently without your awareness?
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
Sweeping provision would halt all local oversight of AI by US states.
arstechnica.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Silly rabbit. Why would we regulate anything that is could be weaponized against you conveniently without your awareness?
Ha!! Love this energy!
Utah passed a law to ban Pride flags.
Salt Lake City created new official city flags that incorporated banned flag features, so they can be flown w/o breaking the law.
"So shines a good deed in a wearing world."
Salt Lake City created new official city flags that incorporated banned flag features, so they can be flown w/o breaking the law.
"So shines a good deed in a wearing world."
If approved, SLC would have 4 flag designs. It's current, as well as one tied to Progress Pride, Juneteenth and Transgender designs as seen here #utpol:
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ha!! Love this energy!
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Donald Trump’s tariff plan has pushed businesses into a choose-your-own-adventure exercise in how to raise prices, Stephanie Bai writes in The Atlantic Daily.
The Art of the Price Hike
Trump’s tariff plan has pushed America’s businesses into a nightmarish experiment.
bit.ly
May 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Donald Trump’s tariff plan has pushed businesses into a choose-your-own-adventure exercise in how to raise prices, Stephanie Bai writes in The Atlantic Daily.
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For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
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100 men vs. 1 gorilla?
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
100 men vs. 1 gorilla?
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
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Is anybody missing two jets? I found two jets. I will leave them on the lawn until noon, otherwise they're going OBO on Facebook marketplace.
May 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is anybody missing two jets? I found two jets. I will leave them on the lawn until noon, otherwise they're going OBO on Facebook marketplace.
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Too many people are allowing Donald Trump to continue because “they’re thinking of what is in their own personal, financial well-being, and not what is in the well-being of our democracy,” Cory Booker says.
“When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?”
Senator Cory Booker on the grave harm that Donald Trump has inflicted on American life in his first hundred days in office.
www.newyorker.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Too many people are allowing Donald Trump to continue because “they’re thinking of what is in their own personal, financial well-being, and not what is in the well-being of our democracy,” Cory Booker says.
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An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age—but @skornhaber.bsky.social isn’t so sure.
Kornhaber surveyed a number of prominent critics who believe popular culture is at an all-time low point. He thinks there’s another story to be told: https://theatln.tc/m7lOysa0
Kornhaber surveyed a number of prominent critics who believe popular culture is at an all-time low point. He thinks there’s another story to be told: https://theatln.tc/m7lOysa0
May 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age—but @skornhaber.bsky.social isn’t so sure.
Kornhaber surveyed a number of prominent critics who believe popular culture is at an all-time low point. He thinks there’s another story to be told: https://theatln.tc/m7lOysa0
Kornhaber surveyed a number of prominent critics who believe popular culture is at an all-time low point. He thinks there’s another story to be told: https://theatln.tc/m7lOysa0
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You can't solve it all, but you can make someone feel seen today.
Start there.
Start there.
May 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
You can't solve it all, but you can make someone feel seen today.
Start there.
Start there.
Undermine? Hmm. If anything, it reinforces the need to skill up in battling misinformation.
A secret experiment that turned Redditors into guinea pigs was an ethical disaster—and could undermine research that’s only getting more urgent, @tombartlett.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/xtKXNOyA
May 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Undermine? Hmm. If anything, it reinforces the need to skill up in battling misinformation.
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Happy Star Wars Day.
Got to ask though, got to wonder how many people have actually seen it, having just seen a large number vote for the Dark Side.
Did you not listen to Yoda?
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".
Got to ask though, got to wonder how many people have actually seen it, having just seen a large number vote for the Dark Side.
Did you not listen to Yoda?
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".
May 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Happy Star Wars Day.
Got to ask though, got to wonder how many people have actually seen it, having just seen a large number vote for the Dark Side.
Did you not listen to Yoda?
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".
Got to ask though, got to wonder how many people have actually seen it, having just seen a large number vote for the Dark Side.
Did you not listen to Yoda?
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".
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For those of you who want to enjoy the fact that rich people are no longer as rich as their balance sheets because of a lack of liquidity in private investments
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Economy Is in a Pickle
What America needs: zero tariffs, a robust dollar, deregulation and reduced tax rates.
www.wsj.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For those of you who want to enjoy the fact that rich people are no longer as rich as their balance sheets because of a lack of liquidity in private investments
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Men, I get that you’re being chivalrous by letting women walk ahead first, but you need to know that sometimes women don’t know if they can trust you and may not feel comfortable with a strange man behind them or seeing which way they go.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Cuz yall created it.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Cuz yall created it.
May 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Men, I get that you’re being chivalrous by letting women walk ahead first, but you need to know that sometimes women don’t know if they can trust you and may not feel comfortable with a strange man behind them or seeing which way they go.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Cuz yall created it.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Cuz yall created it.
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I made overnight oats with chia seeds & Greek yogurt for the first time because all the waify white ladies with brown-blonde hair assured me it was delicious.
These lying-ass heifers.
It tastes like oats & has the consistency and texture of baby shit.
THIS is what you've all been eating? Girl...
These lying-ass heifers.
It tastes like oats & has the consistency and texture of baby shit.
THIS is what you've all been eating? Girl...
May 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I made overnight oats with chia seeds & Greek yogurt for the first time because all the waify white ladies with brown-blonde hair assured me it was delicious.
These lying-ass heifers.
It tastes like oats & has the consistency and texture of baby shit.
THIS is what you've all been eating? Girl...
These lying-ass heifers.
It tastes like oats & has the consistency and texture of baby shit.
THIS is what you've all been eating? Girl...
“You’ll hang a right at the bratwurst; go past the apple strudel to the ice cream.”
Overheard at street festival.
Overheard at street festival.
May 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“You’ll hang a right at the bratwurst; go past the apple strudel to the ice cream.”
Overheard at street festival.
Overheard at street festival.
Hear me out. DoorDash but the dasher stays to deliver the food straight to your mouth for bites because you’re so exhausted. Extra tip, ofc.
May 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hear me out. DoorDash but the dasher stays to deliver the food straight to your mouth for bites because you’re so exhausted. Extra tip, ofc.
Placebo testing. On vaccines.
Wait, wait, don’t tell me, we will use the innocent people locked away in the concentration camps.
Wait, wait, don’t tell me, we will use the innocent people locked away in the concentration camps.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Placebo testing. On vaccines.
Wait, wait, don’t tell me, we will use the innocent people locked away in the concentration camps.
Wait, wait, don’t tell me, we will use the innocent people locked away in the concentration camps.
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In the U.S., we’re told to love our jobs, and to find meaning in them, as if work were a family, or a religion. On May Day, revisit Jill Lepore on how the unravelling of the labor movement ushered in a new era of work as life.
What’s Wrong with the Way We Work
Americans are told to give their all—time, labor, and passion—to their jobs. But do their jobs give enough back?
nyer.cm
May 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In the U.S., we’re told to love our jobs, and to find meaning in them, as if work were a family, or a religion. On May Day, revisit Jill Lepore on how the unravelling of the labor movement ushered in a new era of work as life.
At this point we should just stick to Brawndo, because it’s got what plants crave.
*flips entire Bingo table*
*flips entire Bingo table*
US bets $500 million on universal vaccines, WSJ reports reut.rs/3ENBsYs
US bets $500 million on universal vaccines, WSJ reports
The United States is investing $500 million in a vaccine project, with the goal of making "universal" vaccines that protect against multiple strains of a virus at once, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing emails.
reut.rs
May 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At this point we should just stick to Brawndo, because it’s got what plants crave.
*flips entire Bingo table*
*flips entire Bingo table*
People are always so afraid to have authentic conversations about controversial topics that we continue to miss the ball and allow for the loudest and most ignorant voices to be the ones heard.
A reminder of why I do what I do. Jaylon—a former student and PoliSci major at Stanford—joins the DEI convo after reading my piece in the Stanford Daily. Proud to see him step into the arena, calling out the factless claims and flimsy arguments of DEI’s critics.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/30/t...
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/30/t...
From the Community | The problem with conversations on DEI
Jaylon Jones '26 reacts to recent conversations around DEI, calling on Stanford to re-evaluate the importance of fact checking when having discussions.
stanforddaily.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
People are always so afraid to have authentic conversations about controversial topics that we continue to miss the ball and allow for the loudest and most ignorant voices to be the ones heard.
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Dutch satire hitting where it hurts "The US is relieved no precious minerals were hit, only Ukrainian civilians and buildings".
VS over Russische droneaanval op Odesa: ‘Gelukkig geen mineralen geraakt’
VS over Russische droneaanval op Odesa: ‘Gelukkig geen mineralen geraakt’
De Verenigde Staten reageerden in eerste instantie geschokt na een droneaanval op Oekraïens grondgebied, maar al snel kwam de Amerikaanse regering met een geruststellende boodschap.
speld.nl
May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Dutch satire hitting where it hurts "The US is relieved no precious minerals were hit, only Ukrainian civilians and buildings".
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the number of times i was told i did not really want a simple chronological feed
Just yesterday I was thinking about how, when social media platforms rolled out algorithms, everyone was like “we don’t want that.” And they were like “no no, trust us, the data says you do; it’ll be great.” Now not only are the algorithms not great, they sucked the life out of everything
from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, worth considering
May 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the number of times i was told i did not really want a simple chronological feed