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Professor. Public Servant. Union Asset. Nerd.
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Guess what I'm building tomorrow.
I rep my first grievance tomorrow. Wish me luck.
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I cannot stress enough just how much wide LLM adoption is harming the human capacity to *try*. To just do things on your own, to think critically about a topic or a problem, to read and synthesize ideas. These are such important skills and we’re just giving them up.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I need to stress. That was not a good thing!!

- Signed, the woman who cries on every non-science assignment.
For the former gifted kids: You know how school was trivially easy and you skated through without trying? Remember when you first encountered a truly hard course and it destroyed you because you never learned to persist in the face of adversity? LLMs are putting everyone through that experience.
I cannot stress enough just how much wide LLM adoption is harming the human capacity to *try*. To just do things on your own, to think critically about a topic or a problem, to read and synthesize ideas. These are such important skills and we’re just giving them up.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
ChatGPT "'I don't know' isn't in my lexicon so here is a fact I made up so you are happy with me"
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hey Doug. I went to school, I got a job. And without appropriate supports, stable housing, and a living wage I won't be able to keep that job.

Get fucked you nepo-bully.
Doug Ford tells someone protesting his disastrous Bill 60 to find a job.

The gall of the laziest premier telling someone to get a job.

He’s a loathsome human and absolute shambles of a leader who has never had the best interests of anyone but himself in mind during his reign of destruction.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm watching @loadingreadyrun.com play powerwash simulator.

Me: as someone who's powerwashed, this game is so unrealistic.

@ladyjessica0.bsky.social: you don't understand powerwash simulator and you never will

Me: they don't understand powerwashing!!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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As an African, I can promise you that USAID shutting down isn't the reason why Africans are suffering. It's fucking imperialism. WESTERN CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND GENOCIDE. And USAID is a predatory arm of the CIA that has carried out countless colour revolutions in Socialist nonwestern countries.
DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.

Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.

Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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This is a helpful tool to understand just how different a car is from a bicycle

A crossover SUV does *149,483 times as much damage* as a bike per trip

150,000x the damage.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm such a union girl I'm in two locals. Four nights this week is union meetinga then this weekend more union stuff

Union
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

#ithasaflaredbase
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Anyone know an Amy from the maritimes?

She's at exit B if it matters.
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In my Ravnica game, the Gruul Clans' favorite ritual is leftist purity politics.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The ruling class wants you sick and tired
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
We should all be reading WLMK's journal entry about the time he met Hitler today.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I wonder if the CDC is interested in my tiger repelling rock
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Parental Rights seems to be code for I abuse my Children.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
So many good giveaways at #desertbus this shift. It's gonna be a late night. @desertbus.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The theme of this year's International Men's Day is celebrating men and boys.

Big appreciation to @engler.ca and @pyat.bsky.social. men who I want my nephew one day to look up to.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Today is International Men’s Day. To all the men who carry heavy burdens in silence, who are fighting battles nobody knows about, and who keep moving forward despite the pain: Keep fighting.
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM