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@precatlady.bsky.social
(they/she) Average social science doer, DIYer, cat lady, and occasional poster of frustrated local politics comments. Some know me as a digital public archaeologist. Personal account. Very tired, as portrayed by Muffin the foster cat.
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@precatlady.bsky.social
· Jun 5
IDK how to post on the garden feed but here's some cool flowers from this week, starting with PEONIES!!!
This is where I'm gonna put my garden photos that seem likely to bring others joy (as they do me)
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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If your family really sucks this holiday season, I am your new family and I think you're great and deserve love, a job, shelter and safety.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If your family really sucks this holiday season, I am your new family and I think you're great and deserve love, a job, shelter and safety.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Don't miss this opportunity: As 2025 comes to a close, Taylor and Francis are featuring all our past Humanities & Social Sciences collections in one place. Revisit more than 90+ articles spanning across 30 journals, made free until 31 December 2025!
I'm built different (could subsist on only apple juice)
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I'm built different (could subsist on only apple juice)
Hard day at the clicky clacky computer mines but feeling caught up and hopefully things are going to be decently calm & predictable this week, which is how I like things to be
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hard day at the clicky clacky computer mines but feeling caught up and hopefully things are going to be decently calm & predictable this week, which is how I like things to be
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Touch grass 👎
boring! Not threatening , not even an interesting POACEAE
Scrump 👍
YES! STEAL APPLES 🍎 FROM LANDLORDS IN A MENACING FASHION UNTIL THEY ARE AFRAID
Put the MALICE back in MALUS
boring! Not threatening , not even an interesting POACEAE
Scrump 👍
YES! STEAL APPLES 🍎 FROM LANDLORDS IN A MENACING FASHION UNTIL THEY ARE AFRAID
Put the MALICE back in MALUS
If you want a taste of REAL APPLE DISCOURSE the attached is exemplary
We must ELEVATE these TAKES
This is the truth of what they STOLE from US
If we are to RETURN to a past it should be APPLE MAXIMALISM
Our INTEREST in APPLES should FRIGHTEN CAPITALISTS
orchardnotes.com/2021/04/24/n...
We must ELEVATE these TAKES
This is the truth of what they STOLE from US
If we are to RETURN to a past it should be APPLE MAXIMALISM
Our INTEREST in APPLES should FRIGHTEN CAPITALISTS
orchardnotes.com/2021/04/24/n...
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Touch grass 👎
boring! Not threatening , not even an interesting POACEAE
Scrump 👍
YES! STEAL APPLES 🍎 FROM LANDLORDS IN A MENACING FASHION UNTIL THEY ARE AFRAID
Put the MALICE back in MALUS
boring! Not threatening , not even an interesting POACEAE
Scrump 👍
YES! STEAL APPLES 🍎 FROM LANDLORDS IN A MENACING FASHION UNTIL THEY ARE AFRAID
Put the MALICE back in MALUS
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
Learned about a new to me local 911 call map pdx911.wtf
Live map of 911 dispatches in Portland Oregon | PDX911.wtf
What are all those sirens about? Here's the 50 most recent calls for service to Portland 911. Data is updated approx. every 5 minutes.
pdx911.wtf
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Learned about a new to me local 911 call map pdx911.wtf
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
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I dislike the term “AI” too, but it’s well rooted at this point. We’re more likely to change assumptions about AI than to replace the term.
And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +
And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I dislike the term “AI” too, but it’s well rooted at this point. We’re more likely to change assumptions about AI than to replace the term.
And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +
And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +
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I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.
Fellow soup patrons are listening to your banter. noted.
These charges were brought solely based on a conversation between the two that an off duty cop supposedly heard at a Pho restaurant???
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Fellow soup patrons are listening to your banter. noted.
It is amazing how big a difference it sometimes makes to unfollow or mute someone who reposts way more than anyone else
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It is amazing how big a difference it sometimes makes to unfollow or mute someone who reposts way more than anyone else
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
fake evo-psych has cooked a lot of people's brains
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
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Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.
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go back to your bananas and apples, rookie. we're centering fruits your white ass never dreamed of.
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
go back to your bananas and apples, rookie. we're centering fruits your white ass never dreamed of.
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What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.
Worst crossover of the day?
Judge Ellis also found that a top CBP leader's testimony was not credible, in part because he admitted that was relying on unreliable "use of force" reports generated by DHS officers — and in a footnote, says video showed an officer asking ChatGPT to help him fill out a use of force report!
![As for the evidence Defendants marshalled through Parra with respect to CBP’s actions, Parra testified in his deposition that he had only been in the field with CBP a “handful of times, four to five,” during Operation Midway Blitz. Doc. 191-9 at 30:7–10. And he made clear that he based much of his declaration on information he gleaned from use of force reports, with maybe some (unidentified) review of video footage. See, e.g., id. at 81:17–82:16, 85:17–23, 86:15–91:1 (describing that Parra viewed some video footage, but that he could not recall how much or of what events). Given the inconsistencies between the BWC footage and the use of force reports, with the BWC footage undermining what agents put in their reports, the Court cannot rely on Parra’s broad generalizations of protesters’ actions or Defendants’ responses to those actions. [FN 9]
[FN 9] 9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidrgcuxzzkkyozeaimpri73bx75rjcbkhvo5gpkv2lbm4kgpcsk74@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Worst crossover of the day?
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
Thanks to me from 12 months ago for teaching myself to automate these formulaic emails instead of sending 200+ emails individually, and also for fine tuning every message so I can just change the dates this time. I am great to me.
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Thanks to me from 12 months ago for teaching myself to automate these formulaic emails instead of sending 200+ emails individually, and also for fine tuning every message so I can just change the dates this time. I am great to me.
Since I'm anthropologposting, just imagine I have this exact comic panel, in b&w newsprint form, taped to my office door
Or this Far Side that @texasinafrica.bsky.social posted.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Since I'm anthropologposting, just imagine I have this exact comic panel, in b&w newsprint form, taped to my office door
As fellow archaeologists surely agree, we don't really need to tell a charming story, we kinda just say our profession then get carried away in a tidal wave of Indiana Jones references
I establish my charm by telling people about my quest to find the mysterious administrator of DOGE.
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
As fellow archaeologists surely agree, we don't really need to tell a charming story, we kinda just say our profession then get carried away in a tidal wave of Indiana Jones references
Today I learned that Olivia Nuzzi looks like an American version of Ellie Goulding
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Today I learned that Olivia Nuzzi looks like an American version of Ellie Goulding