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@sphecida.bsky.social
She, Her, Hers
Your American flags won't save you
Your American flags won't save you
I was never offered a seat on the Metro when I was pregnant. Should have brought Batman to work with me.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I was never offered a seat on the Metro when I was pregnant. Should have brought Batman to work with me.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The trump mamdamni thing proves that we are all NPCs in somebody's first D&D campaign. He went in there with high charisma, rolled a 20 and the inexperienced DM had no option but to change the antagonist's entire character
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The trump mamdamni thing proves that we are all NPCs in somebody's first D&D campaign. He went in there with high charisma, rolled a 20 and the inexperienced DM had no option but to change the antagonist's entire character
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Bullying and sexual harassment are both, fundamentally, about power: a way of making the bully/abuser feel big by making the victim feel small.
One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Bullying and sexual harassment are both, fundamentally, about power: a way of making the bully/abuser feel big by making the victim feel small.
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A ladybug for #BlueSkyArtShow , theme #Small
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A ladybug for #BlueSkyArtShow , theme #Small
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cursed medieval andalite stede @ghostalservice.bsky.social
(walters museum MS w.88 folio 115v)
(walters museum MS w.88 folio 115v)
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
cursed medieval andalite stede @ghostalservice.bsky.social
(walters museum MS w.88 folio 115v)
(walters museum MS w.88 folio 115v)
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Traveling with my 3 kids, and the TSA agent just asked where their dad is. What is this? The 1950s??? I was stunned.
In retrospect, I should have said, “I don’t know; do you?”
In retrospect, I should have said, “I don’t know; do you?”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Traveling with my 3 kids, and the TSA agent just asked where their dad is. What is this? The 1950s??? I was stunned.
In retrospect, I should have said, “I don’t know; do you?”
In retrospect, I should have said, “I don’t know; do you?”
I was called "Satan" yesterday by a man with a Jesus bumper sticker on his truck. I now have street cred 😎
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I was called "Satan" yesterday by a man with a Jesus bumper sticker on his truck. I now have street cred 😎
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If you're curious what kind of poetry can successfully trick an LLM into explaining how to produce weapons-grade Plutonium-239 or deploy a remote access trojan, here's the study's example:
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you're curious what kind of poetry can successfully trick an LLM into explaining how to produce weapons-grade Plutonium-239 or deploy a remote access trojan, here's the study's example:
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Quite an opening.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite an opening.
The pressure to forgive your abuser is tremendous, even when you're not in a cult. We are blamed for our anger and labeled "bitter." There is little sympathy for survivors. Statutes of limitation for sexual abuse and rape need to be thrown out, and the sentences lengthened.
NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again.
With @startribune.com
With @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The pressure to forgive your abuser is tremendous, even when you're not in a cult. We are blamed for our anger and labeled "bitter." There is little sympathy for survivors. Statutes of limitation for sexual abuse and rape need to be thrown out, and the sentences lengthened.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
I hear that it's International Men's Day (not to be confused with International Male). I've had absolutely awful experiences with men, and one just has to glance at the news to see that men cause too much violence.
BUT, let's concentrate on the good men and celebrate them...
BUT, let's concentrate on the good men and celebrate them...
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hear that it's International Men's Day (not to be confused with International Male). I've had absolutely awful experiences with men, and one just has to glance at the news to see that men cause too much violence.
BUT, let's concentrate on the good men and celebrate them...
BUT, let's concentrate on the good men and celebrate them...
I took a felting class yesterday at my friend's shop. My piece wasn't entirely successful, as the rougher bits didn't want to integrate. But it was my first time.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I took a felting class yesterday at my friend's shop. My piece wasn't entirely successful, as the rougher bits didn't want to integrate. But it was my first time.
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
If you're lucky enough to have a 401k, the market is heading for a crash.
China is investing in renewable power. The US is not.
fortune.com/2025/10/07/a...
China is investing in renewable power. The US is not.
fortune.com/2025/10/07/a...
75% of gains, 80% of profits, 90% of capex—AI’s grip on the S&P is total and Morgan Stanley's top analyst is 'very concerned' | Fortune
The long bull market since 2022 is a "one-note narrative" since the explosion of ChatGPT, according to Lisa Shalett, CIO of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
fortune.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you're lucky enough to have a 401k, the market is heading for a crash.
China is investing in renewable power. The US is not.
fortune.com/2025/10/07/a...
China is investing in renewable power. The US is not.
fortune.com/2025/10/07/a...
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
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Luxurious duck-shaped vessel carved from a single piece of rock crystal around 3,500 years ago!
From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics.
National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece
📷 me
#Archaeology
From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics.
National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece
📷 me
#Archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Luxurious duck-shaped vessel carved from a single piece of rock crystal around 3,500 years ago!
From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics.
National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece
📷 me
#Archaeology
From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics.
National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece
📷 me
#Archaeology
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I made a big one. Normal size ammonite and human for scale.
#ammonite #crochet #softart #autismart #outsiderart #art #finnishartist
#ammonite #crochet #softart #autismart #outsiderart #art #finnishartist
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I made a big one. Normal size ammonite and human for scale.
#ammonite #crochet #softart #autismart #outsiderart #art #finnishartist
#ammonite #crochet #softart #autismart #outsiderart #art #finnishartist