Suzi
@suzisteffen.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, occasional arts journalist, rider of adult tricycles, traveler. #NWSL, #WNBA, #NCAAWBB, #WSL fan. Oregonian. Gardener. Aunt. Fan of equal rights for all. Duolingo addict. She/her. Use alt text, or f*ck all the way off.
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@suzisteffen.bsky.social
· Sep 19
when your entire life is emails and going to lunch, LLMs are truly inspirational
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years.
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Loud and Clear
There is no punk without Black women.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years.
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
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Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
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In other words: Everybody who reads romance has seen this shit.
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In other words: Everybody who reads romance has seen this shit.
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It looks to me like “romance for people who find reading romance embarrassing.” Which is just a hopeless, needless exercise. The actual romance readership, which buys a bajillion books and is very loyal, will clock you from a mile away, resent you, and reject you.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It looks to me like “romance for people who find reading romance embarrassing.” Which is just a hopeless, needless exercise. The actual romance readership, which buys a bajillion books and is very loyal, will clock you from a mile away, resent you, and reject you.
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I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
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This piece is really good
Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
defector.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This piece is really good
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🆕 The #NSL couldn't reach 8 clubs by kickoff like they sought out to do, but they will get a step closer in 2027.
At media day, Diana Matheson said expansion is coming in '27 as the NSL aims for another western club.
✍️ for @cansoccerdaily.bsky.social
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At media day, Diana Matheson said expansion is coming in '27 as the NSL aims for another western club.
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Matheson tabs 2027 for NSL expansion
Read more…
canadiansoccerdaily.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🆕 The #NSL couldn't reach 8 clubs by kickoff like they sought out to do, but they will get a step closer in 2027.
At media day, Diana Matheson said expansion is coming in '27 as the NSL aims for another western club.
✍️ for @cansoccerdaily.bsky.social
canadiansoccerdaily.com/2025/11/14/m...
At media day, Diana Matheson said expansion is coming in '27 as the NSL aims for another western club.
✍️ for @cansoccerdaily.bsky.social
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I should say that I don't care for Gotham at all after last week, but I do like AKB.
Gotham FC keeper Ann-Katrin Berger talks her squad’s stunning upset of the Current, prepping to face Marta & the defending champs, what she learned from her battles with thyroid cancer & how teammate Jess Carter became a roommate turned girlfriend turned fiancé.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I should say that I don't care for Gotham at all after last week, but I do like AKB.
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Gotham FC keeper Ann-Katrin Berger talks her squad’s stunning upset of the Current, prepping to face Marta & the defending champs, what she learned from her battles with thyroid cancer & how teammate Jess Carter became a roommate turned girlfriend turned fiancé.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Gotham FC keeper Ann-Katrin Berger talks her squad’s stunning upset of the Current, prepping to face Marta & the defending champs, what she learned from her battles with thyroid cancer & how teammate Jess Carter became a roommate turned girlfriend turned fiancé.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
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Slavery in the Americas did not emerge wholly formed in all its horrors, but rather developed - in the worst possible ways - out of traditions and markets long pre-dating colonialism.
But this isn't exculpatory for American slavery.
But this isn't exculpatory for American slavery.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Slavery in the Americas did not emerge wholly formed in all its horrors, but rather developed - in the worst possible ways - out of traditions and markets long pre-dating colonialism.
But this isn't exculpatory for American slavery.
But this isn't exculpatory for American slavery.
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There's a real attempt by the American right to use the history of slavery outside the Americas to mitigate the awfulness of the specific horrors of slavery in the Americas, whether in the Caribbean or the American South or beyond. The traditions there developed in specific terrible ways.
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There's a real attempt by the American right to use the history of slavery outside the Americas to mitigate the awfulness of the specific horrors of slavery in the Americas, whether in the Caribbean or the American South or beyond. The traditions there developed in specific terrible ways.
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ALT Text benefits everyone
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
ALT Text benefits everyone
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
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As I read this, I'm thinking about the man I interviewed who had to be hospitalized from the Covid he caught at the poultry processing plant and he got fired for it and he still has long Covid
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As I read this, I'm thinking about the man I interviewed who had to be hospitalized from the Covid he caught at the poultry processing plant and he got fired for it and he still has long Covid
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is encouraging people to host community events all around the city on the 15th to hand out whistles and know-your-rights info, and to generally establish more community connections. Get involved! www.handsoffnyc.com/nov15
Whistles: An extremely low-tech community tool that could prove invaluable over the coming months. I'd like to see a well-funded organization mass produce these and encourage people to hand them out liberally, to friends and neighbors, as party favors, for free at checkout counters, etc.
To stand up to ICE agents, some Chicagoans are arming themselves with whistles
The plastic whistles have become a way to loudly resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and warn those who may be in danger.
www.wbez.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is encouraging people to host community events all around the city on the 15th to hand out whistles and know-your-rights info, and to generally establish more community connections. Get involved! www.handsoffnyc.com/nov15
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once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
y'all, I finished the first Dungeon Crawler Carl in French and ... am I gonna read book 2 in French? Yes, yes I am. The vocabulary enrichment. 😂😂 Bordel! Les livres de Matt Dinniman en français ne me briseront pas.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
y'all, I finished the first Dungeon Crawler Carl in French and ... am I gonna read book 2 in French? Yes, yes I am. The vocabulary enrichment. 😂😂 Bordel! Les livres de Matt Dinniman en français ne me briseront pas.
Das ist eine lot of Rösti!
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Das ist eine lot of Rösti!
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Jennifer's been in the publishing biz for a long time so she's a great source of accurate information re: #publishing. I recommend following her if you're an author or aspiring.
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Jennifer's been in the publishing biz for a long time so she's a great source of accurate information re: #publishing. I recommend following her if you're an author or aspiring.
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A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
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Dr. Evil getting imposter syndrome among the billionaires is going to be amazing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Dr. Evil getting imposter syndrome among the billionaires is going to be amazing.
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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LIGHT PLASMA: *exists*
OXYGEN MOLECULES: oh my fucking GOD that is INCREDIBLE
OXYGEN MOLECULES: oh my fucking GOD that is INCREDIBLE
A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
LIGHT PLASMA: *exists*
OXYGEN MOLECULES: oh my fucking GOD that is INCREDIBLE
OXYGEN MOLECULES: oh my fucking GOD that is INCREDIBLE
My dad loved mysteries but didn't care for SF. I grabbed his copies of Asimov's The Caves of Steel & the Naked Sun off the shelf when I was 10 or 11, and uhhhh never looked back. #SFF
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
My dad loved mysteries but didn't care for SF. I grabbed his copies of Asimov's The Caves of Steel & the Naked Sun off the shelf when I was 10 or 11, and uhhhh never looked back. #SFF
All of the PNW
me liking photos of everyone who gets to see the northern lights because clouds decided to ruin only my life tonight
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
All of the PNW