Katherine Thibodeaux
@thibodek.bsky.social
Accountant at OHSU. Doing my part to make healthcare accesible for all Oregonians - and anyone else in need or our services. I've been known to enjoy things from time to time.
December feels like the perfect month for @mayorkwilson.bsky.social to try out the shelter system he is so fond of promoting. Would be nice if politicians actually knew what they were forcing unhoused people to go through when they tout shelter beds as a solution to homelessness.
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
December feels like the perfect month for @mayorkwilson.bsky.social to try out the shelter system he is so fond of promoting. Would be nice if politicians actually knew what they were forcing unhoused people to go through when they tout shelter beds as a solution to homelessness.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine.
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine.
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
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From my perspective? I’d rather universities simply not address the crisis at all unless they are fully committed to removing structural organizational stressors.
I’m exhausted by exhortations to self care and wellness from the same folks who are knowingly amplifying my grinding anxiety.
I’m exhausted by exhortations to self care and wellness from the same folks who are knowingly amplifying my grinding anxiety.
Any university programming intended to address the massive faculty mental health crisis that does not include investments to remove organizational stressors is bullshit. Faculty are not weak, they’re underwater for structural reasons ffs.
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
From my perspective? I’d rather universities simply not address the crisis at all unless they are fully committed to removing structural organizational stressors.
I’m exhausted by exhortations to self care and wellness from the same folks who are knowingly amplifying my grinding anxiety.
I’m exhausted by exhortations to self care and wellness from the same folks who are knowingly amplifying my grinding anxiety.
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Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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Universities across the world from the US to the UK to Australia and Canada, are now "led" by an interchangeable Global Admin class who swap places every couple of years. Their blandness, lack of local roots and commitments, and general third-tier-CEO vibes are their main feature, not a bug. 2/4
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Universities across the world from the US to the UK to Australia and Canada, are now "led" by an interchangeable Global Admin class who swap places every couple of years. Their blandness, lack of local roots and commitments, and general third-tier-CEO vibes are their main feature, not a bug. 2/4
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nothing has ever felt more “For the Girls, the Gays and the Theys” than this casting, I have been dying to watch this for so long
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
nothing has ever felt more “For the Girls, the Gays and the Theys” than this casting, I have been dying to watch this for so long
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I like how they think that if we abolish white collar labor with AI and everyone starts working with their hands, it’s gonna be hammering shit at the masculinity factory and not wiping butt in hospitals, especially if immigration becomes more restrictive
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I like how they think that if we abolish white collar labor with AI and everyone starts working with their hands, it’s gonna be hammering shit at the masculinity factory and not wiping butt in hospitals, especially if immigration becomes more restrictive
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Everything in these various threads resonates with a growing sense of confusion I’ve had reading various developer forums about LLMs, MCPs, etc; being that it seems like a large number of developers don’t seem to understand the basic concepts of programming and automation whatsoever any more
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Everything in these various threads resonates with a growing sense of confusion I’ve had reading various developer forums about LLMs, MCPs, etc; being that it seems like a large number of developers don’t seem to understand the basic concepts of programming and automation whatsoever any more
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"One of the first things you want to do is pay attention to what they’re actually saying. If they say, ‘I feel hopeless. I feel helpless. I have no reason to live,’ they feel trapped, almost like they have an unbearable pain,” Flowood therapist Anthony Davis said.
Kysia Owens: Advocating for Suicide Prevention, Mental Health
After losing her son and nephew to suicide, Mississippi native Kysia Owens urges others to open up about their mental-health challenges.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"One of the first things you want to do is pay attention to what they’re actually saying. If they say, ‘I feel hopeless. I feel helpless. I have no reason to live,’ they feel trapped, almost like they have an unbearable pain,” Flowood therapist Anthony Davis said.
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Paul: So at the end, the robot just…gives up?
Manzoukas: he gives up because he gets wet, it’s bonkers
June: it’s bonkers
Pope Leo XIV: it is bonkers
Manzoukas: he gives up because he gets wet, it’s bonkers
June: it’s bonkers
Pope Leo XIV: it is bonkers
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Paul: So at the end, the robot just…gives up?
Manzoukas: he gives up because he gets wet, it’s bonkers
June: it’s bonkers
Pope Leo XIV: it is bonkers
Manzoukas: he gives up because he gets wet, it’s bonkers
June: it’s bonkers
Pope Leo XIV: it is bonkers
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Some of MAGA's slimiest, most brutal scumbags are hanging out at the ICE facility in Portland tonight. Their playbook is usually to isolate anyone they think is vulnerable, assault them while streaming & claim that Portlanders started a riot when folks defend themselves.
Enrique Tarrio is indeed here and currently chatting it up with honey badger. They also walked over here together from down the block
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Some of MAGA's slimiest, most brutal scumbags are hanging out at the ICE facility in Portland tonight. Their playbook is usually to isolate anyone they think is vulnerable, assault them while streaming & claim that Portlanders started a riot when folks defend themselves.
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An ICE agent carrying an AR-15 stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
An ICE agent carrying an AR-15 stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon.
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It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.
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That mean homeless teenager, upending the career of Matt Gaetz.
What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?!
She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent.
SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.
What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?!
She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent.
SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
That mean homeless teenager, upending the career of Matt Gaetz.
What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?!
She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent.
SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.
What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?!
She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent.
SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.
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Don't cross the picket line for mediocre coffee, folks.
Union strong. 💪
Union strong. 💪
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Don't cross the picket line for mediocre coffee, folks.
Union strong. 💪
Union strong. 💪
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the police union is going to try to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund via ballot initiative
Ballot Initiative Will Seek to Reroute 25% of Climate Tax Revenues to Hiring Police
A citizen ballot initiative backed by the Portland Police Association will seek to reroute 25% of revenues from the Portland Clean Energy Fund tax to fund the hiring of 400 additional police officers.
www.wweek.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the police union is going to try to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund via ballot initiative
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I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
the worst part is that for the people at the top "good at math"/sciencey is essentially a vibe one socially codes their way into by being minimally competent at informally discussing things actual math/science people do, unless (e.g.) Elon Musk has proven a theorem I didn't hear about.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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If you voted in Seattle, check to make sure your vote was counted! If not, you may have a chance to cure your ballot:
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If you voted in Seattle, check to make sure your vote was counted! If not, you may have a chance to cure your ballot:
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...