VirginiaM - owlet
@virginiam.bsky.social
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Give me Leverage-style Dem comms teams:
- the policy wonk
- the storyteller
- the salesperson
- the CONSIZER (yeah okay the editor, and no that’s not a word)
- the policy wonk
- the storyteller
- the salesperson
- the CONSIZER (yeah okay the editor, and no that’s not a word)
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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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Fell asleep to the sound of the rain frogs & woke to the sound of more rain 🩷
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Fell asleep to the sound of the rain frogs & woke to the sound of more rain 🩷
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So if I’m understanding this correctly, two leading American political journalists conspired to do or cover up catch-and-kill reporting during the 2024 election, neither has experienced any significant professional repercussions.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So if I’m understanding this correctly, two leading American political journalists conspired to do or cover up catch-and-kill reporting during the 2024 election, neither has experienced any significant professional repercussions.
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat."
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat."
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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This is a production.
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is a production.
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
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At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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"Forgive, don't demand accountability" is a perfect way to maintain the existing power structures and ensure that nothing changes.
This is unfortunately a common response to even very serious issues such as sexual abuse. Never expose them, never press charges, never demand accountability even from positions of leadership. It's horrifying.
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Forgive, don't demand accountability" is a perfect way to maintain the existing power structures and ensure that nothing changes.
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Recent paper on how well Congress represents Americans by Ansolabehere and Kuriwaki reinforces my sense that the House isn't the problem in American politics, but rather the Senate because passage of bills in the House happens when they're popular & *popularity doesn't matter* in the Senate.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Recent paper on how well Congress represents Americans by Ansolabehere and Kuriwaki reinforces my sense that the House isn't the problem in American politics, but rather the Senate because passage of bills in the House happens when they're popular & *popularity doesn't matter* in the Senate.
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If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
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Can I offer you a few capybaras in these trying times?
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Can I offer you a few capybaras in these trying times?
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Water Into Wine is one of my best performing books - no, I am no bestseller and no Big Five author.
But this book is my heart and I wrote it while coping with grief and loss.
www.amazon.com/Water-into-W...
But this book is my heart and I wrote it while coping with grief and loss.
www.amazon.com/Water-into-W...
Water into Wine
Water into Wine - Kindle edition by Chng, Joyce. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Water into Wine.
www.amazon.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Water Into Wine is one of my best performing books - no, I am no bestseller and no Big Five author.
But this book is my heart and I wrote it while coping with grief and loss.
www.amazon.com/Water-into-W...
But this book is my heart and I wrote it while coping with grief and loss.
www.amazon.com/Water-into-W...
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Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
DMC student’s water-quality research earns national recognition
Kristen Waddell has spent more than a year using new techniques to study water quality in South Texas, using samples collected directly from Baffin Bay.
www.kiiitv.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
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Move over, tardigrades, there's another life-form that can survive in space 🧪
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
Meet the Weird and Wonderful Life-forms That Can Survive in Space
The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Move over, tardigrades, there's another life-form that can survive in space 🧪
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
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God, I hope this is true
October 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
God, I hope this is true
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this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
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For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
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The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
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"They thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"They thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
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Super Mario Chess is checkmating gender norms ♟️♟️
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Super Mario Chess is checkmating gender norms ♟️♟️
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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