Carrie
@waryarnspinner.bsky.social
✨ Reader, writer, lawyer, spy ✨ Rays fan 🦬 CU Boulder/UT Austin alum 🤘🏼 Voting rights + voter protection 💙 💪🏼 Frequent posts about 🐓 chicken + homemade soup 🥣 Yandy Díaz fangirl
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Carrie
@waryarnspinner.bsky.social
· Dec 2
“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
–Howard Zinn
–Howard Zinn
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doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
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so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?
September 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?
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Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
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Posting this for no particular reason -->
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Posting this for no particular reason -->
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This needs more attention. Right after Trump went on Fox and Friends and blamed all political violence on the left, they removed the NIJ study that showed otherwise.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This needs more attention. Right after Trump went on Fox and Friends and blamed all political violence on the left, they removed the NIJ study that showed otherwise.
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trying to explain dental plan coverage and having to raise my voice higher and higher above their incredulous laughter
Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
trying to explain dental plan coverage and having to raise my voice higher and higher above their incredulous laughter
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"Such that they confound the senses and simultaneously seduce my bravery to dread. I am left muttering to myself a mantra of origin unknown, 'When you’re here… when you’re here… you are… family?'"
H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Garden’s Dinner Menu
Fried Calamari Tendrils crusted in grit assail my palate. Begotten of the sea, yet containing the essence of a carnival. Fried and without end. At...
buff.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Such that they confound the senses and simultaneously seduce my bravery to dread. I am left muttering to myself a mantra of origin unknown, 'When you’re here… when you’re here… you are… family?'"
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Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!
If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?
A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.
If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?
A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.
August 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!
If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?
A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.
If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?
A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.
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Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines
Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade?
The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...
news.sky.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines
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Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.
August 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.
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Yes 🙌
July 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Yes 🙌
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Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
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“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
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TIL:
This is a Curta mechanical calculator, the state of the art from 1938 to 1970, when electronic calculators replaced them. It could do rapid arithmetic operations.
Nicknames for these pocket devices:
"Math grenade"
"Peppermill"
The inventor was an Austrian engineer, Curt Herzstark.
This is a Curta mechanical calculator, the state of the art from 1938 to 1970, when electronic calculators replaced them. It could do rapid arithmetic operations.
Nicknames for these pocket devices:
"Math grenade"
"Peppermill"
The inventor was an Austrian engineer, Curt Herzstark.
January 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
TIL:
This is a Curta mechanical calculator, the state of the art from 1938 to 1970, when electronic calculators replaced them. It could do rapid arithmetic operations.
Nicknames for these pocket devices:
"Math grenade"
"Peppermill"
The inventor was an Austrian engineer, Curt Herzstark.
This is a Curta mechanical calculator, the state of the art from 1938 to 1970, when electronic calculators replaced them. It could do rapid arithmetic operations.
Nicknames for these pocket devices:
"Math grenade"
"Peppermill"
The inventor was an Austrian engineer, Curt Herzstark.
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It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
June 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
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The analogy is to mid-1930s Germany, not to 1942.
Right-wing populist nationalists with a cult of personality that tried a coup, failed, regained power while vowing to violently scapegoat minorities, then dismantled rule of law from within.
How identical do they need to be to allow comparison?
Right-wing populist nationalists with a cult of personality that tried a coup, failed, regained power while vowing to violently scapegoat minorities, then dismantled rule of law from within.
How identical do they need to be to allow comparison?
This is very worrying but the analogy to Nazi Germany is off.
Saying that something like Nazi Germany is now likely is a big exaggeration.
It’s bad enough as it is; exaggeration only reduces credibility.
Saying that something like Nazi Germany is now likely is a big exaggeration.
It’s bad enough as it is; exaggeration only reduces credibility.
June 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The analogy is to mid-1930s Germany, not to 1942.
Right-wing populist nationalists with a cult of personality that tried a coup, failed, regained power while vowing to violently scapegoat minorities, then dismantled rule of law from within.
How identical do they need to be to allow comparison?
Right-wing populist nationalists with a cult of personality that tried a coup, failed, regained power while vowing to violently scapegoat minorities, then dismantled rule of law from within.
How identical do they need to be to allow comparison?
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Absolutely. Generative AI has become incredibly popular with people who don’t mind that it gives them the wrong information 5-10% of the time because they don’t know that they’re getting bad information. And that’s just our new normal.
People do use AI at work, though, especially younger workers. I see its use growing all the time.
June 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Absolutely. Generative AI has become incredibly popular with people who don’t mind that it gives them the wrong information 5-10% of the time because they don’t know that they’re getting bad information. And that’s just our new normal.
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Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
June 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.