Liz
@a-scorpio-king.bsky.social
BA, MLS, MA. Not been a librarian longer than I ever was one. 10 yrs library trustee, tailor, part time wage worker, taekwondo black belt, gamer, writer, reader, dog owner. Fighting for climate equity and a single day without anxiety.
NY here we come! Maybe best part of getting married on Dec 30 is we end up fun places for new years. Married in Edinburgh, 5th anniversary in Inverness, now lucky 13 in NYC.
December 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NY here we come! Maybe best part of getting married on Dec 30 is we end up fun places for new years. Married in Edinburgh, 5th anniversary in Inverness, now lucky 13 in NYC.
Can confirm. This was the post that got me to wishlist the game on steam.
it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game
Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day
December 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Can confirm. This was the post that got me to wishlist the game on steam.
Please let this be a bunch of scammers using rich people’s fears to get into their houses and steal all their stuff.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Please let this be a bunch of scammers using rich people’s fears to get into their houses and steal all their stuff.
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the word you were searching for was "ethnic cleansing," you quisling shitstains
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt across the country. A past era of immigration crackdowns contains some lessons on how walling off the U.S. now will profoundly alter daily life for millions of Americans.
What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.
nyti.ms
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
the word you were searching for was "ethnic cleansing," you quisling shitstains
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IF YOU ARE READING SOMETHING AND IT IS HARD BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT
1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text
2. read it out loud because your active participation will help
3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN
1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text
2. read it out loud because your active participation will help
3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN
December 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
IF YOU ARE READING SOMETHING AND IT IS HARD BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT
1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text
2. read it out loud because your active participation will help
3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN
1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text
2. read it out loud because your active participation will help
3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN
At some point while I was sleeping CAKE’s Guitar started playing in my head and it’s just been there ever since.
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
At some point while I was sleeping CAKE’s Guitar started playing in my head and it’s just been there ever since.
I don't know that much about Kat Abughazaleh, but it seems to me that using your political campaign to support mutual aid is just starting how you mean to go on.
December 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don't know that much about Kat Abughazaleh, but it seems to me that using your political campaign to support mutual aid is just starting how you mean to go on.
Me when Chef walks by and thanks me for being there today, meanwhile I've spent the last hour contemplating the earliest I can leave without looking like a complete slacker.
You don’t have to thank me for doing my stupid job. But it is nice.
December 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Me when Chef walks by and thanks me for being there today, meanwhile I've spent the last hour contemplating the earliest I can leave without looking like a complete slacker.
(Lurid headline voice)
IT HAPPENED TO ME!
My 95 anchor baby grandpa started with a heartwarming tale of a 10yr old boy helping his austrian immigrant mother fill out citizenship papers and ended with a rant against illegals just being let into this country and committing crimes.
IT HAPPENED TO ME!
My 95 anchor baby grandpa started with a heartwarming tale of a 10yr old boy helping his austrian immigrant mother fill out citizenship papers and ended with a rant against illegals just being let into this country and committing crimes.
December 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
(Lurid headline voice)
IT HAPPENED TO ME!
My 95 anchor baby grandpa started with a heartwarming tale of a 10yr old boy helping his austrian immigrant mother fill out citizenship papers and ended with a rant against illegals just being let into this country and committing crimes.
IT HAPPENED TO ME!
My 95 anchor baby grandpa started with a heartwarming tale of a 10yr old boy helping his austrian immigrant mother fill out citizenship papers and ended with a rant against illegals just being let into this country and committing crimes.
And tiny tim, who did NOT die, could’ve become a mass murder.
and tiny tim, who did NOT die, beat on, a boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the christmas past.
Man said, "Tiny Tim, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?"
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, answered: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, answered: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
December 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
And tiny tim, who did NOT die, could’ve become a mass murder.
It’s an untrued pattern. The leg will always be twisted, the sleeve will never fit the armhole, the collar will never lay smoothly, because it’s not based in reality and what we know instinctively to be true.
I'd argue it's worse than a blank page, in the same way that garment pieces cut slightly off the grain are worse than not having cut yet.
When a thing is wrong, it will suck your energy into making it Less Wrong, which is often not the same as making it right.
When a thing is wrong, it will suck your energy into making it Less Wrong, which is often not the same as making it right.
Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It’s an untrued pattern. The leg will always be twisted, the sleeve will never fit the armhole, the collar will never lay smoothly, because it’s not based in reality and what we know instinctively to be true.
Late to the party here but i’m now about 3/4 through discworld and seeing so many of the building blocks that would become good omens it’s difficult to imagine gaiman having written any of it. His style and oeuvre are just so different.
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Late to the party here but i’m now about 3/4 through discworld and seeing so many of the building blocks that would become good omens it’s difficult to imagine gaiman having written any of it. His style and oeuvre are just so different.
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Starbucks CEO makes $50,000 an hour —more than double what some baristas make in a whole year.
Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge.
DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!
Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge.
DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Starbucks CEO makes $50,000 an hour —more than double what some baristas make in a whole year.
Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge.
DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!
Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge.
DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!
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god, this makes me so angry. vaccines are a miracle of the modern age! and people are just... "rip to ur immune system but im different"
Spoiler: Everyone who is not vaccinated gets measles and some who are get breakthrough infections and they all get complicatedly sick for a long time and the people lying are the anti-vaxxers
Gift link
I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
Gift link
I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
god, this makes me so angry. vaccines are a miracle of the modern age! and people are just... "rip to ur immune system but im different"
One of my favorite things to do at work is be over 40 and excited about socialism et al around all the 20somethings. Like yes, I’m an old who cares about your future. I believe in progress and our responsibility to make things better for you.
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
One of my favorite things to do at work is be over 40 and excited about socialism et al around all the 20somethings. Like yes, I’m an old who cares about your future. I believe in progress and our responsibility to make things better for you.
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The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias.
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias.
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
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ANYWAY happy Friday! Today is a good day to get THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and read it safely indoors! :D (Or wrap it up and give it to some unsuspecting person, I don't know your life.)
A finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Aurora, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award! 🦊🦄🍎
A finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Aurora, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award! 🦊🦄🍎
The Butcher of the Forest
"A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars."—T...
us.macmillan.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ANYWAY happy Friday! Today is a good day to get THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and read it safely indoors! :D (Or wrap it up and give it to some unsuspecting person, I don't know your life.)
A finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Aurora, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award! 🦊🦄🍎
A finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Aurora, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award! 🦊🦄🍎
Using a theft-driven algorithm to tell you things you think you already know is not research, it’s just reinforcing preexisting biases. Kinda like how race science told colonizers what they wanted to hear.
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Using a theft-driven algorithm to tell you things you think you already know is not research, it’s just reinforcing preexisting biases. Kinda like how race science told colonizers what they wanted to hear.
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
'God is merciful': Gov. Hochul to sign bill allowing medically assisted death in NY
She says she's requested some changes from state lawmakers before she signs off on the measure.
gothamist.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Disabled people tried to warn you
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies
A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity
In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist
"We're running out of ideas--"
No.
You just doing want to pay the people who have the ideas.
No.
You just doing want to pay the people who have the ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"We're running out of ideas--"
No.
You just doing want to pay the people who have the ideas.
No.
You just doing want to pay the people who have the ideas.
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"Call me Murderbot."
I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Call me Murderbot."
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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
![Tweet by Nico Reznick, AT NicoReznick on 20 June 2025 reads:
“There is a simple test to see if someone should qualify for assisted dying:
If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.
[hashtag] AssistedDyingBill [hashtag] assistedsuicidebill”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ltsziuodekvpalwz7r6x44c/bafkreifb75ozlukb4tmji3stoy5rigxacp7obmzxfdaljpc4kns252e4uq@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
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I love that every time I think I've seen every kind of art another one pops up
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I love that every time I think I've seen every kind of art another one pops up