Cindy Livingston
@ackerina.bsky.social
Agnostic, pro-horse, pro-dog, anti-cow pucky, leery of "cowboys", luv rocks - geological kind.
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For months I’ve been pleading with major media to say
TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP
But instead we get soft-serve headlines like this one in the New York Times. 1/4 🧵🧵🧵🧵
TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP
But instead we get soft-serve headlines like this one in the New York Times. 1/4 🧵🧵🧵🧵
December 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
For months I’ve been pleading with major media to say
TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP
But instead we get soft-serve headlines like this one in the New York Times. 1/4 🧵🧵🧵🧵
TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP
But instead we get soft-serve headlines like this one in the New York Times. 1/4 🧵🧵🧵🧵
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If we had to learn all the details about Bill Clinton’s blow job by an adult, I think it’s only fair that we get all the details about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If we had to learn all the details about Bill Clinton’s blow job by an adult, I think it’s only fair that we get all the details about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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[Alan Dye working on the Liquid Glass UI]
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
[Alan Dye working on the Liquid Glass UI]
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
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Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
I THINK they’re mad because of the hardscaping? Not entirely sure.
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
July 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup."
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
"this is an unprecedented attack on voting."
just ... say anything
just ... say anything
February 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup."
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
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I’m no expert, but I’ve seen this paper described as an important justification for claims about the safety of Roundup. And now it has been retracted by the journal it appeared in. 🧪
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy)This article has b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I’m no expert, but I’ve seen this paper described as an important justification for claims about the safety of Roundup. And now it has been retracted by the journal it appeared in. 🧪
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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A classic winter-like "tule fog" pattern will persist for at least a few more days in CA's Central Valley (w/spillover into SF Bay), but warm, dry, and mostly sunny conditions persist above and south of the fog layer! But how about some deeper tule fog context? [Thread] #CAwx
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A classic winter-like "tule fog" pattern will persist for at least a few more days in CA's Central Valley (w/spillover into SF Bay), but warm, dry, and mostly sunny conditions persist above and south of the fog layer! But how about some deeper tule fog context? [Thread] #CAwx
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Man, this video caught me in the feels…
VIDEO LINK HERE: youtu.be/684ncxqERO4?...
youtube.com/shorts/_w3rk...
VIDEO LINK HERE: youtu.be/684ncxqERO4?...
youtube.com/shorts/_w3rk...
ICE... How Do You Do It?
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Man, this video caught me in the feels…
VIDEO LINK HERE: youtu.be/684ncxqERO4?...
youtube.com/shorts/_w3rk...
VIDEO LINK HERE: youtu.be/684ncxqERO4?...
youtube.com/shorts/_w3rk...
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What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Just in case you are doing laundry today.
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Just in case you are doing laundry today.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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This is as sharply written as everyone in my feed recommending it keeps saying it is
i can't express how fast and hard i clicked on this and how little i was surprised to see @adamserwer.bsky.social's byline atop this banger
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is as sharply written as everyone in my feed recommending it keeps saying it is
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.