ann_ellipsis
@ann-ellipsis.bsky.social
a dweeb with a love for many a fandom. 😎 is my favorite emoji. 18+, occasionally nsfw
stuff i'm looking forward to in 2025: eventually getting to dragon age veilguard
stuff i'm looking forward to in 2025: eventually getting to dragon age veilguard
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i kept looking at that sketch and kept poking at it so here's a refined version with more detail + lots of shiny flecks on his face bc he has dewy clear skin
August 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i kept looking at that sketch and kept poking at it so here's a refined version with more detail + lots of shiny flecks on his face bc he has dewy clear skin
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Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
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It's scheduled for his birthday lmao
This is literally an argument against context lol.
"You are against this parade merely because of everything you know about the person planning it."
"You are against this parade merely because of everything you know about the person planning it."
June 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's scheduled for his birthday lmao
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We're back!
Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is.
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Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is.
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Ultra-Processed Foods
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 06/03/2025 · 1h 11m
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June 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We're back!
Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is.
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Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
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*TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of DV*
This entire thread.
A lot of you know what happened to me February. I was assaulted by an ex, who threatened to kill me. I did not fight back.
I called the police. They didn't investigate, misinterpreted a California statute, and deemed me the aggressor.
This entire thread.
A lot of you know what happened to me February. I was assaulted by an ex, who threatened to kill me. I did not fight back.
I called the police. They didn't investigate, misinterpreted a California statute, and deemed me the aggressor.
“Who are you going to call if something goes wrong?”
Let me impress this upon you: if you call the cops, they may shoot a child. They also might not come. They do not have any obligation to show up.
Let me impress this upon you: if you call the cops, they may shoot a child. They also might not come. They do not have any obligation to show up.
June 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
*TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of DV*
This entire thread.
A lot of you know what happened to me February. I was assaulted by an ex, who threatened to kill me. I did not fight back.
I called the police. They didn't investigate, misinterpreted a California statute, and deemed me the aggressor.
This entire thread.
A lot of you know what happened to me February. I was assaulted by an ex, who threatened to kill me. I did not fight back.
I called the police. They didn't investigate, misinterpreted a California statute, and deemed me the aggressor.
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Greetings from Houston.
"It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."
"It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."
A former Afghan National Army soldier applying for asylum in the U.S. was arrested by federal immigration agents at his Houston-area home, according to his attorney, who said the man and most of his family are being threatened with deportation.
Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says
The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
June 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Greetings from Houston.
"It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."
"It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."
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Journalists have to make judgments based on the available evidence all the time--about character, about honesty, about consistency, about motivation. It's disingenuous to pretend that doing so is wildly outside the bounds of a reporter's job, or that "objectivity" means never expressing an opinion.>
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Journalists have to make judgments based on the available evidence all the time--about character, about honesty, about consistency, about motivation. It's disingenuous to pretend that doing so is wildly outside the bounds of a reporter's job, or that "objectivity" means never expressing an opinion.>
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It's true that kids are at low risk of severe COVID outcomes but it does appear that schools were a factor in community spread. I get that the learning losses are real but it's weird that people act like this was an open-and-shut policy blunder, like we could have reopened with no downside.
June 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's true that kids are at low risk of severe COVID outcomes but it does appear that schools were a factor in community spread. I get that the learning losses are real but it's weird that people act like this was an open-and-shut policy blunder, like we could have reopened with no downside.
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The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.
June 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.
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I finally got a chance to listen to the whole episode and it is truly excellent and well worth a listen!
Goes through many things often not covered, including multiple journalist failures that you should know about.
Top notch ⭐, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!
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Goes through many things often not covered, including multiple journalist failures that you should know about.
Top notch ⭐, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/05/2025 · 1h 21m
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June 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I finally got a chance to listen to the whole episode and it is truly excellent and well worth a listen!
Goes through many things often not covered, including multiple journalist failures that you should know about.
Top notch ⭐, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Goes through many things often not covered, including multiple journalist failures that you should know about.
Top notch ⭐, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Posted by our dear friend, the wonderful Suzy Nakamura.
June 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Posted by our dear friend, the wonderful Suzy Nakamura.
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Please read this headline and remember to never, ever take Andreessen seriously.
Like, this guy isn't normal, and we do have to talk about the fact that a certain group of uber-wealthy people have invented a fictional promised land and they're using all their money and power to drag us there, kicking and screaming.
June 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Please read this headline and remember to never, ever take Andreessen seriously.
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Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.”
Genuinely, morale is way down.
Genuinely, morale is way down.
I think people are sleeping on how catastrophically bad ICE morale is right now.
June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.”
Genuinely, morale is way down.
Genuinely, morale is way down.
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honestly the problem with trying to use repost as the term for the retweet action is that reposting is already a concept understood by basically everyone to mean something entirely different. like I'm never going to be able to pull off calling a retweet a repost because it's not the same thing
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
honestly the problem with trying to use repost as the term for the retweet action is that reposting is already a concept understood by basically everyone to mean something entirely different. like I'm never going to be able to pull off calling a retweet a repost because it's not the same thing
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Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"
June 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"
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Honestly the coolest thing about being a writer in the age of AI is that it's going to make everyone else's writing so much worse that I'll just seem like a genius in comparison.
I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Honestly the coolest thing about being a writer in the age of AI is that it's going to make everyone else's writing so much worse that I'll just seem like a genius in comparison.
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The biggest sign of how catastrophically the X brand has failed is that in Kanye West’s Heil Hitler song he still calls it Twitter
May 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The biggest sign of how catastrophically the X brand has failed is that in Kanye West’s Heil Hitler song he still calls it Twitter
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"ally" bsky.app/profile/numb...
Dude is literally saying out loud what he is going to do, and they fall for it anyway. Dude approves.
May 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"ally" bsky.app/profile/numb...
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May 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Good.
Breaking: The centrist mayor of Bucharest won Romania’s presidential runoff on Sunday, quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist
Romanian Centrist Leads Trump Ally in Vote, Exit Polls Show
The centrist mayor of Bucharest took a lead in Romania’s presidential election, potentially quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist as authorities recorded the biggest turnout in a quarter century, exit polls show.
bloom.bg
May 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Good.
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This happened to my son his senior year in HS because a teacher thought he wrote “unrealistically quickly and well.” Overnight he had to mount a mini defense case, the coup de grace of which was showing them that per their own AI detector, the school’s academic handbook had been written by AI.
In an effort to avoid accusations of cheating, some students are recording their own screens for hours at a time or using keystroke loggers.
A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This happened to my son his senior year in HS because a teacher thought he wrote “unrealistically quickly and well.” Overnight he had to mount a mini defense case, the coup de grace of which was showing them that per their own AI detector, the school’s academic handbook had been written by AI.
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I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.
AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
www.theverge.com
May 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.
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May 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM