gabriela
@astrogabriela.bsky.social
software engineering, astrophysics, raging feminism. she/her. midwest is best.
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Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.
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This is not to doom or to cast aspersion on past accomplishments, which were tremendous. But the time has come to reconsider current arrangements. Trump is trying to destroy them, but we cannot simply cling to what we had. We must reconstruct them for the future.
A Preview of a Project We'll Pursue If Fully Funded
Investing in a positive vision for a liberal future, rather than remaining in a defensive crouch on behalf of a liberal past.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is not to doom or to cast aspersion on past accomplishments, which were tremendous. But the time has come to reconsider current arrangements. Trump is trying to destroy them, but we cannot simply cling to what we had. We must reconstruct them for the future.
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Turns out if you never have to argue with an insurance company you have time to make six new friends
rarely is the question asked: do you have more friends than the average finn?
Finns have an average of 11 friends, 4 close ones, survey finds
Around four percent of men, and just under two percent of women, said they had no friends or companions at all.
yle.fi
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Turns out if you never have to argue with an insurance company you have time to make six new friends
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Rep. Underwood says Broadview detainees and staff had been moved before her visit, but it was still apparent that the detention center does not meet minimum standards
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Rep. Underwood says Broadview detainees and staff had been moved before her visit, but it was still apparent that the detention center does not meet minimum standards
we really do 🤣😭
@demsocialists.bsky.social please share if you can. The people yearn for certified hater content. 😉
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
we really do 🤣😭
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This holiday season, #WeAintBuyingIt. Join the movement and refuse to shop at Target, Amazon, or Home Depot (and Starbucks!!) from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday.
Our money has power. If corporations side with authoritarianism, we won't side with them at the register.
Our money has power. If corporations side with authoritarianism, we won't side with them at the register.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This holiday season, #WeAintBuyingIt. Join the movement and refuse to shop at Target, Amazon, or Home Depot (and Starbucks!!) from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday.
Our money has power. If corporations side with authoritarianism, we won't side with them at the register.
Our money has power. If corporations side with authoritarianism, we won't side with them at the register.
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On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
📣📣📣 "It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care."
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
📣📣📣 "It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care."
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
this episode had me do a record number of aggressive jerk off motions followed by eye rolls when excerpts from the book were read 🫠
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
this episode had me do a record number of aggressive jerk off motions followed by eye rolls when excerpts from the book were read 🫠
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If I organized a meet-up for radical trekkies to discuss radical Star Trek, why we love it, and how we want to engage with the struggles of our real-world moment, here, in Chicago, how many people would show up?
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
If I organized a meet-up for radical trekkies to discuss radical Star Trek, why we love it, and how we want to engage with the struggles of our real-world moment, here, in Chicago, how many people would show up?
i should have heeded this warning 🥲
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
i should have heeded this warning 🥲
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They're never going to let Trump talk to anyone other than Stephen Miller again.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
They're never going to let Trump talk to anyone other than Stephen Miller again.
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I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.
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so, so good. run it as a political ad.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
so, so good. run it as a political ad.
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Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
gem.coop
gem.coop
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
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My friends on Bluesky:
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My friends on Bluesky:
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hey y’all
do yall know who/what is behind the Chicagoans Against Trump Cuts group that’s sending out political ads?
(researching… can’t find much on them)
do yall know who/what is behind the Chicagoans Against Trump Cuts group that’s sending out political ads?
(researching… can’t find much on them)
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
hey y’all
do yall know who/what is behind the Chicagoans Against Trump Cuts group that’s sending out political ads?
(researching… can’t find much on them)
do yall know who/what is behind the Chicagoans Against Trump Cuts group that’s sending out political ads?
(researching… can’t find much on them)
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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Private equity firms should be illegal. Everything they do is immoral.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Private equity firms should be illegal. Everything they do is immoral.