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uni instructor and workshop facilitator for grad students & academia (careers, diversity, mental health in academia). book enjoyer. serial creative project starter. mom of one very cute toddler. berlin. 🇩🇪🇺🇸
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rincewind.run
“well it’s only good if people actually put in the work in between these events”

yeah and how do you think they get the motivation to do that? sitting around and posting on the internet all day about how much everything sucks doesn’t seem to be very effective
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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steamtraen.eu
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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kattascha.bsky.social
Ich sag wie’s ist: Beschützt Eure Partnerinnen lieber vor dem allein Ausräumen der Spülmaschine & bezwingt mutig den Wäscheberg ohne dass sie Euch darum bitten muss. Das tun nämlich wahre Helden. 💁🏻‍♀️
topfritte.bsky.social TopFritte @topfritte.bsky.social · Sep 29
„Frauen wünschen sich doch einen Mann, der sie beschützen kann.“
Ich wünsche mir einen Mann, der ohne meine Hilfe weiß, wo ‚wir das Klopapier haben‘.
September 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
at least getting drunk off liquor carried with it some of the honor of succumbing to a proud and ancient disease. but getting drunk off Phone??
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
US Department of *theatrical pause for kerning* War
September 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
beautifulrobot.bsky.social
furthest i’ve traveled:
n: norway
s: trinidad
e: shanghai
w: hawaii
August 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
I do firmly believe that “outsourcing certain cognitive functions to calculators and GPS for constrained and specific tasks” is simply far less problematic on a cognitive and social level than “outsourcing writing and human expression to LLMs and generative AI,” and I stand by that.
July 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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merriam-webster.com
'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'
FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
Lol it's like taking a shit in tur middle of a hot ass room and wanting credit for spraying a little febreeze
May 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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cpsc.gov
You gotta put-cha phone away: soundcloud.com/uscpsc/phone...
Phone Away
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (@uscpsc) proudly presents our first-ever EP -- We're Safety Now Haven't We: Volume 1 All tracks are in the public domain and freely available to download
soundcloud.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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nappydolemite.bsky.social
Wanna put my tender
Heart in a blender
Also the rest of me
Everything in the blender
March 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
i used to say that reading the news was like putting your face in a blast furnace. now it’s like if the blast furnace was full of nails that also said slurs
March 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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trecoolx.bsky.social
Haunting.
If we’re going to rank the hottest video game characters, let’s not be boring about it Amelia Tait Amelia Tait Once again Lara Croft has appeared near the top of an arbitrary list of the hottest video game characters – but when are we going to admit there’s something about Luigi’s eyes?
March 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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edzitron.com
Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?
thetimes.com The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Mar 1
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ruralindexing.bsky.social
Welcome sign
Kremlin, MT
February 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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nature.com
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
beautifulrobot.bsky.social
the afd is polling at 21% but only 14% actually want weidel to run the government and i can’t decide whether this is terrible news or good news for where the world is going
0 = zdfheute Wen hätten die Deutschen am liebsten als Kanzler*in? 32% 21% 18% 14% Scholz SPD Merz CDU Habeck Weidel Grüne AfD Fragestellung: Wen hätten Sie am liebsten als Bundeskanzler oder Bundeskanzlerin: Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, Robert Habeck oder Alice Weidel? • Mehr zur Methodik der Umfrage Stand: 20.02.2025 Grafik: ZDFheute, ja, rom • Quelle: Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: ZDF-Politbarometer • zdf.de 0:48日 zdfheute Umfrage: Wen würden die Deutschen wählen? 28% 21% 16% 14% 8% 4,5% 4,5% 4% SPD CDU/Grüne FDP AfD Linke BSW Andere CSU Fragestellung: Wenn am nächsten Sonntag Bundestagswahl wäre, würden Sie dann zur Wahl gehen? Und welche Partei würden Sie wählen? • Mehr zur Methodik der Umfrage Stand: 20.02.2025 Grafik: ZDFheute, rom • Quelle: Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: ZDF-Politbarometer|
February 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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annerabe.bsky.social
Der Mann, von dem alle glauben, dass er Kanzler wird, hat ein Problem mit dem Demonstrationsrecht. Er hat ein Problem damit, dass Menschen von ihrem demokratischen Recht Gebrauch machen, gegen seine Politik zu demonstrieren.
Dieser Mann soll uns demnächst gegen Putin und Trump verteidigen. Prost!
February 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
beautifulrobot.bsky.social
baby’s first protest
February 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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rav-ev.bsky.social
Eine Woche vor der Bundestagswahl rufen wir mit vielen anderen Organisationen zur Kundgebung in #Berlin auf. Gegen Faschismus, für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat: Mutig. Menschlich. Miteinander.
Und mit Bela B. und Herbert Grönemeyer.
#HandInHand
#WirSindDieBrandmauer
#b1602
Aufruf zur Demonstration am 16.02. auf dem Berliner Bebelplatz. Motto: Mutig. Menschlich. Miteinander.
February 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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kendrawrites.com
It's really interesting how many people are having a visceral reaction to this. When I was in my early 20s my coworker said something that stuck with me sometimes you have to ask yourself if your goal is to be right or to be effective.
February 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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derrechterand.bsky.social
Mehr als eine halbe Million auf der Straße gegen AfD und gegen #Merz.
Und dieses Foto in der taz ist auf so viele Interpretationen so richtig. Danke an die Schildermacher*in.

taz.de/Demos-gegen-...
Demos gegen rechts am Wochenende: Mehr als eine halbe Million auf der Straße
Seit Freitag haben mehr als 550.000 Menschen für die Demokratie demonstriert. Die aktuellen Proteste richten sich vor allem gegen CDU-Chef Merz.
taz.de
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM