Celeste Ramsay
@celesteramsay.bsky.social
Friend to wasps, spiders, slime molds and giant isopods. Watcher of weird old movies (find me on Letterboxd). Masto: ohai.social/@cramsay | Drinker of cider. #LeftIsBest #EverydayAntifascist | Pacific Northwest
Bestie is selling her place in Cascade Locks, literally feet away from the Pacific Crest Trail. Remember when Nestlé tried to buy their water? That spring is right behind the house. Cute, cozy cottage. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
www.zillow.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Bestie is selling her place in Cascade Locks, literally feet away from the Pacific Crest Trail. Remember when Nestlé tried to buy their water? That spring is right behind the house. Cute, cozy cottage. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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Have we considered the possibility that the "67" meme is caused by Data sending information out of the time loop in an attempt to stop America from crashing into the USS Bozeman?
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Have we considered the possibility that the "67" meme is caused by Data sending information out of the time loop in an attempt to stop America from crashing into the USS Bozeman?
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What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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There's a lot in this article but I genuinely can't get over going into the city council and saying stuff about it being statist and capitalist.
Like....yeah, we all know.
Like....yeah, we all know.
Wednesday's City Council meeting saw multiple disruptions and expulsions as councilors passed an algorithmic rental price-fixing ban and considered a proposal meant to deter landlords from opening detention centers. Prior to the meeting, three different groups held demonstrations outside City Hall.
Proposed Detention Center Fee Yields Hostile City Council Meeting
Portland City Hall faced three competing demonstrations on Wednesday as the City Council considered a rental pricing ordinance and a change to city code that could slow the Trump administration’s loca...
www.portlandmercury.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
There's a lot in this article but I genuinely can't get over going into the city council and saying stuff about it being statist and capitalist.
Like....yeah, we all know.
Like....yeah, we all know.
Why is anyone (who is not an utter piece of shit) still posting on twitter?
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Why is anyone (who is not an utter piece of shit) still posting on twitter?
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She is ready for adoption! www.multcopets.org/adoptable/37...
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
She is ready for adoption! www.multcopets.org/adoptable/37...
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Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
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Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
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Graham Platner is running for US Senate as a progressive Democrat. He also had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Is he a Nazi? Is he a government plant? Or is he just a shady, lying little PR disaster who will only damage the Palestinian cause? skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...
Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar
Last month, I talked about “cointelpro,” the secret US government plan to infiltrate leftist groups in order to discredit and disrupt them. I specifically brought it up in reference to the Trump ad…
skepchick.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Graham Platner is running for US Senate as a progressive Democrat. He also had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Is he a Nazi? Is he a government plant? Or is he just a shady, lying little PR disaster who will only damage the Palestinian cause? skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...
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At a packed community meeting in Newport, along Oregon’s central coast, residents gathered to express a mix of confusion, frustration and anxiety about the relocation of a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter – and the federal immigration enforcement outpost that could take its place.
Newport residents, leaders denounce possible ICE detention facility
At a packed community meeting in Newport, along Oregon’s central coast, residents gathered to express a mix of confusion, frustration and anxiety about the relocation of a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter – and the federal immigration enforcement outpost that could take its place.
www.opb.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
At a packed community meeting in Newport, along Oregon’s central coast, residents gathered to express a mix of confusion, frustration and anxiety about the relocation of a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter – and the federal immigration enforcement outpost that could take its place.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
I'm starting to think that everyone at @safety.bsky.app is illiterate, which honestly is revealing itself as a real big problem among tech people on the whole. Please get some people onboard who actually know how to handle moderation of human beings.
![Screenshot of Substack post:
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash.
I wish I were joking.
In early October, I referenced the “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” lyric of “Folsom Prison Blues” in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry.
I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool.
I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, “I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die”. They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on “Folsom Prison Blues.”
BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WSJ article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets:
I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times I inquired. Later I was told it was for the “Folsom Prison Blues” reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it.
BlueSky’s behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky — though I cannot see it, because I am suspended.
To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain’t never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time."
As for BlueSky…
[photo: possibly the most famous photo of Johnny Cash ever taken]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:igrrppysqek6ootkqdscphy5/bafkreic2dymf4w5qkye3ge3iyqy75n7c5sikim3jhk6q2t6ga6lmx2pvku@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I'm starting to think that everyone at @safety.bsky.app is illiterate, which honestly is revealing itself as a real big problem among tech people on the whole. Please get some people onboard who actually know how to handle moderation of human beings.
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I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
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wow. WOW.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
wow. WOW.
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not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
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Oh no a criterion sale
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Oh no a criterion sale
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November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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I've noticed some people being like "it's really weird how chill the Portland police are this time around" and well, I think local PDs understand that the threat of defunding is simply not the same as being jacketed as terrorists during an McCarthyist witch hunt on the say-so of Some Guy on X
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I've noticed some people being like "it's really weird how chill the Portland police are this time around" and well, I think local PDs understand that the threat of defunding is simply not the same as being jacketed as terrorists during an McCarthyist witch hunt on the say-so of Some Guy on X
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Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
Meet the hero inside the frog. youtu.be/2zEiYV-oar8?...
Anti-ICE protester's frog costume gains a reach well beyond the small Portland pond
YouTube video by KGW News
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Meet the hero inside the frog. youtu.be/2zEiYV-oar8?...