Claire Connelly
@claireconnelly.bsky.social
Journalist / researcher / do-er of things. Twitter rescue in search of a new home. Wash your hands.
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
Niche Sesame Street question for parents: does anyone know if there is a Cookie Monster toy that sings the actual song? Asking for my toddler
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Niche Sesame Street question for parents: does anyone know if there is a Cookie Monster toy that sings the actual song? Asking for my toddler
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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This guy reminds me of the director who staged a really terrible production of Winter’s Tale at NYU, and sat in the audience during rehearsals, mouthing the lines, to make sure the actors speaking in verse stopped at the end at every line
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This guy reminds me of the director who staged a really terrible production of Winter’s Tale at NYU, and sat in the audience during rehearsals, mouthing the lines, to make sure the actors speaking in verse stopped at the end at every line
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
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Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism
As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
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trump won two elections because he convinced a shitload of people to vote for him.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
trump won two elections because he convinced a shitload of people to vote for him.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
Record of the Day: Peter Frampton’s I’m in You. Bub is swaying along to the first song (of the same name) while brushing his teeth.
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Record of the Day: Peter Frampton’s I’m in You. Bub is swaying along to the first song (of the same name) while brushing his teeth.
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1/ As someone who got a (imho cynically timed) letter of apology from Stephen Glass but was disinclined to think he should be admitted to bar…the reason I felt so strongly was that he actively deceived fact-checkers. An FCer for story I edited at Harper’s. And many FCers at TNR including…Ryan Lizza.
I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
1/ As someone who got a (imho cynically timed) letter of apology from Stephen Glass but was disinclined to think he should be admitted to bar…the reason I felt so strongly was that he actively deceived fact-checkers. An FCer for story I edited at Harper’s. And many FCers at TNR including…Ryan Lizza.
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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This does seem really quite bad
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This does seem really quite bad
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See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Forget AI robot housekeepers, I just want a little device whose sole purpose is to keep my sheets tucked in tightly while I sleep.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Forget AI robot housekeepers, I just want a little device whose sole purpose is to keep my sheets tucked in tightly while I sleep.
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So strategic
Strategic cuts to the CSIRO include 'environment' and 'health and biosecurity' 🤓
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
So strategic
This rules
“We’re not here for revenge. We’re not here to destroy the Post-Gazette. We are here to rebuild it,” said Goldstein to management. “You get to decide on your role in that. We’ve already decided on ours.”
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a court upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision for the union.
www.publicsource.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This rules
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
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Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Look what just arrived in the mail 👇.
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Look what just arrived in the mail 👇.
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
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“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
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It’s all just a little bit of history repeating
Who's shocked that career-racist Pauline Hanson has, in a desperate please for attention, has donned a burqa again?
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
#auspol
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#auspol
Hanson suspended from Senate for wearing a burqa in the chamber
Labor and Coalition senators united to condemn the One Nation leader’s stunt and vote to have her removed.
www.theage.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating