Claire Merci
@clairemerci.bsky.social
99.9% reposts ::: so many reposts ::: too earnest to be witty ::: neurodivergent ::: science! ::: books! ::: defender of indoor spiders ::: ok, any ºooº ::: ní bóna ná coróin ::: 57% anxiety by volume ::: she/they
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if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
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I was rereading the comic Digger the other day (www.diggercomic.com) and once again encountered @tkingfisher.com making purple ink really creepy *in a comic with no color anywhere*. And I just think that's neat. Not as neat as the jumpscare on the page in The Hollow Places, but neat.
Digger by Ursula Vernon
www.diggercomic.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I was rereading the comic Digger the other day (www.diggercomic.com) and once again encountered @tkingfisher.com making purple ink really creepy *in a comic with no color anywhere*. And I just think that's neat. Not as neat as the jumpscare on the page in The Hollow Places, but neat.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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In case you didn’t realize SNAP is corporate welfare.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In case you didn’t realize SNAP is corporate welfare.
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BEHOLD
I commissioned @poulsens.bsky.social to do the main trio of Run With the Hunted, and so I present to you Bristol, Bits, and Dolly!
I commissioned @poulsens.bsky.social to do the main trio of Run With the Hunted, and so I present to you Bristol, Bits, and Dolly!
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
BEHOLD
I commissioned @poulsens.bsky.social to do the main trio of Run With the Hunted, and so I present to you Bristol, Bits, and Dolly!
I commissioned @poulsens.bsky.social to do the main trio of Run With the Hunted, and so I present to you Bristol, Bits, and Dolly!
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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Never not thinking about Octavia E. Butler's XENOGENESIS series and how explosively that first book blew my mind and how badly I wish I had read it when I was younger (I was in my 20s)
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Never not thinking about Octavia E. Butler's XENOGENESIS series and how explosively that first book blew my mind and how badly I wish I had read it when I was younger (I was in my 20s)
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
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This is Salem. He waited for his mom to leave the car before stealing her breakfast. Loves the thrill of the hunt. 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: unhingeddogmom)
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is Salem. He waited for his mom to leave the car before stealing her breakfast. Loves the thrill of the hunt. 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: unhingeddogmom)
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I was very impressed by what this final set of three novellas has to say about choices - The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed — Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – ECW Press Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback £6.49 ebook After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracised within his...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I was very impressed by what this final set of three novellas has to say about choices - The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
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Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)
today’s a good day to get the book people are calling “kaleidoscopic,” “lovingly queer,” “brutal & bloodthirsty,” “fascinating,” “dangerous,” “whimsical,” “deeply strange and cannibalistic”, and one of the best fantasy novels of 2024
The West Passage a book by Jared Pechaček
THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." --Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Legends & Lattes "A weird and wonde...
bookshop.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)
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me: language evolves and that's beautiful
also me: decimate means to kill one of every ten
also me: decimate means to kill one of every ten
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
me: language evolves and that's beautiful
also me: decimate means to kill one of every ten
also me: decimate means to kill one of every ten
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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“What we do know is that the current climate might change so drastically that it could become impossible for us to adapt… this is not just a scientific concern — it’s a matter of national survival and security.” www.dagens.com/news/iceland...
Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
Iceland has classified the potential collapse of a major Atlantic current system as a national security threat, citing new scientific warnings that such a change could radically alter the country’s cl...
www.dagens.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“What we do know is that the current climate might change so drastically that it could become impossible for us to adapt… this is not just a scientific concern — it’s a matter of national survival and security.” www.dagens.com/news/iceland...
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I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.
I read the thread and know why they're not failing the students. They gotta let colleges fail the students for the sake of the curriculum and other students
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat