Quinn
@drquinn.bsky.social
I’m here for a social media site that doesn’t actively support fascism, transphobia, or racism, so we can build a world that doesn’t either. I’m used to disappointment.
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“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
I never tire of having this conversation with the older kid: “This song you’re loving is from TMBG’s Flood. It came out about 20 years before you were born. That’s like me jamming out to Perry Cuomo’s Hot Diggity in high school. It’s an oldie. You like old people music.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I never tire of having this conversation with the older kid: “This song you’re loving is from TMBG’s Flood. It came out about 20 years before you were born. That’s like me jamming out to Perry Cuomo’s Hot Diggity in high school. It’s an oldie. You like old people music.”
This is a shocking, shocking revelation for Republican Mouthpiece The New York Times.
*Who* could have predicted that the Newspaper of Conservative Record would protect Republicans and attack Democrats?
*Who* could have predicted that the Newspaper of Conservative Record would protect Republicans and attack Democrats?
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is a shocking, shocking revelation for Republican Mouthpiece The New York Times.
*Who* could have predicted that the Newspaper of Conservative Record would protect Republicans and attack Democrats?
*Who* could have predicted that the Newspaper of Conservative Record would protect Republicans and attack Democrats?
I took a meeting in my car today instead of grabbing a table. $SBUX closed my local store in retaliation for unionizing, so I’m not giving them money anymore, but in my house we don’t cross pickets even to make them look busy and successful and sit without buying to do Zoom!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I took a meeting in my car today instead of grabbing a table. $SBUX closed my local store in retaliation for unionizing, so I’m not giving them money anymore, but in my house we don’t cross pickets even to make them look busy and successful and sit without buying to do Zoom!
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/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.
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Nothing is sacred.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Nothing is sacred.
Whenever I see think-pieces about “How to talk to family-members who support Trump,” I think about stories like this, and I’m sorry but family members who support this aren’t worth talking to. They support using chemical weapons on children. We owe them nothing.
“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!”
That was a 2-year-old girl's reaction when she was hit with tear gas deployed by nearby immigration agents as she played in a Chicago park.
Her mother details their story to @NBCNews
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
That was a 2-year-old girl's reaction when she was hit with tear gas deployed by nearby immigration agents as she played in a Chicago park.
Her mother details their story to @NBCNews
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Whenever I see think-pieces about “How to talk to family-members who support Trump,” I think about stories like this, and I’m sorry but family members who support this aren’t worth talking to. They support using chemical weapons on children. We owe them nothing.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
There are worse people in politics than Gavin Newsom.
I’ll never vote for any of those people either, but at least they don’t pretend to be progressive while attacking family, unlike this total shitheel.
I’ll never vote for any of those people either, but at least they don’t pretend to be progressive while attacking family, unlike this total shitheel.
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
There are worse people in politics than Gavin Newsom.
I’ll never vote for any of those people either, but at least they don’t pretend to be progressive while attacking family, unlike this total shitheel.
I’ll never vote for any of those people either, but at least they don’t pretend to be progressive while attacking family, unlike this total shitheel.
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Dear BBC/Netflix,
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Dear BBC/Netflix,
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
No Kings Except Kong! <3
Found some allies at the No Kings protest including Jack Black!
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
No Kings Except Kong! <3
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Found some allies at the No Kings protest including Jack Black!
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Found some allies at the No Kings protest including Jack Black!
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Know where it comes from to better understand where it's heading.
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Know where it comes from to better understand where it's heading.
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War torn Portland.
I am
I am
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
War torn Portland.
I am
I am
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Remember how the number of serial killers and other violent crime in the 1970s and 1980s was linked to massive, widespread lead exposure? Maybe we'll look back in 20 years and realize that America's (hopefully) brief descent into full-on fascism was a result of lead exposure, too.
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Remember how the number of serial killers and other violent crime in the 1970s and 1980s was linked to massive, widespread lead exposure? Maybe we'll look back in 20 years and realize that America's (hopefully) brief descent into full-on fascism was a result of lead exposure, too.
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Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.
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Thank you, Miss Major, for showing us the way.
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thank you, Miss Major, for showing us the way.
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
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More and more evidence emerging for this powerful new theory.
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
More and more evidence emerging for this powerful new theory.
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as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.