Dr. Rachel Rochester
@drrachelrochester.bsky.social
Writer, educator, climate advocate, and general goon about the Pacific Northwest. Reviewer for #100smallpress. Purveyor of Portland’s own Little Ghost Library and lover of every haunt.
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The perfect Calvin & Hobbes panel for this moment
February 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The perfect Calvin & Hobbes panel for this moment
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Stalin: "The intelligentsia are enemies of the people."
Mao: "The professors are the enemy."
Pol Pot: "Kill the professors."
VP Vance: "The professors are the enemy."
Authoritarians, no matter the country or era ... always have the same message.
Mao: "The professors are the enemy."
Pol Pot: "Kill the professors."
VP Vance: "The professors are the enemy."
Authoritarians, no matter the country or era ... always have the same message.
January 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Stalin: "The intelligentsia are enemies of the people."
Mao: "The professors are the enemy."
Pol Pot: "Kill the professors."
VP Vance: "The professors are the enemy."
Authoritarians, no matter the country or era ... always have the same message.
Mao: "The professors are the enemy."
Pol Pot: "Kill the professors."
VP Vance: "The professors are the enemy."
Authoritarians, no matter the country or era ... always have the same message.
I regret to report that I did watch the inauguration because I believe in the value of examining primary sources myself. As much as I want to ignore all this, that feels like a privilege I can’t afford.
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I regret to report that I did watch the inauguration because I believe in the value of examining primary sources myself. As much as I want to ignore all this, that feels like a privilege I can’t afford.
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IMPORTANT
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
IMPORTANT
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline
"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year
@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
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If you need your Girl Scout cookie fix give me a holler, I know a gal. She'll deliver personally in Portland (order by January 26) or you can have them shipped anywhere in the US of A.
January 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you need your Girl Scout cookie fix give me a holler, I know a gal. She'll deliver personally in Portland (order by January 26) or you can have them shipped anywhere in the US of A.
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So so excited about this! I love small presses and small press authors so much, this is my world, it’s where I came from
This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn
#100smallpress
#100smallpress
January 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So so excited about this! I love small presses and small press authors so much, this is my world, it’s where I came from
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As a small press author it always gives me such delight to read unsung gems from other small press authors.
The response from presses has been so warm already. I am knee deep in ARCs!
The response from presses has been so warm already. I am knee deep in ARCs!
This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn
#100smallpress
#100smallpress
January 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
As a small press author it always gives me such delight to read unsung gems from other small press authors.
The response from presses has been so warm already. I am knee deep in ARCs!
The response from presses has been so warm already. I am knee deep in ARCs!
Incredibly excited to be part of this exciting project! If you’re a small press or an author publishing with one, I can’t wait to read your work. 💜
This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn
#100smallpress
#100smallpress
January 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Incredibly excited to be part of this exciting project! If you’re a small press or an author publishing with one, I can’t wait to read your work. 💜
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They’re fine with this because *we’re* fine with this. We continue to use these shitty products.
It’s just like the airline industry, which gave us less and a more shitty experience and not only did we learned to tolerate it, we paid them more for it. Why wouldn’t any company do the same.
It’s just like the airline industry, which gave us less and a more shitty experience and not only did we learned to tolerate it, we paid them more for it. Why wouldn’t any company do the same.
This really is the most succinct summation of where we are with this AI crap. The official position of the tech industry is "it's fine if everything works less well than it did five years ago and computers are belching out hate speech, so long as I can lay off a % of my human workforce."
Von Ahn worries .. a Duolingo AI tutor could go “haywire,” and start “getting into some Nazi stuff. We're prepared. Not that we have major contingency plans, but I'm prepared for it to happen. And that's okay.”
“The benefits outweigh the potential problems.”
Free link: archive.ph/2024.09.24-1...
“The benefits outweigh the potential problems.”
Free link: archive.ph/2024.09.24-1...
January 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
They’re fine with this because *we’re* fine with this. We continue to use these shitty products.
It’s just like the airline industry, which gave us less and a more shitty experience and not only did we learned to tolerate it, we paid them more for it. Why wouldn’t any company do the same.
It’s just like the airline industry, which gave us less and a more shitty experience and not only did we learned to tolerate it, we paid them more for it. Why wouldn’t any company do the same.
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Snapdragons are my favorite flower to grow. They do however produce seed pods that look like the screaming skulls of the damned.
December 12, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Snapdragons are my favorite flower to grow. They do however produce seed pods that look like the screaming skulls of the damned.
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[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
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All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
December 4, 2024 at 11:35 PM
All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
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Prob not how I’d report a study that found 7.2% of kids who got Covid still hadn’t recovered two years later.
I mean come on man. It’s kids. If baby food left 7.2% of kids sick two years later, we’d be climbing the walls.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
I mean come on man. It’s kids. If baby food left 7.2% of kids sick two years later, we’d be climbing the walls.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
December 5, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Prob not how I’d report a study that found 7.2% of kids who got Covid still hadn’t recovered two years later.
I mean come on man. It’s kids. If baby food left 7.2% of kids sick two years later, we’d be climbing the walls.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
I mean come on man. It’s kids. If baby food left 7.2% of kids sick two years later, we’d be climbing the walls.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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interesting choice to make today
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 AM
interesting choice to make today
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
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Fact: Decolonization is not a metaphor.
Fact: Decolonization is not a narrative.
"Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality." Frantz Omar Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963
Opinion: the Atlantic is trash
Fact: Decolonization is not a narrative.
"Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality." Frantz Omar Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963
Opinion: the Atlantic is trash
October 29, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Fact: Decolonization is not a metaphor.
Fact: Decolonization is not a narrative.
"Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality." Frantz Omar Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963
Opinion: the Atlantic is trash
Fact: Decolonization is not a narrative.
"Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality." Frantz Omar Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963
Opinion: the Atlantic is trash
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"Climate change made storm that devastated Libya far more likely and intense, scientists say" by Tammy Webber for the #AP: apnews.com/article/clim...
Climate change made storm that devastated Libya far more likely and intense, scientists say
Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense.
apnews.com
September 20, 2023 at 1:33 PM
"Climate change made storm that devastated Libya far more likely and intense, scientists say" by Tammy Webber for the #AP: apnews.com/article/clim...
One of the only truly bright spots of this moment is that so many workers are striking for their rights. #Solidarity
September 17, 2023 at 1:27 AM
One of the only truly bright spots of this moment is that so many workers are striking for their rights. #Solidarity