Melissa Fengári
@edubyromance.bsky.social
🎙 Aspiring Author and Podcaster.
👩🏻🏫Actual schoolmarm.
💀 Former Goth
📚Reader of thirsty words.
👩🏻🏫Actual schoolmarm.
💀 Former Goth
📚Reader of thirsty words.
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"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude."
September 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude."
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Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
September 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
Man. I've got 2 of these accounts, one for books and one for work. My books one gives me anxiety about the country/world, my work one gives me anxiety about my city/state. I just need to stay off the internet I guess.
May 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Man. I've got 2 of these accounts, one for books and one for work. My books one gives me anxiety about the country/world, my work one gives me anxiety about my city/state. I just need to stay off the internet I guess.
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Well get ready, assholes.
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Well get ready, assholes.
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Anyone who is SURPRISED by Trump Tariffs was deluding themselves. This wasn’t like the Project 2025 stuff that he disclaimed.
He talked about these over and over and over again.
He talked about these over and over and over again.
Bill Ackman freaking out about tariffs and saying "this isn't what we voted for" is as clear a crystallization of conservative self-delusion as you could ever ask for. Yes it is you idiot, you voted specifically for this! He talked about this NON STOP
April 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Anyone who is SURPRISED by Trump Tariffs was deluding themselves. This wasn’t like the Project 2025 stuff that he disclaimed.
He talked about these over and over and over again.
He talked about these over and over and over again.
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I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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I don’t repost the NYT anymore but if you looked at an American flag made entirely of Black men split down the middle and didn’t get “the larger statement”, that is a skills issue that lies with you, not with Kendrick Lamar. What absolute trash.
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I don’t repost the NYT anymore but if you looked at an American flag made entirely of Black men split down the middle and didn’t get “the larger statement”, that is a skills issue that lies with you, not with Kendrick Lamar. What absolute trash.
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I have wondered if the New York Times has been acting as handmaidens of fascism because the paper's leaders find it appealing, but now I'm wondering how many people with prominent positions there are just genuinely stupid.
February 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have wondered if the New York Times has been acting as handmaidens of fascism because the paper's leaders find it appealing, but now I'm wondering how many people with prominent positions there are just genuinely stupid.
I'm trying to collect my favorites in print for **reasons** and not enough authors sell direct from their own websites. (Yes, ill order through bookshop, I know)
February 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm trying to collect my favorites in print for **reasons** and not enough authors sell direct from their own websites. (Yes, ill order through bookshop, I know)
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Looking for a good history (upper elem, world hist) podcast for kids- i know they aren't getting enough relevant history instruction at school (I work there, don't @ me) and I'm worried they won't see things like **gestures around** coming when they are adults. #podcast #history #education
February 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Looking for a good history (upper elem, world hist) podcast for kids- i know they aren't getting enough relevant history instruction at school (I work there, don't @ me) and I'm worried they won't see things like **gestures around** coming when they are adults. #podcast #history #education
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For the love of audiobooks...it's time for a reading challenge! 😍
Between now and 2/15, if you read 10+ hours on audio, you'll earn a free Libro.fm audiobook credit! Plus, new members that sign up w/ code FORTHELOVE will get 3 audiobook credits for the price of 1.
Learn more: blog.libro.fm/love/
Between now and 2/15, if you read 10+ hours on audio, you'll earn a free Libro.fm audiobook credit! Plus, new members that sign up w/ code FORTHELOVE will get 3 audiobook credits for the price of 1.
Learn more: blog.libro.fm/love/
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For the love of audiobooks...it's time for a reading challenge! 😍
Between now and 2/15, if you read 10+ hours on audio, you'll earn a free Libro.fm audiobook credit! Plus, new members that sign up w/ code FORTHELOVE will get 3 audiobook credits for the price of 1.
Learn more: blog.libro.fm/love/
Between now and 2/15, if you read 10+ hours on audio, you'll earn a free Libro.fm audiobook credit! Plus, new members that sign up w/ code FORTHELOVE will get 3 audiobook credits for the price of 1.
Learn more: blog.libro.fm/love/
@libro.fm i have a question. When we buy an audiobook from yall, do we own it, or is it a license like at the other place (I'm switching anyway, just wondering!)
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@libro.fm i have a question. When we buy an audiobook from yall, do we own it, or is it a license like at the other place (I'm switching anyway, just wondering!)
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Rep. Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized the Treasury Department, but you don't control the money of the American people--the US Congress does that."
"There is no fourth branch of government called Elon Musk"
"There is no fourth branch of government called Elon Musk"
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Rep. Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized the Treasury Department, but you don't control the money of the American people--the US Congress does that."
"There is no fourth branch of government called Elon Musk"
"There is no fourth branch of government called Elon Musk"
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Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire with a long list of conflicts of interest and deep ties to China—is hijacking our nation's checkbook so he can block funds that help the American people.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire with a long list of conflicts of interest and deep ties to China—is hijacking our nation's checkbook so he can block funds that help the American people.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.
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Is Musk is *just now* being made a “special government employee” just confirms how illegal this has all been!
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Is Musk is *just now* being made a “special government employee” just confirms how illegal this has all been!
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...
Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy.
Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.
slate.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...
Literally wtf
"Kroger has partnered with Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores to identify individual customers, which could allow individual shoppers to see prices calibrated specifically for them.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
bit.ly/4gYUoBo
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
bit.ly/4gYUoBo
Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought
New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.
bit.ly
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Literally wtf
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The only celebrity drama I follow is Elmo's beef with that rock
January 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The only celebrity drama I follow is Elmo's beef with that rock
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President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them.
So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.
So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.
January 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them.
So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.
So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.
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The fascists should find it hard TO DO EVERYTHING. They should not be able to find people to work for them. People should act like they are invisible. You did not hear them. You did not get that email. Oooh, did you ask for a pencil? I thought you said stencil.
January 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The fascists should find it hard TO DO EVERYTHING. They should not be able to find people to work for them. People should act like they are invisible. You did not hear them. You did not get that email. Oooh, did you ask for a pencil? I thought you said stencil.
Ok, i finally made it here, and it looks just like my old 🐦 all the people i used to follow are here! How did I make it through the last election without yall?
January 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ok, i finally made it here, and it looks just like my old 🐦 all the people i used to follow are here! How did I make it through the last election without yall?