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Erin Kenny
@er1nk.bsky.social
Missouri Ozarks; turn-ons include living systems theory, yoga, topiary & dystopic humor
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A mouthpiece for the elites is getting in on pushing universal basic income, which likely means strings attached. Want money to feed yourself, your family? Obey.
www.axios.com/2025/12/21/t...
The solve for America's aging crisis: Universal Basic Investment
The goal: Give the next generation a financial leg up, plus a living lesson in compound interest.
www.axios.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What are we even doing to our children??
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her.
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊

challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Wrote about the Epstein Files.
The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away
The Most ████ Administration Ever
The Epstein files are here, and they are too redacted to satisfy anyone.  
www.theatlantic.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
button, button
Buttons bought in £40 job lot sell for £61,000
They were made by sculptor Alberto Giacometti for fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.
www.bbc.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Will an anthropologist be able to identify your sex and gender from your bones 100 years from now? I sure hope so!

Read my essay on the limited and limiting methods we currently have for sex estimation to learn where the science has room to improve.

www.prosocial.world/posts/an-ant...
An Anthropologist’s Perspective on Sex and Gender in the Skeleton
Anthropological methods show that skeletal sex is an estimate, not a certainty, revealing the limits of binary claims about human identity.
www.prosocial.world
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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In the relationship between Trump and Epstein, “Female bodies were currency.”

Offering my last gift link on this because it’s worth a read in full:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Yeah, the problem with what I guess I'll call Ezra Klein-style liberalism is that it holds that ideas work like tokens that do not have any inherent moral valence, you can trade them and exchange them and they do not actually say anything about the person holding them
if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Botanical rainbow in December.
Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.

"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
The Vanity Fair photographer who disrupted Trumpworld’s polished image
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM