erin
@erincendiary.bsky.social
AuDHD burnout. Parent. Held together by toxic perfectionism. Silver Spring. Cville raised. I have too many interests. Free Palestine.
Pinned
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It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.
The salt and stone deodorant smells good but is only good for: people without sweat glands, alerting a wild animal to your presence from far away, and summoning a demon to haunt your armpit.
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The salt and stone deodorant smells good but is only good for: people without sweat glands, alerting a wild animal to your presence from far away, and summoning a demon to haunt your armpit.
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Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan.
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
“The UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.”
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Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2023)
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2023)
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2023)
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
By @andykroll.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2023)
The reflex of thinking MTG is magic the gathering right now
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The reflex of thinking MTG is magic the gathering right now
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Loved this as a kid and I think it's one of the ingredients of my weirdness
Boppin', MS-DOS
Jennifer Diane Reitz, Stephen P. Lepisto, Chuck Jones, Andrew J. Lepisto, Jim Dose
Accursed Toys 1994
Uno de mis juegos favoritos de siempre es este desconocido juego de puzles que nació en 1991 en Amiga y más tarde llegó a PC con esta versión mejorada.
Jennifer Diane Reitz, Stephen P. Lepisto, Chuck Jones, Andrew J. Lepisto, Jim Dose
Accursed Toys 1994
Uno de mis juegos favoritos de siempre es este desconocido juego de puzles que nació en 1991 en Amiga y más tarde llegó a PC con esta versión mejorada.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Loved this as a kid and I think it's one of the ingredients of my weirdness
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How it feels to wake up and know it’s Halloween week. 🎃
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How it feels to wake up and know it’s Halloween week. 🎃
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“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods?
The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.
wordinblack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
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1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
Canceling all my streaming services because I already own David Starkey's Monarchy on DVD
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Canceling all my streaming services because I already own David Starkey's Monarchy on DVD
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
No matter how many times someone explains what 'based' means to me, I do not get it!
September 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No matter how many times someone explains what 'based' means to me, I do not get it!
My stimulant meds have been on backorder for an ENTIRE MONTH, so I've been playing stimulant roulette with the leftovers of old doses in my medicine cabinet. Today's winner was 27 mg tablet.
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My stimulant meds have been on backorder for an ENTIRE MONTH, so I've been playing stimulant roulette with the leftovers of old doses in my medicine cabinet. Today's winner was 27 mg tablet.
I'm worried that the bullshit about Tylenol is also going to make more women (and any pregnant people) think they need to get off antidepressants during pregnancy. Listen to your doctor! Your mental health matters so so much!
September 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm worried that the bullshit about Tylenol is also going to make more women (and any pregnant people) think they need to get off antidepressants during pregnancy. Listen to your doctor! Your mental health matters so so much!
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I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
September 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What Do I Want?
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Finally got around to reading Berserk. The library didn't have the hard copies but there was an app to borrow ebooks. At first I was like Yay wow manga is so much more accessible now! Then I realized there's a 5 book a month limit, after reading the 1st 5 within a couple hours...
September 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Finally got around to reading Berserk. The library didn't have the hard copies but there was an app to borrow ebooks. At first I was like Yay wow manga is so much more accessible now! Then I realized there's a 5 book a month limit, after reading the 1st 5 within a couple hours...
Someone on #booksky recommended Pillars of the Earth. Listened to it while scraping and painting my front porch, and I really liked it!
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Someone on #booksky recommended Pillars of the Earth. Listened to it while scraping and painting my front porch, and I really liked it!
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An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
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Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
August 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
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sorry folks we cant turn off the teen suicide encouragement bot, just too many billionaires who invested an insignificant amount of their fortune into it and that would make them upset
August 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
sorry folks we cant turn off the teen suicide encouragement bot, just too many billionaires who invested an insignificant amount of their fortune into it and that would make them upset
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An absolute must-read here.
www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...
www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...
We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed - Salon.com
It's time to look in the mirror, America: We chose catastrophe — there's no one else to blame
www.salon.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An absolute must-read here.
www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...
www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...