Erika
@hibiscus-biscuits.bsky.social
(she/they)
I like sludge metal, speculative sci-fi, and Pokémon.
Sometimes I make art 🎨
I like sludge metal, speculative sci-fi, and Pokémon.
Sometimes I make art 🎨
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Heard on the Street: Reddit’s human conversations make it a surprising winner in AI’s machine age.
As AI Changes Internet Search, Reddit Lies in a Sweet Spot
Reddit’s human conversations make it a surprising winner in AI’s machine age.
on.wsj.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Heard on the Street: Reddit’s human conversations make it a surprising winner in AI’s machine age.
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As Rebecca completed the final incantation, the ground began to rumble. In an explosion of earth and grass, the giant form of a thing that both was and wasn’t Twilight Sparkle burst from the ground. Its eyes glowing crimson, its long teeth gleaming, it raised its head and roared.
August 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As Rebecca completed the final incantation, the ground began to rumble. In an explosion of earth and grass, the giant form of a thing that both was and wasn’t Twilight Sparkle burst from the ground. Its eyes glowing crimson, its long teeth gleaming, it raised its head and roared.
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despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick
Currently listening to the audiobook for Bee Speaker (and absolutely loving it), but there's been one question growing in my mind throughout this trilogy.
What if there was a person born into the HumOS family who didn't want to be a part of it? @aptshadow.bsky.social
What if there was a person born into the HumOS family who didn't want to be a part of it? @aptshadow.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Currently listening to the audiobook for Bee Speaker (and absolutely loving it), but there's been one question growing in my mind throughout this trilogy.
What if there was a person born into the HumOS family who didn't want to be a part of it? @aptshadow.bsky.social
What if there was a person born into the HumOS family who didn't want to be a part of it? @aptshadow.bsky.social
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abolish ice is the moderate position
When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.
Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:
Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
abolish ice is the moderate position
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Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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Love this Area X bunny art by Castiel Frost, shown to me at last night's event.
April 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Love this Area X bunny art by Castiel Frost, shown to me at last night's event.
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As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
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Following the death of Pope Francis, we asked readers to share what he meant to them.
Hundreds responded, from around the world – across faiths, cultures and borders – with many remembering the pope as a virtuous leader in an imperfect world.
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Hundreds responded, from around the world – across faiths, cultures and borders – with many remembering the pope as a virtuous leader in an imperfect world.
wapo.st/42wPWVU
Readers reflect on Pope Francis: He brought ‘many of us closer to God’
Catholics, atheists, Muslims and more, from around the world, tell of how the pope’s life and leadership inspired them.
wapo.st
April 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Following the death of Pope Francis, we asked readers to share what he meant to them.
Hundreds responded, from around the world – across faiths, cultures and borders – with many remembering the pope as a virtuous leader in an imperfect world.
wapo.st/42wPWVU
Hundreds responded, from around the world – across faiths, cultures and borders – with many remembering the pope as a virtuous leader in an imperfect world.
wapo.st/42wPWVU
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The business listing website for pro-Trump businesses is now a great resource for people organizing boycotts. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
www.huffpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The business listing website for pro-Trump businesses is now a great resource for people organizing boycotts. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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I keep thinking about how people like Rubio are why the Holocaust happened. Not everyone is a committed ideologue; many are morally bankrupt, ambition-seeking sycophants who care more about their advancement than any principle. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-democr...
The Democrats' Marco Rubio Shame Is Eternal
Never let them forget they all voted for this villain.
www.discourseblog.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I keep thinking about how people like Rubio are why the Holocaust happened. Not everyone is a committed ideologue; many are morally bankrupt, ambition-seeking sycophants who care more about their advancement than any principle. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-democr...
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The ideological extremists of the Trump administration aren’t streamlining government. They’re burning it to the ground and salting the earth. When you eliminate guardrails and rules of the road, you don’t have a more efficient government, you have anarchy and law of the jungle.
“This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale (Gift Article)
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The ideological extremists of the Trump administration aren’t streamlining government. They’re burning it to the ground and salting the earth. When you eliminate guardrails and rules of the road, you don’t have a more efficient government, you have anarchy and law of the jungle.
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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
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I also don’t really know how to communicate that you can’t have a mass movement if you constantly gatekeep who is allowed to be mad now.
April 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I also don’t really know how to communicate that you can’t have a mass movement if you constantly gatekeep who is allowed to be mad now.
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The constitutional crisis of Trump illegally withholding money duly appropriated, by law, by Congress, is continuing; keep your eye on the ball
At least 19 states, all of whom with Democratic attorneys general, presented “undisputed evidence” they were not receiving FEMA funds already appropriated by Congress.
The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order
It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.
newrepublic.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The constitutional crisis of Trump illegally withholding money duly appropriated, by law, by Congress, is continuing; keep your eye on the ball
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon
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The Trump administration claims the right to throw a man with legal status into a black hole Central American prison, affording him no due process, to admit afterward it was a mistake, and then to get snide with the judge who tells them to fix it.
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The Trump administration claims the right to throw a man with legal status into a black hole Central American prison, affording him no due process, to admit afterward it was a mistake, and then to get snide with the judge who tells them to fix it.
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I don’t even think I’m exaggerating to say that if a Democratic president tanked the stock market, bragged about doing it intentionally, and then went golfing for the weekend, a mob would lynch them on the golf course.
April 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I don’t even think I’m exaggerating to say that if a Democratic president tanked the stock market, bragged about doing it intentionally, and then went golfing for the weekend, a mob would lynch them on the golf course.
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"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'"
These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.
Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.
Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'"
These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.
Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now.
Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
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Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.
Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever
Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.
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April 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.