Holly Parker
@holleighz.bsky.social
Mother of bunnies. Eater of flowers. Maker of magic. Heart of fire. Soul of the sea.
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This is the third incident where military aircraft has either collided or come into close contact with commercial flights in the past six months, and it feels like someone somewhere simply decided the military shouldn’t have to care about commercial flights.
Southwest Airlines jet dives as a fighter jet crosses its path near Los Angeles (CNN)
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July 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is the third incident where military aircraft has either collided or come into close contact with commercial flights in the past six months, and it feels like someone somewhere simply decided the military shouldn’t have to care about commercial flights.
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Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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I looked into the claim that "AI chatbots are useful as therapy."
Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤
Video out now!
Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤
Video out now!
July 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I looked into the claim that "AI chatbots are useful as therapy."
Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤
Video out now!
Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤
Video out now!
Never met someone in HR leadership who isn’t at least a bit sociopathic
July 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Never met someone in HR leadership who isn’t at least a bit sociopathic
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Funny how the folks yelling “stop living in fear” are terrified to wear a mask for five minutes in a grocery store.
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Funny how the folks yelling “stop living in fear” are terrified to wear a mask for five minutes in a grocery store.
People talk about liberals vs leftists as infighting, but the liberals I know are sharing more and more positions, values, even local-level votes with MAGA Republicans than with any leftists. They maintain an air of liberalism to remain socially acceptable, but there is no moral grounding.
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
People talk about liberals vs leftists as infighting, but the liberals I know are sharing more and more positions, values, even local-level votes with MAGA Republicans than with any leftists. They maintain an air of liberalism to remain socially acceptable, but there is no moral grounding.
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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
No tantrum like the tantrum a full grown adult throws when you ask them to mask after they bring an active COVID infection into your living space. In other news, the person who disabled me with COVID this time last year might well have given it to me again despite my best efforts.
July 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No tantrum like the tantrum a full grown adult throws when you ask them to mask after they bring an active COVID infection into your living space. In other news, the person who disabled me with COVID this time last year might well have given it to me again despite my best efforts.
Holy shit I think we accidentally bought a house
July 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Holy shit I think we accidentally bought a house
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Reminder what New York state Democrats did the last time a Democratic Socialist was about to win the general election for mayor in a big city.
“We don’t want to wake up on November 3, and people say, ‘Buffalo just elected the first socialist mayor in the past 50 years.’ We can’t make that happen in Buffalo!”
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June 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Reminder what New York state Democrats did the last time a Democratic Socialist was about to win the general election for mayor in a big city.
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Pulled some vintage dresses out of storage, so I had to indulge a little Disney princess moment (vocals by Lauren Paley on IG/TikTok)
June 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pulled some vintage dresses out of storage, so I had to indulge a little Disney princess moment (vocals by Lauren Paley on IG/TikTok)
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Fuck off. Apparently no one likes children anymore.
Long Covid is the #1 chronic condition.
Read that again.
It’s preventable, by wearing a fucking mask and cleaning the air.
Long Covid is the #1 chronic condition.
Read that again.
It’s preventable, by wearing a fucking mask and cleaning the air.
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fuck off. Apparently no one likes children anymore.
Long Covid is the #1 chronic condition.
Read that again.
It’s preventable, by wearing a fucking mask and cleaning the air.
Long Covid is the #1 chronic condition.
Read that again.
It’s preventable, by wearing a fucking mask and cleaning the air.
The Cheeto saw his shadow. Three more months of TikTok.
June 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Cheeto saw his shadow. Three more months of TikTok.
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Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise.
Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
June 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise.
Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
The weekend’s tarot event was a first, doing longer personal readings but with an audience. There was laughter, crying, screaming, cheering. An incredible option for intimate gatherings with the right group of people.
June 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The weekend’s tarot event was a first, doing longer personal readings but with an audience. There was laughter, crying, screaming, cheering. An incredible option for intimate gatherings with the right group of people.
This goes for all toppings. It is the only way.
When you make sheet pan nachos you have to put beans on every single chip individually. It takes a bit more time but it’s extremely worth it in the long run.
June 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This goes for all toppings. It is the only way.
I just learned that Casey Kasem was the original voice of Shaggy is Scooby Doo, and now I cannot unhear it. Casey Kasem was a treasure.
June 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I just learned that Casey Kasem was the original voice of Shaggy is Scooby Doo, and now I cannot unhear it. Casey Kasem was a treasure.
My friendly neighborhood catbird learned a new trick
June 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My friendly neighborhood catbird learned a new trick
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Adding alt text because yes, this is important to know
June 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Adding alt text because yes, this is important to know
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MY GOD. How are these legal??
“A study published in 2017 in the BMJ found that 3% of people hit by rubber bullets died of the injury. Fifteen percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured by the rubber bullets.”
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
“A study published in 2017 in the BMJ found that 3% of people hit by rubber bullets died of the injury. Fifteen percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured by the rubber bullets.”
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Rubber bullets are supposed to be 'less than lethal,' but they can still kill or maim
The use by police of rubber bullets has provoked outrage, as graphic images have flashed on social media showing people who have lost an eye or suffered other injuries after being hit.
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June 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
MY GOD. How are these legal??
“A study published in 2017 in the BMJ found that 3% of people hit by rubber bullets died of the injury. Fifteen percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured by the rubber bullets.”
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
“A study published in 2017 in the BMJ found that 3% of people hit by rubber bullets died of the injury. Fifteen percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured by the rubber bullets.”
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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“Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,” it says, “it wastes $4 million.” 🧪
“I want people to know how bad things are at NIH,” Norton told The Associated Press.
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NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
apnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,” it says, “it wastes $4 million.” 🧪
I got the results of my heart monitor back, and even though I didn’t feel any weird events during the two weeks I wore it, it did catch arrhythmias. I understand that they were nothing serious, but my doctor’s only comments on the report were, “We got your results, and your heart rate is normal.”
June 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I got the results of my heart monitor back, and even though I didn’t feel any weird events during the two weeks I wore it, it did catch arrhythmias. I understand that they were nothing serious, but my doctor’s only comments on the report were, “We got your results, and your heart rate is normal.”