Irving
@irvingchong.bsky.social
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A Boogie Chin stan account.
softtidescounselling.com
A Boogie Chin stan account.
softtidescounselling.com
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In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.
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We all know why they pick names like Sauron and Palantir
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We all know why they pick names like Sauron and Palantir
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watched my team lose to the wizards twice this week
December 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
watched my team lose to the wizards twice this week
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will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
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young people have always looked for a safe place to put their secrets that can’t judge their feelings! it’s why kids like to keep diaries. the difference is that a notebook will never actively encourage mental illness or explicitly validate suicidal ideation
i wonder if anyone is going to ask the other question: why are kids confiding in AI how they feel about *insert mental health topic* and not confiding in a real person? or are we just going to use this as another “AI bad” thing and move on?
getting rid of AI won’t fix the problems that got us here
getting rid of AI won’t fix the problems that got us here
December 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
young people have always looked for a safe place to put their secrets that can’t judge their feelings! it’s why kids like to keep diaries. the difference is that a notebook will never actively encourage mental illness or explicitly validate suicidal ideation
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This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.
December 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.
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This … isn’t true though? The segment wasn’t censored due to government interference, it was internal meddling. If the segment was pulled any earlier it would have been censored in Canada too.
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This … isn’t true though? The segment wasn’t censored due to government interference, it was internal meddling. If the segment was pulled any earlier it would have been censored in Canada too.
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The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
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“Because our culture often treats visibility as a moral benchmark. If you are out, you are brave. If you are not, you are behind. But that binary ignores the reality of systems that still demand compliance before they offer protection.”
The Quiet Negotiations
I watched Heated Rivalry like a lot of people and what stayed with me wasn’t the plot, the sport, or even the love story.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Because our culture often treats visibility as a moral benchmark. If you are out, you are brave. If you are not, you are behind. But that binary ignores the reality of systems that still demand compliance before they offer protection.”
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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for the longest time on twitter my bio was “the real racist” as a joke about this dynamic.
And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
for the longest time on twitter my bio was “the real racist” as a joke about this dynamic.
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Love this poem.
From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, the Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774845
#poem #books #writing
From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, the Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774845
#poem #books #writing
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Love this poem.
From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, the Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774845
#poem #books #writing
From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, the Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774845
#poem #books #writing
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I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
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I also noticed that the airport now has signs only in Spanish that tell people they can get $1000 for "self deportacion" and for each member of their family they also convince to 'self deport'
Disgusting
Disgusting
December 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I also noticed that the airport now has signs only in Spanish that tell people they can get $1000 for "self deportacion" and for each member of their family they also convince to 'self deport'
Disgusting
Disgusting
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This is funny, but it's also extremely accurate.
I've spoken with players who went up against Wemby in Europe, and they all say the same thing. The court shrinks.
It's preposterously difficult to get any offensive momentum going when he's out there.
I've spoken with players who went up against Wemby in Europe, and they all say the same thing. The court shrinks.
It's preposterously difficult to get any offensive momentum going when he's out there.
J-Dub is so real for this. When asked what about the Spurs took the Thunder out of their game... 👽
December 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is funny, but it's also extremely accurate.
I've spoken with players who went up against Wemby in Europe, and they all say the same thing. The court shrinks.
It's preposterously difficult to get any offensive momentum going when he's out there.
I've spoken with players who went up against Wemby in Europe, and they all say the same thing. The court shrinks.
It's preposterously difficult to get any offensive momentum going when he's out there.
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No, it makes sense that someone who plays and enjoys hockey has such little knowledge and yet animosity towards basketball. The exceptional thing about Wemby is that he’s doing things people his height usually can’t. Being too tall in the NBA is often a detriment, especially in the small ball era.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
No, it makes sense that someone who plays and enjoys hockey has such little knowledge and yet animosity towards basketball. The exceptional thing about Wemby is that he’s doing things people his height usually can’t. Being too tall in the NBA is often a detriment, especially in the small ball era.
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Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.
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He hasn’t let up on American Christians since he became Pope
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
He hasn’t let up on American Christians since he became Pope
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Teacher here:
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Teacher here:
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
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It’s also this pretense that the man hasn’t been charged and convicted of sexual crimes as well. The man has a whole Wikipedia page about his sexual misconduct stemming from the 70s.
I’ve heard most journalists and politicians say that Trump hasn’t been directly accused of wrongdoing or implicated in the Epstein Files.
But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.
But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s also this pretense that the man hasn’t been charged and convicted of sexual crimes as well. The man has a whole Wikipedia page about his sexual misconduct stemming from the 70s.
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Another collection of newsroom buzzwords slopped together not to actually explain what happened, but to mollify the enlightened centrist audience that it would inevitably be leaked to
New Bari Weiss & CBS leadership note to staff—
“…Americans say they do not trust the press…To win back their trust, we have to work hard.”
“Sometimes it means telling unexpected stories…sometimes it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair.”
“…Americans say they do not trust the press…To win back their trust, we have to work hard.”
“Sometimes it means telling unexpected stories…sometimes it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair.”
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Another collection of newsroom buzzwords slopped together not to actually explain what happened, but to mollify the enlightened centrist audience that it would inevitably be leaked to
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I hate that when AI is wrong people are like "But isn't it amazing that it thinks it's right?" but when I fuck up my taxes it's "a crime." Hypocrisy much?
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I hate that when AI is wrong people are like "But isn't it amazing that it thinks it's right?" but when I fuck up my taxes it's "a crime." Hypocrisy much?
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Money cannot buy you likeability.
![Elon Musk tweet: Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good [gun emoji, robot bicep emoji, sunglasses emoji]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiarktq2xunsptxruomoqogem4nedbskcqccedhejyg2skisyvqgqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Money cannot buy you likeability.
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Fun Fact: Donald Trump has sued over 3,000 people in his life, but he's never sued anybody for calling him a pedophile.
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Fun Fact: Donald Trump has sued over 3,000 people in his life, but he's never sued anybody for calling him a pedophile.
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Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner