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Jac (JD)
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Major reader, love playing visual novel games, and general #MaximumFun and #DropoutTV fan. Big on #LibraryLife, #RunningLife, and #SoftballSeason. Neurodivergent, ace, she/her/hers.
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Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.

It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
jdwilso.bsky.social
It's very real en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsid...
Burnside Fountain - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
jdwilso.bsky.social
Oh man, it's fun! Even my friends who don't care about volleyball love it (and a wonderful mutual of ours loves the boys too!!)
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I actually got to see the end of the game (including the dead ball) and fucking WILD
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Oh nice, my watch apparently died pretty close to the mile marker, so I still got some good data for most of the run! #RunningLife
Running stats (for first part of run before my watch died): 0.98 miles total, 166 bpm average heart rate, 10:17 average pace, 10:04 total duration, 96 calories burned
October 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Unfortunately, that tracks
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
jdwilso.bsky.social
That's absurd all around, I'm so sorry 😭
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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You shouldn't have to even consider having the bandwidth for that... let alone any of the rest of it, ugh, I'm so sorry 🫂
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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What the absolute fuck all around, I'm sorry Anne
October 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
jdwilso.bsky.social
Success!!!
October 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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I hope it's a much better game!! ❤️
October 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Another impressive highlight from MIT’s response to the proposed “compact:”

“MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.”
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM