Julie Clarenbach
@julieclarenbach.bsky.social
I'm one part tea, two parts Taylor Swift, three parts genre fiction, and four parts Enneagram.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#ObamaCare #ACA #JustFixIt
#ObamaCare #ACA #JustFixIt
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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#ObamaCare #ACA #JustFixIt
#ObamaCare #ACA #JustFixIt
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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this actually still fucking sucks because it’s still mocking disability and framing it as punishment. this dem influencer account posts shit like this regularly, and it sucks that some of my oomfies still follow it
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
this actually still fucking sucks because it’s still mocking disability and framing it as punishment. this dem influencer account posts shit like this regularly, and it sucks that some of my oomfies still follow it
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I don't understand how a "therapy" this harmful is practiced.
"Respondents of all ages who were exposed to ABA were 86 percent more likely to meet the PTSD criteria than respondents who were not exposed to ABA"
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"Respondents of all ages who were exposed to ABA were 86 percent more likely to meet the PTSD criteria than respondents who were not exposed to ABA"
www.emerald.com/aia/article-...
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't understand how a "therapy" this harmful is practiced.
"Respondents of all ages who were exposed to ABA were 86 percent more likely to meet the PTSD criteria than respondents who were not exposed to ABA"
www.emerald.com/aia/article-...
"Respondents of all ages who were exposed to ABA were 86 percent more likely to meet the PTSD criteria than respondents who were not exposed to ABA"
www.emerald.com/aia/article-...
I fucking love this city.
Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I fucking love this city.
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White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
October 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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I did my undergrad thesis on the European witchcraze, and a key motivator in accusations and arrests was to seize the property of the accused
Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.
I say this for no reason …
Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.
I say this for no reason …
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
October 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I did my undergrad thesis on the European witchcraze, and a key motivator in accusations and arrests was to seize the property of the accused
Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.
I say this for no reason …
Stoking the moral panic to continue the arrests was very profitable for those in positions of authority.
I say this for no reason …
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lot of problems with that piece but here's one: if anyone tries to blame "empty downtown" on anything other than
1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses
they're either a moron or a developer
1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses
they're either a moron or a developer
October 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
lot of problems with that piece but here's one: if anyone tries to blame "empty downtown" on anything other than
1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses
they're either a moron or a developer
1) the pandemic
2) ted wheeler destroying the big food cart pod so his developer friends could build a hotel no one uses
they're either a moron or a developer
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as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
The world is so much wilder and weirder than we can even imagine.
(I’ve been following Swilua for a very long time and while this is wild I’m reading along thinking, yeah, this tracks. 😂)
(I’ve been following Swilua for a very long time and while this is wild I’m reading along thinking, yeah, this tracks. 😂)
OK WELL SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT EMRYOS
Here's a story about my children who, in spite of the fact they were born two years apart, are CONVINCED they're twins
They came to me, with their evidence & I, thinking scientists would laugh with me, tweeted about it
It did not go how I thought it would
Here's a story about my children who, in spite of the fact they were born two years apart, are CONVINCED they're twins
They came to me, with their evidence & I, thinking scientists would laugh with me, tweeted about it
It did not go how I thought it would
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The world is so much wilder and weirder than we can even imagine.
(I’ve been following Swilua for a very long time and while this is wild I’m reading along thinking, yeah, this tracks. 😂)
(I’ve been following Swilua for a very long time and while this is wild I’m reading along thinking, yeah, this tracks. 😂)
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My sister asked me to write a bio for a dog in her rescue and said "her name is Lola."
I regret nothing.
(Words by me, singing by not me)
#DogRescue
I regret nothing.
(Words by me, singing by not me)
#DogRescue
September 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My sister asked me to write a bio for a dog in her rescue and said "her name is Lola."
I regret nothing.
(Words by me, singing by not me)
#DogRescue
I regret nothing.
(Words by me, singing by not me)
#DogRescue
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Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.
September 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.
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In all seriousness Portlanders are gonna need to suck it up and not give them what they want: a big riot to justify their presence. Play the long game, be smart, double down on mutual aid and helping your neighbors stay safe
Came back online for The News and lol they don’t call us Little Beirut for nothing
a man in a suit and tie is holding a microphone and saying " you gon ' learn today "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a microphone and saying " you gon ' learn today "
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
In all seriousness Portlanders are gonna need to suck it up and not give them what they want: a big riot to justify their presence. Play the long game, be smart, double down on mutual aid and helping your neighbors stay safe
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Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns.
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you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
September 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns.
Like??????????
Like??????????
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We know it’s not always practical or feasible to mask in all situations, so we recommend focusing on three places - grocery stores, healthcare settings, and mass transit - that will make the most difference for you and for others, especially those who are immuno-compromised.
#covid #covidisntover
#covid #covidisntover
August 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We know it’s not always practical or feasible to mask in all situations, so we recommend focusing on three places - grocery stores, healthcare settings, and mass transit - that will make the most difference for you and for others, especially those who are immuno-compromised.
#covid #covidisntover
#covid #covidisntover
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We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
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I mean if nothing else this is an extremely important lesson in “it really doesn’t matter if you have the same basic idea as someone else because they will definitely do ‘magical singers attract and then have to fight demons’ WAY differently to you “.
So wait, Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters have the same plot?
August 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I mean if nothing else this is an extremely important lesson in “it really doesn’t matter if you have the same basic idea as someone else because they will definitely do ‘magical singers attract and then have to fight demons’ WAY differently to you “.
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As I wrote earlier this week: "We must also remember that a real surge in crime would not excuse acts of authoritarian consolidation. We must be wary of logics that suggest Trump’s authoritarian maneuvers might be reasonable, if he were more accurately describing conditions on the ground."
August 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As I wrote earlier this week: "We must also remember that a real surge in crime would not excuse acts of authoritarian consolidation. We must be wary of logics that suggest Trump’s authoritarian maneuvers might be reasonable, if he were more accurately describing conditions on the ground."
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I want the American people to know that this is not an accident. This administration is choosing to take actions that are raising people's electric bills.
August 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I want the American people to know that this is not an accident. This administration is choosing to take actions that are raising people's electric bills.