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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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a highlight of the year was meeting these superior architects
Loved seeing this wasp's nest with the beautiful artistry of it plus incorporating the fern.
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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dream of honey

Ross Gay, “Ode to the Beekeeper”
#smallpoemsunday
December 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This is good.
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Forgot my coffee in the car before teaching morning class. Began lecture, then bleated “Where’s my coffee?” followed quickly by “NOBODY PANIC!” as a sea of sleepy faces stared back at me blankly.
The semester can’t end soon enough.
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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One day late, but always worth sharing.

From Louise Glück's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780374534097

#poem #books #writing
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Eating leftover pecan pie and watching HEATED RIVALRY as any Midwest mid-life woman would
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Harry Angstrom, Harry Angstrom.
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Set in 1915, @danchaon.bsky.social's spellbinding new novel, "One of Us," explores American marginalization and violence via telepathic twins in a traveling circus. Just out from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social. Here's my rave review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...
In This Circus Tale, Telepathic Twins Aren’t Even the Freak Show
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The new McCarthyism—they’re all rabid
September 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Choosing Chris Evans over Pedro Pascal makes no sense. Choosing Miles Teller over Callum Turner makes no sense. These movies are lying to themselves and to the viewer and I can’t abide. CAN’T. ABIDE.
September 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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I saw someone refer to Cracker Barrel as "Honky Bucket" and I have not been the same since
August 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.

This is what dictatorship looks like.
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sometimes I feel like Rae Armantrout is fucking with me
August 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
August 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM