Horrified, Lydia
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Former lit prof, lawyer. Author Foucault for Beginners. Close reading is my superpower. #PDX 🚴🏿♂️ enby 🩶 (??/??)
Someone in my building bought a mirror, and these warnings on the box are heroic.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Someone in my building bought a mirror, and these warnings on the box are heroic.
You can't solve misinformation in the marketplace of ideas is the heart of it in one way of looking at it. More speech won't solve the problem at all.
A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
You can't solve misinformation in the marketplace of ideas is the heart of it in one way of looking at it. More speech won't solve the problem at all.
5 am, can't sleep, my eyes are irritated, and now I itch all over.
Should get up our of bed and read. Apparently people do that.
Should get up our of bed and read. Apparently people do that.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
5 am, can't sleep, my eyes are irritated, and now I itch all over.
Should get up our of bed and read. Apparently people do that.
Should get up our of bed and read. Apparently people do that.
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Uggh, Tidal has decided I love show tunes more than anything. Lie. I like good to great musicals in their entirety, not individual tunes. I do deep dives where I listen to every version of say Chicago, so I listen to a lot of Chicago for a while. +
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Uggh, Tidal has decided I love show tunes more than anything. Lie. I like good to great musicals in their entirety, not individual tunes. I do deep dives where I listen to every version of say Chicago, so I listen to a lot of Chicago for a while. +
The Chevy Corvair endorses Andrew Cuomo.
Carter Burke has just endorsed Amdrew Cuomo
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Chevy Corvair endorses Andrew Cuomo.
One way of looking at a lot of what Trump is doing is that he's revived the line item veto.
The Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v City of NY that Congress could not by law give that power to the president. A case I worked on in me youth.
But they have not ruled on whether he can just take the power.
The Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v City of NY that Congress could not by law give that power to the president. A case I worked on in me youth.
But they have not ruled on whether he can just take the power.
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
One way of looking at a lot of what Trump is doing is that he's revived the line item veto.
The Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v City of NY that Congress could not by law give that power to the president. A case I worked on in me youth.
But they have not ruled on whether he can just take the power.
The Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v City of NY that Congress could not by law give that power to the president. A case I worked on in me youth.
But they have not ruled on whether he can just take the power.
Watching Rosemary's Baby, which reminds us that Horror in NYC is always about real estate. As big a theme of the movie as that pregnancy is the taking over of your body if not by an alien, then by alienation.
Mia Farrow is constructed of twigs.
Cassavetes would do anything to make another movie.
Mia Farrow is constructed of twigs.
Cassavetes would do anything to make another movie.
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Watching Rosemary's Baby, which reminds us that Horror in NYC is always about real estate. As big a theme of the movie as that pregnancy is the taking over of your body if not by an alien, then by alienation.
Mia Farrow is constructed of twigs.
Cassavetes would do anything to make another movie.
Mia Farrow is constructed of twigs.
Cassavetes would do anything to make another movie.
Just forget about this, I'll look into it when I am ready to. You have to let it go.
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just forget about this, I'll look into it when I am ready to. You have to let it go.
What we need is for every Dem governor to do this, first so Trump doesn't have two clear targets, and second to make Newsom not appear remarkable.
He's not a thin, handsome Pritzker folks, he just plays one on TV.
He's not a thin, handsome Pritzker folks, he just plays one on TV.
Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What we need is for every Dem governor to do this, first so Trump doesn't have two clear targets, and second to make Newsom not appear remarkable.
He's not a thin, handsome Pritzker folks, he just plays one on TV.
He's not a thin, handsome Pritzker folks, he just plays one on TV.
Mamdani on no longer kneeling to Islamophobia.
Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Mamdani on no longer kneeling to Islamophobia.
I was dreaming last night that women, instead of two breasts on their chest had four or six, lower down on their bellies, like my dogs.
I could definitely illustrate that with ai's help, but it really is better if you imagine it yourself. Where "better" in this case means much worse.
I could definitely illustrate that with ai's help, but it really is better if you imagine it yourself. Where "better" in this case means much worse.
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was dreaming last night that women, instead of two breasts on their chest had four or six, lower down on their bellies, like my dogs.
I could definitely illustrate that with ai's help, but it really is better if you imagine it yourself. Where "better" in this case means much worse.
I could definitely illustrate that with ai's help, but it really is better if you imagine it yourself. Where "better" in this case means much worse.
I do like the first time I have seen an honest reason for withdrawing. Hahaha.
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I do like the first time I have seen an honest reason for withdrawing. Hahaha.
This, THIS is the cat trying to prevent me from doing my pills for the week.
First she thought she might eat some pills, then knocked over three pill bottles with one swipe of her tail.
First she thought she might eat some pills, then knocked over three pill bottles with one swipe of her tail.
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This, THIS is the cat trying to prevent me from doing my pills for the week.
First she thought she might eat some pills, then knocked over three pill bottles with one swipe of her tail.
First she thought she might eat some pills, then knocked over three pill bottles with one swipe of her tail.
The both-sidesing at the very very end of this video editorial at the top of the Times Opinion section is absolutely bizarre.
The rest is great, was that added on at gunpoint?
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
The rest is great, was that added on at gunpoint?
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | The Right Has Gone Woke
Language policing. Cancel culture. Victimhood contests and cultural grievances. Despite attacking the left for partaking in such practices, there’s an emerging set of individuals on the right who have...
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The both-sidesing at the very very end of this video editorial at the top of the Times Opinion section is absolutely bizarre.
The rest is great, was that added on at gunpoint?
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
The rest is great, was that added on at gunpoint?
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Absolutely love this twitter classic:
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Absolutely love this twitter classic:
Absolute kudos to Robert Primus and Alyssa Shukar of the NYT for this photo of the Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that Trump I hired and Trump II fired. Dressed to the nines and looking smart he manages to make the metal mass transit bench he's sitting on look like a luxurious couch!
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Absolute kudos to Robert Primus and Alyssa Shukar of the NYT for this photo of the Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that Trump I hired and Trump II fired. Dressed to the nines and looking smart he manages to make the metal mass transit bench he's sitting on look like a luxurious couch!
I am weirdly grateful that Trump just stripped @npr.org of federal money, and did not try to hold them hostage.
No one has to make those decisions that so many institutions failed.
NPR can play it straight.
And I am a member and donor, and hope more will be.
No one has to make those decisions that so many institutions failed.
NPR can play it straight.
And I am a member and donor, and hope more will be.
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I am weirdly grateful that Trump just stripped @npr.org of federal money, and did not try to hold them hostage.
No one has to make those decisions that so many institutions failed.
NPR can play it straight.
And I am a member and donor, and hope more will be.
No one has to make those decisions that so many institutions failed.
NPR can play it straight.
And I am a member and donor, and hope more will be.
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loose papers swirl in the breeze coming through the hospital's broken windows, past blood-smeared walls and the flickering screens of abandoned computers, which all bear a single ominous message:
Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
loose papers swirl in the breeze coming through the hospital's broken windows, past blood-smeared walls and the flickering screens of abandoned computers, which all bear a single ominous message:
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This is delusional. There is no threat to "the homeland," whatever that may mean, nor to the border. The hemisphere is a big place, and Venezuela and Mexico, which Hegseth and Trump have threatened, are part of it.
Russia poses an active threat to Europe, and we must respond to the rise of China.
Russia poses an active threat to Europe, and we must respond to the rise of China.
Doocy: "If a young man or woman signs up today, are they more likely to deploy to the Middle East or the Midwest?"
Hegseth: "The era of sort of reckless adventurism around the globe is over...We're here to defend the hemisphere, the homeland, the border."
Hegseth: "The era of sort of reckless adventurism around the globe is over...We're here to defend the hemisphere, the homeland, the border."
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is delusional. There is no threat to "the homeland," whatever that may mean, nor to the border. The hemisphere is a big place, and Venezuela and Mexico, which Hegseth and Trump have threatened, are part of it.
Russia poses an active threat to Europe, and we must respond to the rise of China.
Russia poses an active threat to Europe, and we must respond to the rise of China.
Trump IS successfully taxing the rich, having declared L'État, c'est moi.
Let us take note of all these corporations handing him huge chunks of cash. They can do that. They can do more, for better reasons.
Let us take note of all these corporations handing him huge chunks of cash. They can do that. They can do more, for better reasons.
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Trump IS successfully taxing the rich, having declared L'État, c'est moi.
Let us take note of all these corporations handing him huge chunks of cash. They can do that. They can do more, for better reasons.
Let us take note of all these corporations handing him huge chunks of cash. They can do that. They can do more, for better reasons.
Nvidia and openai in a circle jerk that will certainly reach a trillion dollars.
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Nvidia and openai in a circle jerk that will certainly reach a trillion dollars.
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Turns out, Flannel is a calico cat underneath. Could not see the color of her fur clearly when it was so shaggy
Still cute tho.
Still cute tho.
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Turns out, Flannel is a calico cat underneath. Could not see the color of her fur clearly when it was so shaggy
Still cute tho.
Still cute tho.
Turns out, Flannel is a calico cat underneath. Could not see the color of her fur clearly when it was so shaggy
Still cute tho.
Still cute tho.
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Turns out, Flannel is a calico cat underneath. Could not see the color of her fur clearly when it was so shaggy
Still cute tho.
Still cute tho.
This little cutie is off getting groomed for the first time, and will be absolutely unrecognizable when she comes back. I'll update later.
September 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This little cutie is off getting groomed for the first time, and will be absolutely unrecognizable when she comes back. I'll update later.