Salvia Plath
@manicophelia.bsky.social
Community college librarian, leftist. Virginia. They/she
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
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In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby Formula
In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
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Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is what Project 2025 proposed for where components of the Department of Education should go. The Trump administration has followed this document pretty closely so far.
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Time to post the Tony Hoagland November poem again
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Time to post the Tony Hoagland November poem again
I can't make myself read more than Michael's excerpts, but it's wild to imagine RFK's voice saying these wannabe YA romantasy lines.
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I can't make myself read more than Michael's excerpts, but it's wild to imagine RFK's voice saying these wannabe YA romantasy lines.
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
"I would take a bullet for you." -Edward Cullen gasping through a throat full of glass
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please be for real right now.
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
please be for real right now.
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The only point that Woody Johnson ever has is "Don't you know who I am? I'm rich because my dad made a bunch of money and left it to me, and I will not be questioned by the likes of the troglodytes we use as our proles for hire." defector.com/woody-johnso...
Woody Johnson Is Sick Of Everyone Knowing What A Lousy Workplace He Oversees | Defector
“The New York Jets” is hardly the phrase you begin a story with if you want to inspire a reader to embrace the day with any sense of purpose, let alone joy, so you might be fooled into considering…
defector.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The only point that Woody Johnson ever has is "Don't you know who I am? I'm rich because my dad made a bunch of money and left it to me, and I will not be questioned by the likes of the troglodytes we use as our proles for hire." defector.com/woody-johnso...
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Nothing radicalized me like hearing a high level UC academic personnel administrator say repeatedly “academic freedom isn’t a good fit” for UC librarians, and their arguments revealed they had no idea what librarians do or why academic freedom is needed outside a classroom.
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nothing radicalized me like hearing a high level UC academic personnel administrator say repeatedly “academic freedom isn’t a good fit” for UC librarians, and their arguments revealed they had no idea what librarians do or why academic freedom is needed outside a classroom.
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Is the University the work we engage in learning and research or of it the management of assets and debt?
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Is the University the work we engage in learning and research or of it the management of assets and debt?
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
With many universities, those who hold power are so removed from the actual work of research and learning, and so their decisions tend to protect capital.
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Look here, says History PhD Kevin Roberts who leads the Heritage Foundation, if we start telling kids that James Madison owned slaves then the next thing you know they’ll start criticizing Nick Fuentes for being pro-Hitler and then the youths will be totally lost to the totalitarian world of woke.
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Look here, says History PhD Kevin Roberts who leads the Heritage Foundation, if we start telling kids that James Madison owned slaves then the next thing you know they’ll start criticizing Nick Fuentes for being pro-Hitler and then the youths will be totally lost to the totalitarian world of woke.
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Can anyone confirm Heritage’s strange claim that Montpelier has no exhibits on James Madison? And also, the Constitution protected the institution of slavery in several ways, an institution that made Madison’s entire economic existence possible. Madison owned ~100 people and freed none of them.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Can anyone confirm Heritage’s strange claim that Montpelier has no exhibits on James Madison? And also, the Constitution protected the institution of slavery in several ways, an institution that made Madison’s entire economic existence possible. Madison owned ~100 people and freed none of them.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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tag yourself, I'm the paragraph where the board suggests Ryan should sit down with an outside lawyer to think through his options and then it turns out that the lawyer is actually representing the board (a fact that she reveals only when he asks her to her face)
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
tag yourself, I'm the paragraph where the board suggests Ryan should sit down with an outside lawyer to think through his options and then it turns out that the lawyer is actually representing the board (a fact that she reveals only when he asks her to her face)
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Cry more Glenn www.wric.com/news/politic...
www.wric.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Cry more Glenn www.wric.com/news/politic...
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A rabid cat has been found in Charlottesville.
Earlier this month there was an aggressive black cat near the Free Bridge side of the Rivanna Trail. It was captured, and last night the rabies test came back positive.
Earlier this month there was an aggressive black cat near the Free Bridge side of the Rivanna Trail. It was captured, and last night the rabies test came back positive.
Public Health Alert: Rabid Cat Confirmed in Charlottesville
The Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD), in coordination with the Charlottesville Police Department, is alerting the public about a confirmed case of rabies in a black cat found in the Charlottesville a...
www.charlottesville.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A rabid cat has been found in Charlottesville.
Earlier this month there was an aggressive black cat near the Free Bridge side of the Rivanna Trail. It was captured, and last night the rabies test came back positive.
Earlier this month there was an aggressive black cat near the Free Bridge side of the Rivanna Trail. It was captured, and last night the rabies test came back positive.
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Hazard containment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Hazard containment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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After the touchdown, ARSB specifically looked around to find Trump and pointed at him and then did his little dance, performing for Trump and Pete Hegseth. Dancing for him. Pathetic. Own it. He even called you Amon Ra St Trump
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
After the touchdown, ARSB specifically looked around to find Trump and pointed at him and then did his little dance, performing for Trump and Pete Hegseth. Dancing for him. Pathetic. Own it. He even called you Amon Ra St Trump
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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.
www.statnews.com
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.
🧪🧬🧫