MyKidsMomBB8
@mykidsmombb8.bsky.social
Proud Atheist, Mom, Partner. Project Manager.
Genuinely terrified of what the future holds for our children.
Pissed that this outcome was enabled by our biased and corrupt media.
Never ever support Gavin Newsom for potus.
Genuinely terrified of what the future holds for our children.
Pissed that this outcome was enabled by our biased and corrupt media.
Never ever support Gavin Newsom for potus.
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Hello! I used to do this on Twitter. I am thinking of doing this again over here so am running experiment to see if putting up threaded stories on here is worth the extra step. If you want a non-threaded version, the entire story is at my Patreon account, not behind a paywall.
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hello! I used to do this on Twitter. I am thinking of doing this again over here so am running experiment to see if putting up threaded stories on here is worth the extra step. If you want a non-threaded version, the entire story is at my Patreon account, not behind a paywall.
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For reference, Indiana has gone roughly 60:40 in the past three Presidential elections.
~40% of the population stripped of any representation in their government at the state level, with the added bonus of further corrupting the federal Legislature. Shitty, broken country.
~40% of the population stripped of any representation in their government at the state level, with the added bonus of further corrupting the federal Legislature. Shitty, broken country.
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
For reference, Indiana has gone roughly 60:40 in the past three Presidential elections.
~40% of the population stripped of any representation in their government at the state level, with the added bonus of further corrupting the federal Legislature. Shitty, broken country.
~40% of the population stripped of any representation in their government at the state level, with the added bonus of further corrupting the federal Legislature. Shitty, broken country.
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How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
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I urge NOAA to immediately restore funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, an important partner for real-time seismic data used in tsunami warnings.
I am deeply concerned that NOAA's cancellation of this grant poses risks to Washington and the entire West Coast. My letter ⬇️
I am deeply concerned that NOAA's cancellation of this grant poses risks to Washington and the entire West Coast. My letter ⬇️
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I urge NOAA to immediately restore funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, an important partner for real-time seismic data used in tsunami warnings.
I am deeply concerned that NOAA's cancellation of this grant poses risks to Washington and the entire West Coast. My letter ⬇️
I am deeply concerned that NOAA's cancellation of this grant poses risks to Washington and the entire West Coast. My letter ⬇️
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But I also think these videos are not just bait, but a way of manufacturing consent and support, and I don't think schoolyard tactics of "just ignore it" are sufficient when they *will* be seen by young people and normalized.
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
But I also think these videos are not just bait, but a way of manufacturing consent and support, and I don't think schoolyard tactics of "just ignore it" are sufficient when they *will* be seen by young people and normalized.
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This line from Count Zero by William Gibson has haunted my thoughts ever since I first read it:
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This line from Count Zero by William Gibson has haunted my thoughts ever since I first read it:
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
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etsy truly has everything
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
etsy truly has everything
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
10/10
No notes.
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No notes.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
10/10
No notes.
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No notes.
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While baking tomorrow's pumpkin pie, I only had to take the label out of the recycling three times to check the recipe, a new personal best.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
While baking tomorrow's pumpkin pie, I only had to take the label out of the recycling three times to check the recipe, a new personal best.
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WHY? WHY IS ANYONE OTHER THAN THE PERSON WHO HIT THE BUTTON A BIT EARLY "DISAPPOINTED"? WHY IS IT "A SERIOUS ERROR"? You were going to tell us the info 120 minutes later anyway! I don't understand why this is a big deal?!
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the unprecedented pre-Budget publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s document was “deeply disappointing and a serious error on their part”
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
WHY? WHY IS ANYONE OTHER THAN THE PERSON WHO HIT THE BUTTON A BIT EARLY "DISAPPOINTED"? WHY IS IT "A SERIOUS ERROR"? You were going to tell us the info 120 minutes later anyway! I don't understand why this is a big deal?!
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I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
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that highlighted sentence at the end tho 💯
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
that highlighted sentence at the end tho 💯
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Substack are bastards (an ongoing saga):
This has lost me thousands of pounds (not to mention book sales) and put me in a state of terror and panic. I urge anyone thinking of moving their list from Substack, or wanting to know more about how Substack works, to read it....
I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Substack are bastards (an ongoing saga):
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People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
People still default too often to the fact that Trumps base won’t care about one revelation or another. But as elections keep showing us, the universe of people other than his base is much bigger and we do care. So exposing shit does matter and it’s worth sharing those things so others oppose him.
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Peter Baker: A thinking man’s Olivia Nuzzi
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Peter Baker: A thinking man’s Olivia Nuzzi
Snickers now comes in pecan.
It's like eating a giant pecan turtle candy. Yum😋
It's like eating a giant pecan turtle candy. Yum😋
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Snickers now comes in pecan.
It's like eating a giant pecan turtle candy. Yum😋
It's like eating a giant pecan turtle candy. Yum😋
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It's pretty wild of you to come on here and call a Black woman MAGA because you have your head so far up Schumer's ass that you can taste what he had for breakfast. I mean look at you. You look like a school shooter. Surely you have some MAGA relatives you should be preparing to yell at over turkey.
There is an entire industry of "journalists" desperate to keep their jobs, while fundamentally not understanding who has the Congressional majorities.
Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance.
My latest:
My latest:
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's pretty wild of you to come on here and call a Black woman MAGA because you have your head so far up Schumer's ass that you can taste what he had for breakfast. I mean look at you. You look like a school shooter. Surely you have some MAGA relatives you should be preparing to yell at over turkey.
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Current household text thread: how do we handle Christmas tree vs. beagle since it’s his first Christmas with us and he’s unlikely to NOT do something destructive?
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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We’ll see what happens at SCOTUS with the Texas redistricting appeal, but one important contextual thing is that Texas is *not* being ordered to use a court-drawn map or a map that it drew only under duress.
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We’ll see what happens at SCOTUS with the Texas redistricting appeal, but one important contextual thing is that Texas is *not* being ordered to use a court-drawn map or a map that it drew only under duress.
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
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M 4.4 earthquake 8 km W of Templeton, CA
Did you feel it? Report it!
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Did you feel it? Report it!
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
M 4.4 earthquake 8 km W of Templeton, CA
Did you feel it? Report it!
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Did you feel it? Report it!
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
OpenAI is among the handful of the most powerful non-governmental institutions in the world.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
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The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)