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ok...... I guess.... shouting into the void.
poet / photographer / spinster cat lady
I love rocks.
(she / her)
super fun that half my apps no longer work after updating to ugly liquid glass. cool that I can't use the calculator cuz it crashes every time you hit =. wtf is this garbage?
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
interesting that as the administration strips the new school for parts they still have time to email me begging for donations.
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.

A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.

It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.

Our latest story here:
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
wow I hate liquid glass. pissed I had to update my phone.
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
so many meteors tonight!
December 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I just want something that is not my phone/computer to gather pdf academic papers so I can read them & apparently this is impossible without also buying into a huge e-reader ecosystem with endless features that I don't want or need. 🥴
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
my little shrine at la matadora gallery in joshua tree.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
all my friends are busy so I'm going to this art opening BY MYSELF.
a woman in a purple sweater sits on a white couch
ALT: a woman in a purple sweater sits on a white couch
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
step 1: incentivize employers to not offer health benefits by creating the "choice" accounts & claiming this boosts aca signups.
step 2: eliminate most of the aca so all those people now have basically no option for health insurance.
Inside Republicans' new health bill
Inside Republicans’ new health bill
House Republican leaders plan to take a vote next week on conservative-friendly health policies they’ve pursued for years. It’s the latest GOP counter to Democrats’ push to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies. Here is what’s in the bill, the text of which was released Friday: CHOICE accounts: Oklahoma GOP Rep. Kevin Hern’s CHOICE legislation would allow employers to offer workers tax-advantaged funds to pay for individual health insurance, in lieu of offering a traditional group plan. It would also offer tax incentives for employers who adopt the arrangements. Both Republicans and Democrats like the concept because it promotes individual choice in health coverage while also encouraging Obamacare signups. Funding cost-sharing reductions: When Obamacare was first implemented in 2014, the federal government paid insurers directly to offset cost-sharing reductions, or discounts on deductibles that insurers must offer to people making between 100 and 250 percent of the federal poverty level. In response to a lawsuit filed by congressional Republicans, a federal judge in 2016 ruled the government’s payments were illegal because the funding wasn’t explicitly appropriated by Congress. The Obama administration appealed, but the first Trump administration dropped the case and stopped the payments. Insurers are still required to offer the cost-sharing reductions, they just no longer get reimbursed by the federal government. To make up for the loss of federal dollars, insurers substantially increased silver premiums, a process known as “silver loading.” That’s driven up the amount of federal premium subsidies the government pays insurers, because the subsidy amounts are tied to the second-lowest-cost silver plan in the marketplace. Republicans now want to put an end to that practice and start funding the cost-sharing reductions again, which is expected to lower premiums for silver plans, thus lowering the amount Obamacare enrollees receive in premium subsidies, regardless of what type of plan they’re enrolled in. Association health plans Association health plans enable several small businesses to band together to get health insurance. The framework includes a bill from Education and Workforce Chair Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) that would permit self-employed people to buy an association health plan. Democrats oppose the idea. In addition to not guaranteeing essential benefits, the plans can distort the insurance market by drawing away healthy, young people, according to a statement from Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, top Democrat on Education and Workforce. Stop-loss policy The Self-Insurance Protection Act from Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) would expand access for employers to “stop-loss” policies that enable them to protect against catastrophic health costs from just a few employees. The bill would ensure that such policies are not classified as traditional health insurance by the federal government. But it has generated pushback from Democrats because it can also restrict states from regulating them. Pharmacy benefit managers The bill aims to overhaul how pharmacy benefit managers operate. Those are companies that negotiate drug prices on behalf of insurers and large employers. Pharmaceutical companies and lawmakers have long blamed them for high drug prices. A push to change the rules governing the PBMs fell apart last year after Trump adviser Elon Musk tanked year-end legislation, but there continues to be overwhelming bipartisan interest in advancing changes that shed light on the PBMs’ business practices.
dlvr.it
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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1. “We are the only poets, everyone else is prose.”

2. “My life had stood a loaded gun.”

3. “Jealousy is the cousin, the cousin of greed.”
Emily Dickinson Poem or an Early Aughts Emo Lyric?
1. “We are the only poets, everyone else is prose.” 2. “My life had stood a loaded gun.” 3. “Jealousy is the cousin, the cousin of greed.” 4. “She ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
something I am discovering as I get back into cds is that albums I recognize from only one song are actually full of absolute bangers.
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Streaming? Out. Borrowing physical media from your public library? In.
Have libraries have become the new Blockbuster?
Streaming is over. The magazine is back. And everyone who’s too online is apparently getting off again. The time is ripe for an analog revolution. And where better to start than the stacks? A…
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December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime.

The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.

It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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in the current age, when intellectualism is under attack, one of the most radical things you can do is continue to learn and seek out knowledge

knowledge is, quite literally, power
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
december #tarot : on getting real & getting free.
www.patreon.com/posts/144863...
December 2025 Tarot: On getting real & getting free | No Bullshit Tarot
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December 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"damn girl why do you poop so much?!" - me to my gigapet.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
look what I found & put new batteries in & am now being annoyed by.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
drove around the block 3 times to find a parking space & there are wannabe influencers with their phone on a tripod filming in this restaurant. la reminding me why I moved.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Thanksgiving is a perfect time to celebrate the many stories and experiences of Indigenous people and remember the true history and legacy of settler colonialism.
Celebrate Indigenous Literature With These 13 New Books by Native Writers - Electric Literature
Explore books by acclaimed and debut Native American writers
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM