Parole Perdute
@paroleperdute.bsky.social
Software developer, linguistics/culture nerd, and amateur birder. She/her.
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That structure is part of a ruined WW2 fortress so we’re gonna go ahead and say the ghosts are cool with the message
Seen and appreciated deeply on the backshore of the island today
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
That structure is part of a ruined WW2 fortress so we’re gonna go ahead and say the ghosts are cool with the message
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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WANT: wooden high-rises, like this academic building in Toronto. Better than steel-and-concrete in nearly every way — including smell.
(I just learned about them via @clivethompson.bsky.social's terrific newsletter.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#sustainability #architecture #highered
(I just learned about them via @clivethompson.bsky.social's terrific newsletter.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#sustainability #architecture #highered
Limberlost Place: Toronto’s timber tower aims high
Limberlost stretches building codes and gives architects and engineers a new system of open-sourced solutions
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
WANT: wooden high-rises, like this academic building in Toronto. Better than steel-and-concrete in nearly every way — including smell.
(I just learned about them via @clivethompson.bsky.social's terrific newsletter.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#sustainability #architecture #highered
(I just learned about them via @clivethompson.bsky.social's terrific newsletter.)
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#sustainability #architecture #highered
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The way you know this is culture war bullshit pushed by the fossil fuel industry is that buildings kill up to a billion birds per year and you can be sure our real estate developer president never cared one whit about it.
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The way you know this is culture war bullshit pushed by the fossil fuel industry is that buildings kill up to a billion birds per year and you can be sure our real estate developer president never cared one whit about it.
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If you swapped 20 or 50 or all genes in a H. sapiens baby for #Neanderthal DNA*, you would still not have a Neanderthal in either a behavioural or ecological sense.
They were more than their genomes.
They were more than their genomes.
I spoke with Patrick Greenfield at the Guardian about de-extinction following the Moa announcement.
Nothing new but still needs repeating
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nothing new but still needs repeating
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
If you swapped 20 or 50 or all genes in a H. sapiens baby for #Neanderthal DNA*, you would still not have a Neanderthal in either a behavioural or ecological sense.
They were more than their genomes.
They were more than their genomes.
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In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
July 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
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16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:
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Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.
May 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.
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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
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the audacity of claiming protestors are being paid when musk literally pays people to vote is just beyond
Must’ve cost big bucks to pay millions of people in 1,100 cities.
April 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
the audacity of claiming protestors are being paid when musk literally pays people to vote is just beyond
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Man where do I show up for my check then
Must’ve cost big bucks to pay millions of people in 1,100 cities.
April 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Man where do I show up for my check then
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April 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Packed Seattle Center today. Couldn't even get close enough to hear the speakers. Light rail totally full, signs all through downtown. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Packed Seattle Center today. Couldn't even get close enough to hear the speakers. Light rail totally full, signs all through downtown. #handsoff
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This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."
April 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
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A reminder that calling out Israel about their genocide of Palestinians is NOT antisemitic.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
March 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A reminder that calling out Israel about their genocide of Palestinians is NOT antisemitic.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
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Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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this hits extremely hard. Fuck
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
this hits extremely hard. Fuck
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Trump’s regime could disappear tomorrow and it would take years to rebuild what they’ve destroyed in just two months. It will take generations to rebound from the damage Trump and Musk will have inflicted in a year, two years, or ten years of pillaging.
About once per day, I have a thought like "even if the U.S. snapped out of this madness, impeached, tried, and then frog-marched Trump to prison starting tomorrow, we've still set back this country and possibly the world by a generation and perhaps doomed the planet." Not great right before bed!
March 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Trump’s regime could disappear tomorrow and it would take years to rebuild what they’ve destroyed in just two months. It will take generations to rebound from the damage Trump and Musk will have inflicted in a year, two years, or ten years of pillaging.
See also: WTAF, OMFG, 🤦🏻♀️
JFC
An acronym I'm having to use *way* too much lately
An acronym I'm having to use *way* too much lately
🚨NEW: Major development.
German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet.
‼️It includes details of Signal accounts.
“It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet.
‼️It includes details of Signal accounts.
“It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
March 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
See also: WTAF, OMFG, 🤦🏻♀️
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America has always been a bastion of freedom, holding the line against tyranny at home and abroad. No longer. Trump has placed us on the other side of that wall.
Wall
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
America has always been a bastion of freedom, holding the line against tyranny at home and abroad. No longer. Trump has placed us on the other side of that wall.
"I didn't mean to say that the [Cybertruck] should be *hauling* garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away *as* garbage."
https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7#
https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7#
March 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"I didn't mean to say that the [Cybertruck] should be *hauling* garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away *as* garbage."
https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7#
https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7#
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Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.