erin
@prettyhandsome.bsky.social
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somebody needs to do something about everything
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
somebody needs to do something about everything
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Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/
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“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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NEW: Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted. It wasn’t an oversight. Despite a decades-long reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NEW: Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted. It wasn’t an oversight. Despite a decades-long reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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no you're spending too much time trying to construct a lede about homosexual farm animals that takes advantage of the consonance of "flehmen" and "flaming" to make a bad pun
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
no you're spending too much time trying to construct a lede about homosexual farm animals that takes advantage of the consonance of "flehmen" and "flaming" to make a bad pun
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Well I learned something new today
I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Make Thanksgiving Radical Again
The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
www.thenation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Well I learned something new today
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I often think about why virtue signaling matters. And the best explanation may be what Vonnegut learned from Hamlet.
"We pretend to know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And you think about our training in this matter: All we do is echo the feelings of people around us.”
"We pretend to know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And you think about our training in this matter: All we do is echo the feelings of people around us.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I often think about why virtue signaling matters. And the best explanation may be what Vonnegut learned from Hamlet.
"We pretend to know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And you think about our training in this matter: All we do is echo the feelings of people around us.”
"We pretend to know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And you think about our training in this matter: All we do is echo the feelings of people around us.”
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jesus wept
This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
‘Restricted’: Did US troops try to cordon off a Mexican beach?
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.
www.aljazeera.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
jesus wept
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How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
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Again. A lot of the American experience is: we're all easily led into cults. It's a thing and it's bad. And I always have to lead with "you are not immune to propaganda."
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Again. A lot of the American experience is: we're all easily led into cults. It's a thing and it's bad. And I always have to lead with "you are not immune to propaganda."
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Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
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Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
January 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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It's me again, just putting it out there that I am going to need space in 2026 for at least 5 events that can hold at least 100 people. Looking for accessible and also CHEAP spaces in NYC. None of the convenings will be charging people to participate. Thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's me again, just putting it out there that I am going to need space in 2026 for at least 5 events that can hold at least 100 people. Looking for accessible and also CHEAP spaces in NYC. None of the convenings will be charging people to participate. Thank you.
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This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
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These Dems aren’t afraid of being primaried. They aren’t afraid of calls to their offices.
They don’t care about social media posts.
They aren’t afraid of their base.
Yes we have a two party system.
But what other way is there to force immediate change but to withhold donating to the party?
They don’t care about social media posts.
They aren’t afraid of their base.
Yes we have a two party system.
But what other way is there to force immediate change but to withhold donating to the party?
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
These Dems aren’t afraid of being primaried. They aren’t afraid of calls to their offices.
They don’t care about social media posts.
They aren’t afraid of their base.
Yes we have a two party system.
But what other way is there to force immediate change but to withhold donating to the party?
They don’t care about social media posts.
They aren’t afraid of their base.
Yes we have a two party system.
But what other way is there to force immediate change but to withhold donating to the party?
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Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
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If you appreciated Teen Vogue’s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. It’s simple math!!
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you appreciated Teen Vogue’s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. It’s simple math!!
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30 hours of Wong Kar-wai! INTO MY VEINS www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
30 hours of Wong Kar-wai! INTO MY VEINS www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...