Quangle-Wangle
@quangle-wangle.bsky.social
Recovering Victorianist and tech writer in Portland, OR; here for your cat photos. She/her.
"Your wait time is estimated to be more than 120 minutes."
Guess I'm visiting the Social Security office again. Good thing I live near it. No, your website did not answer my questions. Or I wouldn't be calling. Also, impossible to make an appointment without waiting.
Guess I'm visiting the Social Security office again. Good thing I live near it. No, your website did not answer my questions. Or I wouldn't be calling. Also, impossible to make an appointment without waiting.
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Your wait time is estimated to be more than 120 minutes."
Guess I'm visiting the Social Security office again. Good thing I live near it. No, your website did not answer my questions. Or I wouldn't be calling. Also, impossible to make an appointment without waiting.
Guess I'm visiting the Social Security office again. Good thing I live near it. No, your website did not answer my questions. Or I wouldn't be calling. Also, impossible to make an appointment without waiting.
Also, for classes with overtly straight male profs, going for a beer or even coffee with the prof subjects female students (incl grad advisees) to the PERCEPTION of a sexual relationship, which undermines their academic and professional credibility. This cuts them off from 1:1 informal mentoring.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Also, for classes with overtly straight male profs, going for a beer or even coffee with the prof subjects female students (incl grad advisees) to the PERCEPTION of a sexual relationship, which undermines their academic and professional credibility. This cuts them off from 1:1 informal mentoring.
Someone way back on the early internet wrote a pretty powerful post on how announcing that you find a woman fuckable or not fuckable are just two sides of the same coin, which is dismissing anything she's got to say.
"State of my boner" is of course brilliant discourse itself.
"State of my boner" is of course brilliant discourse itself.
people will go on the internet and post anything
"heterosexual men aren't attracted to sabrina carpenter"
yes they are, that isn't true
"heterosexual men aren't attracted to sabrina carpenter"
yes they are, that isn't true
Something I find very funny is people periodically talking about how Sabrina Carpenter "isn't hot to men", as if heterosexual male fans are the audience her career depends on. I thought we had all understood 'women mostly dress up for themselves, or for women' but looks like we've forgotten again.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Someone way back on the early internet wrote a pretty powerful post on how announcing that you find a woman fuckable or not fuckable are just two sides of the same coin, which is dismissing anything she's got to say.
"State of my boner" is of course brilliant discourse itself.
"State of my boner" is of course brilliant discourse itself.
In my Portland bubble it was the POC and low income parents, who definitely needed child care the most, who did NOT want kids going back. The UMC parents didn't want kids missing out on "experiences" and milestones. I don't think daycare was the issue for them.
One of the schools I worked with had an employee die from Covid. Kids and teachers were so sick that they had to combine classes because there weren’t enough teachers available to work. This has been a great reminder of how parents wanted free babysitting and didn’t give a fuck how unsafe it was.
I cannot imagine how you think keeping schools closed for an entire year was a good idea.
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In my Portland bubble it was the POC and low income parents, who definitely needed child care the most, who did NOT want kids going back. The UMC parents didn't want kids missing out on "experiences" and milestones. I don't think daycare was the issue for them.
Seems like time to read Ursula Le Guin's novella "The New Atlantis" again. No particular reason.
July 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Seems like time to read Ursula Le Guin's novella "The New Atlantis" again. No particular reason.
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Democrats broadly like the United States, while Republicans virulently hate some of our largest and most iconic cities
July 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Democrats broadly like the United States, while Republicans virulently hate some of our largest and most iconic cities
Not dismissing the horrible racism at all but normalized entitlement of rich men to be surrounded by young beautiful women gives the predators cover. An old story: harems and Playboy bunnies. Women are decorations, not people with agency: why not pick them off a menu and occasionally consume them?
July 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Not dismissing the horrible racism at all but normalized entitlement of rich men to be surrounded by young beautiful women gives the predators cover. An old story: harems and Playboy bunnies. Women are decorations, not people with agency: why not pick them off a menu and occasionally consume them?
Is there an especially good cats feed I should be following? The one I used to follow went away.
July 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Is there an especially good cats feed I should be following? The one I used to follow went away.
Federal disaster funds belong to him and his friends, like the federal medical stockpile wasn't for actual people who needed it.
Trump: "We're looking at the whole concept of FEMA. I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it. Meaning the state takes care of it ... I'd like to see the states take care of disasters."
January 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Federal disaster funds belong to him and his friends, like the federal medical stockpile wasn't for actual people who needed it.
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hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
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I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this
January 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this
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If you also appreciate this ministry and want to do something concrete to support it, you can go to the Episcopal Diocese of Washington pages (Google, YouTube, etc.) and leave positive reviews and comments to counteract the trolls they are being bombarded with.
I am very grateful for the ministry of Bishop Budde in this moment and hope she is surrounded by the support she needs to continue it. 📕
January 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you also appreciate this ministry and want to do something concrete to support it, you can go to the Episcopal Diocese of Washington pages (Google, YouTube, etc.) and leave positive reviews and comments to counteract the trolls they are being bombarded with.
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So are papers going to report that all these Executive Orders come from Project 2025?
That’s by far the overarching story of today.
That’s by far the overarching story of today.
January 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
So are papers going to report that all these Executive Orders come from Project 2025?
That’s by far the overarching story of today.
That’s by far the overarching story of today.
I'm reading an account of pre-Blitz London by Frances Faviel, and she describes air raid drills that are pooh-poohed by participants, German refugees terrified of being interned, and South Africans panicking as they try to leave and can't find a boat to take them. General ambient terror. Relatable.
January 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I'm reading an account of pre-Blitz London by Frances Faviel, and she describes air raid drills that are pooh-poohed by participants, German refugees terrified of being interned, and South Africans panicking as they try to leave and can't find a boat to take them. General ambient terror. Relatable.
Cue one million "I watch it for the articles" jokes.
Working out a scenario where Pornhub has to launch a prestigious monthly print magazine in order to stay online in Tennessee. This is how we bring the business back: ransoming access to stepsister-stuck-in-washing-machine content with long-form literary criticism and Malcolm Harris book excerpts.
January 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Cue one million "I watch it for the articles" jokes.
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only at harvard and also it comes with a staff attorney position at a bespoke fake legal initiative like the center for avian legal defense and a minimum of twenty msnbc appearances a year
January 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
only at harvard and also it comes with a staff attorney position at a bespoke fake legal initiative like the center for avian legal defense and a minimum of twenty msnbc appearances a year
I'm always thrilled when someone cites Charlotte M. Yonge!
My interpretation is that the baby died of withdrawal, though, because it's emphasized that the nurse was scared to continue dosing her with Flora watching.
My interpretation is that the baby died of withdrawal, though, because it's emphasized that the nurse was scared to continue dosing her with Flora watching.
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January 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm always thrilled when someone cites Charlotte M. Yonge!
My interpretation is that the baby died of withdrawal, though, because it's emphasized that the nurse was scared to continue dosing her with Flora watching.
My interpretation is that the baby died of withdrawal, though, because it's emphasized that the nurse was scared to continue dosing her with Flora watching.
Also misdiagnosed as psychotic, schizophrenic, intellectually disabled, criminal; "difficult," "oppositional," "weird," "socially incapable," or even "absent-minded professor." Before the 70s when schools started having to educate everybody, most didn't go at all. Some died in institutions.
They're dead, Rob. The life expectancy of autistic people was, last time I checked, around 36 years old.
Not due to some inherent physical issues. These deaths are mostly the result of neglect, murder, and suicide.
This is like when people ask where all the old gay men are.
Not due to some inherent physical issues. These deaths are mostly the result of neglect, murder, and suicide.
This is like when people ask where all the old gay men are.
January 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Also misdiagnosed as psychotic, schizophrenic, intellectually disabled, criminal; "difficult," "oppositional," "weird," "socially incapable," or even "absent-minded professor." Before the 70s when schools started having to educate everybody, most didn't go at all. Some died in institutions.
"Lincare’s CEO, Crispin Teufel."
No, really. (Teufel means "devil" in German.)
No, really. (Teufel means "devil" in German.)
Lincare is paid to rent oxygen equipment to patients, with HHS covering most of the monthly bills. But those rental fees often add up to many times what it would cost simply to buy the equipment.
(Published Nov. 2024)
By @peterelkind.bsky.social
(Published Nov. 2024)
By @peterelkind.bsky.social
Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The…
propub.li
January 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"Lincare’s CEO, Crispin Teufel."
No, really. (Teufel means "devil" in German.)
No, really. (Teufel means "devil" in German.)
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
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Wow, gold, frankincense, AND myrrh. This is so great. My wife’s boyfriend’s baby is going to love it. Thank you so much.
December 8, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Wow, gold, frankincense, AND myrrh. This is so great. My wife’s boyfriend’s baby is going to love it. Thank you so much.
I quit working in tech a couple of years ago but pretty much everyone I know who still does has had some notional form of "AI" added to whatever product they work on, no matter how apparently irrelevant. It's a required checkbox.
![Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and education specialist, said “the modern hype” of generative AI had led edtech to “plug that word into every aspect of their products — even when, or especially when, it doesn’t belong”.
“Edtech companies are largely composed of engineers, businesspeople and economists,” he said. “Very rarely will you see a practising teacher or educator anywhere in the mix. Their failure to meaningfully impact education is [because] they do not understand the field they are trying to evolve.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreigcofkesrr4d6ssf7z3ypa6utow3ei7jqtfli2ncq5ncc7pff4mvi@jpeg)
December 26, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I quit working in tech a couple of years ago but pretty much everyone I know who still does has had some notional form of "AI" added to whatever product they work on, no matter how apparently irrelevant. It's a required checkbox.
It's been so long since I played a real video game that I'm going to go with the questionable "video game" designation that comes up when I google the Times Connections puzzle. Fits neatly with Man on the Inside to create the ultimate cozy boredom show/game.
December 21, 2024 at 9:07 PM
It's been so long since I played a real video game that I'm going to go with the questionable "video game" designation that comes up when I google the Times Connections puzzle. Fits neatly with Man on the Inside to create the ultimate cozy boredom show/game.
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I hear parents comparing notes on how to best tell kids that a plastic elf is spying on them and reporting them to their overseer for judgment.
I think the best way is to tell your kids to yank it down from the shelf and stomp on it while shouting "NO GODS! NO MASTERS!"
Maybe it's just me.
I think the best way is to tell your kids to yank it down from the shelf and stomp on it while shouting "NO GODS! NO MASTERS!"
Maybe it's just me.
December 20, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I hear parents comparing notes on how to best tell kids that a plastic elf is spying on them and reporting them to their overseer for judgment.
I think the best way is to tell your kids to yank it down from the shelf and stomp on it while shouting "NO GODS! NO MASTERS!"
Maybe it's just me.
I think the best way is to tell your kids to yank it down from the shelf and stomp on it while shouting "NO GODS! NO MASTERS!"
Maybe it's just me.
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The way that elementary schools have become the testing ground for every new hair-brained tech sector "innovation" is really abhorrent to me. Let's find someone besides children to test these technologies on.
“Kids begin their day with two hours of instruction on standard topics like language, math and science, guided by an AI that continuously adjusts the learning plan based on how the child is doing in each subject.”
New Arizona charter school will use AI in place of human teachers
Unbound Academy, which operates in Texas and Florida as Alpha Schools, has been approved to open a charter school in Arizona with an AI learning model that adjusts kids’ learning plans on the fly.
www.kjzz.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The way that elementary schools have become the testing ground for every new hair-brained tech sector "innovation" is really abhorrent to me. Let's find someone besides children to test these technologies on.