Thimbleberry
@robber-fly.bsky.social
I don’t consent to your infection.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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*not shopping at Target intensifies*
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
*not shopping at Target intensifies*
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
Holy shit. i’m not all that surprised that the study was deemed to be compromised, but it is **such** a shot in the arm to see accountability about anything, anywhere, for anyone.
The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Holy shit. i’m not all that surprised that the study was deemed to be compromised, but it is **such** a shot in the arm to see accountability about anything, anywhere, for anyone.
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frazzled Lizza in dizzy schism with sizzling Nuzza—a fizzy razzmatazz over grizzled scion’s scuzzy jism, buzzes Chris Cillizza
Ryan Lizza calls Olivia Nuzzi his "ex-fianceé" in Politico Playbook PM www.politico.com/newsletters/...
September 22, 2024 at 2:45 AM
frazzled Lizza in dizzy schism with sizzling Nuzza—a fizzy razzmatazz over grizzled scion’s scuzzy jism, buzzes Chris Cillizza
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Only 13 legislative days remain before the ACA tax credits expire and millions of people are priced out of their health care.
House Democrats have a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits for 3 years. We just need a handful of Republicans to join us.
House Democrats have a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits for 3 years. We just need a handful of Republicans to join us.
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Only 13 legislative days remain before the ACA tax credits expire and millions of people are priced out of their health care.
House Democrats have a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits for 3 years. We just need a handful of Republicans to join us.
House Democrats have a discharge petition to extend ACA tax credits for 3 years. We just need a handful of Republicans to join us.
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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To give that maximum sacred cow butchering phrasing: "efficiency is bad, actually." It precludes redundancy, flexibility, unused reserves, and preemptive maintainance. A maximally efficient system in one set of conditions is extremely fragile when conditions change.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
To give that maximum sacred cow butchering phrasing: "efficiency is bad, actually." It precludes redundancy, flexibility, unused reserves, and preemptive maintainance. A maximally efficient system in one set of conditions is extremely fragile when conditions change.
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"What kind of future are we leaving for our children" is no longer asked. Billionaires and their cronies have evolved into beings that can't think more than six months out. Nobody is building anything to last or endure. Kids today are raised in a world where humans are sacrificed eagerly for profit.
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"What kind of future are we leaving for our children" is no longer asked. Billionaires and their cronies have evolved into beings that can't think more than six months out. Nobody is building anything to last or endure. Kids today are raised in a world where humans are sacrificed eagerly for profit.
Devastating thread. Are other educators seeing this?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Devastating thread. Are other educators seeing this?
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Excellent visual and 🧵explaining the ACA tax credit issue:
What does this look like visually?
Here's an example using my own family (middle-aged couple w/1 college-age kid) here in Oakland County, Michigan.
It will vary depending on where you live, household makeup, ages, etc but generally will be similar:
Here's an example using my own family (middle-aged couple w/1 college-age kid) here in Oakland County, Michigan.
It will vary depending on where you live, household makeup, ages, etc but generally will be similar:
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excellent visual and 🧵explaining the ACA tax credit issue:
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Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored
“Unlike the Tea Party of 2010, this is not an issue that breaks down cleanly along ideological lines. An insurgency isn’t necessarily going to pull Dems to the left, especially because Dem voters can’t really agree on which ideological direction to take their party.” split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...
February 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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It is infuriating that the Republican Congress sits idly by while RFK Jr. and Marty Makary blithely make provably false statements to the media about vaccines.
This isn’t an abstract concept. The HHS Secretary and the FDA Comissioner are intentionally lying to all of us and it’s beyond dangerous.
This isn’t an abstract concept. The HHS Secretary and the FDA Comissioner are intentionally lying to all of us and it’s beyond dangerous.
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It is infuriating that the Republican Congress sits idly by while RFK Jr. and Marty Makary blithely make provably false statements to the media about vaccines.
This isn’t an abstract concept. The HHS Secretary and the FDA Comissioner are intentionally lying to all of us and it’s beyond dangerous.
This isn’t an abstract concept. The HHS Secretary and the FDA Comissioner are intentionally lying to all of us and it’s beyond dangerous.
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Brilliant cartoon by Michael deAdder
Beacon of the world open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Beacon of the world open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Beacon of the world
Trump cracks down again on immigration
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Brilliant cartoon by Michael deAdder
Beacon of the world open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Beacon of the world open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
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It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
Statement from U.S. AG Pam Bondi:
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
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🩷 let's make some magic 🩷
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🩷 let's make some magic 🩷
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
last year, this community turned the most consumerist day of the year into a day defined strangers saying "I got you" to people that really need a bright spot in their life.
it's time to run it back.
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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
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Oh yeah, that’s cursed. That thing comes alive at like 3 AM and stalks the stores and woe betide whomever crosses its path.
Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oh yeah, that’s cursed. That thing comes alive at like 3 AM and stalks the stores and woe betide whomever crosses its path.
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We ended up betraying many (most?) of the locals who helped us and leaving them in Afghanistan to dodge the Taliban. A friend of mine who worked for the US finally got visas for himself and his family...from Germany.
Afghans saved many American lives during the war. Way more troops are alive because of them than have been harmed by asylum-seekers. The potential reward of coming to the US was key to securing cooperation. Kicking everyone out will ensure no one helps again.
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We ended up betraying many (most?) of the locals who helped us and leaving them in Afghanistan to dodge the Taliban. A friend of mine who worked for the US finally got visas for himself and his family...from Germany.
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Yes and it is notable that attacking “cancel culture” is pretty obviously an attack on cultivation of pro-social values, and an attack on social consequences for speech supporting bad values.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Yes and it is notable that attacking “cancel culture” is pretty obviously an attack on cultivation of pro-social values, and an attack on social consequences for speech supporting bad values.
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Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.
The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term