Rowyn
@rowyn.bsky.social
She/her. Big fan of books, cats, music, language, board games, public transportation, bicycles, climate change solutions
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For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.
December 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
Corporations to boycott: Target, Home Depot, Amazon, Whole Foods, Spotify, Microsoft, Dell
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Corporations to boycott: Target, Home Depot, Amazon, Whole Foods, Spotify, Microsoft, Dell
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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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 4:50 PM
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. 🧪
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Just finished reading The Change by Kirsten Miller, after @tressiemcphd.bsky.social recommended it a while back, and whew, it's too real with all this Epstein stuff coming out
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Just finished reading The Change by Kirsten Miller, after @tressiemcphd.bsky.social recommended it a while back, and whew, it's too real with all this Epstein stuff coming out
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🎉GREAT NEWS🎉
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🎉GREAT NEWS🎉
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove
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That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
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I wonder how many airlines have offered to pay air traffic controller's salaries during the shutdown, which has to be cheaper than canceling flights or refunding tickets.
Yeah so they’re cutting flights at the 40 busiest airports starting with 4% on Friday and ramping up to 10% through the weekend, and that includes ATL. If you’re attending #KubeCon and you aren’t threat modeling around this and making contingency plans already, strongly recommend starting now
So, uh, KubeCon attendees: how we feeling about the threat model of them shutting down the airspace? Are we all moving to Atlanta
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I wonder how many airlines have offered to pay air traffic controller's salaries during the shutdown, which has to be cheaper than canceling flights or refunding tickets.
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Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed to The Oaklandside that an “operation” was underway and that the guards' facilities in Alameda would be providing support. Live reports from the scene.
Live reports from CBP staging area at Coast Guard Island
Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed an “operation” was underway and said guards' facilities in Alameda would provide support. Live reports from the scene.
oaklandside.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed to The Oaklandside that an “operation” was underway and that the guards' facilities in Alameda would be providing support. Live reports from the scene.
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While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
"Mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public. They’d rather hide behind the false comfort of 'some say' and 'experts disagree' than plainly state obvious facts."
October 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public. They’d rather hide behind the false comfort of 'some say' and 'experts disagree' than plainly state obvious facts."
It me
I am An Old.
(I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)
(I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It me
Proud to see my representative, @replsimon.bsky.social, among the members who signed
NEW: Rashida Tlaib is leading a 19-member letter calling on Marco Rubio to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla—which is carrying 24 Americans—as it seeks to deliver aid to Palestinians starved by Israel.
They also demand the Trump admin use its leverage to end Israel's blockade and genocide of Gaza.
They also demand the Trump admin use its leverage to end Israel's blockade and genocide of Gaza.
September 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Proud to see my representative, @replsimon.bsky.social, among the members who signed
"The website features photos of beautiful women-laughing-alone-with-hormbles-chormbles like they’re totally unbothered by the eldritch curse written on their snack" 😂 www.eater.com/24408067/hor...
September 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"The website features photos of beautiful women-laughing-alone-with-hormbles-chormbles like they’re totally unbothered by the eldritch curse written on their snack" 😂 www.eater.com/24408067/hor...
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn.
Enter Tay Tay.
@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Enter Tay Tay.
@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve
An analysis of Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn.
Enter Tay Tay.
@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Enter Tay Tay.
@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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California is putting a stop to secret police. We’re making them take off the damn ski masks.
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
California is putting a stop to secret police. We’re making them take off the damn ski masks.