steph
@stephalina.bsky.social
luv libraries, trains, and walkable cities 〰️
don't follow me 🫶
don't follow me 🫶
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@realgdt.bsky.social once said: "The creature gets a bride and loses her on the same day. They realize they're both alive and their love dies shortly thereafter." "The bride is Elizabeth and their love is impossible." "A beautiful marriage of souls." It's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. 🥹🥀
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
@realgdt.bsky.social once said: "The creature gets a bride and loses her on the same day. They realize they're both alive and their love dies shortly thereafter." "The bride is Elizabeth and their love is impossible." "A beautiful marriage of souls." It's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. 🥹🥀
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Everyone who thinks feminists have gone too far winds up going full fascist crazy. Many such cases.
Ugh why would they publish this not 48 hours after we recorded the Cursties on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Everyone who thinks feminists have gone too far winds up going full fascist crazy. Many such cases.
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AI is a crisis for the climate. @naomiaklein.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
AI is a crisis for the climate. @naomiaklein.bsky.social
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Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
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I liked Dunkelman's book but this op-ed is based on the same fallacy that leads some people to think fascist Italy and Germany were models of efficient administration.
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I liked Dunkelman's book but this op-ed is based on the same fallacy that leads some people to think fascist Italy and Germany were models of efficient administration.
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An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.
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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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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Opinion: Too big to fail, too small to save calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Opinion: Too big to fail, too small to save calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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If nothing else, they need to understand that the headline is THE FREE PART THAT GETS SHARED WIDELY and orders of magnitude fewer people will go past the paywall to read the article
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
If nothing else, they need to understand that the headline is THE FREE PART THAT GETS SHARED WIDELY and orders of magnitude fewer people will go past the paywall to read the article
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The Times adjusted it's headlines, but not until after other media started reporting the links as factual using the Times.
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Times adjusted it's headlines, but not until after other media started reporting the links as factual using the Times.
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
How comfortable should editors be with headlines that amplify the claims of an unverified claim, not subject to peer review, by a known vaccine skeptic?
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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This!!You expressed perfectly what I was trying to tell the author of that piece tonight. It not enough to say RFKJr challenged scientific orthodoxy or consensus ( the word she changed it to). That’s not good enough. Kennedy is going against scientific fucking FACT. There is nothing to debate.
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This!!You expressed perfectly what I was trying to tell the author of that piece tonight. It not enough to say RFKJr challenged scientific orthodoxy or consensus ( the word she changed it to). That’s not good enough. Kennedy is going against scientific fucking FACT. There is nothing to debate.
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
it's me, i'm the archaeologist screaming at my phone
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
it's me, i'm the archaeologist screaming at my phone
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Update: now he’s suggesting the Democratic lawmakers should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Update: now he’s suggesting the Democratic lawmakers should be executed.
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The Government of Alberta’s proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to shield its three pieces of anti-trans legislation deserves forceful opposition.
Make your voice heard. Discover your power in numbers.
Make your voice heard. Discover your power in numbers.
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Government of Alberta’s proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to shield its three pieces of anti-trans legislation deserves forceful opposition.
Make your voice heard. Discover your power in numbers.
Make your voice heard. Discover your power in numbers.
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I just called the premier’s office to express my opposition to Bill 9 and the use of the notwithstanding clause. Wait time was about 5 minutes.
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
The UCP: the NOT WORTH STANDING government.
Call the Premier’s office:
780-427-2251 (Edmonton)
Toll free: 310-0000 (in Alberta)
Call the Premier’s office:
780-427-2251 (Edmonton)
Toll free: 310-0000 (in Alberta)
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I just called the premier’s office to express my opposition to Bill 9 and the use of the notwithstanding clause. Wait time was about 5 minutes.
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
PLEASE PLEASE consider calling with your feedback. All comments are being forwarded to the premier’s communications team.
Let’s fill up those documents!
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Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
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truly a phenomenal night for messy bitches who love drama
(it's me I'm bitches)
(it's me I'm bitches)
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
truly a phenomenal night for messy bitches who love drama
(it's me I'm bitches)
(it's me I'm bitches)
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the post should’ve been titled “bamboozled” but other than that, no notes ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
the post should’ve been titled “bamboozled” but other than that, no notes ❤️