Stephanie Fink
@stephiefink.bsky.social
Literature curious dilettante
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I got laid off today, but I'm happy about it. It's been the wildest week already. This is the beginning of my next life!
Iowa, make me some cheap cat litter out of the extra soybeans.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Iowa, make me some cheap cat litter out of the extra soybeans.
All in one day, I slightly burned one finger, got a deep paper cut on another, and was bitten by a mosquito on a third. Two days later the worst by far is the mosquito bite.
August 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
All in one day, I slightly burned one finger, got a deep paper cut on another, and was bitten by a mosquito on a third. Two days later the worst by far is the mosquito bite.
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This album always gets me. One of alternative music’s greatest pieces of artistry. A masterpiece of music making. Jeff Mangum a flawed weirdo musical genius? Probably.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel on Apple Music
Album · 1998 · 11 Songs
music.apple.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This album always gets me. One of alternative music’s greatest pieces of artistry. A masterpiece of music making. Jeff Mangum a flawed weirdo musical genius? Probably.
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Starting to not care about any show enough to pay any subscription fee.
August 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Starting to not care about any show enough to pay any subscription fee.
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China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America's entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
China rushes to build out solar, and emissions edge downward
Chinese officials have showcased what they claim will be the world's largest solar farm on the Tibetan plateau
www.independent.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America's entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
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Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
The Case Against Travel
It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
nyer.cm
July 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
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The new bill in Congress puts a new tax on wind and solar. They’re taxing clean energy to give your money to billionaires.
The most intense part of this bill is a new excise tax on wind and solar projects above FEOC content threshholds (!!!)
Given the sprawling nature of FEOC, that might pull in all sorts of projects with unmanageable new tax liability
Tax the sun, tax the wind eh #energysky
Given the sprawling nature of FEOC, that might pull in all sorts of projects with unmanageable new tax liability
Tax the sun, tax the wind eh #energysky
June 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The new bill in Congress puts a new tax on wind and solar. They’re taxing clean energy to give your money to billionaires.
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Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
heatmap.news
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
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This is a bonkers amount of money. It’s ~three times~ the annual budget of NASA.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is a bonkers amount of money. It’s ~three times~ the annual budget of NASA.
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Republicans don’t want you to notice — but buried in their cruel bill is a quiet repeal of the ACA.
Millions could lose healthcare. We stopped this before. We must stop it again.
Millions could lose healthcare. We stopped this before. We must stop it again.
June 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Republicans don’t want you to notice — but buried in their cruel bill is a quiet repeal of the ACA.
Millions could lose healthcare. We stopped this before. We must stop it again.
Millions could lose healthcare. We stopped this before. We must stop it again.
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“Yet if democracies do collapse, it will likely result not from some kind of technological inevitability but from a human failure to regulate the new technology wisely” - Yuval Noah Harari - Nexus
How wise are the current legislative initiatives?
How wise are the current legislative initiatives?
April 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Yet if democracies do collapse, it will likely result not from some kind of technological inevitability but from a human failure to regulate the new technology wisely” - Yuval Noah Harari - Nexus
How wise are the current legislative initiatives?
How wise are the current legislative initiatives?
God these dudes are dumb.
April 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
God these dudes are dumb.
Why do we all agree to talk about the tariffs as though other countries are paying them? WE will pay them. They are a tax on American consumers.
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Why do we all agree to talk about the tariffs as though other countries are paying them? WE will pay them. They are a tax on American consumers.
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Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Dear diary,
Today I went to the office for the first time in about four years, and also the last time ever.
I'm almost free!!
Today I went to the office for the first time in about four years, and also the last time ever.
I'm almost free!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Dear diary,
Today I went to the office for the first time in about four years, and also the last time ever.
I'm almost free!!
Today I went to the office for the first time in about four years, and also the last time ever.
I'm almost free!!
Where is Greta when you need her?
March 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Where is Greta when you need her?
Of all the deliberate evil going on in the world right now, ramping up fossil fuel usage is still the one that makes me lose my mind. All future life is teetering on a razor's edge and some folks want to give it a push. Nothing more stupid or cruel has ever, ever been done.
March 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Of all the deliberate evil going on in the world right now, ramping up fossil fuel usage is still the one that makes me lose my mind. All future life is teetering on a razor's edge and some folks want to give it a push. Nothing more stupid or cruel has ever, ever been done.
Everyone should read this — or listen to it (I did).
In today's The Big Picture, Jay Kuo identifies and calls out the classic fascist tactics Trump and Musk are deploying, so that we can fight back against them more effectively.
Bogeymen and Trojan Horses
How to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Everyone should read this — or listen to it (I did).
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Robert F. Kennedy can remove all the seed oils from all the food in America.
It’s not going to make up for dismantling Mercury Air Toxics standards, undoing car and truck pollution restrictions, rolling back chemical safety regulations, and otherwise covering the country in fossil fuel pollution
It’s not going to make up for dismantling Mercury Air Toxics standards, undoing car and truck pollution restrictions, rolling back chemical safety regulations, and otherwise covering the country in fossil fuel pollution
"Make America Healthy Again" is dead
There is nothing RFK Jr. can do at the Department of Health to make up for what's happening at the EPA.
heated.world
March 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Robert F. Kennedy can remove all the seed oils from all the food in America.
It’s not going to make up for dismantling Mercury Air Toxics standards, undoing car and truck pollution restrictions, rolling back chemical safety regulations, and otherwise covering the country in fossil fuel pollution
It’s not going to make up for dismantling Mercury Air Toxics standards, undoing car and truck pollution restrictions, rolling back chemical safety regulations, and otherwise covering the country in fossil fuel pollution
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You've heard of DOGE.
Have you heard of DOGIE?
Have you heard of DOGIE?
March 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You've heard of DOGE.
Have you heard of DOGIE?
Have you heard of DOGIE?
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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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If you happen to live in Iowa and have received a proposed tax notice from the County, the "hypothetical example" on the second page where your property taxes go up 12% (or so) is wrong.
March 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you happen to live in Iowa and have received a proposed tax notice from the County, the "hypothetical example" on the second page where your property taxes go up 12% (or so) is wrong.