Suzanne B
@suzieb.bsky.social
Avid reader, learner, and traveler.
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Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but any professional service provider tells you that “you won’t have to do a thing!” is a stone cold liar.
You will have to do many many things. Always.
Sometimes, you will have to do ALL THE THINGS AND STILL PAY THEM.
You will have to do many many things. Always.
Sometimes, you will have to do ALL THE THINGS AND STILL PAY THEM.
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but any professional service provider tells you that “you won’t have to do a thing!” is a stone cold liar.
You will have to do many many things. Always.
Sometimes, you will have to do ALL THE THINGS AND STILL PAY THEM.
You will have to do many many things. Always.
Sometimes, you will have to do ALL THE THINGS AND STILL PAY THEM.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Me today and well every day
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Me today and well every day
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We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
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I still am appalled by the pure capitulation by so many powerful institutions.
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I still am appalled by the pure capitulation by so many powerful institutions.
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They are a generation primed for manipulation and fascist conditioning
Not "a little."
Not "sometimes."
Not "occasionally."
Not even "when mandated."
50% NEVER read.
Which means the 50% that does is also probably an extremely small amount
Not "sometimes."
Not "occasionally."
Not even "when mandated."
50% NEVER read.
Which means the 50% that does is also probably an extremely small amount
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
They are a generation primed for manipulation and fascist conditioning
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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For me:
Ref Dwarf
Chef
Are You being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
BBC to PBS pipeline knew what they had there
Ref Dwarf
Chef
Are You being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
BBC to PBS pipeline knew what they had there
“keeping up appearances” is a FOUNDATIONAL maxine text. one of the building blocks of my humor and wit.
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For me:
Ref Dwarf
Chef
Are You being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
BBC to PBS pipeline knew what they had there
Ref Dwarf
Chef
Are You being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
BBC to PBS pipeline knew what they had there
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I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.
Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.
“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.
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It’s not just that video is too slow. It is that. It’s also not my own understanding happening. I also truly believe that the mind and life I want to have does not happen through watching but does through reading. Wild that this is even a little bit provocative but I suspect that mostly just online
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s not just that video is too slow. It is that. It’s also not my own understanding happening. I also truly believe that the mind and life I want to have does not happen through watching but does through reading. Wild that this is even a little bit provocative but I suspect that mostly just online
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So Hegseth. One, I told y’all it was a meeting that could have been an email and I really want my credits.
Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show.
It’s a theme of this administration.
Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show.
It’s a theme of this administration.
September 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So Hegseth. One, I told y’all it was a meeting that could have been an email and I really want my credits.
Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show.
It’s a theme of this administration.
Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show.
It’s a theme of this administration.
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It finally hit me. This woman snarkily told me that she likes advice because other people’s mistakes helps her not repeat them. And it dawned on me that yeah that is what reading does too but without the annoying navel-gazing from strangers.
Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.
Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It finally hit me. This woman snarkily told me that she likes advice because other people’s mistakes helps her not repeat them. And it dawned on me that yeah that is what reading does too but without the annoying navel-gazing from strangers.
Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.
Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.
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I just figured out something that has confused me for ages. You know how some people love advice and how much I loathe it??
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I just figured out something that has confused me for ages. You know how some people love advice and how much I loathe it??
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback.
When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?
When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback.
When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?
When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?
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Me, today, almost in tears because life.
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Me, today, almost in tears because life.
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OPINION: "The lesson of Emmett Till is not simply about looking back: It is about looking in the mirror," Malone writes. "Do we see a democracy strong enough to hold truth, or one fragile enough to shatter under fear?"
Opinion | America Still Faces the Mirror 70 Years After Till
Dr. Duvalier Malone writes on the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till and the drawbacks of progression since then, primarily in education.
buff.ly
September 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
OPINION: "The lesson of Emmett Till is not simply about looking back: It is about looking in the mirror," Malone writes. "Do we see a democracy strong enough to hold truth, or one fragile enough to shatter under fear?"
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One thing we don't talk about enough IMO is how Elon Musk came to DC, destroyed foreign aid, and then oopsied back to his little companies. An estimated 450,000 people have already died because of this!
September 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
One thing we don't talk about enough IMO is how Elon Musk came to DC, destroyed foreign aid, and then oopsied back to his little companies. An estimated 450,000 people have already died because of this!
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Philosophy is structurally unable to acknowledge that "I dunno, man, maybe?" is objectively speaking the correct answer to most of our questions.
September 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Philosophy is structurally unable to acknowledge that "I dunno, man, maybe?" is objectively speaking the correct answer to most of our questions.
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quality of life is increasingly going to be determined by the willingness and ability of state and local governments to maintain infrastructure and services in the face of federal retrenchment. there will be no floor, and over time there will be greater and greater variation across the country
September 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
quality of life is increasingly going to be determined by the willingness and ability of state and local governments to maintain infrastructure and services in the face of federal retrenchment. there will be no floor, and over time there will be greater and greater variation across the country
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I’m so angry about this COVID vaccine thing that I can barely see straight
August 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m so angry about this COVID vaccine thing that I can barely see straight