Sheila Rogers
@thoughtsunravel.bsky.social
[she/her] 55 year old who loves art, photography, video games, and is a spoonie (Discoid Lupus & Mixed Connective Tissue Disease) living in Chicago. [avatar by AnneMarie Rogers]
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Ebooks are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Graphic novels are reading.
Pulp reading is reading.
Adults reading YA is reading.
It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Audiobooks are reading.
Graphic novels are reading.
Pulp reading is reading.
Adults reading YA is reading.
It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.
January 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Ebooks are reading.
Audiobooks are reading.
Graphic novels are reading.
Pulp reading is reading.
Adults reading YA is reading.
It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Audiobooks are reading.
Graphic novels are reading.
Pulp reading is reading.
Adults reading YA is reading.
It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.
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I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
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In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who ...
www.wired.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…
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I don't understand how we are still stigmatizing people for wearing masks during respiratory virus season in 2025. Really, people?
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I don't understand how we are still stigmatizing people for wearing masks during respiratory virus season in 2025. Really, people?
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
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I have been warning for years that once insurance companies had a reason to stop denying hormones to trans folks, they’d be coming for the menopausal among us next. We all rise or fall together.
My insurance company just sent me a letter saying they will stop covering two of my prescriptions because they are ‘not medically necessary’. Which ones?
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
1. My testosterone, because I am not a man
2. My menopause meds for hot flashes because, after all, women should just deal with it.
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have been warning for years that once insurance companies had a reason to stop denying hormones to trans folks, they’d be coming for the menopausal among us next. We all rise or fall together.
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I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.
December 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.
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[After two glasses of wine at every dinner party]
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
[After two glasses of wine at every dinner party]
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
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Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Yes. Me neither.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Yes. Me neither.
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Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.
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As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.
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It’s rare to come across a heartwarming story about disability that avoids falling into the “disability porn” trap.
This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:
This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s rare to come across a heartwarming story about disability that avoids falling into the “disability porn” trap.
This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:
This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:
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OpenAI partnered with NORAD Santa Tracker this year to ensure that no corner of American government or childhood tradition is free from the Sacred Slop Funnel:
openai.com/index/norad-...
openai.com/index/norad-...
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
OpenAI partnered with NORAD Santa Tracker this year to ensure that no corner of American government or childhood tradition is free from the Sacred Slop Funnel:
openai.com/index/norad-...
openai.com/index/norad-...
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One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything.
December 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything.
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hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people.
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people.
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.
Let me explain:
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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I have ideas like…every thirty seconds. Most of them suck. But many of them have been scaffolding for ideas I am actively trying to come up with, and a computer cannot give you that, no matter how much of other artists’ blood sweat and tears you feed it.
Never. There is no good use for genAI.
Never. There is no good use for genAI.
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I have ideas like…every thirty seconds. Most of them suck. But many of them have been scaffolding for ideas I am actively trying to come up with, and a computer cannot give you that, no matter how much of other artists’ blood sweat and tears you feed it.
Never. There is no good use for genAI.
Never. There is no good use for genAI.
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
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Trans kids, trans adults, trans all of you folks
I’m so glad you live. I’m so glad you’re here and I hope you know there are so many rooting for you, fighting for you and hoping you get to live the best life you can
I’m so glad you live. I’m so glad you’re here and I hope you know there are so many rooting for you, fighting for you and hoping you get to live the best life you can
December 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Trans kids, trans adults, trans all of you folks
I’m so glad you live. I’m so glad you’re here and I hope you know there are so many rooting for you, fighting for you and hoping you get to live the best life you can
I’m so glad you live. I’m so glad you’re here and I hope you know there are so many rooting for you, fighting for you and hoping you get to live the best life you can
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I don’t know how to make this more clear. If you don’t see what is happening right now you are choosing not to.
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I don’t know how to make this more clear. If you don’t see what is happening right now you are choosing not to.
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Medicare For All can be designed to not just protect the rights of disabled Americans, but further independence.
Medicare For All can be designed not just to reduce costs for chronically ill Americans, but further health by tearing down barriers to medically necessary treatments.
Medicare For All can be designed not just to reduce costs for chronically ill Americans, but further health by tearing down barriers to medically necessary treatments.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Medicare For All can be designed to not just protect the rights of disabled Americans, but further independence.
Medicare For All can be designed not just to reduce costs for chronically ill Americans, but further health by tearing down barriers to medically necessary treatments.
Medicare For All can be designed not just to reduce costs for chronically ill Americans, but further health by tearing down barriers to medically necessary treatments.
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As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike.
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
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The family of a tamale vendor taken by Border Patrol on Monday supports this GoFundMe. He is an older man with heart problems who was beloved in Back of the Yards.
gofund.me/b73e44594
gofund.me/b73e44594
Support Federico, Tamalero Taken by ICE, organized by Southwest Rapid Response
On Dec 16th of 2025 in Back of the Yards, Don Federico was taken by I… Southwest Rapid Response necesita tu apoyo para Support Federico, Tamalero Taken by ICE
gofund.me
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The family of a tamale vendor taken by Border Patrol on Monday supports this GoFundMe. He is an older man with heart problems who was beloved in Back of the Yards.
gofund.me/b73e44594
gofund.me/b73e44594
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."