Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
NYC mom with opinions: UN peacebuilding, parenthood, sportsball, politics, educational equity, feminism. Probably thinking about S̶w̶e̶e̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶T̶o̶d̶d̶ Sunset Blvd (jk it’s always Sweeney Todd). Personal views. She/her.
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Vanessa Wyeth
@vwyeth.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I doubt I was known for anything but I did create this meme which went mildly viral and I remain very proud of it to this day.
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There was a heated argument in the room over the ruggedness of Brawny vs the softer texture of Bounty but it was resolved in civil debate and a consensus was reached. That’s what Mr Bezos expects from us in the Duke’s Hot Sauce Habanero Ass Blast Debate Room presented by Rocket Mortgage
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There was a heated argument in the room over the ruggedness of Brawny vs the softer texture of Bounty but it was resolved in civil debate and a consensus was reached. That’s what Mr Bezos expects from us in the Duke’s Hot Sauce Habanero Ass Blast Debate Room presented by Rocket Mortgage
I’m so serious about this and I have receipts
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’m so serious about this and I have receipts
I have watched the clip of Mamdani talking about the 2010 Ghana-Uruguay match more times than I care to admit. This is so deeply personal to me & nothing he has said or done to this point has endeared him to me more. (11:12 here youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...)
ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I have watched the clip of Mamdani talking about the 2010 Ghana-Uruguay match more times than I care to admit. This is so deeply personal to me & nothing he has said or done to this point has endeared him to me more. (11:12 here youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...)
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
This one hits hard. RIP king.
Jimmy Cliff, the soulful reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with "The Harder They Come," "Many Rivers to Cross" and much more, has died at the age of 81.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This one hits hard. RIP king.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
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Move your turkey from the freezer to the fridge today!
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Move your turkey from the freezer to the fridge today!
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
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AI is like asbestos! I’ve been thinking about unregulated social media as comparable to the “big tobacco” fight. Big AI is going to be so hard to fight and just as destructive, this time to democracy, education, and intellectual anything. Thinking itself is poisoned.
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
AI is like asbestos! I’ve been thinking about unregulated social media as comparable to the “big tobacco” fight. Big AI is going to be so hard to fight and just as destructive, this time to democracy, education, and intellectual anything. Thinking itself is poisoned.
Every single day gives us a new story that makes me want to burn the world down.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Every single day gives us a new story that makes me want to burn the world down.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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The New York Times would have really benefited from having a public editor this week IMO.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The New York Times would have really benefited from having a public editor this week IMO.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
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This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
Wow, Michael Wolff is also somehow even sleazier than I’d realized.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Wow, Michael Wolff is also somehow even sleazier than I’d realized.
I can’t believe I’m sitting though Jimmy Fallon the things I do for Chess
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I can’t believe I’m sitting though Jimmy Fallon the things I do for Chess