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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 20h

UPDATE: You can get there via the Somerville Community Path.

A short worn dirt path leads to a black fence gate. Next to the gate door is a teal sign with yellow lettering that reads, “Support The Loov Patio Garden.” Green plants line the patio.

A sign that reads, “YES AND EVERYTHING / WAREHOUSE CABARET / FRIDAY” in large black letters sit next to a paved multi-use path with a yellow dividing line in the center.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 23h

Fall has come for us all. buff.ly/cEbxn9M

An orange Pocky box surrounded by small pumpkins, cinnamon sticks, cloves and red and orange leaves.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 29/09/2026

anyway if you are in greater boston and need help after being raped contact BARCC: barcc.org/get-help/ everyone else, i invite you to donate or volunteer to help rape survivors: barcc.org/get-involved/

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 29/09/2026

i'm pretty salty: 1) rape culture is at every campus not just the ivy league, 2) been on a student committee to support rape survivors and i know schools aren't looking at prevention, 3) news media has been hounding the "liberal authoritarian safe space" bs over rape culture over 10 years now

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 29/09/2026

maybe the problem with college campuses weren't all the safe spaces but the rape culture

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 29/09/2026

TIL there is an art studio in Somerville called The Loov.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/09/2026

Here's the official "Musk" trailer. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10?...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 28/09/2026

gender is a game and some people love to play and others just don’t and that’s okay

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 28/09/2026

my weird middle class hobby is reading the letters to the editor in alum magazines

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 28/09/2026

I know the hook since the song played a few times on my Spotify daylist. Curious, I watched the music video and OP is accurate. (The video is also in a style that I personally hate but that's not the point.)

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 27/09/2026

my weed gummies say HAPPY BISEXUAL PRIDE MONTH

A trio of cubed gummies in pink, blue, and purple sit in someone’s left hand.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 27/09/2026

I have been seeing whispers about SlutCon, and while the idea may be .. okay??? .. without the context of a sexist, sex-shaming world, I think that centering the desires of awkward men over the basic human right of bodily autonomy and boundaries for women is bullshit.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 27/09/2026

The unexamined orgasm is not even worth having.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 26/09/2026

is that nor'easter thunder or is my upstairs neighbor watching a movie with the bass turned up

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

It’s 6 PM on a Friday so that means it’s party time for my upstairs neighbors.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

this is discrimination against bisexuals and bostonians and bisexual bostonians (pls stop attacking me)

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

AI can't replace crochet. There are already people selling AI-generated crochet patterns with AI-generated photos but they generally all fail to produce anything and are considered scams.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

Progress on the shawl I'm making. It's about 60% done at this point. I selected the yarn because I liked the gradient but I have feelings about the stripes. It's fine. IT IS FINE. It's just not what I had imagined. #Crochet #AAPIartists #FiberArts

A skein of rainbow gradient yarn sits below an unfinished crochet shawl with the rainbow colors in stripes against a cream background.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

Calling anything the best of the 21st century when it’s just 2026 is wild to me.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 25/09/2026

People get so mad at you when you call Widow’s Bay a comedy when there is such a thing as fusion genres and there is no horror category at the major awards organizations.

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We try to post threads because we know not everyone will click links. This is one of those threads, please read it, but please also click the link and read the entire piece. We have been watching this story unfold but haven't seen much media traction. There is a serial killer in Philadelphia.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The anti-abortion crowd gets why this book is a threat (and are writing badly about it). Would love to see the pro-abortion crowd take the evidence, arguments, and perspective of this book and use it in their work!

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d like to hear more from other people who left policy / political work to do something else. I know people who got burned out and pushed out but I feel like I left because I couldn’t get hired to do work that felt like it was having an impact.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I grew up in a family that was actively under surveillance and had security concerns because of the organizing work my parents and grandparents did. I am begging parents of children under 18 to be thoughtful about their children's privacy with respect to social media, journalism, &etc

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And should you need it. You can find vaccines near you using this website. Stay healthy and protected. Search for vaccine locations in your area and schedule your appointment today. • vaccinefinder.org

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 21/09/2026

lmao there's a bulletin board in my apt building where people can post things for sale and someone wants money for a Trump tie hahahaha GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 21/09/2026

I have a theory I want to test. Do you think "American" is an ethnicity or a nationality? Why or why not? Also, where in the world do you live?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026

A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.

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A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?

Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why do white men become white nationalists? Interesting new empirical results in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ere we show with three national surveys of non-Hispanic white adults (conducted from 2021 to 2025) that support for white nationalism is (1) higher among white people encountering personal hardship and local social distress, consistent with strain theories3,16; (2) unrelated to local racial composition or recent demographic change, complicating status threat accounts4,17,18; and (3) elevated among white people with close friendships primarily online, consistent with theories of extremism driven by online mobilization7,10,19.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 12/05/2025

Saw someone say that LLMs are like parrots for just repeating the input, and having worked with some very smart parrots, I can confirm that parrots are smarter than LLMs since the birds can actually understand the context of words.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 21/09/2026

We all know that United sucks but they also use a computer algorithm to (usually) deny coverage patients. youtu.be/h1pXm0GjLho?...

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UnitedHealthcare & UnitedHealth Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Researchers in Taiwan are racing to restore a crucial piece of the island's film history, before it's lost forever." (@ashishval.bsky.social / @npr.org) www.npr.org/2026/09/19/n... 🧋

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Taiwan's lost films hold the sounds and stories of a vanishing era

Researchers in Taiwan are racing to restore a crucial piece of the island's film history, before it's lost forever.

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't like the implication that the anti-AI crowd does not include scientists www.ahmath.org

ahmath.org

AHM

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Isa Leshko @isaleshko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I led the successful #SalemMA #FlockOff campaign that was backed by a coalition of 17 local grassroots orgs. www.northshoreprogressives.org/salem-activi... We also blocked funding for a #DroneAsFirstResponder program. Mass surveillance is NOT inevitable. Communities like ours is proving that. ✊🏻

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Salem Activists Respond to City's Announcement Terminating Flock Contract

Salem's announcement that it was severing ties with Flock Safety was welcome, but it erased the role local activists played in the city's decision.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have just learned a lesson, so for the benefit of others: if you are contacted by a reporter for a media outlet, before you respond to their questions, ask whether they will be writing the piece themselves or whether their AI assistant will be writing it (if that matters to you).

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Disabled people need to be a whole lot kinder to other disabled people

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My newest Presidential Column for @psychscience.bsky.social addresses the issue of psychologists' dominant use of convenience samples for their research. Can our science stop being WEIRD if we don't consider how we sample? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Is It Too Convenient to Stay WEIRD?

APS President Pamela Davis-Kean outlines her plenary topics for the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.

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