Reposted by Bianca FoltanJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 5hBook festivals, please, PLEASE don’t use AI to write author bios and book descriptions. Currently, I am being advertised as attending a festival next month for a talk about a book that doesn’t exist… 1216437
Reposted by Bianca FoltanLA Knight & Co. (NEED RENT HELP, CHECK PINNED) @laknight89.bsky.social · 5hApropos of Stuff on Twitter: if you don't care about improving at literary analysis beyond what you need for school, that is totally fine because it's not a fun thing for everyone. But it is a fact that improving the skill to any real degree requires analyzing stuff you don't necessarily love. 1175
Reposted by Bianca FoltanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4hArticle 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased 7523110
Reposted by Bianca FoltanSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 18hI used to feel like half my time as an orchestra musician was spent patiently explaining, over and over, that no, orchestras have never in history paid for themselves through ticket sales; no, cutting concerts or auxiliary trumpets won't balance the books; YOU JUST HAVE TO RAISE THE MONEY. 533932
Reposted by Bianca FoltanDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 11hThey hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia 4733266
Reposted by Bianca Foltantalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13hThis is really funny when you combine it with the conspiracy theorists saying antifa led the J6 riot 210915
Reposted by Bianca FoltanEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 13hChat is this good 3285
Reposted by Bianca Foltanpersephone @jomaselli.ca · 13hA girl or woman should be able to fall asleep in any state in the company of any man she trusts & expect to be left the hell alone, or cared for if she’s unwell, or awoken & brought home safely. The fact that this is not the expectation is fucking ludicrous. Men can & should be better. 117017
Reposted by Bianca Foltanpersephone @jomaselli.ca · 13hWhen I was in school, one of my male friends invited me over to watch a movie. I got super tired while I was there & ended up falling asleep on his futon. I woke up surprised to find a blanket on me & him sitting on the floor so that I could be comfortable. This is what is supposed to happen. 421834
Reposted by Bianca FoltanEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 13hWhen I was a freshman, I disclosed to a group of male friends that I’d never been drunk before. Two guys were like, let’s get you drunk this Saturday, it’ll be fun. It was fun! There was loud talking and dancing and nothing bad. They cut me off before hangover level. That’s what’s supposed to happen 321732
Reposted by Bianca FoltanAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 15/09/2026Charlie Brown was a resurrected and became a Starfleet admiral, eventually becoming the inspiration for the new uniforms, which would pay subtle homage to him. In this essay I will... (1/872) 4749
Reposted by Bianca FoltanAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 20hChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 7736211428
Reposted by Bianca Foltanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843400602
Reposted by Bianca FoltanAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20hNEW: After unlawfully firing FBI agents that worked on Trump cases, Patel's FBI is arguing that the reason they can't release Epstein redaction training videos featuring agents is because "assignments to cases are not by choice." Read my latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-... 521429495
Reposted by Bianca FoltanRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 20hI don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists. 58571281754
Reposted by Bianca FoltanJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15hI will never ever forget Jon Stewart desperately trying to get an elected dem to understand how badly they needed to fight for their supposed platform while the congressman weakly tried to give him a keychain that said “don’t give them back the keys” 0563
Reposted by Bianca FoltanJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15hGotta tell you, a thing I worry a lot about is that we dominate the midterms and then own-goal so hard for two years the presidential race is yet another nail biter. Why do I fear that? Because it’s fucking happened with these same people. 916028
Reposted by Bianca FoltanBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I do not post screenshots from the X app because I am not an importer of filth. All the filth you see here is organic and locally sourced 382336153
Reposted by Bianca Foltanhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 16hwill you people shut the fuck up 2385757564
Reposted by Bianca FoltanSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15hOne of the most widely cited and esteemed scholars I know published his first book (which changed the field) when he was 50 and by then had long been employed by a university. This was in the 1980s. 512523
Reposted by Bianca FoltanJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6657681146
Reposted by Bianca FoltanJón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m sure all the platforms will be rushing to pull GTA6 off them to appease MasterCard and VISA or whatever. Right?! 216637
Reposted by Bianca Foltanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making. 11986571000
Reposted by Bianca FoltanEvan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To this day, I *highly resent* that the tools we all contributed to have now transformed into instruments of algorithmic-political suppression: HTML, UNIX/Linux, TCP/IP, Java, "cookies," JPEG, GUI. These were *supposed* to help bring us all together, not become a cord tightened around our neck! 1347
Reposted by Bianca FoltanMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump voters in 2016 were happy to admit that he's a corrupt liar. They just thought Hillary was more corrupt and dishonest. Don't know about this guy specifically, but a huge percentage of the conservatives "turning on Trump" now are gonna find excuses to see Dems as a bigger threat in 2028. 1456446
Reposted by Bianca FoltanMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse. 16942138
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Paxton had them run his ads in every state he owns a home 2377891
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up 443768732
Reposted by Bianca FoltanWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...inquirer.comFor a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will BunchA nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college. 291164336
Reposted by Bianca FoltanIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a powerful article. Infuriating how every time the trucker was trying to find empathy for Pierre and Haitians in general, his girlfriend and mom kept intervening with some racist logic or conspiracy. 9623137
Reposted by Bianca FoltanClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families” 11216227
Reposted by Bianca FoltanArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Okay so what I *think* happened is that TPUSA volunteers used some LLM to beautify their photo and it also edited the AZ GOP candidates in the flier in their hand because the regular fliers don’t look like this but hilarious either way. 0251
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage 771467212
Reposted by Bianca FoltanMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history. 389113753025
Reposted by Bianca Foltanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 189101191127
Reposted by Bianca FoltanFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The construction crew preparing land for a second border barrier scraped a heavy equipment cut a corridor estimated at roughly 50 feet wide through the site, dividing part of the fish-shaped figure. The Center for Biological Diversity documented the damage." 110113
Reposted by Bianca FoltanFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The site of the fish-shaped intaglio damaged by border wall construction contractors at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.Courtesy Russ McSpadden / Center for Biological Diversity Key Takeaways" 118721
Reposted by Bianca FoltanFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8419861227
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket… 19865229
Reposted by Bianca FoltanElsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart 165141664664
Reposted by Bianca FoltanRob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 04/10/2026I'd like to once again remind you for #BannedBooksWeek that Huckleberry Finn and Animal Farm don't need you to go out of your way to read them. Instead, support a book, and author, who a ban can actually hurt. 314598
Reposted by Bianca FoltanRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comHe Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him OutDan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon. 16473218
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10041811457
Reposted by Bianca FoltanAnil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT. 511552293
Reposted by Bianca FoltanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg" 28640441710
