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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 10h

I had just been wondering if they could do that. Will check with my ENT next time I see him.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 10h

I know, the point is prices. But Taiko drums trump prices.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 10h

how are they custom? I could use something like that--the earplugs that they hand out at indoor taiko drum concerts always fall out of my ears! (Yes, my life is weird!)

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So many homeless got here with a bus ticket from someone who wanted to get rid of them.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

30 years ago many, if not most, of my students viewed classes as a hoop they had to jump through to get a piece of paper that would guarantee them a cushy job. They were sure they already knew all they needed to do these apocryphal jobs. AI just feeds that certainty.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Students and faculty haven't mattered for decades, so neither does what they do.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They broke up the University of the Arts with one week notice and sold off the buildings to developers. Yet another board is poised to sell off a 200-year old museum of natural sciences for condos. Constituencies don't seem to be part of the equation.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In Philadelphia the constituency is the board of directors, which is often made up in good part by real estate developers who take any opportunity to sell off the their institution to develop the buildings for condos.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am sure Trump is gleefully on board, but the GOP have been fighting for this since it happened. They have become so overtly toxic because they still resent the humiliation and the consequences. We live in the nightmare of their "Never again" every time they win a majority.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Worst baseball game ever. The Phillies are making an art of it.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So much dance in Philly this month, including one of my favorites. And so many dance extras! If I missed anything, put it in the comments! www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/you...

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Your October guide to Philly dance

The October dance calendar balances several important local performances with notable visiting companies and other events for dance lovers, including…

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since I heard about the AI companies that are scarfing up all the rare books, feeding them into their AI blenders, and then throwing away pages, I have been thinking about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and I've been wondering what book I should be memorizing.

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Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Self-Portrait with Brushes 1904 botfrens.com/collections/90/content…

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congratulations Phillies

We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy

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Sparky0649 @sparky618.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They are cracking our public institutions like eggs to feed the condo developers.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really, really want a snack, but also I am not in the least bit hungry, which would make a snack a bad idea

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think they had selling for condos in mind when they bought it

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WIRED @wired.com · 25/09/2026

26 years ago, she published a wildly prophetic book about Silicon Valley. Then she disappeared. What happened to tech writer Paulina Borsook?

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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The academy was founded in 1812 and the museum has been in that location for 200 years, so I don't think anyone anticipated they'd need to protect it from developers. They are realizing it now, though.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They would not want to accept the offer if their goal is to sell off the property to developers for cash.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They are definitely more interested in the “big fancy professors should be teaching more” part of students not getting their money’s worth, but they want less supply teaching as well, though more from what school should provide. The teachers do seem to be in a different issue box

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So students do not have pedagogical interaction with the scholars that give the school its reputation and don’t get the same attention they would from a teacher with a steady job who doesn’t need to get halfway across town to their next job

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dems are concerned that more highly paid tenured professors at research universities often do little teaching, which is increasingly done by PhDs hoping for a break while teaching at multiple schools and relying on food assistance and Medicaid

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 24/09/2026

#Recall: The Blue Cactus Company Reclining Chair Battery Packs; The lithium-ion battery in the recalled battery packs can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards. Get replacement. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most fun thing I saw all Fringe Festival! Taiko drums and modern dance seem like a strange combination, but they actually work really well together. www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...

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Philly Fringe 2026: Casual Fifth presents Here Come the Brides

Casual Fifth, a Philly-based drum and dance dance ensemble, joined this year’s Fringe with a high-energy celebration of love. Everyone dressed as brides.…

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CVS has the worst computer system ever.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The great unification of Bluesky nature photography with poetry Bluesky. Rilke reading outside!!!

Beautiful b&w garden w bench photo of Rilke sitting reading legs crossed w walking stick

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 21/09/2026

It's beautiful that so many people will choose to express themselves through the medium of pumpkin. If only there was less stabbing involved.

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Workarounds here: discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250...

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Turn off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Fauci fiasco has legs because people are still angry and scared about the pandemic. We got it right so fast, but there were stumbles along the way. So instead of being comforted that we found a solution, they were left torn between scientific method and snake oil. And they are mad about that too

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My wife works with national parks and conservation nonprofits, and the impact of these policies on our forests, parks, trails, and sustainability efforts has been catastrophic. Even rewriting all their language, anything to do with the environment still flags as “DEI bad!”

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw Nichole Canuso"s immersive show Lunar Retreat last week at Philadelphia Fringe. I know the show was good because bits of it keep resurfacing in my mind, bringing the calm of the moment with the memory. www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...

broadstreetreview.com

Philly Fringe 2026: FringeArts presents Nichole Canuso | Branching…

Nichole Canuso’s 2026 entry in the curated Fringe Festival creates an immersive experience in University City’s Pearlstein Gallery, where you can choose…

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They did it because no one stopped him. At any point in this downhill ride into chaos, he could have been stopped (and expected to be stopped) and nobody said "no" to the toddler.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wish we'd seen more of Capaldi and Alex Kingston; they were electric together. I was annoyed they picked the least interesting of the Clara's for a companion. The Victorian one would have been so much fun.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And they don’t seem to have a reasonable way to pay for any of it. I keep waiting for a subscription fee like the old days, but so far nothing. It is very headscratchy

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My dad was one of those guys, an engineer, 40 years ago. Died at 98 believing he'd solved it. From this side, it is indeed sad and complicated and messy. AI just adds more guys; the impulse has been there since forever.

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Camille Bacon-Smith @camille2000.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes you do! It is so Philly, especially the part about the sinkhole eating the traffic cones, even before the dolts on the bus!

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