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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 08/01/2026

Our government illegally invaded Venezuela and captured their president and first lady to take over their resource production and to project power and control into South America, threatened to invade Greenland to do the same, and ICE agents harassed and executed an innocent US citizen. Get angrier.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Texas is banning Plato excerpts from philosophy courses. For context, Plato founded one of the first institutions of higher learning in all of Western civilization. 2,400+ years later, fragile conservatives are trying to censor him.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Politicians & lobbying groups have been trying for years to prosecute the low-level dealers, plugs, and even just friends-who-use-together for homicide when someone dies from an overdose. ChatGPT coached a kid to take drugs with it for months then gave medical advice that was so wrong it killed him

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ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 08/01/2026

They are not buying the Trump administration's claim that the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good was somehow justified.

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LGBTQ+ officials denounce ICE killing of Minneapolis woman, demand investigation

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people

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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Finally got my settings right

Post interaction settings
Who can reply
(checked) Your followers
(unchecked) People who deliberately misinterpret your post so they can yell at you

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 06/01/2026

Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 06/01/2026

I’m sick of ads; Tired of spam; All of my classmates; With their gen AI trash. How many times; Must I click unsubscribe? When will our institutions; Proclaim AI slop plagiarized? Numb to that ding; Emails lost and unseen; Vapid Canvas discussions; Nothing but robots whirring.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 22/12/2025

“We want the humans to grind/ we want the engines to sing/ we want machines to be human/ we want humans to be machines… what will you drink when the screen goes black/ when there’s no more colors to get your dopamine back?” Sofia Isella is a neo-Luddite lyricist queen youtu.be/iyn08hoZdjY

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SOFIA ISELLA - Crowd Caffeine (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by SOFIA ISELLA

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 06/12/2025

Biopic on HC so I can watch SC portraying HC

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 06/12/2025

This is my emotional support calculator for calculus and differential equation exams

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 05/12/2025

White is not even a color 😅

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 03/12/2025

I was interviewed by @businessinsider.com in their "As-Told-To" series about people beginning second careers. Thank you to Tess Martinelli for sharing my story and big changes since leaving Apple in 2021. per ardua ad astra! 🌌 www.businessinsider.com/apple-engine...

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I quit Apple 20 years into my career and became homeless. Hitting bottom led me to heal and find a new path.

An Apple engineer quit her job and couldn't get hired after several months, becoming homeless. She shares how school helped her start over and heal.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

What a tragedy it would be for any other woman to spend more than 20 years believing she is unfixable with an incurable mental disorder that will never allow her to acclimate in society. We have to talk about all the aspects of diagnoses, not just symptomatology. We are more than symptoms.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

It is so important for girls and women to have their dysfunctional behaviors properly assigned to what happened to them. While medication may work for some people to control this, it doesn't for everyone. Counseling for my abuse literally changed how I experience life and relationships entirely.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

For posterity, her discussion about childhood sexual assault is in her book The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar and her discussion about adulthood sexual assault is in Manic: A Memoir.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

And because Terri Cheney was also subjected to childhood AND adulthood sexual assault, though she argues that she had supportive parents so her symptoms and behavior are divorced from her traumatic experiences, Amazon and essentially everyone involved has some responsibility here to talk about this.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

I'm not saying Hathaway's performance was bad, but it did offer up some stereotypical bipolar behaviors and characteristics and didn't engage how those overlap with other issues, particularly among young women who have been abused.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

Finally, when I went to intensive Domestic Violence counseling, I was given an ACE questionnaire and a new doctor who gave everything over the course of my life a fresh set of eyes. I was diagnosed with PTSD and ADHD and recommended an Autism screening.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

Several years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD and my doctor said I should get a second opinion about the Bipolar Disorder, but hadn't known me when I was younger so didn't feel comfortable telling me the diagnosis was wrong, because having been hospitalized a single time for my actions met criteria.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

This diagnosis followed me around everywhere, despite that many of the people who knew me questioned the validity as I didn't meet the diagnostic criteria. It took me decades to own it and wear it with pride. This was in spite of the fact that people, especially men, used it as a pejorative.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

When I was 19, I tried to take my own life after I had been sexually assaulted several times, including by a group of college students at a frat house by the time I was 18. It came 2 weeks after I had been trafficked into torture and abuse pornography. I was diagnosed this time with Bipolar Type I.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

I thought I was born broken. In 2000, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on Effexor XR, which made me suicidal. My doctor didn't give me an Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire, nor did he ask me anything about my homelife or school experiences at all. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

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Is bipolar over diagnosed in adolescents? | European Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Is bipolar over diagnosed in adolescents? - Volume 41 Issue S1

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 01/12/2025

I saw a clip of Anne Hathaway today from an Amazon show portraying a woman with bipolar disorder who had been diagnosed at 15. It's based on Terri Cheney. The show doesn't at all engage with the fact that teen girls are overly misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. www.healthline.com/health/bipol...

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PTSD and Bipolar Disorder: How They're Similar (and Different)

PTSD and bipolar disorder have overlapping symptoms, but they're two very different conditions. Here's a closer look at what each involves and whether one can cause the other.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 28/11/2025

legitimately thought this was some kind of Sims artwork

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 28/11/2025

I don't know why but you popped into my mind today, glad to see you are still celebrating HTML these days.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

Fast forward to today and the bargain no longer holds. Platforms do whatever the president of the United States tells them to do, and very little else. Shame, that once-great regulator of social norms and executive behavior, has all but disappeared from public life. In its place is denial, defiance, and the noxious vice signaling of the investor class.

I'm still reckoning with what it means to do journalism in a world where the truth can barely hold anyone's attention — much less hold a platform accountable, in any real sense of that word. I'm rethinking how to cover tech policy at a time when it is being made by whim. I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them.

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Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · 17/11/2025

Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5

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Uni Bern: Professor in Planetary Sciences

The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences of the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a full-time position as a Professor in Planetary Sciences.

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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Flyer advertising student strike against the Vietnam War nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.20…

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The movement that will deliver progress for all Americans will be born out of the fight for Black liberation. It will not come from anywhere else. The systems that hold all working class Americans back are rooted in anti-Blackness.

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 22/11/2025

Hello I MY DIVORCE WAS FINALIZED TODAY I AM OFFICIALLY FREE FROM MY ABUSER

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Cher Scarlett @cher.blue · 19/11/2025