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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 8h

The WNBA playoffs are on At least 8 different channels Each streaming exclusively on a different service Everyone WANTS TO watch women’s sports but damn if they don’t make it as hard as possible.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A core part of the problem is that parents want their sons to be able to access male privilege more than they want to stop sexual violence. You have to let go of the fraternities. And the men’s only athletic teams. And any other boys clubs.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe all-male hierarchical institutions that value loyalty above all else are, you know, bad.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think a lot of victim-blamers of all genders don't want to think too hard about things they did while inebriated and whether they were truly consensual.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So this movie came out not long after I graduated from college about a woman who was gang-raped at a bar and the prosecutor decided to go after all the guys who watched, and it was based on a true story, and the movie was supposed to change everything, and, well, you know, that was 40 years ago.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe they should hold off on that Coach of the Year prize until after the playoffs.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't like or trust coaches who can't control their anger on the sidelines.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

9-1 is a helluva score for a basketball game 🗽

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I realized that Roberta Flack’s “Feel like Makin’ Love” occupies the square adjacent to Maria Muldaur’s “Midnight at the Oasis” in my head. Yes, they came out the same year, but also they share a musical and lyrical vibe.

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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like the Liberty to be more consistent. Is that too much to ask?

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fercryinoutloud people, just listen to the Wesley Morris & Chris Molanphy convo about the damn song and all questions are answered. It's not complicated, it's just the algorithm!

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rainy Sunday, you say? Excellent news.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am pleased to report that there is no overlap between my top 10 shows of the 21st century and the NYT's, and only 4 of my faves made the top 100. If you're not going to recognize Derry Girls or Phineas & Ferb or Malcolm in the Middle as genius television, I don't even know what to say.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember when we used to call coding errors "bugs"? And then we asked whether a particular attribute of an app was a bug or feature? And now they're trying to make us think the code has just "gone rogue" We've gone from mistake to bad intention to "it's not my fault!"

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So what happens when Odalys and Polo meet off the coast of Baja this weekend?

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the playoffs, I'm rooting for the Liberty, the Valkyries, and Olivia Miles, in that order.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you choose your kid over your values, you're a hypocrite. If you choose your values over your kid, you're a bad parent. If you can choose both, you're privileged.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nearly every one of my clients, back when I was representing DV survivors in family law matters: If I'd known how hard it is to get divorced, I wouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Marriage is the only contract where the parties don't get to set the terms.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever read such an honest and vulnerable piece, let alone by a high-profile journalist. Combined with a complex and astute analysis of the dysfunction at the heart of our K-12 education system(s), it’s the most powerful thing I’ve read in a very long time.

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Everything AI does is the result of the code that humans wrote. So the only question is whether any particular thing it does is a feature or a bug. And then you can respond accordingly.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Disappointing what a different French team showed up in the second half. Could have been an exciting 4 quarters, and instead...

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*Clicks on link in email to view details of a #genealogy conference in 2028* *sees web page headed by AI slop* *closes tab and wonders why so many genealogists make a technology based on plagiarism and powered by water-guzzling, CO2-emitting data centres, their first choice rather than their last*

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In an alternate universe, President Al Gore responded to 9/11 by pursuing criminal investigations and prosecutions of those responsible.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm well past midlife, so I'm not in crisis at all. Rather, I'm making plans for my third act.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sometimes it feels like men in power are just waiting for any excuse to re-impose gender hierarchies and exclusions…

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Pro-level college town resident achievement: getting in and out of the supermarket the weekend after move-in before the newly arrived students wake up. 💥

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Music streaming service: Try our AI assistant to help you make playlists! Me: Boyo, I made mixtapes off the radio, waiting hours for the song that had to be the next one, surgically hitting those play and record buttons in time to cut out the DJ's voice. And then I did it again for the next song.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Me, five minutes into Silo season finale: You bastards! You fucking bastards! Repeat for like 3/4 of the episode.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good news: I may be entitled to compensation! Bad news: Because my air purifier likely wasn't actually purifying the air! Capitalism. Where you can get 10 cents on the dollar for the lies they sell you.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can AI do the dishes and laundry and take out the trash and cook and change the litter box and mow the lawn and all those other annoying physical tasks that daily life seems to require? No? Then STFU about it.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rhyming moronic with hegemonic is a perfect capture of where we're at.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump consistently demonstrates a level of confusion and mental incapacity that would be troubling in anybody, let alone in the President of the US (and certainly well beyond the former POTUS's June 2024 debate performance). The 25th Amendment exists for this very reason. It's beyond time.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When you say, “It saves me time to use this tech tool instead of doing it myself,” who and what are you saving that time for? Do you get to spend the time as you choose? What do you choose? Or are you donating all that saved time to somebody else, and for what? What are they doing with it?

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We will pay for your college degree* if you subject yourself to repeated physical trauma and likely brain injury for our entertainment. *Note that we do not require you to actually receive an education for said credential. Welcome to college football season.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I want to know when higher ed is going to have a real conversation about investing so much in an activity that imposes such a thigh rate of brain damage. We’re educators. We should not be in the business of literally destroying minds. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

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Study’s Alarming Finding: At Least 1 in 4 N.F.L. Players Gets Brain Disease (Gift Article)

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Folks in non U.S. time zones, you may have missed @gillianbrockell.com's thread today. It's the only Dolly-themed thread I'm recommending. Gillian wrote the heck out of it. What a gift.

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Again the wrong 80 year old!! Third time’s the charm?

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Is there some weekly newsletter that tells social media managers what’s the latest cool phraseology? “This week you’ll get more clicks if you use ‘kinda chic’ in your posts!” It’s so lockstep, there’s gotta be a reason.

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