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Catherine, working on Great

@doublespace.bsky.social
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Researcher(liberal arts and social sciences), fiction writer, crazy cat lady. Escaped academic.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2h
For everyone, why impeachment and not criminal prosecution? President Trump will pardon—if he has not done so already—everyone in his Administration. The reason why they are committing open crimes comes from their confident belief in that one fact.
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ceej @ceej.online · 5h
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 3h
Finally, a platform I can fully embrace!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 3h
Do I write with AI? No. I write with the spite I inherited from my disapproving ancestors who keep trying to convince me the profit would be so much easier if I just started a cult already FFS
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11h
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h
Restorative justice also has huge limitations in the context of sexual violence. The perpetrator must confess. There cannot be a structural power disparity between victim and perpetrator. It is not safe for intimate partner violence. It is too time-intensive for victims with multiple perpetrators.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 15h
One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TY! I will be watching your timeline even more eagerly than I usually do (love the Chicago pope and other Catholic drama explanations, it’s my must-watch.)
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I neeeeeeed this book. Apologies if you've already said somewhere in your timeline (I did look, but it's Friday, and late, and...), but when do you think it will be on bookstore shelves?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.
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Ali B just sayin @alipallib.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Dear Men, We gave you the opportunity to run every god damn thing and you have done nothing but fuck it all up. Now, please step aside and get the fuck out of our way so that we can clean up the mess you have made. Thank you, Women ps Go make us a sandwich
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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joshkennedy13.bsky.social @joshkennedy13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I like the way you think. I like the way you move through the world in a rumpled confusion, leaving a trail of half-baked ideas, unread books, and disappointments in your wake.
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
prosecutors in Nigeria allege that a man showed up at a government building, gave himself a job that didn't exist, claimed an office was now his, and somehow got other people to fund his expenses. they say this is illegal, yet cats do this to us every day and are CELEBRATED
Freya, a fluffy gray cat, lounges imperiously in a woven basket by a glass door, one paw hanging over the edge as she stares at the camera with a stern, unimpressed expression.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In case anyone else needs it, the magic phrase for shutting down men picking apart a sexual violence case by blaming victims is: “The only people who would say something like that are rape apologists, rapists, or both.” You don’t have to argue with them on merit when their claims have no merit.
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Duncan Deeznuts @parasocialista.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Some orgs have refused to switch to Palantir FDP, seeing it as a downgrade. Leeds Teaching Hospitals would ‘lose functionality’ if adopted. One source who uses Palantir FDP told us they had to wait 20 minutes for a dashboard to load only for the system to crash." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Palantir and the NHS: How a Silicon Valley Firm Took Over Britain's Health Data
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 🙄
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hmmm. I have never strayed from The Truth of the original. Must consider.
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WAIT, when I find Nanaimo bars again, I'm not sharing, even for a sacrifice to an emerging Elder God.
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Life goals. Thank you!!
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The story of your life is not yet written. There's still time to add black market rum, purloined skeletons, and a hovercraft capable of outrunning the law to your narrative.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People are trying to dox the Jane Doe from Cornell University, so... I’m Jane Doe. You’re Jane Doe. We are all Jane Doe.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's important to look after your emotional health. If you feel the need to wear armor of ancient bones and a magnificent crown of antlers to the market on a cheese run, just go for it. You deserve to be happy.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are plenty of laws that can cover this guys corrupt actions. the statutes of limitations shld all the checked. democracy dies without accountability.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh...
Panel 1

Field is reading a book and talking about it.

Field: This autism memoir is fascinating. A lot of it is surprisingly relatable.

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Field: It's funny that I've had similar experiences, thoughts, and habits. It's like reading about myself.

Panel 3

Field stares into the distance. They are suddenly evaluating everything about their life.

Panel 4

Field watches a sunset. As if watching an old world vanish into darkness before a new one comes into the light.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good job, California. 15 states to go. No child should marry. A child who marries isn’t emancipated, her (and it’s usually a girl) new spouse becomes her guardian. If he abuses her, she cannot go to a domestic violence shelter. She cannot initiate a divorce. She can’t have her own money.
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California bans child marriage, even with parental permission
Supporters hail ban on child marriage and companion bill to address forced marriages as “most comprehensive framework” in the U.S.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth)
Two young women, one in a hijab, huddled over lap tops in a newsroom.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This situation necessitates Democratic leaders who possess the courage to take a stand. It is imperative that they respond appropriately. Will they demonstrate the necessary resolve this time?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty, pretty gargoyle! It would be an honor to be mauled by this creature.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It would be a real shame if people here let the folks at Patreon know that Michael Tracey led the charge to help doxx Jane Doe from Cornell. A damn shame. Please don't.
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Willy Wonka: Stop. Don't. Come Back.
Alt: Willy Wonka: Stop. Don't. Come Back.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have an anthropological observation: decent people have SO much pent up rage now from the evil of Trump1, Covid, Biden's fecklessness, Trump2, AI, Iran etc- it is a deadly laser beam of rage and everyone it its path will be destroyed. Cornell rapist ghouls are the dam breaking. Watch.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think I still have a siren pink/orange patterned lightweight stretch denim in my stash…
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equally hater & lover 🇵🇷🌺🌻 @captainsparrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AFFIRMATIONS FOR SEWING: - the inside of my garment is nobody’s business - i can use as many pins as I want - pressing this seam won’t make me want to kill myself - the inside of my garment is nobody’s business - i will use all my fabric efficiently - the inside of my garment is nobody’s business
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Catherine, working on Great @doublespace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Darn it, I have been resisting the urge to sew overalls, but those look great! Knowing it’s a good pattern makes it worse ….. arrrrgh. helensclosetpatterns.com/products/yan...
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Yanta Overalls
Size Range: 0-30 (33” - 58″ hip) View Size Chart & Fabric Requirements The Yanta Overalls are laid-back, artist-style overalls with a comfortable fit through the waist, hips, and legs. These overa...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if you are anywhere near Baltimore/DC, this cat and her sister are looking for a new home where they can be together forever. they are recovering from their spay surgery and will be ready to find their new home in a week! they are the sweetest kittens, and I wish I had room for them myself.
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