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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

May the river engulf the land and reclaim nature’s provenance.

erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That’s what I thought. I was driving on 695/395 when it happened and it was honestly terrifying. Couldn’t see it, but glad everyone kept driving and no one stopped short.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More good trees. Our time is coming soon.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 08/10/2026

If you are in the path of Hurricane Isaias and will use a portable generator to keep the power on, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Portable generators can produce enough carbon monoxide to kill in minutes.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My favorite notebook company ( @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social ) has a collaboration with Pee Wee’s Playhouse out now and it is very good: fieldnotesbrand.com/products/pee...

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Pee-wee’s Playhouse

This 3-Pack of Field Notes memo books paying tribute to this beloved show is a wish come true.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Arlington County Government @arlingtonva.us · 07/10/2026

Key dates: Oct. 9: The SCC will hold an in-person hearing for public testimony in Fairfax Nov. 2: Last day to sign up to speak as a public witness (comments taken by phone Nov. 5th, 9th, and 10th) Nov 9: Last day to submit written comment Visit scc.virginia.gov & search for Case No. PUR-2026-00112

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Arlington County Government @arlingtonva.us · 07/10/2026

IMPORTANT 🧵The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) is taking public comments on the proposed $67 billion merger of Dominion Energy & NextEra Energy, which will shape the energy future of 2.7 million Virginian customers, including households & businesses in Arlington.

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Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail @mountvernontrail.org · 07/10/2026

Found these photos of Gravelly Point from 1973 and… honestly, not much has changed. Bikes. Picnics. Planes directly over your head. ✈️ Some traditions are worth keeping. Am I right, @reagan_airport?

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City of Alexandria, VA @alexandriavagov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dominion customers: the SCC wants your input on the proposed $67B Dominion Energy–NextEra merger. In-person hearing in Fairfax Oct. 9, 6 – 8 p.m. Fairfax County Government Center Can't attend? Submit written comments by Nov. 9 at scc.virginia.gov (Case PUR-2026-00112)

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was for a colleague; pretty sure that (if true) is for family members.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder if this is why the flight round trip from National to St Louis for a funeral last week was well over $600. The plane’s seat map was half empty, if not more. I’m just venturing back into business travel and not looking forward to justifying insane prices for our trips.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting. It seemed like they were promoting it as something new. I stand corrected.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love when the big kids steal the good ideas from the little guys and pretend it’s theirs.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT 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...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Complimentary; I’m a West Wing kid through and though.)

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would rather watch the most Aaron Sorkin thing that has ever Aaron Sorkined than any of the AI slop that people are trying to pass off as “art.” At least when I get mad at it, I’m getting mad at something real!

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 17/07/2026

Folks we’ve got a rare Reverse William Carlos Williams in the office fridge

Lone, slightly aged peach sitting on otherwise bare refrigerator shelf with note propped beside it reading: “Since you stole the 1st peach, might as well steal 2nd one. Enjoy :)”

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think someone cleaned it up (thank you, Good Samaritan!) but good to know for next time.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think we all got that one morally correct. (I sure did; totally forgot about the other location.)

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The [actual] Plague? Or just a new plague that will sweep through the populace and leave millions of bodies in its wake like The Plague or COVID 1.0 or The Flu? I’m not jaded, nope nope.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A little sign on a tree “smile at me!” 🤣

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We just started this tonight. I feel like we are going to go on a journey.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Star Trek: TNG episode where Geordi turns into a glow-in-the-dark lizard. I swear I’ve only ever seen it once, when it aired on TV, and it haunted me for YEARS. I almost thought it wasn’t even real, but this says it is. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Identit...

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Identity Crisis (episode)

Something is luring a former away team back to the planet they once investigated five years ago – an away team that La Forge was a part of. In the observation lounge, Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, G...

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also had to cut out dairy and eggs for my first kiddo and I’m already a vegetarian who is also allergic to tomatoes and onions and meat and fried food so I can’t remember what I ate during the six months of feeding but it was very little.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The photo editors had a good laugh about this, I’m sure. Brian Kratzer would approve. A+.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I missed the park, but at least I was within a mile! alxwhere #16 · 2,393/3,000 🟩🟩🟧 1. 1000 pts · 20 ft off 2. 1000 pts · 157 ft off 3. 393 pts · 0.79 mi off alxwhere.com

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How well do you know Alexandria, VA? Three spots a day, 1000 points each.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If the crew of the Nostromo had been unionized, Alien would have been 15 minutes long.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Piles of Mapquest printouts in my back seat and lots of landmarks got me around. 🤣 God forbid a business or other physical entity changed; I could tell you how to get anywhere, but don’t ask me the street name.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently being achy and grumpy from getting a COVID vaccine turns off my usually more-restrained opinion filter. What other enraging topics can I opine on tonight?

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Poor pup! I hope he’s ok. 💗

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This thread is infuriating, and also shows how AI has no place in journalism. Good journalism is built on trust between reporters and sources. Stories that otherwise would never get told are brought to light because of this trust. If we cannot trust our words with journalists, we are lost.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This event didn’t affect me directly, but weighed heavily on my mind that year. And it is worth remembering when all of a sudden, your favorite movie, tv show, newscast, disappears from the archives, or is censored, or loses any planned seasons/sequels. Because it is coming, and we are worse for it.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi @maureencoffeyva.bsky.social - who in the county should we contact about a pile of paper towels that appear to be filled with human excrement on a sidewalk/street? It’s been on S Hayes between 25th S and 26th S on the west side since yesterday. 🤢

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m surprised Lilly didn’t need something like that during her exam. But she came out from getting bloodwork done in a towel, so…

A very unhappy gray cat wrapped in a towel at the vet.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps we should revisit the text of anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws? Because this is … a lot.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just pushed Swing’s out of a 3-way tie with St. Elmo’s and Misha’s. People must be voting for the shop itself and not the coffee.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t sleep without socks, but at least 50% of the time I kick them off halfway through the night and can’t figure out why I have half as many socks in the laundry that week. (Reader; this is where left socks go to die, they’re under the covers or under the bed.)

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Facebook is evil; Facebook also alerted me to the health journey of a beloved photojournalism professor and allowed me to tune in to the celebration of life luncheon in Columbia, MO that I so desperately wanted to attend but could not make the flights work. Two things can be true at the same time.

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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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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, 100% yes. bsky.app/profile/capt...

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Support local artists” perhaps the organization putting on this program should read the AI slop they’re publishing and get a hint. Hire a student for $50! Heck, hire a student and publicize them widely if you don’t have any cash! I usually hate “work for exposure” but it’s better than AI slop.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mine are selective flowerers, but I love them anyway. The two main plants I have are at least 18 years old. They’ve each made many baby plants, some thriving and some struggling along. Still trying to figure out the light in my house (after 6 years there’s still no perfect place for them).

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At one point, we had three pets. Now we have two pets. Do we have enough pets? Do others have enough pets? Can people who want pets afford pets? Can pets who do not have people yet find their people?

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