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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 5h

The first time you try Turkish Delight and are underwhelmed is when it clicks for you: Edward was itching to sell his family out. Now if it was like a chocolate lave cake I'd hear that witch out, but Turkish Delight? Ya boy was looking for any reason at all to snitch.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 5h

Researching hotels for a proposed alternative Spring Break Civil Rights History trip and why is every hotel now called Fairfield Marriott Bonavoy by Hilton Inn and Suites and Holiday Express, this is exhausting.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 6h

Briefly lost the then 8 year old in that room last summer. It’s huge, I was searching everywhere, bathrooms included. It turned out she was in a corner explaining to a docent who would win in a fight between a squid and a sperm whale.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled to be a finalist in the Night of a Thousand Joumana’s costume competition thanks to my drag paint, we live for our Detroit icon, this was the silly night out that I needed.

Woman in a blonde wig with an intense berry lip and contouring, many blonde wigges people behind her

Three people serving face, a sign that says “she’s bold, she’s legend, she’s mother.”

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Less than a month until I see my stubbornness and patience be rewarded with a clock that is accurate for six months.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They should invent a week of teaching that doesn’t grind you into a fine paste.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’re being forced to live through an episode of Democracy: Love It or List It.

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, but it would be such a shame if it started trending... 😉😏🤭

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seen on my jog, is it trash or is it a Halloween decoration? Yes.

Photo o tree beside a road, hanging from the tree is clear plastic that looks like a spooky ghost floating with its hands out

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every parent who has sat through an episode of Octonauts tripping over their feet rushing to save this link. Not trying to sound like a Dickensian orphanage matron, but urchins are bastards.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the orthodontist today the doctor casually mentioned that December marks a year since my daughter's traumatic fall (broke teeth, nose, was concussed) and I immediately burst in to tears, so wow, don't sleep on trauma anniversaries packing a punch. I'm also maybe not handling my stress well?

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My partner of 20 years and I are not married, whenever we’re at a gathering and I hear someone refer to me as his “wife” I have to debate if I’ll do my favorite bit: whipping around and exclaiming to my partner “You’re married!?!”

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Boston folks yall need to do this, as block captain of my block in Detroit, a city that throws great block parties, $500 can get you an absolutely massive rented bounce castle. Bring your neighbors together, food can be potluck style! Have name tags, exchange phone numbers!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this.

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King in yellow (mustard stain) @murielcook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

smh we should have gotten at least 3 more seasons of Strip Law

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Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also out now, in English y en Español: SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, an anthology of Latine horror, ft. stories by Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enríquez, yours truly (!!!), and many, many other luminous Latine talents! @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Someth...

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who on earth scheduled all these assignments for the end of September and beginning of October? Surely not moi.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Lambrini Girls May Detroit show got rescheduled to tonight, they were amazing as always and it meant we got to see Big Special open for them, so that’s my fall music obsession sorted.

Picture of stage bathed in green light, a male drummer on the left and a male singer in brown on the right, they’re the band Big Special

Picture of a stage bathed in red light with a female drummer, guitarist and bassist

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

today I learned that our faculty reporting software will be shifting vendors- from FAR to NEAR. it does feel like they are just effing with us at this point

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a professional development day at the kid’s school so it’s an impromptu “take your daughter and her current favorite Monster’s High doll to school day.”

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Waking up to a Velma situation: can’t find my glasses because I need my glasses to see my glasses. They have been located (fell off the bedside table) but Monday is clearly coming in with hands.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Off to read a lot of Emily Dickinson poems today, imagining them in a Boston accent. It will be good practice for going as Paul Revere for Halloween.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

historically accurate massachusetts content

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the sketch the student unpacked in the intro to her paper about how museums can create repatriation policies. It was the final paper for the last of 3 classes that student took with me, and in doing so she paved the way for all the joy I have had watching the various Taskmasters with my kid.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do you think is a catchier title for a book about slavery, poison, and emotions, "Bitter to the Taste" or "Death in the Pot"?

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Raise your hand if you woke up still devastated by the elimination on this week’s #DragRaceUK

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s an annual fall fest this weekend, the first time I went @perchperchson.bsky.social and I split up to get beer from different vendors then I met back up with him and was talking to him only to realize I was chatting up a bearded stranger in plaid when I saw my actual partner walk toward me.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Your honor it's not an iced coffee it's a Coollata."

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The kid and I are going about our morning routine singing “1, 2, 3, time to make steam, if you don’t…” thanks to the incredible Isy Suttie on last night’s #Tasmaster. An absurd earworm.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gonna channel the most epically batshit NYC voters on earth and insist that every candidate they mention is Italian, and that that’s my only voting criteria, unless they are a Wario:

Screenshot of the amazing article with a NYC couple that described themselves as “conservative “ and said they voted for Mamdani because they believed he was 1) to the right of Cuomo and 2) Italian because his name ends in I

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At a glance I thought this was Halloween branded NyQuil. You know, for when you want to be visited by the witch hat man.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling the people protesting you by walking out of your speech "cowards" feels like some real "my haters make me stronger, they hate us cause they ain't us" dipshit logic.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How constantly do you think about the couple that thought Mamdani was Italian because his name ends in “I”?

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I have an audience while parallel parking that is just more people to behold the ballet that is my 19 point turn. Behold, clientele at a street cafe, now you get dinner AND a show.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Generational divide in El-Sayed's voters is really something.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My brother & I have a running joke that I contribute to bi invisibility by never remembering when Bi Visibility Day is, but I actually *did* remember this year bc when news of Lauren Boebert having affairs with male & female staff dropped my first thought was “is this a bi visibility day miracle?!”

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw Goodman Lowly Worm riding in an ensorcelled pumpkin to go commune with the devil in the Busytown woods.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In every video I’ve ever seen of Mamdani talking to kids he speaks with them like they’re people, which is rare enough for most adults, much less politicians.

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Incredible interview with the wee birthday girl who threw Suarez’s 350th home run hit back. “I dunno, I just wanted to throw it!” is fantastic logic.

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Jurjen Smies @clogsoveralabama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"'Ere, whassat at the window? Phwoar, it's Juliet and she's looking right fit, know what I mean?"

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Bruv, a rose by any other name is a rose, innit?”

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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scrambling to find time to complete my proposal for why I need sabbatical is exactly why I need a sabbatical. (Presses send on sentence-long proposal)

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