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Erin E. Worrel

@erinerex.bsky.social
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Scientist and bird enthusiast who was raised by Minnesota lakes You're gonna need a bigger boat

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 18h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 22h
You don't have enough contempt for the American electorate and the corporate press for putting this man in office
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I started the audio version this morning. I'm one chapter in but I love it already. I've had scramblings of thoughts on friction and technology; this is the book I've been waiting for.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or we could just all be brains in jars where we never have to interact with any other humans. Sounds great with no downsides whatsoever!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe some friction is good actually
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We adopted a bearded dragon at the beginning of August from a friend of mine. I thought he was going into brumation bc he slept in his rock and wouldn't eat for a week. Now he's up and walking around. I don't understand this lizard. Someone get me a lizard whisperer! 🐊🐊
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've heard the song because I'm a freak who still listens to the radio in the car. I don't listen to country radio stations but it is played on the contemporary/easy listening stations that I flip through. It's fine! I wouldn't have sought it out but I don't object.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This morning my car battery was dead so I walked my son to school while waiting for help to arrive (my spouse with the power pack thingy, yes I have neighbors but the only ones home have electric cars!) Anyway, someone in my neighborhood has a rooster! 🐓
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The predictable and inevitable outcome of this is more illness and more death. Good thing we didn't destroy the pipeline of grad students and early career scienti-, oh wait, we did that, too. Great job voters! Enjoy your sicker and shorter lives!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday morning thought: can't wait for Gen Alpha to reinvent Blockbuster from first principles!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah me too but you should. Millions of Americans would happily throw their fellows to the wolves if it meant cheaper prices. Know how I know? They did exactly that in Nov 2024. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait so is any beverage appropriate for an interview? Why is iced coffee inappropriate? Asking for a friend!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't actually have a desire to run for office but I couldn't even if I did because no one has as much contempt as I do for the median voter
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Perfection
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WINNING! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When I read the story, my main thought was "this is something that white people have a huge responsibility to fix" and the whole thing fills me with anger and sorrow.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FAFO baaaay-beeee!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Correct. Too many of us refuse to believe it but it's true. Millions of Americans are gutter racists and all around awful people. It's not "economic anxiety". They aren't secret progressives waiting for the right arguments; they are authoritarian assholes.
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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
It's a lot easier to argue that we shouldn't let the AI industry regulate itself when you can also produce clear evidence that much of the AI industry appears to be steered by crazy people.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm almost finished with the audio version of Jesus and John Wayne (highly recommend). I've read many books on the Christian Right and follow contemporary politics closely. Yet, every time I go down this road I remember how much I hate these fuckers and want nothing more than to defeat them.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Exactly, it will just be gone. I've exhausted myself trying to explain this to people who just look at me in disbelief.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish the gutting of USAID and the subsequent preventable deaths, mostly of children, was a bigger outrage. Yes, I know there is some reporting on it but we are not enraged enough. It should have been the end of Musk... (maybe it still will be, a girl can dream)
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That's it, I moving to the wilderness
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Uh I think that's the present state. He IS getting away with it! And yes, many are just shrugging bc they were already convinced government is hopelessly corrupt. I'm not going to say we're fucked (it ain't over till it's over) but it's not looking good!
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US electorate really did decide to commit national suicide instead of having a Black woman as POTUS
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lmao
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Relatedly, highly recommend Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm pleased to know that I'm a normie but now that the "AI/Silicon Valley sex cult" thing has broken containment, I can't stop laughing. I know it's serious but this is hilarious discourse.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great job voters! Enjoy your sicker and shorter lives! I hope owning the libs was worth it.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As I said this morning in response to my spouse's comments about boomers, "no honey, Gen X is actually the worst generation"
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Matthew 🦖 @moosewithablanket.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A lot of it is just "what if we're incredibly dumb about giving AI really bad goals and they're magic"
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ok so let's stop and think about why Silicon Valley dudes are convinced that the emergence of a genocidal super intelligent meglomaniac is imminent. Like why do they always go to "this thing will become conscious & immediately decide to kill us all"? Is it bc they are in a doomsday cult?
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The information environment is fucked and the median voter is a fucking dumbass. We are never getting out of this mess bc voters will not accept what Dems will have to do to get out of this. We're fucked. Good job everyone.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember when a president's son as a source of corruption was one of the biggest concerns of the Beltway press. Ah, the good old days.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This thread. They really do believe this stuff!! You may even hear "spiritual warfare" slip out of their mouths from time to time. Right wing evangelicals really do believe they are in an epic battle between God & Satan. They believe in literal demons.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm never going to stop being mad about it. I'm so sorry for the people of Ukraine.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you so much voters!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh I'm going to continue to beat everyone I know over the head with the fact that I correctly started screaming the day he came down that stupid fucking escalator. Special shout out to the people who reassured me in Nov 16 that "it will be ok, he's a businessman!!"
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And Republicans will continue to fuck up massively with zero consequences. A majority of voters will still rate them as "fiscally responsible" and "better for the economy" bc they have pudding for brains. Super cool system we have here.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
watching this and learning that my wife is very, uh, *in* to darth maul
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As DAIR's @alexhanna.bsky.social explains, AI execs' doomsday statements about cybersecurity risks are a convenient distraction: sfstandard.com/2026/09/11/a...
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Why do the people building AI keep warning us about the end of the world?
An ex-Anthropic employee’s concerns set off the perfect storm of AI safety arguments, conspiracy theories, and questions about humanity’s demise.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ok so on this "10% chance that the vengeful machine god will kill us all" business, why do they assume that this is what a super intelligence would even do? That's a rhetorical question, I know the, er, one, answer but let's spend some time thinking about it bc it's telling.
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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Screenshot showing the 2024 presidential results for Utah, represented as a bar with blue for the proportion of votes for Harris and red for the proportion of votes for Trump.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
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