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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Possibly some freelance opportunities on the side about the dire under/unemployment situation for autistic ppl in general, if you are interested, although it isn't one to one with the layoff scenario. Still salient tho and also is newsworthy

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, but probably one-time rather than recurring, for now. I can't add another monthly thing at the moment but really want to support your reporting!

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TBH many, many of those orgs haze, at least at my flagship state school 10-15 years ago. super depressing - good not to let them off the hook out of a sense that their professional, service, philanthropy, whatever bent would prevent such a culture. can't speak to sexual violence but certainly hazing

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The girlfriend seems concerned about how the bigotry is coming across to the interviewer and piece but I didn't see any evidence that she isn't in implicit or even explicit agreement with Diana behind closed doors

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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ceej @ceej.online · 30/12/2024

certain posters online are a government psyop designed to keep you giggling instead of angry. “Whimsy is the opiate of the masses…”

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be clear, the Eastland family's actions have shown that they should never be allowed to run a camp ever again or to act in any supervisory capacity. I trust the trustees of the bankruptcy to make the right call and feel it's important to remember that the Eastlands don't get to make the choice.

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💔 Pushing through the heartbreak to say that I am running in honor and memory of the 27 campers and counselors who died at Camp Mystic, among the 130+ who died in the floods across the state! It's thru Team 27, raising $ for the kids' memorial foundations and running to remember them together.

Aerial shot of Camp Mystic, home to me for ten summers and site where my extended family member died as a 9-year-old during the July 4, 2025 floods

Heaven's 27 in memoriam pic alphabetically featuring the 27, who are: Janie Hunt, Cile Steward, Lucy Dillon, Mary Grace Baker, Sarah Marsh, Mary Kate Jacobe, Margaret Bellows, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Barrett Stephens, Eloise Peck, Wynne Naylor, Abby Pohl, Linnie McCown, Lila Bonner, Katherine Feruzzo, Chloe Childress, Hanna Lawrence and her twin, Rebecca Lawrence, Molly DeWitt, Ellen Getten, Kellyanne Lytal, Lainey Landry, Hadley Hanna, Greta Toranzo, Virginia Hollis, Renee Smajstrla, and Blakely McCrory. Heaven's 27 is the group comprising these girls and young women, who were the campers and counselors that died at my childhood camp.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"we're going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity": Knowing your address, finding your way to and from home, ability to read a map or work from a mental map, see details in the patterns of tree bark or the shape of leaves or the shapes of the landscape that let you identify trees and landforms,

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is it more appropriate to ask the gentleman in the middle seat for a sip of his Bloody Mary on a 7 am flight, or to lean over him and ask his wife?

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

no, it's really not. even if you're only sympathetic towards innocent children, consider them. personally, I am against the death penalty overall. and as you point out, there will be no resultant change in viewpoint as a result of suffering destruction. the marginalized tend to suffer most anyway

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 01/09/2026

Do you think if we all larped an apocalypse hard enough we could trick the billionaires into fleeing to their underground bunkers and then just... Seal them in?

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not in a bad way, just don't want to over-praise bc DFW and Wharton are high bars! I plan to reread the novel soon, which is not something I tend to do right away

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I highly recommend it. I knew the ending going in but understood it differently as the book unfolded. Reminded me of Wharton and DFW, albeit less masterful

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Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Breakfast at Tiffany’s presents: Breakfast at Tiffany’s 2: Lunchtime

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"An argument totally unacceptable nowadays, of course," and then chooses to keep going

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/w... oh come on.

And there is his height. Pascaretta, who said he is 5-foot-6 (“5-7 on a good day”), knows it can be a deal breaker for some women — certainly on the dating apps. “That’s a big deal for some of these girls,” he said.

A match he recently went on a few dates with mentioned, while they were at dinner, that she wanted to be with a tall guy — even though the team screens for women who are open to shorter men.

“I’m like, You’re 5-foot-1! I’m tall compared to you,” he said. “It made me sensitive to it.”

Pascaretta also sent the team an Excel spreadsheet cataloging his must-haves: an accomplished professional, ideally a doctor, lawyer or executive, “someone like me who has been ‘heads down’ career focus, but now is ready for a serious relationship.” Someone who has never been married or is at least amicably divorced. Someone shorter than him. And someone between the ages of 25 and 43. It also detailed his strong preference for a woman who is, among other things, “naturally pretty” and “stylish,” “loyal, classy, ambitious, elegant, feminine, emotionally stable,” from a “well-respected family” and who went to a top-tier school.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And to those teaching athletes at the schools involved! So much travel

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Showed this corner to my wife and kid a few days ago, noting that I regularly hitchhiked home late at night from that very spot that very summer, though apparently not the night this happened. I only learned of it many years later. wisconsinlife.org/story/martia...

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Martial Arts Elvis: When the King broke up a fight in Madison - Wisconsin Life

Throughout his career, Elvis Presley mastered so many talents. He was a musician, actor, dancer and — of course — martial artist. Elvis’ passion for karate played out on the streets of Madison in the ...

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I always assume it's because they vibe code tbh- it's been acting super weird for me!

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isaac @sevier.io · 16/08/2026

My general rule is to assume good faith when we meet; to validate as we build a relationship; but to recognize what those limits are when I find em and not assume that _i_ am the one to effectively change that. Some people are comfortable in being a mark and will put in work to stay there.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i'm seeing a lot of people (right and left) give nathan cofnas "credit" for the campaign against jason arday, and he's reveling in that attention, but cofnas is just a halfwit with a shitty substack who received leaked information and posted it. he is a cretin, but first and foremost he's nobody.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Medievalists/Europeanists: if these two historic years of flooding are not already on your teaching timelines, they need to be. New narratives of the climatic & epidemiological histories of the late Middle Ages are forming, & this kind of evidence will be central. #MedievalSky #ClimateHistory 🧪🗃️

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Basically the last time plagiarism existed as a "Very Serious Issue" in national media was during the Claudine Gay episode*. A total coincidence I'm sure 🙄 (*never mind that the actual committee overseeing the issue deemed that she hadn't committed a violation serious enough to merit that label).

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

a guy digitized some old 80s Italian ambient tapes and one of the guys who made the music saw it and swung into the comments to say thanks for doing this, we loved making music back then maybe we’ll do it again & man that’s a good feeling youtu.be/2XwkPbBtiAQ?...

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TERRA DELLA SERA - 1980's ITALIAN AMBIENT SYNTH TAPES collection - 6,5 hours long

YouTube video by Jeroen van de Sande

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So much of this on the classroom side (which the article doesn't attend to as much but which is more familiar to me) always seems like a time thing, where my students will glance at sentences then expect me to walk them through the material instead of showing up ready to discuss and ask questions

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every time someone says to take a risk I remember that the one time in a club I decided to buy a guy a drink because he was mysterious & very stylish & I’m cute & why not & I got nervous & crazily shy & I finally approached him & he turned out to be a mannequin.

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

ME: pepper is just goth salt WAITER: um ok do you want ground goth salt on your salad

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Air to Ground Message: JUST SITTING HERE LOOKING AT ALMOST BLUE SKIES WONDERING WHAT IM GONNA DO WITH MY LIFE... MAYBE REFI MY HOME... BUY A NEW CAR... PROBABLY JUST INVEST IN MY WIFES 401K... Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA A: #a4318e73ba4 F: #ffaf708e6d1

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Technically not, after reading more closely, because he was on a bike in the middle of the night in Brooklyn!

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I always thought that my good friend Will was one in a million, but it turns out he was one in 7,080... how sad.

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isaac @sevier.io · 08/08/2026

I am the way I am because I've seen so many ways people are simply abandoned. Gotta do something radically different as the planet heats up beyond recognition if we want to make it.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”

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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t want to Do mY OwN rEsearCh. I want really clever researchers to do the research because that’s what they are good at and correctly advise politicians and people in power to make the right decisions for the benefit of all of us. I’ll bring snacks.

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helen @helensmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Don’t worry, I’m not gonna crash the bus” - this bus driver, inspiring confidence

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They asked for non-healthcare volunteers to help with visitor screening and my job became making families choose who would see their relative on their last day of life, and I usually don’t mention that anymore because I expect people to be dismissive about the circumstances in Spring 2020.

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isaac @sevier.io · 29/07/2026

"when experts suggest abandoning New Orleans, we have to ask: Whose city is considered worth saving? What is being framed as inevitability is, in many ways, future-framed environmental racism. But what if we refused that frame?" - Maddison Wells