Reposted by Kathryn TewsonNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame. 32502165
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so. 42209253
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonRemy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It really is ethically ~strange when a party in a case does not have the intellectual capacity to listen to their own lawyer’s repeated instructions. In normal circumstances, ethically, I’d be absolutely free to talk to Tarzia directly. But… Tarzia and Coleman… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 6909
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots! 342828369
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp... 5051822287
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A fun as this is (for the lawyer$), I doubt calling someone at an ICE protest a "left-wing terrorist" is defamatory. Name-calling rarely is. And in context, no one could reasonably believe that "left-wing terrorist" means something defamatory. 87311
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want to unpack this a tiny bit, which I think I can do without getting anybody in too much trouble: One verrry underreported aspect of campaigns like this, for obvious reasons, is “which TV pundits have the same agents as athletes they’re covering” 146378
Reposted by Kathryn Tewson🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Holy shit I did not know this Incredible insight into Western Higher Education, going back to Oxford and Cambridge and still seen today from @harikondabolu.bsky.social 12220114
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Have you ever met a dog who only had problems with women? Yeah, me either. 611415
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026up next eric schmitt is going to confront billionaire bruce wayne and make him admit that he is secretly superman 331744
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952519669
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is hilarious. It’s not just that Sen. Schmitt gets the team names wrong; he confuses a women’s college basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the Iowa Hawkeyes, in Maryland, for a men’s NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks, in Atlanta. Hawkeyes != Hawks. 510114
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134323770
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality. 1126583
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041801443
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonJohn Fraley @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You don't see it often, but Mike Mac got outcoached on both sides of the two minute warning. Too bad, because you'd given yourself a chance when no chance looked available. 2305
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonAdam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Symptoms are “horrible” and severe cases are a “living nightmare.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC about ME/CFS, its long history of being dismissed and psychologised, and the role of governments and insurers. 821273
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...therevealer.orgWhat We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The RevealerWhy are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad? 415443
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonThe Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026CW kink Vanilla folks freaking out about consensual nonconsent at work parties: The kink community is even more horrified than you are. Kinksters STUDY consent, power dynamics, psychology, anatomy, physiology, all sorts of things in order to play ethically in relative safety. Takes years to learn. 512028
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20743431114
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 205189425401
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonLane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 25/09/2026INSTEAD WE ARE GOING TO POINT OUT VERIFIABLE HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE KHANATE CULTURES AND THEIR ENCOUNTERS WITH THIRD GENDERS. BUCKLE THE FUCK UP JOANNE WIZARD SCHOOL IS IN SESSION AND YOU ARE LATE FOR A POTIONS CLASS. 222671
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonCol. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 25/09/2026Now would be a good time to remind people that the case which declared it unconstitutional to ban and criminalize the sale of contraception, Griswold v Connecticut, was based on the right to privacy SCOTUS has been chipping away at and was decided less than a decade before Roe. 5416183
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc 103064982
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073682300
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The "never could, frankly" in the question about using a map is mindblowing. This dude is 12 years older than I am! Did he spend his entire life from 1980 to Mapquest standing by the side of the road going 👉👈🥺? 2517522
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026NYT you better credit me as reporting this first this time I swear to God 556253
Reposted by Kathryn Tewsongwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026what is a same sex bathroom dawg 651489184
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026in this business this is what we call "pedo entryism" 518625
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249095521
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions! 421921776
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431660431
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No matter how normal this becomes, it will never, ever be OK. 120021
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY 4448151661
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I cannot overstate how UNBELIEVABLY PISSED OFF this judge is. 1417724
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO? 2672441217
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Also, in the interest of fairness, when I said earlier that “all LLMs are is linear algebra,” that was incorrect. LLMs are *almost* entirely linear algebra with some very important non-linear-algebra bits. We regret the error. 31115
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You would not BELIEVE how badly a certain type of person who has made LLM enthusiasm their entire personality needs everyone they encounter to have identical feelings 1733744
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 21/09/2026Kathryn really does love to just dogpile while screaming "NUH UH". Wild, huh. 3655
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot 1847182
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026this is the most "that sign can't stop me because I can't read" shit I have ever seen. 101554
Reposted by Kathryn Tewsonthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’m sure everybody’s noticed but just a reminder, between now and the election the vibes are gonna be real off around here. they won’t get better after either but from now to the election they will also be off 241940210
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026If Thomas Chatterton Williams agrees with you there is something foundationally wrong with your argument 61036112
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Polling the audience: how many of you, if you encountered the phrase "Hexapodia is the key insight" in a bluesky thread or presentation or conversation without any grounding context, would recognize the reference? If you want to just be marked as a "yes" without further participating, hit "like" 51744
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75256359609
Reposted by Kathryn TewsonMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11568111527