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Kim Wallmark

@kimwallmark.bsky.social
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Software engineer, fiber artist, reader, enthusiastic appreciator of interesting details. I like understanding systems and stories. she/her is fine.

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Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social · 14h
Innocent or not, it is still slavery in my mind. We have prisoners doing horribly dangerous work, like fighting wildfires, for almost no pay. Minimum/fair wages should apply to prison.
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 20h
Thread. And corollary: everybody knows and trusts at least one rapist. I think this is one of the factors that makes it difficult to take productive actions against rape. :(
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 20h
As someone who did a lot of driving without access to GPS and still doesn't use it often, I have several answers to this.
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One thing that I kept remembering while reading this thread is that when there's a cultural context of sexual harassment and rape, the public stories are milder and much fewer than the stories that are not made public.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A world of always-on cameras and microphones on peoples' bodies is a very serious privacy and security problem for the people wearing them and for everyone around them.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
I am deeply concerned by reports of ICE’s operation in New Bedford and surrounding communities. Masked agents disappearing our neighbors and refusing to release any information stokes fear and threatens our communities. We must abolish ICE now.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
The very cool thing about this is that there are some kinds of brain cells we weren't able to grow before because we didn't understand they were different, and now that we've figured out that they are different, we can grow them.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But even better: by being vaccinated against the communicables, we are doing a good deed every single day by being vaccinated, because taking ourselves out of a transmission chain means we protect the 5% of people who cannot be vaccinated — infants, immunocompromised people, folks with allergies.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Converse ad is vile. And it’s especially vile, *uniquely* vile because there have been at least 22 lynchings of Black people across the US since March 2025. A fact that has been largely unreported and hidden from the national conversation. Extreme TW for this report on lynchings from 2020-2025
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Boston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 16/09/2026
Free vaccine clinics are back! Get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines for free at one of our upcoming clinics. No appointment necessary, walk-ins welcome. Getting vaccinated is a great way to protect yourself and your community. Find upcoming clinics at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.
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Vaccines
Vaccines help prevent serious illnesses like measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, polio, and more. With vaccine preventable illnesses on the rise, it is more important than ever to stay protected. Getting vaccinated is much safer than getting the disease, as it lowers the risk of your child being hospitalized or having long-term health problems.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Being anti-abortion was never about babies. Kicking women out of leadership in the military isn't about the military. "Family values" isn't about families. Making divorce harder isn't, either. It's about controlling women. It's about controlling women. It's about controlling women.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The real site is vote.gov The other is a Musk for-profit honeytrap.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026
So the thing about how some folks who work on AI think it's going to attain sentience and kill us all: That's not a marketing stunt. They do sincerely believe that. That doesn't make them*correct* though. They're very much not
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Y'all, the evil, evil, EVIL shit we are doing to immigrant children right now--in court, in asylum hearings, using them as bait so ICE can arrest their family members--is just indescribable. Very grateful for the journalists who report on this, but the number of untold horror stories is immense.
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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 08/09/2026
I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...
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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings
Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Y’all Massachusetts voters. There are NINE ballot questions this year. Nine. Your ballot will be 2-3 pages long. Make your voting plan early and consider voting early/by mail even if you usually vote in person because things might take longer than usual! (NINE)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"A family annihilator presidency" feels both accurate and terrifying.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026
Everyone saying that AI is good for nothing is wrong. It's absolutely revolutionizing the spam and scam market. Micro-targeted scams individually targeting specific people using their exact relationships and anything they've ever posted online, and harder to detect by software than ever before.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I genuinely think that one of the biggest feminist challenges right now is that feminism was so successful that a lot of people can’t even imagine what the world was like before it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will say again, as I said with Hunger Games when the books came out, the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik understands and dissects a moral evil at the center of our society in the same way that 1984 and Brave New World do. These books should be required reading, at the same level.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 31/08/2026
part of the emotional weight of the past 10 years is anyone who can extrapolate a new fact from two existing facts has been screaming "is anyone else seeing this??? godzilla is coming!" right up until the point godzilla steps on a building and then the rest of the country goes "oh shit wtf?"
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The specific context of this is extremely specific, but it also applies to many other situations.
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/09/2026
which is to say: get out and vote, even if you think the most "important" race has already been decided! dunking Moulton by a *lot* matters more than it does in a usual primary, because we want to send the message that he's Not Acceptable as a backup plan in case Markey ages out sooner than 6 years
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For the record, I do not forbid my science students from using AI. I do ask them at the end of the semester to write a reflection on it. I then compare grades to AI use and so far the non-AI users OVERWHELMINGLY perform better
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
The fact that the literal physical environment of cities in the country is shaped by a racist desire to stop people from intermingling in public spaces really doesn’t get enough weight when we think about this stuff.
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Perhaps you might allow Rhyme and Reason to return,” said Milo softly. “How nice that would be,” said Azaz, straightening up and adjusting his crown. “Even if they were a bother at times, things always went so well when they were here.”
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Would really love to see Republicans asked whether they are accepting support from someone who said [spin the dial, choose anything Elon has said in the last 24 hours] and who personally dismantled, among other things, our national food safety apparatus.
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I would love to sign up for low-traffic alerts that told me when eclipses, auroras, and other rare and exciting sky phenomena were likely to happen in my area. I suspect this isn't possible, even as a paid service, without also signing up for msgs every day, political spam, and other horrors. :(
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't know who's having a lunar eclipse right now other than Minnesota, but if it's night where you are, go out and look at the moon, just to see!
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In re the covid shot approved today (yay!) and the uncertainty around availability (boo!), here in MA I just fired up the CVS app and registered for a flu and “covid-19 (new)” shot with zero hiccups. A banner message clearly said they are now scheduling for the 2026-27 shot. 🎉💉
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's actually not just a coincidence that classes have a break around Christmas and Easter and therefore you don't have to think about avoiding scheduling stuff on those days.
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everytime I learn something new about Dolly Parton, it's something positive. It's a way in which she made the world a better place for others. That is the best legacy anyone could have. Farewell, and thank you.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Being undocumented in the United States is a civil violation. It is not a felony. It is not even a misdemeanor.
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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The MBTA should sell bumper stickers saying "My other car is a CharlieCard" with graphics of buses and trains.
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