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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 7h

Is he a competent bad guy there? He's clearly capable of that.

Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 7h

Particularly in this case where we understand that many Republicans would be scared to vote in favor for fear of reprisals of many kinds, but not if they lie. Of course might be unanimous then which would give the game away.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 7h

I do really like Ben Mendelsohn as an actor, watching him in Stephen King's The Outsider right now. But I would like to see him not be a sad sack and general fuck up. He's damn good at it but give him a chance at something else!

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe you pick off gay Latino men somehow? "You won't have to compete with Paxton in the gay bar!"

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 9h

Did you mean candy's date, perchance?

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

This is the exact argument that was used once upon a time to cap the number of Jewish students at Harvard. They tried too hard, they studied too much, it wasn't fair and it put the wrong people on top. So I don't think of it as hick culture, but rather conservative Harvard culture.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

Would like to see them rated 1 to 9 in terms of general sharpness. Even though I would object to that being done to other groups. And I don't really think intelligence works that way.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

Not saying they are angels, just that was good.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

This is why it was so important that Microsoft separated AI from Word for education accounts.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

In fact, if you don't want things like this to be funded by the state, then you have to fund school inspectors, and they'd have to good. In this case you have a criminal case, which makes it easy, but usually schools hide bad things they are doing. A person who visits once can't know.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

If this were a religious school (Christian, of course) the Supreme Court would probably rule the state could not stop giving them money.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 15h

Aren't some people doing it for the money online? In fact, I'd be interested to see how AI did with a small amount of money, except I can't be bothered.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He looks like apartheid gave birth to him.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She kept telling me, if it was too scary, I didn't have to watch it, but talking to her would calm me down, and I'd go back, and the cycle would start again.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My brother and I (he's six years older, I was about 6) were watching this old b&w movie on tv where an evil genius doctor removed someone's face, the skin off their face, and put it on someone else, maybe his daughter. Scared the shit out of me, and I kept running into the kitchen to tell my mom.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please, I am trying so hard not to count our eggs before they hatch.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But this calf is STARVING. Clearly the least you could do was feed it.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't think we'll know when they have agency, I think they are slipping into it quietly bit by bit and then all at once. The Turing test is obviously outdated, but it hasn't been replaced.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

to indicate when we are speaking in legal terms, and when we are speaking colloquially, or what might be called humanly.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is complicated in the Cornell case by NY law, which has a such a limited definition of rape that none of us would accept it. But it makes lawyers pussyfoot around it because using it wrong can get you sued. The NY law needs to change, and we lawyers need to develop very clear ways

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"No, I am" would have been a great answer.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one could give a free consent to that football player.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Starting player next season. No repercussions at all. I think her lack of politeness startled the people overseeing the case. But I think that football player tapped into what a lot of young men want to do in the face of rejection, which makes the question of consent more fraught.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Cornell shit made me remember that when I was in college in the late 70s, a friend went to a frat party (I would have voted her least likely to go to a frat party) and a football player came on to her, not subtly. She turned him down, not politely, I'll stipulate. He decked her.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How could you not give her a treat?

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Astounding. Definitely had an effect on me, changed me.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you make this part of your teaching portfolio? I hear kids today love Rod Serling.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now I hear rectangle in my head as rectal-tangle, and I blame you.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What does being a "literal dicks" entail? Nearly all billionaires have one, but surely that's not enough?

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know if there's a good basis for that, but state prosecutors also ought to be looking at it. And damn that's tough, since it's federal laws he's broken. Also it would all drive Trump absolutely bonkers, as a side benefit.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impeachment is a high bar, we aren't going to reach that level, so this would need GOP support. Start advocating for it now. Build a coalition. He's incredibly dangerous. And if we impeach him, he'll be right back there advising the next guy unless there's a criminal case against him.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, if you are in anthropology, the chances that you are going to angrily click on that one are high. And somehow, if you are reading it in print, I think the chances that you just chuck it across the room are higher. Very satisfying, and you can't just chuck your computer across the room.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If he's interviewing as a lawyer, there's going to be a lot of questions about why he didn't ask more questions, negotiate more. Would you want Job to take your side in court? Unclear, need to ask more questions.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I liked that Smith mentioned Caitlin Clark a couple of times. Like, he didn't want to say, "No, I went to a WOMEN'S game." So he said "I went to see Caitlin Clark" repeatedly. Also he went to a college game, they were assuming pro, which is odd.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very oddly, my pup was not housetrained when she arrived, but "Drop it" was pre-installed. I am grateful daily.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We'll get two years of trifecta, the true effects of what he's done will come home to roost then, voters will blame us.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New career for you! Good lord I would suck at that.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not part of his military, and we'll find out what happened later. There's great reporting to be done there.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Further the abstract complexity of the current US military is best seen in the mastery of logistics, which we are excellent at, and is not based on the market, tho obviously the market effects. But Hegseth seems to have totally fucked up our logistics.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And when you are in the complex world, zero sum thinking goes out the door. Hegseth is zero sum to his core. (Which obviously makes him equal to zero.)

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

made the difference, where she voted against his wishes and his side lost. On making the Epstein files public, sure but that vote was overwhelming, her vote didn't matter. She carefully calibrates when she can vote for show, and to bring on her campaign, but not if it makes a difference.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The New Yorker Political Scene podcast is really in the bag for Susan Collins this week, altho I know they would disagree. Currently highlighting the votes against Trump's wishes, based on her deeply held principles. And how she has a rocky relationship with Trump. But name one time her vote

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looks like one of those fancy cut paper silhouettes. Lovely.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nothing can replace being in the room with a musician, the whole resonance of the room, that the performance is unique. But there's something we can do. Go hear more music, local acts. Go see live theater, including experimental and local, go see live dance. We never do as much as we want to.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The promises are real but cannot always be filled is what you need to know about your own party.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mark Fowler: Dr Torture and almost Death Does he sleep at night? Do you want him treating you? After two botched medical executions, should his name be struck off the register?

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