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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/12/2025
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/12/2025
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Really good figure summarizing the paper’s findings
Figure showing that multi-disciplinary practice pays off
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Fascists don’t like vulnerability and earnestness, which is what theater kids have in spades. And God knows it’s a safe space for so many LGBTQ kids. It was for me. Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.
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Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c... “.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
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California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
Headline: Bondi bystander who ran towards gunman facing deportation

The refugee worked his way towards the footbridge using cars and trees for cover, before kicking the weapon away from the shot gunman.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Study finds manager scores for employee performance correlated to employee self-evals. Women and ppl of color tended to give themselves lower marks. Women of color rated themselves the least favorably and got the lowest scores from managers. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Why self-appraisals may not be best way to judge job performance — Harvard Gazette
Research shows women, workers of color rate themselves lower; manager ratings tend to mirror them if bosses read rankings before writing their own.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/12/2025
If you don’t hate where we are for EVERYONE, you don’t disagree with what’s happening. You just want to change the targets.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
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Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
anyway thank you for the genuine laugh, SELF dot com www.self.com/story/loneli...
self.com
A Lot of Women Don’t Realize They’re Lonely. Here Are the Subtle Signs
Loneliness can harm your health and “should not be taken lightly.”
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪 “… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
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Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Someone sent this to me as proof that *i* am wrong about my own self. Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.
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maczurray.bsky.social @maczurray.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Self-critiquing headline here: (Not The Onion)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Yes, if you're always hysterical, if you have one glib answer for everything ("He has dementia," "He's a Russian asset," etc), you'll sound silly and people will stop listening. But looking at 2015-25, the "This is REALLY BAD" journos were right 90% of the time. The "calm down" crew? Mostly wrong.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote on social media, “Genuine question: Why is the Trump Administration so hellbent on people going hungry?”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Chip in to elect a grassroots candidate who DOESN’T like war crimes (which is apparently a controversial position) here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
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Chip in to support Kat Abughazaleh!
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I think many, or most Americans see our country or did see our country as the biggest kid in class, there to shut down the 'bullies' when we could. Most Americans know the term 'banana republic' without actually knowing the horrific history. I didn't learn it in school for sure. Most...
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maczurray.bsky.social @maczurray.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hard truths here: 1: no one can stand up to the US, militarily (++ the US fares poorly against irregulars/insurgency ++, but no one else fares better against it) 2: we’re not just the bully; we are specifically the modern equivalent, the wimp with a weapon (Emma nails the school shooting analogy)
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
And if a voice in your head pipped up 'what about genocides?' Chattel slavery IS genocide. And you have much learning and work to do.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NEW — RFK Jr.’s HHS sent out a survey asking employees to report instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration, and the Dept. of Labor announced its inaugural prayer service. These are just the latest instances of Trump’s extreme Christian creep within the federal government.
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RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden
Employees received a survey Monday asking them to rat on each other.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
While we’re on the topic: Letters I found in Yale archives said Skull and Bones members took Native American remains from a grave in Oklahoma in 1918. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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Did a Yale secret society steal a famous Native American leader's skull?
New documents provide further evidence that members of the Yale University secret society...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/11/2025
The purpose of a system of is what it does.
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OpenAI's Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings
OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Stop when there's nothing valuable to add. 4/4
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This insidious sentence suggests a conspiracy between school counselors, teachers, and administrators to boost test scores by getting kids diagnosed when they shouldn't have been. It costs $$ to provide extra services. The only pressure I saw in 20+ years of teaching was to defer or deny.
Getting a child treated, potentially with medication, could help an entire classroom achieve higher scores, especially if the child’s behavior was disruptive to others.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
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Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
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JudieB @judieweko.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There is someone right now planning an attack on a Democratic lawmaker because the president just told them to do so. Just like they attacked our capitol, because the president told them to do so.
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 20/11/2025
The President is calling for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged. This is deplorable, un-American, & an open invitation to political violence. Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President called for the murder of Congressional Democrats. Congressional Democrats should call for his immediate removal or resignation. Congressional Republicans should condemn his statements and call for him to recant them. It's the very least they should be doing!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/11/2025
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly." Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace? people.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
But I want to fuck my subordinate. Cool. You can't have a position of power over them. But I want to fuck my student. Cool. You can't work at the school they're attending.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
WHO HE HAD ENSLAVED. And who had enslaved his children with her. There is no absolute freedom to say no. So there's no consent in saying yes.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A person MIGHT freely give consent in a position where consent is compromised but since one cannot know that consent is truly given in that circumstance, it cannot be relied upon in any sense. A person must be FREE to consent. An example is Thomas Jefferson raping his dead wife's half sister,
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
As a survivor of violent sexual assault CONSENT is key. If a person is asked for sex in a position where they have any A N Y constraints on their consent A N Y (I can be fired, harmed, sold, etc. ad nauseum) Then you do not have consent. And that is rape. Rape rape.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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maczurray.bsky.social @maczurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Women should make up for the gender pay gap by writing off man-talk when they file taxes…
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I mean
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
One of the most senior scholars in his field *hoping* that a junior scholar will engage in a sexual relationship *that he realizes she doesn’t want* because he is “invaluable” …
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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 16/11/2025
(Link to story which is much better than its headline). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/style/ep…
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