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Renee

@reneemc.bsky.social
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Galaxy brain who just wants to brunch PSC-CUNY member Ridgewood, Queens resident

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 6h
The last time they tried to make the whole election about one person, no one had ever heard of him, so they've switched tactics to attacking someone that everybody loves
FOX News segment on "Ms. Rachel's Controversial Stances", which include voting for candidates that reflect your values, thinking the lives of foreigners are worth something, opposing the unaccountable secret police, and correctly stating that no one needs a billion dollars
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so sick of New New York City where we have to have *only* nice, expensive things for tech bros and we can't have sweet, quirkly things like the MPHC climbing gym, which always had some of the best route-setting in the city. www.curbed.com/article/rock...
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New York’s Oldest (and Weirdest) Rock Climbing Gym Is Closing
The Manhattan Plaza space where routes are labeled “spicy” and emotional support dogs stand by may soon be replaced by tennis.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’ www.the74million.org/article/educ...
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Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students
A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I didn’t speak to my dad for like a decade and yesterday we had an amazing day together because I didn’t speak to him for that decade.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 24/09/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-24 04:06:03 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 62 F | 17 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: ENE at 8 mph | 13 kph // Humidity: 70%
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok. We found the good Thai food in Lagrange, IL but we’re still looking for the good falafel. Any tips will get picture of said falafel.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just sat through a whole presentation about AI-enhanced feedback for students and at the end someone was like, what do you think,? And I just sat there, wondering what they thought I was going to say. Ranting wouldn't have made sense in the context, so I just said "the union..." and left the room.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pura vida, I guess. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | They Had No Connection to Costa Rica. America Sent Them There Anyway. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration’s policy of deporting migrants to third countries is undermining a bedrock notion of international law for the past 75 years.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y’all are doing too much.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/09/2026
One thing I think is amazing about Hasan Piker, love him or hate him, is that anybody cares about him at all. That's just incredible, how did that even happen. How does anyone even have an opinion on him in the first place. It's wild stuff
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think this is a mistake. It was one thing to stand with this man immediately after your election but now??? come on.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My two employees last week: let’s meet in person about this. It’s important we meet in person on Monday. Me, Monday morning: I guess I’ll drag my exhausted ass into to the office for this in-person meeting My two employees, Monday morning: I’ll have to join virtually because…
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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dave’s killer dread @dreadlines.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
dude just fucking hates moderators
My friend said they went to a Zizek talk and eventually the moderator
 interrupted him saying "I think it's time for questions" and Zizek was like “Ok. I will ask the first one. 'Professor Zizek what would you say if you had more time?' and then he proceeded to continue the talk as if
 nothing happened
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now, imagine working in an office near where this boom is happening, served by a single stop on the 1 train, and all of these companies lovingly provide their employees with free branded backpacks that the employees do not remove on the very crowded train. www.curbed.com/article/manh...
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The Return-to-Office … Boom?
Manhattan office rents are doubling, even tripling.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
But we understand images by means of reference to other images (this is one way of understanding how images produce meaning), and within the US, the visual context for this ad is empirically undeniable.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've always lamented the lack of required education in art history (or visual studies, if you like), in public secondary education. Without this requires grounding, many people see images as nothing more than Rorschach Tests, & so images like this one get to protest plausible deniability.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How do 11 people work for me, and not one of them knows that if you start typing someone's email address into the "to" field in outlook it will probably auto-populate? And then they ask me for the email address. But do they never wonder how I obtain it? Do they think I know everyone's by heart?
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a time to live down the block from John Wilson's movie theater.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We have a 24 year old LA boy bartending at our local and every time I see this dude he says “I HAD THE BEST DAY YESTERDAY!!!!” and it’s adorable and it’s always things like eating cheesesteak or meeting a girl. It’s usually meeting a girl. But also sometimes cheesesteak.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
kerning strikes again.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remember when there was no social media? What a time to be alive.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They are creating the New Stanford Prison Experiment from the famous psychology experiment, "don't ever do the Stanford Prison Experiment again"
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
no matter how much you fuck up in your life, at least you will never ever ever have to sit in front of congress and explain why your agency is dropping a "no bestiality" vetting requirement
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it

Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore's tour exit: I am not complicit'
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/09/2026
a lot of my frustration with the LLM onslaught has in fact been disappointment at realizing how many people do just want to pretend (at work, creatively, interpersonally)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We want money and housing and healthcare, not a shortcut to living the most basic unfulfilled human existence that a coked up programmer can devise. Some of us are happy. Others of us fully imagine that we can become happy. Many of us aren’t afraid of what that costs.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am actually being micromanaged in this way, not necessarily about AI, but just about everything and it's exhausting: "Do you use keyboard shortcuts, or do you mouse over the Word ribbon and click on the little scissors icon when you want to cut some text?" pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/c...
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Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At least once a week I think about the time when I didn't know who Hasan Piker was, how that was not that long ago, but it seems like a lifetime ago. What a simpler time for me.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I understand, but..." Ma'am, you seem to be not understanding.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're going to visit my mom in Chicagoland next week (?) and everyone is like, what is the plan?! and the plan is just me googling King of Falafel and Shawarma and screaming "the falafel sandwich is $7.99?!?!" and determining the cost of an Uber to Chicago Ridge.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The letter from 25 Fields Medalists defending the practice of mathematics uses revealing language, describing math as a "creative" endeavor sustained by human-to-human transmission.After decades of contempt for the Humanities looks like we're all Humanists now. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We want to believe in the future. We have a right to believe in the future. And there’s something treasonous about not believing in the future." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It cannot be overstated just how dumb it was. They wanted to make Newline rename "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" because they found it disrespectful. They banned the song "I am Leaving on a Jet Plane". The background of random TV shows like "Charmed" was suddenly full of flags. I could go on
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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Podcasts should go back to being audio only.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We’re just talking about Liam Neeson in Derry Girls and then we were like, wait, why is he famous and we googled it and still don’t know.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Everyone of us here knew. We all knew. And they lied, and they will keep lying. None of us will ever understand the impact of this day on our lives because we will never know the truth. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Other Victims of 9/11
Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 08/09/2026
As a New Yorker who was here that day and who is really, really trying to avoid anniversary coverage this year--and who remembers his famous call in from ACROSS TOWN where he said he now had the tallest building in NYC--I am so enraged by this I think I temporarily went blind.
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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The website existed in all its glory for only a few years. It was originally published at tapeart.com/hope for the fifth anniversary in 2006, but shifts in internet infrastructure eventually rendered the site’s database and media formats obsolete." eleventhofseptember.com/about/
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