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vera khovanskaya

@saysvera.bsky.social
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Posting through the contradictions, now on this website

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
shitty little sentence that makes no sense but i just like the sound of it
bilbo looking down at ring with smile, then serious grimace showing resolve to keep it, hesitance to give it up
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026
“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear
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I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM!!!! LIFE IS NEITHER INDIFFERENT NOR CARING!!!! SHE IS ONLY MOTION!!!! BROTHER GET IN THE BOAT!!!!! OR SINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026
postcard from montreal
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really have to commend my child for attempting to “return” a stick he brought home from school because he was suddenly deeply concerned about not “STEALING FROM SCHOOL”
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
canadiandimension.com
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Strange thing about academic-calendar life is to have two beginnings to each year and to feel all the dread and excitement of these many multiplied returns every time
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 29/08/2026
I don't think that enough people realize how big of an issue sports gambling (including so-called "predictions markets") are on college campuses. Take a few minutes and read through this family's challenge with gambling addictions that led to stopping out of college and a mountain of debt.
espn.com
'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction
For Amit, it all started with a college poker game. Now he's in recovery from a gambling addiction that consumed him and his parents.
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colorscolor @uglyjacket.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not now honey the orb is slowly drawing me closer
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026
Microsoft purged the data of over 170,000 nonprofits with little to no warning. Yet another entry in the ledger of “big tech should not be surprised that people hate them now.”
slate.com
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Me, when my skin is peeling after a minor sunburn: can’t you see I’m molting???
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
nytimes.com
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hypothetically imagining someone going “tailor of gloucester” mode on your professional outfit for an interview, demanding that it needs “more twist”
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...
theamericanvandal.com
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Columbo Summer (looking like I slept in whatever I’m wearing, asking questions I already know the answer to, talking about my wife to people who don’t know her)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Unbelievable own goal whenever a country denies a visa to a researcher trying to attend a conference. You should be so lucky as to have them overstay
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lol roblox took some modest safety measures that stopped pushing younger kids towards addictive stuff with loads of in-app purchases and wall street immediately slapped $9 billion off its valuation
thestreet.com
Roblox made one change and wiped out $9 billion
Roblox’s growth engine just hit a safety wall
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@BigDavidMcIver

Aww my microbiome fancies some high quality fermented foods does it? A little kombucha perhaps? I don’t give a shit, I’m the megabiome, I do what I want. I’m having a fanta lemon. I’ll swallow coins
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area.
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Next week I’m lecturing on logistics in the Inland Empire. These landscapes always make me think of my fav Reyner Banham quote: “it is no use cybetneticists and Organization and Research men telling us that a computerized city might look like anything and nothing: most of us want it…
a landscape that is mostly fulfillment center roofs
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Cat figurine we found hidden behind the radiator in the apartment when we moved in vs. cat that just moved into the apartment upstairs
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In this house we Trust the Experts Love the Experts Kiss the Experts
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They did say AI would bring productivity like never before
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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
MORE UNIONS
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Kid who just learned the word dare but not how it works conceptually: “Why dare I do that?”
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Has anyone even met one?
A sign for a store called “Franck Provost”
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I need to take some time off work to study artifacts
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow.
A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk.
It crashes into a rental scooter. 
It backs up.
It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles.
The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again.
A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Great point, very @leev.bsky.social. Materialism or bust.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
bostonglobe.com
‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts - The Boston Globe
Residents and public officials alike have been concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety on the stretch of Tremont Street in Mission Hill near Parker Street for years.
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is my “guy goes to Europe" take but does a particularly American enthusiasm for LLMs ride on a long tradition of instrumentalist valuations of “reading” and “writing” (as opposed to their intrinsic intellectual gain)?? “You mean we can do more output per less reading or writing? Sounds great!!”
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
detecting a bookshelf demonstration of how truly bad the capitalist publication and book-vending system is at connecting enthusiastic and curious people with *real money* to spend to the *real books* that would actually satisfy that curiosity instead of marketable shelf slop
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My mom is mad at my dad because a feral peacock keeps coming to their house and staring through the glass door into the kitchen and it turns out it's because my dad has been secretly feeding it
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Looking up “Bad Motherfucker Pub” in Bordeaux, France, me: wow I am learning so much about French culture
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I would never be like “people who don’t have kids don’t understand this” because I bet it’s also true for elder care, but there is a way of understanding the full weight of reproductive labor that I think can only get if you're the one doing it for a long, long period of time
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My cat Peabody in a cardboard tray getting his belly scratched The cat reaching out for more belly rubs
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Villein 🔒 @villein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
oreos are probiotic and have ancient grains
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
getting so familiar with the flock of pigeons that we see on the way to school
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
And what if I bought some new items, also for the feeling? Just kidding, of course
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I haven't seen the English dub of Moomins on the Riviera, but in the absolutely wild Russian dubbing, the Snork Maiden declares everything she likes to be “leh-vay-DAHNSS” (l’evidence) and I think that’s right
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