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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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Tom Bozzo @atbozzo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#1 Daughter didn't end up applying anywhere super selective because reasons. But when we visited another school in her school's consortium that was, a handout tipped the fact that a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of male applicants was how they maintained anything close to a 50/50 balance.
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That’s what I’ve been telling the moths year after year
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Weirdly provocative that they also call it “roncy”
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here’s a neighborhood in Toronto called Roncesvalles, pronounced “Ron says veils”
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just saw the most beautiful woman laying into someone for excluding her over a different view of the “good, the true, and the beautiful” 1) I love her and 2) is that an idiomatic expression or was it really about the transcendentals
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Pobnellion @pobnellion.com · 07/10/2026
Ive got some news for you pal: the world isn't as it seems.
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mixed Goldfish crackers into guacamole and sour cream and called it “fish swimming in toxic waste from the toxic waste factory” to the approval of my six-year-old who ate it (the snack was primarily for me)
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/10/2026
New to me: the Museum of Looted Antiquities (an @omeka.org site, incidentally!) mola.omeka.net
mola.omeka.net
Museum of Looted Antiquities
The Museum of Looted Antiquities collects, displays and studies ancient art and artifacts that have been repatriated to their countries of origin since 1950.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saw your man collecting splintered and structurally weak materials for the family nest
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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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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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Omg me too
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Omg
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s public school but I’m afraid the stick has completed its transfer to the private sector
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
(nice try but this newfound concern for institutional property is called bringing a stick to school and it’s not allowed)
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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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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Baby
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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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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wow indeed
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not yet
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I would say that we met more than once in 2014
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I assume the revival of I Who Have Never Known Men is also weird girl tok
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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
But what if it was completely different this time with these variables you’ve selected to toggle
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
But what if it was completely different this time?? Yeah ok still but what if
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In short I believe in September 1st with equal parts dread and devotion
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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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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I locked myself out of Instagram and Facebook and now I’m scared to log back in. An entire ecosystem that was built in a lab to extract it from me (eyeball, data, idk what)
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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
Unbelievable honestly
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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have to respond to emails while I’m literally molting.
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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 · 18/08/2026
Well she said it was her favorite (according to the Wikipedia article)
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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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vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
She said that, in its time, the dragon had given them all E. coli.
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