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Recovering technologist, librarian at heart. Foodie, gardener, cat herder. Still goth, just tired. She/her/they.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h
So, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h
time to update my default out of office message
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The right "we need to protect women!" Also the right:
An article titled "Megyn Kelly on cornell. Jane Doe: 'im just going to be honest, she's not that most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs"'
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Turns out that people don’t like it when you make health insurance more expensive and burdensome.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every word of this
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CW: immediate post-rape trauma If you have been sexually assaulted, you might want to skip this. If you have not, I think you should watch it. When people are like “Why didn’t the victim get a rape kit/give a clear report/report it at all?” bc this is what’s happening with *supportive* staff.
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 01/10/2026
Happy 32nd birthday W3C .org! On October 1, 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded an international organization called World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
On October 1, 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded an international organization called World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
If you, or someone you know, is experiencing DV, here are a few resources: www.thehotline.org www.un.org/en/coronavir... www.womenagainstabuse.org/education-re... rainn.org
thehotline.org
National Domestic Violence Hotline
24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's when a president illegally confiscates money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose because he decides, after the appropriation becomes law, that he doesn't like it. The fact that the Republican Congress ignores that is another reason they should be voted out. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s deeply frustrating to me to be 10, 15 years into this and routinely have to remind some liberals that the New York Times is not your fucking friend and is not going to do the job of the Democratic Party for it.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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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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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please check your student loans (private & fed) and check if you need to recertify your income based agreements & double check that your payments arent being increased. Get ahead of it.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.
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TJ @tjsls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@democrats-veterans.house.gov @democrats.senate.gov @jvl.bsky.social I will once again try and call attention to the travesty of OMB M‑19‑17 on 2019 which requires federal agencies to use an authentication platform like id.me or, ideally login.gov the GSA homegrown solution
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not saying that a guy who sprints to the front to defend every rapist and attack every victim is himself a rapist because I have no information upon which to base such a claim. But I would bet a million bucks that this guy would risk his life to keep any of us from seeing his hard drive.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
to the Cornell victim: you are so precious and important. you did nothing wrong. you deserve to be surrounded in safety by those who love you; you've always deserved that.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Walking into your local library improves mental well-being by at least 62%.
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atlas :3 @atlaslovesedm8704.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
reposting this again because its literally mood as fuck
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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
IBM knew in 1979 and yet here we are
a page from a 1979 IBM training manual. the paper is off-white and aged with text showing through behind it. the text reads "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE," then "THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION."
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 27/09/2026
Good news. Makes it possible for you to delete the signal app and reinstall it (when crossing a border or doing higher risk activism) and just save your recovery key somewhere very safe.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...
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Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing
Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a thread about erasure of women's expertise and work in this area. As often happens, erasure comes together with overexposure. >>
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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treesleeper @treesleeper.com · 26/09/2026
The older I get, the more I understand why witches and hermits move into the deep dark woods never to be seen again.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chinese flags flying over the White House. A reminder to MAGA - who despise communism - that China is a communist country.
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The Marvelous Ms. Medicaid @msmedicaid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s a class action lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare about exactly this… news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
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UnitedHealthcare Accused of AI Use to Wrongfully Deny Claims (1)
Health insurer UnitedHealthcare is facing a class action alleging it used an artificial intelligence algorithm to wrongfully deny coverage to elderly people for care under their Medicare Advantage hea...
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
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Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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