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invert. girlfailure. i hate my city councilmember and so should you. if you're gonna pick fights with me, send $50 to NorthMplsMA on venmo first. they/them

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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if u look up 'velcro' in the dictionary u just see my baby
my clingy girl tucked into my sideshe tucked herself in between our pillows bc she wants to sleep with both of usshe's helping with sudoku (by laying on top of it)she has to hold my shoulder. for pressure.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
shot/chaser which MRA wrote this shit?
Screenshot of Wikipedia article subsection labeled Criticism, and 1st paragraph which says:"Criticism of the Duluth model has centered on the program's sexist insistence that men are perpetrators who are violent because they have been socialized in a patriarchy that condones male violence, and that women are victims who are violent only in self-defense.[33] Some critics argue that "programs based on the Duluth Model may ignore research linking domestic violence to substance abuse and psychological problems, such as attachment disorders, traced to childhood abuse or neglect, or the absence of a history of adequate socialization and training."[27][34]"

"Criticism of the Duluth model has centered on the program's sexist insistence that men are perpetrators who are violent because they have been socialized in a patriarchy that condones male violence" is highlighted yellow.screenshot of wikipedia article paragraph:
"Others criticize the Duluth model as being overly confrontational rather than therapeutic, focusing solely on changing the abuser's actions and attitudes rather than dealing with underlying emotional and psychological issues.[34] Donald Dutton, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied abusive personalities, states: "The Duluth Model was developed by people who didn't understand anything about therapy."[27] Dutton also observes that "lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering".[35]"

"Donald Dutton, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, [...] states: "The Duluth Model was developed by people who didn't understand anything about therapy."[27] Dutton also observes that "lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering".[35]" is highlighted.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
rebel moon in the sky
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the petty evilness of my country knows no bounds
screenshot of NPR article:
"The "Correct the Map" resolution, introduced by Togo on behalf of the African Group and supported by the African Union, was adopted on Friday by 164 votes to one, with six countries abstaining.

The United States was the only country to vote against it."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
northside a few months ago 💖
duck nesting in a median right next to the road with a blue sled full of water to her right, some bowls of water and food behind her, and a sign stuck in the grass that says "SLOW! DUCK" next to the bowls. there's another sign that says "SLOW! DUCK" taped on the OM1-2 type 1 object marker in the median she's nesting in front of.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
you actually did not stop there. please see the highlighted.
post from my mamas child (@2024fighter.bsky.social):
Trans does NOT mean "anyone whose gender does not align with the sex they were assigned."

That would be every single individual who is not cis.

Intersex, non-binary,etc, people are not trans. (non-binary to not trans is highlighted yellow)

And it is really creepy and viscerally awfil to be told you're something and someone you're not.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
please note the phrase "excl. some intersex people"
Post by Lee L (@dragon-writes.bsky.social): Could I ask why you don't consider yourself to be trans? I use 'trans' to include everyone whose gender doesn't align with the sex they were assigned at birth (excl. some intersex people), so I'm interested in what definition you use which doesn't include agender.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
feeling deeply minnesotan in that, on top of the everything, this quote from the CNN reporting on Operation Metro Surge somehow manages to feel intensely insulting. in addition to everything else of course. but also, hey fuck you it's not 1,000 what the fuck. removepaywalls.com/5/https://ww...
Later that day, during the televised portion of his December 2 Cabinet meeting, Trump started talking about “what is happening in Minnesota, the land of a thousand lakes or however many lakes they have, they got a lot of lakes. But this beautiful place, and I see these people ripping it off.”
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
another example of the lack of professionalism i & others in ward 5 have experienced from CM Warren/her office. I called Warren abt her vote, who answered the phone to argue w me for 30m, but told me she was willing to explore other tenant protection policies, so i sent ideas over. and well, lol.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
being from northside is so fucking frustrating sometimes. this is not the first example of unprofessionalism I've experienced from the office of CM Warren (specifically, CM Warren herself, like several neighbors), though it is my first experience of this behavior from a policy aide.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
have we considered that the forest troop of baboons got it right.
post from user foxfire42.bsky.social (display name FoxFire):
"I'm the monster. From someone who wants to destroy a man's life because he got a couple extra thrusts in the heat of intercourse. Which isn't simply rude (if not expected) but is RAPE! according to you. A crime punishable by 10+ years in prison. That is sick. THAT is monstrous.

Look in the mirror."
1 like 24 quotes 2 savespost from user burnernhooch.bsky.social (display name Etsy witch fanboy):
"Someone from the state standing at a distance & asking you to pull your pants down for two seconds so they can see whether you have a penis is sexual assault? It's a silly idea that I oppose, & obviously it'd be assault if the observer approached & nonconsensually touched you there, but inherently?"
42 replies, 11 quotes, no likes
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
i love the internet i get to see rape apologia from self-professed moderates for free! who get mad at being accurately described as rape apologists. you people make me long for the forest troop of baboons.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
there's ash stuck to my plants. and i keep thinking about how it's people's homes and remains and thousands of conifers and their resins. it feels like ill gotten gains.
milkweed with ashsunchoke with sootsunchoke with ash fluff
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
summer is the devil, especially when it's 15-20F above average for this time of year. but the best part of summer is walking by the bees sleeping in my flowers on my way to work.
bee of unknown species (but has long antenna) sleeping on a sunchoke.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
LMFAO
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Exhibit A of bangers in the first paragraph from CURA's "The Illusion of Choice" report on evictions in North Minneapolis.
Heading in red with a gold background which says "Purpose":
Followed by: "Single Black mothers face the highest risk of eviction in the 
United States. Matthew Desmond’s 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City brought this national 
crisis from the margins to the center of public discourse. From 2013-2015, approximately 50% of renter households in North Minneapolis experienced at least one eviction filing, a rate that is almost 25% higher than the 55402 zip code, which experienced the next highest rate of eviction filings in the city of Minneapolis. This disparity is particularly relevant given that these two zip codes contain just 8% of all rental units in the city.* North Minneapolis is a community manufactured to contain undesirable populations through housing discrimination, decades of urban disinvestment, unfair lending practices, and disproportionate evictions; the situation has become further exacerbated by the rise in distressed-property investment."

In bold red text underneath the paragraph above:
"*The language on the percentage of evictions in the two North Minneapolis zip codes of the study was updated to provide additional context and clarity."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is a cat checkpoint, relinquish your most recent cat picture. my pinto bean!!
orange tabby striped cat with a white stripe on his nose curled up on an olive green rag rug in front of a orange-brown dresser. his head is on his feet so you can't see them.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
please enjoy this playlist that is earnestly titled "love songs"
screenshot of a playlist containing the songs vore (sleep token), pain (ragana), antimatter (silent planet), and in your name (vana)
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
which is particularly fucking annoying given that we can't even get a straight answer for why state patrol is constantly overhead. this is from like 2 nights ago. so i'd like to fuckin know how these drones will improve shit when we already have choppers constantly overhead and they don't do dick!
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
finally, a major MN news outlet is capable of clearly naming the real outcomes of a potential veto of city council's denial of todd barnette. why did it take over a week??
screenshot of MPR news headline: Minneapolis headed for potential 'never-ending loop' in community safety commissioner nomination, under a picture of todd barnette speaking at a podium.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you should read further down. they're asked to enumerate exactly how they know women didn't want to have sex with them.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i would disagree on vagueness. before the strategies were listed it was extremely clear that this is about women they knew didn't want to fuck. also further down in the report they talk abt *how* these men knew the women they were hunting didn't want to fuck.
screenshot of SageJournals article which states:
"Use of Sexual Aggression
Participants were asked “In the past four years, how many times have you used any of the following strategies to get (or try to get) a woman to have some type of sex when she did not want to have sex or acted like she did not want to have sex? (Only women you have recently met—no sex or dating history with them beforehand).” Sex was defined as any type of sex including “blow jobs, getting laid, anal sex, threesomes, group sex, etc.” They indicated which of any 36 strategies derived from our formative work they had used and how often they had used it."Screenshot of SageJournals article:
"Circumstances, Motivations, Intentions, and Perceived Outcomes
Our fourth research question focused on the social and psychological components of the interactions whereby men use force to make an unwilling woman have sex (RQ4). Men knew that the woman was unwilling and not consenting through her “making excuses” (41.9%), directly saying she was not interested or did not want to (24.1%), and physically moving away/trying to be out of reach (15.7%). Men also responded that, in some circumstances, women were too drunk or high to say or do much of anything (9.7%)."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
what the fuck
screenshot of SageJournals article:
"Men knew that the woman was unwilling and not consenting through her “making excuses” (41.9%), directly saying she was not interested or did not want to (24.1%), and physically moving away/trying to be out of reach (15.7%). Men also responded that, in some circumstances, women were too drunk or high to say or do much of anything (9.7%)."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i think you may have missed this paragraph - it sounds like this question was asked before the strategy questions. however u feel abt those strategy questions, endorsing strategies to get women to fuck when they're explicitly unwilling is sexually coercive at best.
Screenshot of SageJournals article:
"Use of Sexual Aggression
Participants were asked “In the past four years, how many times have you used any of the following strategies to get (or try to get) a woman to have some type of sex when she did not want to have sex or acted like she did not want to have sex? (Only women you have recently met—no sex or dating history with them beforehand).” Sex was defined as any type of sex including “blow jobs, getting laid, anal sex, threesomes, group sex, etc.” They indicated which of any 36 strategies derived from our formative work they had used and how often they had used it."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
waiit never mind i scrolled back up bc i forgot this paragraph. anyway they do establish reluctance/unwillingness, and it sounds like it precedes the strategy question - which makes the "picking strangers" option freaky as hell. bc in that context, the correct fucking answer is zero strategies!
Screenshot of Sage Journals article:
"Use of Sexual Aggression
Participants were asked “In the past four years, how many times have you used any of the following strategies to get (or try to get) a woman to have some type of sex when she did not want to have sex or acted like she did not want to have sex? (Only women you have recently met—no sex or dating history with them beforehand).” Sex was defined as any type of sex including “blow jobs, getting laid, anal sex, threesomes, group sex, etc.” They indicated which of any 36 strategies derived from our formative work they had used and how often they had used it."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
so i think a lot of the behaviors in the top reported are skeezy, but i do have to question some of them? like "focused on a stranger to have sex with" seems pretty like ... is that not the default of online dating or w/e? i'm not sure if that should be counted as a coercive behavior.
Screenshot from Sage Journals:
"Table 2. All of the strategies were reported by at least some men; 36 men (1.3%) reported using all of the strategies at least once. The average reported number ever used was 8.94 (SD = 7.98). The most common strategy was telling a woman whatever she wanted to hear and this was used by the majority (78.1%) of the 2,557 men reporting any history of forced sex. The following strategies were reported by order of frequency: asked her repeatedly to have sex (48.6%); had a friend, partner, or group of friends help you get what you want (46.6%), had a female friend make the woman feel safe and convince her (43.8%), told her you knew she wanted it (39.3%), focused on a stranger to have sex with (37.9%), had a female friend bring her to you (37.6%), and got her away from everyone to somewhere private and under your control (37.5%). These strategies primarily involve sexual coercion in the form of persistent verbal pressure, as well as peers to help manipulate the targeted woman."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
pls explain how the proto-US didn't meet the definition of fascism. I'd say maybe with the exception of populism but uh... once again concerned for your knowledge of words and ability to understand mine.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
also. like, you said i was overestimating the transmisogyny. you even said that lacking transmisogynistic intent was relevant to the discussion of the harm they perpetuated.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
chat would you call my tenor "screaming" here.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
is this not you a) making an argument for a small explanatory/procedural detail to make the focus on autism less weird? or b) saying it was a product of their time? or c) telling me i'm overestimating the transmisogynistic beliefs of people professing transmisogyny?
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
original post
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
wow, eric roper really has a particular bias huh. no mention of vetaw's recent behavior, which was probably the most explosive this year, casting doubt on very obvious facts (& clearly relying on people not watching the footage), and framing homophobia as an illegitimate concern. super cool.
Quote from a star tribune article:
"Like the time one council member suggested a colleague might need to join the "MAGA movement" after some miscommunication on the dais about fraud. Or the recent fracas involving a council mwmber accusing another of calling her a "child," using an expletive. (This, too, seemed to be a misunderstanding, based on the tape.)Quote from a star tribune article: "How quaint to think back to the council's first meeting of the year, when the body's president talled an ally for the newly minted role of "majority leader" with the hard-nosed mission of building consensus around a "shared agenda."

Fast forward four months, and our consensus-building majority leader is loudly proclaiming that her colleagues are spreading "homophobic rhetoric" (after someone questioned the urgency of legalizing gay bathhouses)."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
please help support Northside residents impacted by the ICE surge (and frankly our ongoing needs - we have some of the highest eviction rates in the city, even though we have 8% of the rental units, and that was before the ICE surge). venmo: NorthMplsMA #minneapolis #mutualaid
picture of north minneapolis during winter, trees and houses are visible up close and covered in snow, in the back the skyline of minneapolis is visible. the lighting is bright, the sky is light blue and clear.

Underneath, white text on a medium blue/violet background: "Support North Minneapolis. All finds raised go directly to families in the community. Please only write "Gift for North" in the subject." the words "only" and "gift for north" are bolded, "only" is also underlined.

To the right of the white text: a picture of the venmo QR code on a dark blue background. Underneath in white text "venmo" in the venmo font, and under that, "@NORTHMPLSMA" in smaller light blue text.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
i think it's so fun and cool that credentialed doctors at major medical institutions can tweet out opinions like this about a misunderstood and stigmatized disease. probably spends his time on r/medicine with the rest of the drs that hate us 💖
tweet from Adam Gaffney (@awgaffney) "Over-diagnosis / misdiagnosis / self-diagnosis of EDS, MCAS, POTS & Lyme is a real problem and it would appear that there is little appetite by medical professionals tobdiscuss this issue publicly"

Readers added context:
"Health charities dealing with many of the conditions listed state that these conditions are generally underdiagnosed or can be difficult to diagnose due to similarities with other conditions." followed by links to ehlers-danlos.org article "what is EDS", meresearch.org.uk article "POTS and ME/CFS" and meresearch.org.uk article "What is MCAS"Screenshot of Adam Gaffney's (@awgaffney on Twitter) bio:
"Pulmonary & ICU doctor @challiance, assistant professor @HarvardMed, healthcare researcher @LabCambridge, past president @PNHP, author of "To Heal Humankind"
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
while i have you here: am i misreading this? this forces any subsequent mayors to have a minimum level of funding for cops??
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
hey wait a fucking second. o'hara was spending time monitoring Bovino's movements but couldn't answer 911 calls about ICE abductions unless people were intentionally vague?? ALSO why the fuck does Minnesota have an intelligence hub????
Screenshot from a section in a Bloomberg article (called Emails Reveal Details About ICE Surge in Minneapolis) titled "Bovino watch" followed by the following paragraphs:

Minneapolis police also kept an eye on Bovino. One log entry from Jan. 9 describes Bovino and border agents "traveling with another Large contingency. Left city @ 1319 hours and back into the city. Now at the Library. Lost on camera support in the area of Hennepin Ave and Central in P2."

The cache also contains a handful of reports from Minnesota's Fusion Center, an intelligence hub where state, local and federal authorities share information about emerging threats. The reports show that officials closely monitored protests in the city.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
saying "no she didn't" is weird. like. here she is. doing the thing you're saying she didn't do. you can not know twin cities politics and activism, that's fine, but you're being weird.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
courtney laplante from spiritbox singing into a mic stand in a goth asymmetric looking dress at her show at the armory in minneapolis. her deltoid is somewhat prominent. the stage lighting is blue, and contains some fog, and there is a screen projecting live video of her on stage behind her (also in blue). there are about 3 people and a phone visible from the crowd at the bottom of the photo.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
you said that you refuse to acknowledge anyone using "this language" as a journalist. i assumed. from the context, you were talking about calling "race science" science. and that you would have an issue with a journalist calling "race science" a form of science. was that not your intention?
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
from my nbhd chat: 18 impacted families in N and S Mpls that go to middle school with a neighbor's kid still need April rent support. Most fundraising has gone dry. Any amount helps, they're at $2,300/$18,000. If you can't contribute, please share!!! #mutualaid #minneapolis
venmo QR code for Magdalena Beautiful @MplsBlackberry
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
wondering what college let you graduate without being capable of reading the word "professor".
Rather than direct my enthusiasm for math to the subject, my topology professor (Daniel Biss) directed it at himself. In her fantastic essay for the New York Times, Amia Srinivasan describes this trope and why it is malpractice for professors. My professor’s responses to my emails got longer and longer, topics extending well beyond mathematics; office hours lasted later and later. Flattered and insecure, I convinced myself it didn’t mean anything - I was a student, after all! - until the quarter ended, and he emailed to ask if I wanted to meet up, socially. He brought a book, with an inscription, which began “On the occasion of an end and a beginning…” It was signed, “With bundles of admiration.”

After a few very intense evenings, he had second thoughts. It was wrong to date a student, of course, so we would have to stop making out. Of course we could still hang out, and so we continued to spend time together in what to any external observer would look like dates, until gradually that stopped, too.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
did you read what she wrote? cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...
Rather than direct my enthusiasm for math to the subject, my topology professor (Daniel Biss) directed it at himself. In her fantastic essay for the New York Times, Amia Srinivasan describes this trope and why it is malpractice for professors. My professor’s responses to my emails got longer and longer, topics extending well beyond mathematics; office hours lasted later and later. Flattered and insecure, I convinced myself it didn’t mean anything - I was a student, after all! - until the quarter ended, and he emailed to ask if I wanted to meet up, socially. He brought a book, with an inscription, which began “On the occasion of an end and a beginning…” It was signed, “With bundles of admiration.”

After a few very intense evenings, he had second thoughts. It was wrong to date a student, of course, so we would have to stop making out. Of course we could still hang out, and so we continued to spend time together in what to any external observer would look like dates, until gradually that stopped, too.I was so, so ashamed. Here I was, desperate for credibility among my male peers, told by no less than the President of Harvard I lacked the capacity to do the work, having made out with a professor. I told a few non-math friends, but always with the understanding it was a secret.

Gradually, without ever really being honest with myself about why, I decided graduate school in math wasn’t for me, after all. I did just fine on tests, I told myself, but independent research was too hard. I liked political theory better. I finished the major, with honors, and went to grad school for something else, and tried to think about the experience as little as possible. (When Biss ran for governor, a friend who I had told about the situation at the time wrote to ask how I would feel if he voted for him; I said it was complicated.)
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
7 of them went to city council on 3/3, explicitly to speak against it. timestamps are: 2:30, 2:33, 2:39, 2:57, 2:59, 3:30 and 3:38 on the 3/3 committee of the whole meeting on YouTube. of course they preferred rental assistance. they don't feel like asking donors to cover their tenants' rent.
screenshot of a post on bluesky from Eric Hauge who works for Homeline. "Mayor Frey can thank Minneapolis Public Housing Authority and affiliated nonprofit Community Housing Resources for 43 filings yesterday. Significant bump in Mpls filings the past few days.

Approximate* Minneapolis eviction filings 3/1 thru 3/11:
2025: ~54
2026: ~237
A 339% increase compared to 2025."
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
lmao this is literally just signal degradation. humans replicate themselves n% effectively. and AI agents replicate the humans replicating themselves 85% as effectively of that n%.
To test these generative agents, we evaluated the agents' responses against the corresponding person's responses to major social science surveys and experiments. We found that the agents replicated real participants' responses 85% as accurately as the individuals as the individuals replicated their own answers two weeks later on the General Social Survey.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
help northside families in minneapolis! Linktr.ee/NorthsideMA
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
so, i don't disagree that arabs & muslims are viewed as disposable, particularly those living in west asian countries. but um. they've been talking like this for a while. see: reactions to the annunciation shooting. as an example.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
this is from the indicator on npr. and like. on the one hand. i do actually get it. poverty has a way of grinding you into dust. on the other hand. is this guy actually conflicted?? he still ends on the illegal immigrant fiction, even after seeing detainees yelling for help.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
my neighborhood has a rent assistance fund going if you wanna chuck some money. sorry for the snow clearing flyer, it's where i know i have the link saved.
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abolish silicon valley @teefofgod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
you know how non-americans think we're crazy whenever we're expecting to pay $10,000 for medical care or whatever bc who would possibly do that... i must say, it does feel a little grating when they start joking about the real life or death consequences we face on the reg.
Screenshot of an article which reads: Finally after about an hour, a Brazilian federal police officer emerged and said, "Don't worry, we're just gonna make you pay a fine for overstaying your visa." My muscles tensed up as I waited for him to tell me how much... 132 reals, the officer told me, the equivalent of $27. 

I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank God." The Brazillian federal police officer immediately started joking with me, "What do you think, we were gonna throw you in jail? We're not ICE, we're Brazilians."

The quotation from the officer is highlighted.
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