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Vicki A

@vickiaphd.bsky.social
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Chaotic gardening, harm reduction (semi radical in my professional context, mid to the real ones), earnest replygal. Personal account because microblogging my work gives me hives. Hyping YOUR work is fun, though!

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still here, barely. Still seeking a gig. I'd love to stay in the industry but it's just bleak y'all. So many jobs that were ghost postings, or worse; you hear back months after you already figure you didn't get an interview.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
KITTEN ADOPTION KLAXON Gravy needs a home in the Baltimore/DC area ASAP, preferably one with other young cats. After the sudden death of her only sister, she really craves playtime with other kittens. Gravy is fully vaccinated and spayed, cuddly and playful, and learns what is ok and not ok fast.
gray kitten sleeping, curled into a cinnamon roll shapegray kitten sitting on a wooden letter box, looking up expectantlygray kitten lying on her back reaching her paws out to yougray kitten smiling into the sun
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
A lot of y'all owe this man your whole sense of humour; go drop a dollar: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
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Donate to Help us keep living while I sew, organized by Carey Means
We started this business with money that Carey got from conventions and used a sewing mach… Carey Means needs your support for Help us keep living while I sew
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Vicki A @vickiaphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I was just there for a small conference and it was delightful! Wish I’d had more time to explore. And also, it absolutely felt like everyone I talked with about the World Cup specifically (mostly ride share drivers!!) was worried/concerned about how it was all going to work.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 20/04/2026
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
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Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks
Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.
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Vicki A @vickiaphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Zane and Zelda, as babies and today!
A big eyed, fluffy black kittenA short haired black kitten with big ears Two black adult kitties, one big and fluffy and one shiny and short haired, sitting together on stairs.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Bit in the weeds here, but from a state capacity perspective, Direct File also modeled new ways of working in government: one that was controlled by capable govt employees and not contractors, user-centered, and engaged in constant and iterative improvement. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
The second capacity point is that Direct File showed us that government can change how it builds such services. The proof of concept that they offered was not just about tax reporting, but about different ways of operating. One team member said: “Direct File was also demonstrating a way of working to the rest of government. This was bringing the US government into the 21st century.”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Did I ever tell you about the reason I can never go to the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center again? /1
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Vicki A @vickiaphd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Best to keep those guys on their toes, they’ve been known to get into some trouble (content warning on this link)…
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Bedford official accused in 'cannibal cop's' kidnap, rape plot
A police official at a Massachusetts veterans hospital and a former New York City high school librarian have been arrested on charges they plotted to rape and murder women.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"People who have never slept with their things under their arm don’t understand what getting your possessions taken feels like. Documents, medication, and faded family photos aren’t trash. They’re proof of identity, the thin scaffolding that keeps you connected to services"
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Re: Means Testing. When City College of New York was wondering about charging tuition to cover costs in the 70s they found it would cost more in admin and red tape then not charging but were told to do it anyway to teach students a lesson about responsibility
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Regressor @the-regressor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium. Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists.
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Vicki A @vickiaphd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Mine is missing 30 (so…most of them), but they’re available in the ORCID tab in the Biosketch tool. Hopefully it’s a bug of some sort?
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
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Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong
Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2026
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the thing about satyagraha is that Gandhi being murdered himself doesn't constitute failure--the point of nonviolent resistance isn't that it's more safe, it's that it dramatizes the violence of the state and highlights its illegitimacy via contrast, and it mobilizes public outrage against injustice
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, you don’t need to share gore! You don’t need to watch gore! Bearing witness means bearing witness to INFORMATION not trauma porn! You do not need to traumatize yourself and send yourself into a panic spiral! You need to get organized and focused!
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 23/01/2026
/ WARNING / BOSTON COLD EMERGENCY / BTWIXT FRIDAY & MONDAY / TEMPS DOWN 2WARDS 0 DEGREES @ NITE / WIND CHILLS -10 & BELOW / & THEN / MAJOR SNOWBLOBS SUNDAY IN2 MONDAY / PART OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS IS EVRE1 STAYING SAFE & NOT DYING / SO THAT U MAY ALL LIVE 2 REPENT ANOTHER DAY
BOSTON COLD EMERGENCY
JAN 23RD - JAN 26TH
WEATHER IS HAPPENING LOGO W/ RED STROBE LIGHT IN THE CENTER
ISSUED 20260122

ITS GOING 2 BE SO COLD, TEMPS
OVERNITE FRINITE/SATURMORN 
GETTING DOWN IN2 THE LO 0S
W/ A WICKED WIND CREATING
WIND CHILLS THAT R -10 &
BELOW. SATURNITE IN THE MID
0S, & THEN OF COURSE SNOW
BLOBS ON SUNDAY IN2 MONDAY
PREPENT URSELVES & HELP
UR NEIGHBORS FROM THE COLD
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 20/01/2026
If anyone works at major HR firms and platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and has info about what drove adding these questions to job applications in the last few months my DMs are open and my Signal is SydneyBauer.30 You will have anonymity.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
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“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless
Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.
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Joanna "Ms. Crow" Blackhart [They/Them] @joannablackhart.com · 16/01/2026
I need all yall that dont speak spanish to learn a few words, real quick. pls RT "La Migra" - common slang for ICE "La Patrulla" - "The Patrol" "No digas nada" - "Say nothing." ¿Cómo te llamas? - "Whats your name?" "¿Quién quieres que llame?" - "Who do you want me to call?" Escondense - Hide
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Devastating. Infuriating. Murderous. These cruel funding cuts will destroy grassroots and treatment programs that are providing vital life-saving services to people who use drugs and those with addictions. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.
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ALVIRA, the BASTARD of the Dark 🇮🇪 🍉 @alkalinecollective.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you're thinking of breaking your sober run because of today just remember you're stronger than them and you can outlive these fucks x
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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you don't know your account's default moderation settings: open sidebar, scroll down to settings, select moderation settings, and check content filters. HIDE will just show you a label, and you won't have the choice to bypass it. WARN will show the label, and you can choose to open and see.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
EXPEDITIOUSLY
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
There seems to be a lot of confusion between “lots of professors who lack merit are being hired” (false) and “lots of people with merit are unable to find jobs as professors” (true).
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 02/12/2025
Also, extra time for exams is just ... not that big a deal? It takes some extra logistics, but for almost any course I teach, it doesn't remotely harm pedagogical goals or assessment quality if students take two hours instead of one
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
the thing about extra-time accommodations is that either they help you a lot or they don't matter much, and if they help you a lot that is evidence that you should get them
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word. If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home! centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt
An adorable “cow cat” who is white with black spots and green eyes on a red checkered blanket.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com · 26/11/2025
My first byline in @latimes.com op-ed! www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Nathaniel Glasgow @ncglasgow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Apropos of nothing, here, in no particular order, are some things I do in exchange for money in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon: Replace appliances and fixtures like faucets, dishwashers, microwaves, and garbage disposals Repair/replace windows and doors Repair rotten stuff Baseboards etc /
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Ian Boatman @wxdawg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
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daviss @daviss.org · 12/11/2025
Northern Lights out here in South Minneapolis
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