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Paige

@whimsicalnerd.bsky.social
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quilter | angel city fan | adhd | professional korok hunter | still taking covid seriously

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
RFK Jr. is a Neo-Nazi. He has other beliefs, too. Who cares. He’s a Neo-Nazi.
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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is a league where Casey Krueger had an asthma attack triggered by fireworks moments before a championship game, and that just had fireworks flying into the stands in LA. As I wrote about the Spirit's version of this: No one will throw you in jail for failing to have fireworks.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
well that was quick
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is such bullshit. Canada gets away with its own evils because the US demands so much attention, but it does the same things as the US while covering it with a veneer of niceness.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
At BEST you’re playing Russian Roulette with information when you’re asking an AI to tell you something, but many people—including smart people, including people you respect and love—already view it as something with more authority than an *expert*. It’s like conservatism on steroids
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This, ladies, gentlemen, and others, is why information science is a formal discipline with a strict ethical requirement. One of the requirements of library/archive professionals is providing accurate information. If you set up something to auto-index that you cannot demonstrate the accuracy of—
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ghoul, interrupted @haringbisexual.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
why are we framing PR from anthropic like it's independent research
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Eileen @eileenart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You should be A LOT more worried about getting repeatedly infected by the organ-damaging SARS virus that world governments have tricked you into believing is a "cold," than you should be about your consumption of processed foods.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2026
i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
People lost jobs for merely quoting Charlie Kirk's own racist words. But the president of the United States can post this and 🤷‍♂️:
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Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
USPS is the bus ride that saves you from needing a $75 cab. It's the public school that saves you $5k in tuition even when the diocese is helping with the funding. It's the public housing that keeps you housed when you don't have money for $3k rent for a private family-sized apartment.
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Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Every single sector needs a strong, downwards pushing public backstop to ensure everyone can get what they need. When that backstop gets removed, prices can soar because there's no longer the chance to say you'll take the bus, go to public school, or find a social housing unit tied to income.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/03/2026
one of my most intractable and strident positions is that i absolutely don’t give a single fuck how much the USPS costs, expand their services so that it costs double, you’ll never get me to give a shit
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Paige @whimsicalnerd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There's a tiny constant hell that I'm living in and it's that I click "remember me" every time I log in somewhere and about half of the time it simply doesn't.
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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
NCLR teal background. 
The Federal Bureau of Prisons Is Running a Conversion Therapy Program. We must not let it stand
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
akb is a creator, a performer, an artist, and i oppose the nwsl's attempt to censor her art
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ghosty @ghostytheeghost.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
nwsl hates fun confirmed
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/03/2026
It is true that if your goal is to maximize the number of clicks on a given piece of content, you don't want to produce a 3,000-word piece. But maybe not everyone should be trying to maximize clicks! Maybe it's okay to target a smaller, more devoted audience. Indeed I've bet my entire career on it.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
the music + chaos makes this certified internet platinum
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/03/2026
hahahaha omg I'm so tired it's like I'm drunk. It's not that they're trusting "mommy bloggers" over medical expertise. It's that those people - and it's not just women doing it - are able to dispense life threatening medical advice with zero consequences.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/03/2026
I don't know how to say this exactly but I don't think the problem is just that people are willing to believe random people on the expert for medical advice, but that people are able to horrific disseminate medical advice without any consequences. And it's not just "mommy bloggers" doing it
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
idk i do think refusing to vaccinate your children is a moral issue. how much blame someone deserves can depend on what type of information they have access to or how capable they are of understanding it, but you are culpable if your children die of a preventable disease. you just are.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If allying yourself with an anti-vax lunatic and helping him gut public health in America while children die of vaccine-preventable diseases doesn’t get you expelled from academia, then the whole system is utterly broken.
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Gerry Duggan @gerryduggan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.
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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026
move slow and repair things
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Stop this! Stop doing this stupid shit! It's language-generating code, that's it!
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
this isn't the worst of the Democrats' statements, but statements like this are a stark reminder that to many people, the real issue with the Iraq War was that Americans died. everything else is a footnote.
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 01/03/2026
Cannot recommend highly enough making something with your hands to keep the despair at manageable levels
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
Six accounts on Polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28, according to analytics firm Bubblemaps SA. The accounts were all freshly created in February and had only ever placed bets on when US strikes might occur. Some of their shares were purchased, in some cases at roughly a dime apiece, hours before the first explosions were reported in Tehran.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Again and again in the new trove of documents, Mr. Epstein inserts himself into the medical decisions of young women. It’s unclear whether they gave him permission to do so. Under federal law, doctors are not allowed to disclose private medical information to third parties w/o a patient’s consent”
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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Once again.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Posting photos of dead children helps who exactly? What are you doing? What is wrong with you? Call your therapist.
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 26/02/2026
I'm only linking this to point out the historical parallels, not fearmonger that we are in 1:1 the same situation with the same outcome, but ... remember that while history might not always repeat, it always rhymes. the GOP's intentions are clear, and their actions are even clearer.
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German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid | Holocaust Encyclopedia
October 5, 1938. On this date, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all German Jews' passports and required them to have a "J" stamped on them.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
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Robot @t20xx.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Every 6 months a company I've never heard of leaks my social security number and I'm supposed to act like them losing it is worse than them having had it without my knowledge.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024. He is survived by his wife and two sons.” Border Patrol leaves nearly blind, non-English-speaking refugee to die in the winter cold a few miles from his home
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
i hope you and your social media team at least consider delay-posting to vichy-twitter (posting there only an hour after you post on other platforms - if they want to see potentially news-making statements immediately they then need to leave X)
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