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Bex, if you can keep it
@bextraordinary.bsky.social
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🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia. Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction. Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs. bextraordinarycreatures.com
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · Nov 12
-- I'm a criminal justice and public health scholar interested in the intersection of health and the criminal legal system, especially substance use, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. This year I left my tenured Assoc. Prof. position to work for a research & evaluation nonprofit. It's great!
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1h
Chili weatherrrrr
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 2h
*gasp* A criminal lack of fluffy pillows!
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 3h
Alexa, play "Angel" so we can raise some money for this abused animal.
A white pit bull with an orange eye patch is curled up on a mountain of throw pillows piled on a couch.
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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 17h
Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 19h
This is fascinating.

Could AI ever really capture the weight of an imaginary item? Comments point out that the hands don't actually touch the item, it floats weightlessly. The AI hands tap the toy like those ASMR videos but a crochet toy wouldn't tap-tap, it's soft.

www.reddit.com/r/CraftedByA...
From the CraftedByAI community on Reddit: They are getting better, now with video...
Explore this post and more from the CraftedByAI community
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 23h
"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025
Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...
journals.sagepub.com
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d
well that's enough of my damn time on THAT
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d
Unfortunately I think there's a decent chunk who are fine with it, because they see legal practice as a set of games to be won, not a practice that upholds or remakes the social fabric. The weaselingest weasels are richly rewarded while the folks holding the line drown in debt.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d
Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d
The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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eloveart @eloveart.bsky.social · 1d
Gorgeous!
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El / Bee @elsbee.bsky.social · 3d
day 9 - autumn from @strooooble.bsky.social

#StreamINK2025
Digital illustration of a young girl in a red coat kicking up a pile of leaves. In the background there is a row of trees with orange, yellow and red leaves.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 1d
It’s kind of maddening to think about how good Black folks have to be to get a sliver of opportunity. There are very few Black folks in academia but a full assault on the few that are here, by a white federal government that can’t even fire people correctly.
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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d
Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d
www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...
UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge
BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...
www.dailytarheel.com
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 2d
Man what a lucky guess.........
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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1d
“Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing.” uh, damn
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Morris Column @morriscolumn.bsky.social · 1d
Boston, which has somehow managed to assemble in one place the most annoying aspects of the British class system, Southern racism and segregation, and the least erotic accent in the English language.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Bathsheba in Blue @bathshebablue.bsky.social · 1d
One of his posts says Dems don’t understand that paying the troops is popular … never mentioning that Dems sponsored a bill to pay the troops — but the GOP promptly blocked it.

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Democratic troop pay bill blocked in House amid shutdown
GOP leaders are seeking to keep pressure on Democrats to reopen the whole government.
www.politico.com
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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d
Marisha's Critical Role C4 character is my favorite. She's *killing* it.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. "I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. "I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. "I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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