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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2h

This was fabulous. And definitely the episode was a contender for GOAT #rhoslc.

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alec karam @aleckaram.bsky.social · 5h

www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rho...

This Is One of the Funniest Real Housewives Eps of All Time

There’s a mysterious “soup man” wreaking havoc on the nation’s scariest improv troupe, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2h

Also when did Mary Cosby become the most logical person on this show? 🤣 #rhoslc

Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2h

This #rhoslc episode is PEAK dysfunction. Whitney trying to break up Lisa and Angie & neither will give up insulting each other. 🤣

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2h

I came here to make sure someone was calling this out!

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 5h

George Floyd should still be here to celebrate his 52nd birthday. His life sparked a movement, and our fight for justice, accountability, and humanity continues. We’ll never stop saying his name.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 5h

This isn’t business-as-usual military action – it’s murder. There was no public evidence, no due process, and no legal justification. Thoughtless action like this is how we wind up in endless wars and how our service members become targets. This is beyond shameful.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5h

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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 4h

🤣🙏 Eva!

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 4h

I have healthy boundaries with my grad students and normally email rather than exchanging cell #s.

BUT my advisee is also a #rhoslc fan & how else are we going to 🙄 at Lisa Barlow? So, yes, for that I am making a texting exception!

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 9h

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail!

blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Screenshot of the linked webpage on my public scholarship website Black and white and read all over. The page is titled Pitchables with links to sites where scholars can pitch their work and expertise, separated into written publications and podcasts

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 4h

#Ep12

a man making a funny face with a zzypto.com logo in the background

Alt: Mic drop, boom

media.tenor.com

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 9h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 5h

Just saw folks on the overpass advertising #NoKings during the evening commute. Rainy night - super dedicated, love to see it.

(Oh wait, they must be getting paid) 🙃

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 8h

Yes! Cuz I'd be like 😬 - but this is not a new problem for the editor!

Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 8h

I love @rcolesworthy.bsky.social's perspective here, though - if it was a slam dunk, they'd both say "love it." So do a bit of tweaking so you *might* (maybe?) make reader #2 feel more comfortable with it, while still keeping the chapter cuz reader #1 loved it & hopefully a lot of people will!

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 8h

I hadn't seen this - thanks for sharing it so I didn't miss it. And I'll be prepared for what happens now if I get one reader who says "best chapter ever" and another who says "it stinks!" - Rebecca will tell me what to do! 🙌

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 8h

🙇‍♀️ I cannot wait until I actually write my ms and have this wise woman (acquisitions editor to the stars) steer me through the reports! 🤗

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10h

this one says get rid of a chapter and that one says it’s my best chapter!!

great! then keep the chapter and do some further work to show why it belongs and is needed for your argument.

done! next!

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