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Lynne Ann Morse

@morselya.bsky.social

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Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter. It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either. I know how tastes can change. New followers: your posts = CV. Nothing there? Bye!

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 24m

Oh yes, and that is a nice one!!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 42m

"Medical gaslighting as a service" is not a use case I anticipated! Doctors seem to enjoy that part of the job so much, why would they outsource it to an app?

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1h

Pain does not work like this.

Nothing works like this. There's a reason lie detectors are inadmissible bullshit machines.

But even if it did, those thermometers mentioned in the first sentence? They don't work properly on Black skin. Same with pulse oximeters: they don't work on melanin, either.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

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Erika’s (Too) Online @erikas.online · 39m

Shame and ostracism are part of how we protect ourselves from bad actors in a world without cops or jails, and you know? They work. Because people need other people and most people want and need to be part of their communities to at least some degree.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 3h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 31m

Exerting sounds like something positive for you? I hope?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 3h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

this is exactly why i think it is totally justified to criticize Nuzzi

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · Sep 20

The reason reporters are talking about the Nuzzi stuff so much, besides gawking at a car crash, is that there's a handful of prestige jobs like that left, and we've all been passed over and know other reporters who've been passed over for them in favor of well-networked barnacles.

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, that was so much fun!

But we had to be quick, because "playing with your food" was forbidden.

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 2h

Oh dear - loved them from the first encounter, at 5 years old.

(My parents were *surprised*.)

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 4h

I need to get this off of my chest. There is a strong distinction between bullying and shaming. I've seen too many people shouting "Nerds should be more bullied!" Bullying is the apotheosis of punching down. It is the strong hurting the weak. Shaming is pointing out that someone is being awful.

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 2h

*checks box: economy of language*

*wink*

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 2h

Time to share a knuckle-sandwich.

Or, at the very least, a block. (As I'm about to do myself, while admiring your own fortitude.)

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 2h

Wow. That's a real TIL moment, thank you so much!

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

That's... not actually a deep surprise, all things considered.

(thanks for letting me know!)

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

My day is complete; I have heard of a Very Weird pop-culture character - from Japan, which will surprise no one.

O-shiri Tantei (おしりたんてい）Butt-Detective.

(And that's another tv show Loving Spouse will get to watch only when I am not in the living room.)

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

*looks confused*

Shoulder?

or is shudder an app I am ignorant of?

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

Nah, unless "dork" is meant with friendly affection.

(Not "affectation", pretty please?)

Dark Academia, but free of the taint of certain... haters.

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

for the kind attention of @dlbowman76.com

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

*giggles quietly in the background - this is the Bluesky I am here for!*

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4h

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

I sometimes do that - early rather than late. But the effect can be similar: not great braining for the rest of the day.

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

Good afternoon, almost evening, from the Europe crowd.

Or, well at least me. :)

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

(Sorry for the actor-ese of that question.)

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 3h

*said to the air*

"I wonder if someone's playing silly-buggers with the system? And all those phone calls, despite being dropped, are instead being 'registered' as productive 'patient interactions'?"

(Okay, enough paranoia for the day, right?)

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 3h

The usual nonsense about “assaulting an ICE officer”

The notable thing is they removed her to Vancouver Washington.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.the-independent.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5h

"we use AI to detect cancer (not to write essays)" amused me as a tagline in the U's daily news brief.

Using AI to detect cancer

New research from a University of Minnesota Rochester alum is using technology to analyze potential melanoma cases one pixel at a time.

system.umn.edu

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