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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

it makes me angry every day that they’ve arranged their lives so that the right has constant access to them and the left has none but they frame that as neutrality

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6h

This thing has to be plugged in. It sits on a desk. It won't let me connect to it with my laptop because it uses a phone app. The opportunities to make my use of this thing as inconvenient as possible are endless.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

Me just now: "What model of label maker do we have? The app wants to know."
Partner: "I dunno. It's on my desk downstairs."

It's not even discoverable on the home network!

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

I find it easier to understand why someone would want a wireless lathe than a wireless label maker because lathes are dangerous to fingers.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11h

One of the reasons I like this is because I think a lot of people freeze because they do not know what to say.

You don’t have to say anything.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

If I have to be next to the thing in order to use it, making it wireless and controlled by an app is not in fact what I want.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

This is up there with the wireless feature on the immersion circulator. (Yes, I know it's about cheapness. It's still annoying.)

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

The old one works fine.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17h

also the fact that i'm still not even remotely caught up on housekeeping, life administration, e-mail, phone calls, meal prep or exercise is always a stark reminder of how much time and energy these things take and why i'm always behind

Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

man, the amount i have slept in the past week is making my level of burnout i had reached a lot clearer

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

I'm trying to understand why we need a wireless label maker.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

Also a Stephen Sondheim musical; I heard actors from the West End production singing the opening song last week and now I want a full cast recording:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvfy...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard, but it did:

www.instagram.com/p/DPJjc_TCHd...

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 9h

“He admitted that he was ‘unprepared for this specific situation, or for any situation at all.’”

We know the feeling, T. S. Eliot.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

O no. That sounds awful. When my friends' kids have the occasional bout of existential lamentation, I pretty much lose my mind from the combination of irritation and helplessness.

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Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social · 2d

www.regulations.gov/commenton/EA...

In 2 days, right-wing election groups have submitted over 200,000 new comments to the Election Assistance Commission to require Americans to show a passport or citizenship document for voter registration. We must drive comments to oppose this before 10/20.

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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