Ally (in Blueskyland)
@allybfraz.bsky.social
I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times (and platforms) since then. I regret to report I still have a lot of opinions. Hobbies: writing, horror, cheese.
Idc, it doesn’t matter which sport it is, I love to see the men get mad and throw a couple punches out there every now and again.
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Idc, it doesn’t matter which sport it is, I love to see the men get mad and throw a couple punches out there every now and again.
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The leaders of eight countries on the EU's eastern flank have met in the first summit of its kind to discuss closer security cooperation.
Finland and Poland announced that they would jointly lead an initiative, dubbed Eastern Flank Watch, to bolster defences.
Finland and Poland announced that they would jointly lead an initiative, dubbed Eastern Flank Watch, to bolster defences.
Eight eastern EU member states meet for inaugural security summit in Helsinki
notesfrompoland.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The leaders of eight countries on the EU's eastern flank have met in the first summit of its kind to discuss closer security cooperation.
Finland and Poland announced that they would jointly lead an initiative, dubbed Eastern Flank Watch, to bolster defences.
Finland and Poland announced that they would jointly lead an initiative, dubbed Eastern Flank Watch, to bolster defences.
I read somewhere that people “aren’t buying paperbacks” anymore which is why but, idk, maybe if paperbacks hadn’t gotten almost as expensive as hardbacks folks would still be buying them! The why behind a behavior matters, man, and it feels like gatekeeping book ownership in the current climate.
Extremely upset about this shift as someone who loves physical books and has a budget, especially when books have gotten so expensive. I miss a damn 7.99 paperback SO bad 😭
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I read somewhere that people “aren’t buying paperbacks” anymore which is why but, idk, maybe if paperbacks hadn’t gotten almost as expensive as hardbacks folks would still be buying them! The why behind a behavior matters, man, and it feels like gatekeeping book ownership in the current climate.
Extremely upset about this shift as someone who loves physical books and has a budget, especially when books have gotten so expensive. I miss a damn 7.99 paperback SO bad 😭
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Extremely upset about this shift as someone who loves physical books and has a budget, especially when books have gotten so expensive. I miss a damn 7.99 paperback SO bad 😭
And that’s if you assume these numbers are even remotely close to being accurate. I figure they’re actually much, much worse.
Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day").
Unemployment is now up to 4.6%.
This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And that’s if you assume these numbers are even remotely close to being accurate. I figure they’re actually much, much worse.
They told me I had a cheaper option for my health insurance and I got excited (reminder mine is jumping from $498 to $864 a month) bc I thought maybe some miracle happened… the cheaper plan is $841 a month lmaoooo. Fuck me then, I guess!
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
They told me I had a cheaper option for my health insurance and I got excited (reminder mine is jumping from $498 to $864 a month) bc I thought maybe some miracle happened… the cheaper plan is $841 a month lmaoooo. Fuck me then, I guess!
Unfortunately, at the rate we are going, there won’t be anything left worth celebrating by the time we reach 250 anyway. What a sad fate for a country, to have come so close to developing into something better only to have been drug backward into hell by the worst of humanity at the end.
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Unfortunately, at the rate we are going, there won’t be anything left worth celebrating by the time we reach 250 anyway. What a sad fate for a country, to have come so close to developing into something better only to have been drug backward into hell by the worst of humanity at the end.
Somebody said “is it yearning or is it anxious attachment” and I— 😳🤔 YOU KNOW WHAT?!
December 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Somebody said “is it yearning or is it anxious attachment” and I— 😳🤔 YOU KNOW WHAT?!
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TV news having trouble triaging an antisemitic mass murder on Chanukah, a mass shooting at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and the apparent murder of one of America’s most beloved movie directors
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
TV news having trouble triaging an antisemitic mass murder on Chanukah, a mass shooting at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and the apparent murder of one of America’s most beloved movie directors
Thinking about how part of the reason I have AAA to this day is bc when I was 16 I locked my keys in the car while it was still running… which means they were indeed still dangling from the ignition lol
The trouble with cars that start with the push of.a Button—now all of them—is that you can walk or drive away with the keys in your pocket. In the old days, they hung from the ignition in the dash.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Thinking about how part of the reason I have AAA to this day is bc when I was 16 I locked my keys in the car while it was still running… which means they were indeed still dangling from the ignition lol
We could fix the X problem if everyone got off it and stopped legitimizing it. Twitter is dead.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We could fix the X problem if everyone got off it and stopped legitimizing it. Twitter is dead.
Imagine picking up your insurance at your local Costco. Oddly, I’d lowkey absolutely trust Costco to do healthcare insurance better than the current goons.
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Imagine picking up your insurance at your local Costco. Oddly, I’d lowkey absolutely trust Costco to do healthcare insurance better than the current goons.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I love a mixed market type place. Was able to pick up treats for my dog and treads for a party in one fell swoop tonight and why isn’t everything built like this?!
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I love a mixed market type place. Was able to pick up treats for my dog and treads for a party in one fell swoop tonight and why isn’t everything built like this?!
As a paperback girlie who yearns for the days of the 9.99 (or less) paperback, this is upsetting to me. Paperback costs got insane (prob part of why people stopped buying them) but I can’t afford a $30+ hardback either.
Yes I’m aware of libraries, etc. but sometimes I want to own a physical book.
Yes I’m aware of libraries, etc. but sometimes I want to own a physical book.
The article makes clear that mass market paperback sales have fallen off a cliff, even as distribution has been there. So there's at least some market preference at play. Anecdotally, I know my ebook sales have made up for MMPB sale declines and then some. It seems the "cheap PB" people went there.
I have to wonder: how much of this is really due to changing customer preferences, and how much is really due to increasing market consolidation?
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
As a paperback girlie who yearns for the days of the 9.99 (or less) paperback, this is upsetting to me. Paperback costs got insane (prob part of why people stopped buying them) but I can’t afford a $30+ hardback either.
Yes I’m aware of libraries, etc. but sometimes I want to own a physical book.
Yes I’m aware of libraries, etc. but sometimes I want to own a physical book.
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This is nothing but a handout. Nobody cares what the curricular implementation looks like, because the sole purpose is lock-in contracts for EdTech companies (all AI companies are EdTech companies now).
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is nothing but a handout. Nobody cares what the curricular implementation looks like, because the sole purpose is lock-in contracts for EdTech companies (all AI companies are EdTech companies now).
One has to wonder what the rush is, one top of everything else.
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One has to wonder what the rush is, one top of everything else.
Americans should watch Australia very carefully in the coming weeks, and then ask themselves why our country can’t do anything about gun violence when other countries clearly can (and Australia will, as they have before).
December 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Americans should watch Australia very carefully in the coming weeks, and then ask themselves why our country can’t do anything about gun violence when other countries clearly can (and Australia will, as they have before).
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
A lot of the replies under that Bondi Beach video are strange. It’s as if even when people are talking about hero’s actions in an awful situation like that they’re still totally incapable of being normal about it.
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A lot of the replies under that Bondi Beach video are strange. It’s as if even when people are talking about hero’s actions in an awful situation like that they’re still totally incapable of being normal about it.
Woke up and my hair looks like I traveled to twelve alternate dimensions in my sleep last night 😂
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Woke up and my hair looks like I traveled to twelve alternate dimensions in my sleep last night 😂
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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psychiatrist: hru
me: stable is for horses
me: stable is for horses
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
psychiatrist: hru
me: stable is for horses
me: stable is for horses
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Many copywriters were offered reduced rates to edit AI-generated copy. Others who still did have jobs said that the work has lost much of its meaning; it's been sped-up and automated into busywork.
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Many copywriters were offered reduced rates to edit AI-generated copy. Others who still did have jobs said that the work has lost much of its meaning; it's been sped-up and automated into busywork.
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As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.