Johanna
@berrypecker.bsky.social
completely random, and very queer 🏳️🌈. she/her. 🇮🇪. Free 🇵🇸.
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Jessica Berman about to be visited by three Spirits.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Jessica Berman about to be visited by three Spirits.
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I don't need to reiterate how many people's lives are going to be ruined so FIFA can get rich off these games, but it does make me look ahead to 2031 and whether the US (and co-hosts) are going to allow FIFA to ruin the women's World Cup in the same way they have done to the men's
FIFA has hiked World Cup ticket prices yet again.
It's now...
💵 $700 for some standard group stage tickets
💵 $140 *at minimum* — no more Category 4
💵 $8,680 for a Category 1 ticket to the final
@theathleticfc.bsky.social has published a full list of prices here:
It's now...
💵 $700 for some standard group stage tickets
💵 $140 *at minimum* — no more Category 4
💵 $8,680 for a Category 1 ticket to the final
@theathleticfc.bsky.social has published a full list of prices here:
World Cup ticket prices rise again after draw; What each match costs to attend
For the first time, tickets are available to specific World Cup games, and the prices are largely on a significant rise
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I don't need to reiterate how many people's lives are going to be ruined so FIFA can get rich off these games, but it does make me look ahead to 2031 and whether the US (and co-hosts) are going to allow FIFA to ruin the women's World Cup in the same way they have done to the men's
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"To attempt to find useful information + instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product... You think about how different it all was: when pages loaded quickly, half the internet wasn’t locked behind paywalls..."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong.
2. To se...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"To attempt to find useful information + instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product... You think about how different it all was: when pages loaded quickly, half the internet wasn’t locked behind paywalls..."
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
No captions is a big deal for a lot of us.
Movie theaters are great but the big movie theater chains are punitive and horrible and make you feel cheated at every turn. The only concession they've made to the consumer is assigned seating and that took a huge portion of their business going to Alamo Drafthouse and its competitors.
The pandemic.
The strike.
The sale of Fox.
“.. Box office experts say 15 to 20 percent of regular moviegoers have simply never returned ..”
@thr.com
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The strike.
The sale of Fox.
“.. Box office experts say 15 to 20 percent of regular moviegoers have simply never returned ..”
@thr.com
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
No captions is a big deal for a lot of us.
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i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
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Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
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$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
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In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
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Can someone tell these guys (these politicians and the pundits who boost them) that it is not November 2024 anymore? Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Zohran Mandani, and Aftyn Behn all likely won some Trump voters/2024 skippers. Update the talking points! 2028 is not only for white guys.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can someone tell these guys (these politicians and the pundits who boost them) that it is not November 2024 anymore? Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Zohran Mandani, and Aftyn Behn all likely won some Trump voters/2024 skippers. Update the talking points! 2028 is not only for white guys.
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is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year
file under: No Shit, Sherlock.
Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated security protocols meant to protect U.S. troops by using a personal device to share sensitive operational details on the messaging app Signal.
Watchdog finds Hegseth violated Pentagon protocol in ‘Signalgate’ affair
The Defense Department inspector general finds Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Pentagon protocol in use of Signal to share highly sensitive U.S. attack plans, according to officials who have s...
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
file under: No Shit, Sherlock.
and we're not at war with Venezuela! how can it be a war crime if we're not at war? call it what it is - murder, crime against humanity, etc.
One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
and we're not at war with Venezuela! how can it be a war crime if we're not at war? call it what it is - murder, crime against humanity, etc.
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Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank
Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents Monday as they carried out raids across the occupied West Bank. In Hebron, soldiers fatally shot 17-year-old Muhannad Tariq Muhamm...
www.democracynow.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank
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💀😭😹
Floridians 15:10
"Thou shalt not bear false complexion"
"Thou shalt not bear false complexion"
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
💀😭😹
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data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
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you can lead the cybertruck to water but can you make it drink?
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
you can lead the cybertruck to water but can you make it drink?
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Funny how the AI Defense Squad sounds exactly like the NFT defenders and the Bitcoin cultists and the credit default swap hypers and the Enron execs. I wonder what the thread connecting them all could be.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Funny how the AI Defense Squad sounds exactly like the NFT defenders and the Bitcoin cultists and the credit default swap hypers and the Enron execs. I wonder what the thread connecting them all could be.
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
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99% of Discourse could be avoided if people simply accepted that multiple things can be true at the same time, and often are. The universe isn't divided neatly into heroes and villains. Humans are messy and complicated. Everyone always thinks they're the good guy, no matter how awful they are.
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
99% of Discourse could be avoided if people simply accepted that multiple things can be true at the same time, and often are. The universe isn't divided neatly into heroes and villains. Humans are messy and complicated. Everyone always thinks they're the good guy, no matter how awful they are.
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)