Velma
@deradee.bsky.social
Reader/Writer
Denver, CO
New Mexico True ❤️
Midwest heart
Denver, CO
New Mexico True ❤️
Midwest heart
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My sister has started asking my three-year-old niece the name of each piece of art she produces, and today's was A SPIDER WHO CRAWLS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My sister has started asking my three-year-old niece the name of each piece of art she produces, and today's was A SPIDER WHO CRAWLS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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What do these corporations all have in common?
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What do these corporations all have in common?
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.
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seriously what would you do differently if you wanted to make this worse
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
seriously what would you do differently if you wanted to make this worse
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There is no AI.
AI has been a dream since the term was coined in 1957, and it remains a dream.
Large Language Models are statistical models that turn words into words in an only partially predictable fashion.
There is no intelligence.
Why on earth would anyone use this for serious work?
AI has been a dream since the term was coined in 1957, and it remains a dream.
Large Language Models are statistical models that turn words into words in an only partially predictable fashion.
There is no intelligence.
Why on earth would anyone use this for serious work?
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There is no AI.
AI has been a dream since the term was coined in 1957, and it remains a dream.
Large Language Models are statistical models that turn words into words in an only partially predictable fashion.
There is no intelligence.
Why on earth would anyone use this for serious work?
AI has been a dream since the term was coined in 1957, and it remains a dream.
Large Language Models are statistical models that turn words into words in an only partially predictable fashion.
There is no intelligence.
Why on earth would anyone use this for serious work?
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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Circulators collecting signatures for Initiative #95 described it as a way to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s activity in Colorado. In reality, it would force local law enforcement to share information with ICE.
Paid Signature Gatherers Mislead Voters About Pro-ICE Ballot Initiative
Signature gatherers outside of grocery stores and other public spaces are a common sight in the year before an election — but can you trust what circulators tell you? While...
coloradotimesrecorder.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Circulators collecting signatures for Initiative #95 described it as a way to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s activity in Colorado. In reality, it would force local law enforcement to share information with ICE.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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This is the appropriate energy on the subject. 🔥❤️💯
The fury I feel at your characterizing of this as "overtly irrational" as I spend my holiday break revamping my intro class AGAIN so that I can deter students from using AI to CHEAT after what I already tried didn't work last semester... have some RESPECT.
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is the appropriate energy on the subject. 🔥❤️💯
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You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine?
What?
What?
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine?
What?
What?
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This is such a wild exchange but it explains so much about the experience of using Word.
December 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is such a wild exchange but it explains so much about the experience of using Word.
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You are asking scholars to be polite while you blithely insert theft-based inaccuracy machines into products so that human learning is corrupted and their ability to discern how knowledge is created is destroyed.
So I feel like perhaps your scaling of importance on this is off.
So I feel like perhaps your scaling of importance on this is off.
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You are asking scholars to be polite while you blithely insert theft-based inaccuracy machines into products so that human learning is corrupted and their ability to discern how knowledge is created is destroyed.
So I feel like perhaps your scaling of importance on this is off.
So I feel like perhaps your scaling of importance on this is off.
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I would like to present to you the totally objective AI “architect” who believes that a professor of sociology is too biased to give an opinion on academia and AI but he is, evidently, well positioned.
This person would have done well to take more humanities.
This person would have done well to take more humanities.
December 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I would like to present to you the totally objective AI “architect” who believes that a professor of sociology is too biased to give an opinion on academia and AI but he is, evidently, well positioned.
This person would have done well to take more humanities.
This person would have done well to take more humanities.
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Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
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67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.
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What recommendation means, in the US healthcare system: insurance companies usually cover vaccines only if the government recommends them.
So parents will now pay hundreds to vaccinate their kids or not be able to afford it. People will die because of this
I’m so fucking mad
So parents will now pay hundreds to vaccinate their kids or not be able to afford it. People will die because of this
I’m so fucking mad
December 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
What recommendation means, in the US healthcare system: insurance companies usually cover vaccines only if the government recommends them.
So parents will now pay hundreds to vaccinate their kids or not be able to afford it. People will die because of this
I’m so fucking mad
So parents will now pay hundreds to vaccinate their kids or not be able to afford it. People will die because of this
I’m so fucking mad
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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If you want to give us the Denmark vaccine schedule, you also need to give us the 6+ month parental leave the Danes get, so that new babies can avoid picking up germs at daycare, and you need to give us universal healthcare.
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
If you want to give us the Denmark vaccine schedule, you also need to give us the 6+ month parental leave the Danes get, so that new babies can avoid picking up germs at daycare, and you need to give us universal healthcare.
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“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”
Faculty Want Answers on Oklahoma’s Suspension Policies
After a graduate teaching assistant was put on administrative leave following a grading dispute with a student that went viral, faculty at the University of Oklahoma are asking leaders to better prote...
www.insidehighered.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”
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While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question:
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question:
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“
Only at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-de...
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Remember 2015 rally Trump?
2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.
December 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Remember 2015 rally Trump?
2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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Holy crap chart from Gallup
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Holy crap chart from Gallup
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks