estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah
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estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
· Dec 7
Listen, a hill I'll die on.
If a group of people with a shared struggle are asking for freedom and acceptance, it's not more "objective" for people from outside the group to report on them. That's not how social hierarchies work, people outside the group have self interest in maintaining status quo
If a group of people with a shared struggle are asking for freedom and acceptance, it's not more "objective" for people from outside the group to report on them. That's not how social hierarchies work, people outside the group have self interest in maintaining status quo
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“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
The figure is labeled "overall working of the framework presented as an infographic"
It has a bicycle in it for no reason and the bicycle has a line as a seat.
It has a bicycle in it for no reason and the bicycle has a line as a seat.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The figure is labeled "overall working of the framework presented as an infographic"
It has a bicycle in it for no reason and the bicycle has a line as a seat.
It has a bicycle in it for no reason and the bicycle has a line as a seat.
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Bamboos are flame resistant & bamboo scaffolding have been in use for over a century in Hong Kong 🎋
The massive fire was accerlated by the cheap netting used by the construction company. If you see any mis/disinformation, please reach out to journalists & media orgs to correct them 🙏🏼
The massive fire was accerlated by the cheap netting used by the construction company. If you see any mis/disinformation, please reach out to journalists & media orgs to correct them 🙏🏼
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bamboos are flame resistant & bamboo scaffolding have been in use for over a century in Hong Kong 🎋
The massive fire was accerlated by the cheap netting used by the construction company. If you see any mis/disinformation, please reach out to journalists & media orgs to correct them 🙏🏼
The massive fire was accerlated by the cheap netting used by the construction company. If you see any mis/disinformation, please reach out to journalists & media orgs to correct them 🙏🏼
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
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Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues
Mom Who Was Turned Away While in Active Labor Back in Hospital with Post-Birth Health Issues, Family Says
The mom who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from an Indiana hospital has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues.
people.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues
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Hey everyone,
I hate asking again, but the movers we hired ripped my family off. Quoted us about $4k then extorted another almost $4k. I’m sick from overwork, will have to miss work to recover and we’re down a lot more than planned.
See quoted posted below for donation links.
Anything helps.
I hate asking again, but the movers we hired ripped my family off. Quoted us about $4k then extorted another almost $4k. I’m sick from overwork, will have to miss work to recover and we’re down a lot more than planned.
See quoted posted below for donation links.
Anything helps.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hey everyone,
I hate asking again, but the movers we hired ripped my family off. Quoted us about $4k then extorted another almost $4k. I’m sick from overwork, will have to miss work to recover and we’re down a lot more than planned.
See quoted posted below for donation links.
Anything helps.
I hate asking again, but the movers we hired ripped my family off. Quoted us about $4k then extorted another almost $4k. I’m sick from overwork, will have to miss work to recover and we’re down a lot more than planned.
See quoted posted below for donation links.
Anything helps.
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"[P]lainly retaliatory."
FEMA employee "fired after signing an open letter warning the country about the dangers the agency posed under current leadership."
"[S]tated that the agency was ignoring science, hurting disaster survivors and undermining their mission."
#USA #Labour #Whistleblowing
FEMA employee "fired after signing an open letter warning the country about the dangers the agency posed under current leadership."
"[S]tated that the agency was ignoring science, hurting disaster survivors and undermining their mission."
#USA #Labour #Whistleblowing
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"[P]lainly retaliatory."
FEMA employee "fired after signing an open letter warning the country about the dangers the agency posed under current leadership."
"[S]tated that the agency was ignoring science, hurting disaster survivors and undermining their mission."
#USA #Labour #Whistleblowing
FEMA employee "fired after signing an open letter warning the country about the dangers the agency posed under current leadership."
"[S]tated that the agency was ignoring science, hurting disaster survivors and undermining their mission."
#USA #Labour #Whistleblowing
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
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yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
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Not the point of the story, but only 160 leopard seal pups have ever been documented!!
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Not the point of the story, but only 160 leopard seal pups have ever been documented!!
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Critics worry that the creation of 'alternative safe communities' may tip the enclave into permanent division.
US appears to back plan to divide Gaza, rebuild Israeli-controlled side
Critics worry that the creation of 'alternative safe communities' may tip the enclave into permanent division.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Critics worry that the creation of 'alternative safe communities' may tip the enclave into permanent division.
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I’ll admit that I am an every day partaker in marijuana. It helps me manage my adhd without needing so much adderall during the shortage.
I wonder how many people are using it like me, coping because of the gaps in the healthcare system.
I wonder how many people are using it like me, coping because of the gaps in the healthcare system.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’ll admit that I am an every day partaker in marijuana. It helps me manage my adhd without needing so much adderall during the shortage.
I wonder how many people are using it like me, coping because of the gaps in the healthcare system.
I wonder how many people are using it like me, coping because of the gaps in the healthcare system.
This is called a habit.
Habits are hard to break!
Habits are hard to break!
They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it
As daily cannabis use rises to historic levels in the U.S., some longtime users are finding it harder to quit.
apnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is called a habit.
Habits are hard to break!
Habits are hard to break!
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The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj
God Double Forbid we talk about men and how easily anger turns to violence.
I keep hearing about how Dems are the party of "identity politics" and yet it's Republicans who always reach to identity for everything.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
God Double Forbid we talk about men and how easily anger turns to violence.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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the national dog show, brought to you by flesh-colored pantyhose and sensible flats
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the national dog show, brought to you by flesh-colored pantyhose and sensible flats
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see, that’s the thing about going hard right on immigration. no one will even notice when immigration rates fall because it’s actually about white supremacy. pandering to this hatred only drags you down with it
Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80% from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80 percent from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
see, that’s the thing about going hard right on immigration. no one will even notice when immigration rates fall because it’s actually about white supremacy. pandering to this hatred only drags you down with it
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Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.
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I keep hearing about how Dems are the party of "identity politics" and yet it's Republicans who always reach to identity for everything.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I keep hearing about how Dems are the party of "identity politics" and yet it's Republicans who always reach to identity for everything.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
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Theft on top of theft.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Theft on top of theft.