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Eljay/knitmeapony
@knitmeapony.com
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Maker, builder, artist, gamer, and all around raconteur.

Alt text for profile pic: me, a fat white person with short silver hair and big turquoise framed glasses.
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Eljay/knitmeapony @knitmeapony.com · 16d
It's that Most Wonderful Time of the Year! That's right, it's Girl Scout cookie season, and once again I'm here to provide you with a side-by-side comparison of the two Girl Scout bakeries. 🧵
A photograph of two open cardboard boxes, each one of which is full of Girl Scout cookies. On the left the cookies from Little Brownie bakers, on the right the cookies from ABC Bakers
knitmeapony.com
This is indeed utter bullshit and it hurts people on the flip side too. Because I had some early facility for arithmetic, I was shoved into accelerated everything, burned out, and hounded with terrifying tales of how I was ruining my life despite never being taught how to study and hating it all
sifu.tweety.fish tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 10h
the degree to which we let early facility in one thing, arithmetic, be the gating function for exposure to a whole vast array of other things with essentially nothing whatsoever to do with early facility in arithmetic is wild to me, like this 19th century throwback idea hiding in plain sight
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h
Funny story: my career in drones exists because I have a arithmetic learning disability, tested awfully in math and couldn’t study STEM in college, and became so angered by how normal it was to look down upon non-tech people in the 2010s that I decided to master a hard tech field out of pure spite.
February 11, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.

apnews.com/article/mode...
Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
apnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
knitmeapony.com
The proportion of women in my grandparents generation whose first name was Mary, technically, is like 60 to 75%. Some of them added their middle name for clarity, but many of them just went by another nickname they picked up in childhood. My great aunt Tottsie, for one.
skullamity.bsky.social August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️ @skullamity.bsky.social · 1d
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 11, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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ethankocak.com
Once again, the easiest way to get my teenage kid to be interested in learning something is for school to tell him he can’t do that thing. He is now constructing an mp3 player from scratch out of an arduino board because of school’s cellphone and streaming music policy
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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cmyeaton.bsky.social
This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
The Onion article "Nothing Ever Good Enough for Captive"
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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mgearsolidarity.bsky.social
The Wes Streeting article rewritten to be by Carter Burke, villain in 1986 film Aliens Opinion Ignore the smears: The colony of Hadley's Hope is fine. We at Weyland-Yutani are building better worlds. I know nothing about these bug rumours. Carter Burke I know nothing about any ship called Nostromo vanishing and that was before I was born anyway. Burke is currently missing on a a trip to Hadley's Hope, previously known as LV-426, with an unnamed civilian specialist and a platoon of United States Colonial Marines Mon 9 Feb 2026 18.15 GMT
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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ruralindexing.bsky.social
Post Office
Sagola, MI
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
For the entire history of first amendment law, porn has been the canary in the coal mine and sex workers are always, ALWAYS correct about what's coming years before anyone else can see it.
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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tristanl.ee
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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lilahsturges.com
Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.
preternia.com preternia @preternia.com · 23h
Hasbro and Warner Bros. Discovery have signed a multi-year deal starting in 2027 to produce Harry Potter film and television series dolls, role play, action figures, collectibles, interactive plush, board games, and more to be revealed later this year - bwnews.pr/45UKdKL
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.
moiradonegan.bsky.social Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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pixelfish.bsky.social
Taking a standard precaution isn’t extreme.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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pankraru.bsky.social
Did you Know discord has a phone number, Email and address?
discord.com/company-info...

Discord Inc.
444 De Haro Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: 888-594-0085
Email: [email protected]

Customer Support: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

#Discord
Company Information - Impressum | Discord
Read Discord's Impressum, statement of ownership, as well as company information.
discord.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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wendysparrow.bsky.social
My rheumatologist has been saying this for years actually. He thoroughly researched how to advise his more vulnerable patients who were in very unique under-studied situations, and it seemed obvious to him.
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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clarkishakent.blacksky.app
Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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tendermiasma.com
Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 1d
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME
emilystjams.bsky.social Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d
When it comes to would-be couples on Buffy who are cruelly separated by the stark randomness of death, Joyce and Giles have to be at the top of the list.
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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lartist.bsky.social
Cartoon: With thanks to @toonsmith.bsky.social for learning me that Shari Lewis contributed writing some ST:TOS :)
cartoon: Spock talking with LambChop. A song that never ends? Most illogical.
February 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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arborelia.net
I keep reposting this article because it needs to be seen. This is what responsible journalism on a discriminatory act against trans people looks like. Jo put in the work.

It's no longer just my and others' personal accounts vs. random men with opinions.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
How a trans woman's removal from a restroom tore the world of competitive pinball apart
Pinball is one of the most welcoming sports for trans players. But after a confrontation at an arcade last fall, pinball’s governing group is struggling to rebuild trust.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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ethanpants.bsky.social
Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
now that's the power of a union
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM