Leareth
@leareth.bsky.social
Professional geek, sometimes writes fic for old fandoms.
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Leareth
@leareth.bsky.social
· Nov 17
If you know me from any of the previous platforms and spaces I've used this handle on (it's an oooold handle now), you know me.
Don't know me? Continue to be perplexed.
Don't know me? Continue to be perplexed.
Humpback whale
Dolphin
Green sea turtle
Giant cuttlefish
Wobbegong shark
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🧜🏼♀️
Dolphin
Green sea turtle
Giant cuttlefish
Wobbegong shark
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🧜🏼♀️
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Humpback whale
Dolphin
Green sea turtle
Giant cuttlefish
Wobbegong shark
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🧜🏼♀️
Dolphin
Green sea turtle
Giant cuttlefish
Wobbegong shark
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🧜🏼♀️
Nine Inch Nails
Florence + The Machine
Wardruna
FKA Twigs
Berlin Philharmonic + Choir
Florence + The Machine
Wardruna
FKA Twigs
Berlin Philharmonic + Choir
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Owen Pallett
Radwimps
Vienna Teng
Spyair & Rookiez is Punk'd
Florence + The Machine
Owen Pallett
Radwimps
Vienna Teng
Spyair & Rookiez is Punk'd
Florence + The Machine
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen—
REM
Green Day
Matchbox 20
Keane
Billy Joel & Elton John
REM
Green Day
Matchbox 20
Keane
Billy Joel & Elton John
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Nine Inch Nails
Florence + The Machine
Wardruna
FKA Twigs
Berlin Philharmonic + Choir
Florence + The Machine
Wardruna
FKA Twigs
Berlin Philharmonic + Choir
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working on *REDACTED* means I have logged far too many hours of reviewing, considering, and discussing the display of N*zi symbols 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
working on *REDACTED* means I have logged far too many hours of reviewing, considering, and discussing the display of N*zi symbols 🙃
Asian parents meant I thought there were only three choices in life: medicine, engineering, or law. Turns out I liked one of those, but only in a very specific context that had me deliberately failing economics exams so I could transfer to a law/arts stream.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Asian parents meant I thought there were only three choices in life: medicine, engineering, or law. Turns out I liked one of those, but only in a very specific context that had me deliberately failing economics exams so I could transfer to a law/arts stream.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
things I don't love about working in media: dealing with threats to my journos 😡😡😡😡
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
things I don't love about working in media: dealing with threats to my journos 😡😡😡😡
replaying 九日Nine Sols to complete my trophy set and the controls are just enough like Silksong that going from Hornet-dodge-everything-throw-tools to Yi-perfect-parry-and-dodge means I keep messing up buttons UGH
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
replaying 九日Nine Sols to complete my trophy set and the controls are just enough like Silksong that going from Hornet-dodge-everything-throw-tools to Yi-perfect-parry-and-dodge means I keep messing up buttons UGH
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Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
Me in Nov 2024: "A symphonic concert of Wagner's Siegfried next year? Sounds great, count me in!"
Me in Nov 2025 one week before the concert: "I have a symphony ticket this weekend? EXCITING but also, how long is it-- oh shit I signed up for a WAGNER RING OPERA😱😯😅"
Me in Nov 2025 one week before the concert: "I have a symphony ticket this weekend? EXCITING but also, how long is it-- oh shit I signed up for a WAGNER RING OPERA😱😯😅"
This May Take A While Professor Hubert J Farnswort GIF
ALT: This May Take A While Professor Hubert J Farnswort GIF
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Me in Nov 2024: "A symphonic concert of Wagner's Siegfried next year? Sounds great, count me in!"
Me in Nov 2025 one week before the concert: "I have a symphony ticket this weekend? EXCITING but also, how long is it-- oh shit I signed up for a WAGNER RING OPERA😱😯😅"
Me in Nov 2025 one week before the concert: "I have a symphony ticket this weekend? EXCITING but also, how long is it-- oh shit I signed up for a WAGNER RING OPERA😱😯😅"
got up early to exercise by hanging out with a turtle
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
got up early to exercise by hanging out with a turtle
after a week of lawyering, exercise, migrating emails to Proton, and installing a brand new designer sofa into my living room, I am ending the week with pasta and burrata and a glass of red 🍷
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
after a week of lawyering, exercise, migrating emails to Proton, and installing a brand new designer sofa into my living room, I am ending the week with pasta and burrata and a glass of red 🍷
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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“I think we should stop calling Elon Musk the richest man in the world and start calling him the greediest.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“I think we should stop calling Elon Musk the richest man in the world and start calling him the greediest.”
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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I don’t think we collectively hate Google as much as we all should. This company is directly responsible for countless layoffs across the journalistic profession this year, and in exchange, it is a less reliable service than it was just one year ago. All in service of a technology widely loathed.
I hate this AI garbage so, so much. This "answer" isn't even self-consistent, much less correct! Maybe the three weeks of non-stop work over the 2007 holidays with not enough sleep caused me to hallucinate the whole thing.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I don’t think we collectively hate Google as much as we all should. This company is directly responsible for countless layoffs across the journalistic profession this year, and in exchange, it is a less reliable service than it was just one year ago. All in service of a technology widely loathed.
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I'm so glad to work somewhere with people on my wavelength when it comes to law, media, pop culture and politics, bc the work chat is now all NYC mayoral election cheering
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm so glad to work somewhere with people on my wavelength when it comes to law, media, pop culture and politics, bc the work chat is now all NYC mayoral election cheering
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Before President Xi Jinping assumed power, artists in China tested the boundaries of political expression. But the space for artistic independence is narrowing fast.
China Is Stamping Out Dissident Art
Curators, painters, and performers are facing jail or exile.
foreignpolicy.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Before President Xi Jinping assumed power, artists in China tested the boundaries of political expression. But the space for artistic independence is narrowing fast.
the great thing about my job these days is that with any big AI news I see from Bsky, I can feed it into Places That Matter
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
the great thing about my job these days is that with any big AI news I see from Bsky, I can feed it into Places That Matter
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP