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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 23h

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan.
Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!
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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 2d

I had prepared to do a dramatic presentation for a final with a friend, but he bailed an hour before the exam. I wrote a poem, memorized, and performed it. (Got an A.) Writing poetry homework on the bus to school or during homeroom when I forgot to do it the night before probably helped with speed.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 3d

This works for programming too. Take a walk, do something else, sleep on it, whatever. Your brain keeps working in the background, there have been lots of bits of code that I was stuck on that hours later my brain is like obviously here’s the solution and I am no longer stuck

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 3d

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 4d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 12d

OMG, PDF, it's been so long since I've read you, how have you been?!?!?!?

...whoever decided this was a useful feature does know that if you have a PDF with machine readable text (which you would need for chatting to "work") you've always been able to keyword search for information, right?

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 12d

Chat... with PDFs...?!?

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 13d

Reading Rainbow was such a great show, excited that there will be more of it.

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 13d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like mine are mild so I’m super curious to know what number they’re at because normally it’s bloating and “you overdid squats a little” and that’s surely something that also happens to men

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 25d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 29d

This Day in Labor History: September 13, 1932. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers led a successful strike of garment workers in Baltimore. This strike was a sign of the growing organizing of the 1930s that would eventually change the world for much of the American working class!!!!

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh, it’s a *gap*! That makes more sense, I was wondering why the instructions were telling you not to put a shim in between the two pieces on the left

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · Sep 9

About ten years ago, Texas A&M purchased an LGBTQ+ research collection and immediately wanted to have a library exhibit featuring it to showcase their commitment to diversity initiatives. I think A&M ranked higher on the list of most conservative colleges at the time than it does now

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Sep 9

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · Sep 3

HOW

MANY

MORE

TIMES

DO WE NEED

TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 3

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.

The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say

Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.

www.inquirer.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh man, I remember having an SE. I don't normally name my computers but I called this one "Little Gerb" because it made noises like a gerbil/hamster running on its exercise wheel. (It did not, however, run Windows 95 or MS DOS)

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?

#windows95

Some Windows 95 and MSDOS software boxes around a Macintosh SE computer

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

www.quaker.org.uk

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reading the list of conditions that qualify you for an updated COVID booster, I think the easiest route for most people without an existing diagnosis will be "physical inactivity" because that's entirely self-attested, with the runner up being "I was a smoker for a few months a few decades ago"

George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 27

FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.

Figure 2 from https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Aug 26

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Aug 22

Read every fucking word of this thread (note: mentions a trans person’s death by suicide). I’m an ex-journalist who left for different reasons but the tonality of all of this is deeply familiar.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 22

I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 22

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · Aug 22

If you kniwingly expose people to Covid at a con, you deserve a lifetime ban from that con, a blacklisting at other cons, and honestly a cat shitting into your open eyeball.

file770.com/covid-concer...

Covid Concern Becomes Issue at In-Person WSFS MPC Meeting Held at Worldcon

The WSFS Mark Protection Committee convened an in-person meeting on Saturday, August 15 at Seattle Worldcon 2025, with Chair Donald E. Eastlake III presiding. (The meeting was also streamed.) File …

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Aug 17

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · Aug 13

I haven’t done this in NYC but I have totally fast walked and never seen buses that are supposed to come every 20 minutes at any point while walking for 20 minutes along the bus route in a couple other places

Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · Aug 8

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Aug 12

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · Aug 8

I didn't notice the rabbit was on a table at first and was briefly concerned about the scale.

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Aug 5

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.”

Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation

The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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