Limecello
@limecello.bsky.social
Feral chaos muppet. Tart, a little sweet, & not enough vodka.
Lawyer + editor on pause.
https://tartsweet.com
(Old bio: Reader, Reviewer, Impoverished former lawyer at a non-profit, Imprecator, Foodie, Editor, Blogger, & Discusser of all things random.)
Lawyer + editor on pause.
https://tartsweet.com
(Old bio: Reader, Reviewer, Impoverished former lawyer at a non-profit, Imprecator, Foodie, Editor, Blogger, & Discusser of all things random.)
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This is the most prominent case, but not the only one. I worry a lot about already precarious institutions whose admins are bedazzled by the shiny promises and magical thinking surrounding AI and mortgage themselves to it. And all it will do is make them circle the drain faster.
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is the most prominent case, but not the only one. I worry a lot about already precarious institutions whose admins are bedazzled by the shiny promises and magical thinking surrounding AI and mortgage themselves to it. And all it will do is make them circle the drain faster.
There’s a construction crew out there jackhammering the newly paved road and I just … IDEK man.
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There’s a construction crew out there jackhammering the newly paved road and I just … IDEK man.
Frustrating, but sometimes you just have to let people do stupid shit because they absolutely won’t listen to you (anyway). *Sigh.*
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Frustrating, but sometimes you just have to let people do stupid shit because they absolutely won’t listen to you (anyway). *Sigh.*
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There’s a certain cutthroat elegance in finding and posting Hegseth saying exactly the same thing he’s attacking you for.
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
There’s a certain cutthroat elegance in finding and posting Hegseth saying exactly the same thing he’s attacking you for.
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Remember the “where can we travel to get vaccines?” panic earlier this year and we made noise and it was all fine?
1. That’s probably because they were too chaotic to figure out how to do this very bad thing.
2. You both need to make all the noise in the world -and- start figuring out your plan B
1. That’s probably because they were too chaotic to figure out how to do this very bad thing.
2. You both need to make all the noise in the world -and- start figuring out your plan B
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Remember the “where can we travel to get vaccines?” panic earlier this year and we made noise and it was all fine?
1. That’s probably because they were too chaotic to figure out how to do this very bad thing.
2. You both need to make all the noise in the world -and- start figuring out your plan B
1. That’s probably because they were too chaotic to figure out how to do this very bad thing.
2. You both need to make all the noise in the world -and- start figuring out your plan B
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Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135440
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135440
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135440
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135440
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Okay, but am I the only one here who wants the town coffee shop (required) to be named "Strunk & White's"?
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Okay, but am I the only one here who wants the town coffee shop (required) to be named "Strunk & White's"?
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"legacy" = affirmative action for rich/white/privileged people
"do you know who my father/mother/grandparent is" = accommodations for r/w/p
they use different terminology so they can keep theirs when they take it away from others
"do you know who my father/mother/grandparent is" = accommodations for r/w/p
they use different terminology so they can keep theirs when they take it away from others
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"legacy" = affirmative action for rich/white/privileged people
"do you know who my father/mother/grandparent is" = accommodations for r/w/p
they use different terminology so they can keep theirs when they take it away from others
"do you know who my father/mother/grandparent is" = accommodations for r/w/p
they use different terminology so they can keep theirs when they take it away from others
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
… 😱😹 “she writes, 24 pages into her first—and if God is hearing me, perhaps last—book.”
"It’s like a children’s book about good old red, white, and blue—except it was written by Joan Didion in a black turtleneck, and it fucking sucks."
If the NYT and WaPo reviews were murders, @scaachi.bsky.social’s Slate piece is straight out of the Saw franchise.
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
… 😱😹 “she writes, 24 pages into her first—and if God is hearing me, perhaps last—book.”
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We’re so grateful to @aftynbehn.bsky.social for running an incredible grassroots campaign that made Republicans sweat in a deep-red district. Thank you to everybody in #TN07, across Tennessee, and nationwide for making this special election closer than anyone imagined it could be.
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We’re so grateful to @aftynbehn.bsky.social for running an incredible grassroots campaign that made Republicans sweat in a deep-red district. Thank you to everybody in #TN07, across Tennessee, and nationwide for making this special election closer than anyone imagined it could be.
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Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
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A razor close finish in _this_ Tennessee district, of all places, is a God-awful night for the GOP. Don’t let anyone persuade you otherwise.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A razor close finish in _this_ Tennessee district, of all places, is a God-awful night for the GOP. Don’t let anyone persuade you otherwise.
I want peaches, but it’s not peach season. Alas.
I also want hot chocolate, and that is at least doable. Plus I think I have some seriously ancient caramel vodka.
(>.> 😅 no YOU googled if that shit goes bad … apparently the only issue is loss of flavor and some potency so 🤞🤷🏻♀️ should be fine?)
I also want hot chocolate, and that is at least doable. Plus I think I have some seriously ancient caramel vodka.
(>.> 😅 no YOU googled if that shit goes bad … apparently the only issue is loss of flavor and some potency so 🤞🤷🏻♀️ should be fine?)
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I want peaches, but it’s not peach season. Alas.
I also want hot chocolate, and that is at least doable. Plus I think I have some seriously ancient caramel vodka.
(>.> 😅 no YOU googled if that shit goes bad … apparently the only issue is loss of flavor and some potency so 🤞🤷🏻♀️ should be fine?)
I also want hot chocolate, and that is at least doable. Plus I think I have some seriously ancient caramel vodka.
(>.> 😅 no YOU googled if that shit goes bad … apparently the only issue is loss of flavor and some potency so 🤞🤷🏻♀️ should be fine?)
Realized I’m late on my monthly migraine med, which might (likely) explain the increasingly awful migraines. Problem being awful migraines = broken brain = can’t remember shit. Like I’m lucky to remember bills. Which I nearly forgot (last month? 😬🫠)
Reminders aren’t that helpful either ☠️
Reminders aren’t that helpful either ☠️
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Realized I’m late on my monthly migraine med, which might (likely) explain the increasingly awful migraines. Problem being awful migraines = broken brain = can’t remember shit. Like I’m lucky to remember bills. Which I nearly forgot (last month? 😬🫠)
Reminders aren’t that helpful either ☠️
Reminders aren’t that helpful either ☠️
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A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...
Oh this is *gorgeous* 😻😻😻
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Oh this is *gorgeous* 😻😻😻
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Every single story about that missing Virginia football coach leading with his "undefeated season" says a lot about our country.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Every single story about that missing Virginia football coach leading with his "undefeated season" says a lot about our country.
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Decades spent fighting for basic decency dismissed out of hand because this author no doubt once had somebody in a Yale class receive an accommodation that she did not believe was necessary, and she's been fucking outraged about it ever since.
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Decades spent fighting for basic decency dismissed out of hand because this author no doubt once had somebody in a Yale class receive an accommodation that she did not believe was necessary, and she's been fucking outraged about it ever since.