MagicBear
@magicbear.bsky.social
A bear of very little filter
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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social
When there's a noise in your house and you have a cat
Carry on my dumb ass son
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When there's a noise in your house and you have a cat
I really want to eat seaweed salad and I have some in my fridge but I also have a dentist appointment today so I'm trying to resist until after 😅 #food
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I really want to eat seaweed salad and I have some in my fridge but I also have a dentist appointment today so I'm trying to resist until after 😅 #food
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"Camp Reunite allows children to spend a week at a traditional summer camp where they can hike, canoe and participate in trauma-informed programming ... Two days out of the week, campers get to spend an entire day with their incarcerated parents in a more relaxed setting than typical visits."
‘I did drop a tear’: Camp Reunite helps kids connect with their incarcerated parents. Story via WPR.
‘I did drop a tear’: Camp Reunite helps kids connect with their incarcerated parents Camp Reunite helps Wisconsin prisoners connect with their children
A unique camp allows parents incarcerated in Taycheedah and Kettle Moraine prisons to spend quality time with their children. But barriers persist.
www.wpr.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"Camp Reunite allows children to spend a week at a traditional summer camp where they can hike, canoe and participate in trauma-informed programming ... Two days out of the week, campers get to spend an entire day with their incarcerated parents in a more relaxed setting than typical visits."
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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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We did choose to keep Froggie home this week after hearing that five (5!!) kids from his nursery were sent home yesterday with fevers. He’s too young for the vaccine.
But we can do this because we both have flexible working arrangements. Systemic measures matter.
But we can do this because we both have flexible working arrangements. Systemic measures matter.
🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We did choose to keep Froggie home this week after hearing that five (5!!) kids from his nursery were sent home yesterday with fevers. He’s too young for the vaccine.
But we can do this because we both have flexible working arrangements. Systemic measures matter.
But we can do this because we both have flexible working arrangements. Systemic measures matter.
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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Man, the KOSA bill feels like a relative of big tech because we have to keep rejecting it over and over and over. It’s always like “not this time, ask me again later” 🙄
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Man, the KOSA bill feels like a relative of big tech because we have to keep rejecting it over and over and over. It’s always like “not this time, ask me again later” 🙄
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This makes me wanna throw up every year but the new faces added are ‘ones to watch’ in the future
🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This makes me wanna throw up every year but the new faces added are ‘ones to watch’ in the future
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Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs.
US Patent 12495775, issued today
US Patent 12495775, issued today
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs.
US Patent 12495775, issued today
US Patent 12495775, issued today
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started doing gigs for the ska-themed food delivery service. yeah, it's great, but i can't stay long, i just recieved an order and i gotta PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
started doing gigs for the ska-themed food delivery service. yeah, it's great, but i can't stay long, i just recieved an order and i gotta PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP
Also, I had to buy a carbon monoxide alarm this year and they were WAY less expensive than I expected.
Ours was a bit fancy and only $30! You can get one for $20 easily if you just need to not die.
Ours was a bit fancy and only $30! You can get one for $20 easily if you just need to not die.
If you lose power and are using a portable generator, remember to only run it outdoors at least 20 feet away from your home. Portable generators can produce deadly levels of carbon monoxide in minutes. Make sure you have a working carbon monoxide alarm on every level of your home.
In the wake of Monday's cold front, a second cold front will cross the Pacific Northwest Wednesday followed by another atmospheric river. Each of these features will bring additional periods of gusty winds, mountain snow, and heavy to excessive rainfall with renewed flooding. weather.gov
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Also, I had to buy a carbon monoxide alarm this year and they were WAY less expensive than I expected.
Ours was a bit fancy and only $30! You can get one for $20 easily if you just need to not die.
Ours was a bit fancy and only $30! You can get one for $20 easily if you just need to not die.
I always always try, especially for indie books and especially for queer/trans authors, to make sure when I add it to my fediverse reading log there's an image of the cover (so people want it!) and a link to buy it directly from the author (so the easiest way to get it is the best!).
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I always always try, especially for indie books and especially for queer/trans authors, to make sure when I add it to my fediverse reading log there's an image of the cover (so people want it!) and a link to buy it directly from the author (so the easiest way to get it is the best!).
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Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine.
World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM
World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine.
World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM
World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM
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The New Jersey e-bike registration legislation is a great example of what can happen when anti-bike rhetoric and misinformation goes unchecked.
bikeportland.org/2025/12/14/m...
bikeportland.org/2025/12/14/m...
Monday Roundup: Tariff trouble, tickets for the tour, traffic violence, and more
The most notable stories from the past seven days.
bikeportland.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The New Jersey e-bike registration legislation is a great example of what can happen when anti-bike rhetoric and misinformation goes unchecked.
bikeportland.org/2025/12/14/m...
bikeportland.org/2025/12/14/m...
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Facing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after...
theonion.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
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Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.
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Thinking about extricating yourself from Big Tech?
A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, arrived at her home in The Hague and called out “Alexa”.
“Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me.”
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, arrived at her home in The Hague and called out “Alexa”.
“Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me.”
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thinking about extricating yourself from Big Tech?
A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, arrived at her home in The Hague and called out “Alexa”.
“Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me.”
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
A Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, arrived at her home in The Hague and called out “Alexa”.
“Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me.”
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
why did you even bother to advertise yaml support if I have to click a minimum of three buttons in your shitty wysiwyg PER ITEM before I'm allowed to write any yaml 😭
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
why did you even bother to advertise yaml support if I have to click a minimum of three buttons in your shitty wysiwyg PER ITEM before I'm allowed to write any yaml 😭
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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.