Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶
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Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Since we can do pinned posts now, hi, I’m Alyssa and make things! You can find them in several places:
Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
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This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
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The mandalorian:
Bitch!!?? A baby???
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The mandalorian:
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One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
First off no one is smoking and nothing has a cluster of grapes on it so
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
First off no one is smoking and nothing has a cluster of grapes on it so
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Part of literacy being hard right now is ..
Everyone ignores that literacy involves trust and folks spent years being sarcastic , gaslighting assholes
Who told people they weren’t seeing what they saw and were stupid for “reading into things”
Meanwhile the racism was absolutely there
Everyone ignores that literacy involves trust and folks spent years being sarcastic , gaslighting assholes
Who told people they weren’t seeing what they saw and were stupid for “reading into things”
Meanwhile the racism was absolutely there
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Part of literacy being hard right now is ..
Everyone ignores that literacy involves trust and folks spent years being sarcastic , gaslighting assholes
Who told people they weren’t seeing what they saw and were stupid for “reading into things”
Meanwhile the racism was absolutely there
Everyone ignores that literacy involves trust and folks spent years being sarcastic , gaslighting assholes
Who told people they weren’t seeing what they saw and were stupid for “reading into things”
Meanwhile the racism was absolutely there
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I need to sell 28 more of these before Christmas if I want to break even on the design. We're over half way there so fingers-crossed that new people keep wanting them!
I really wasn't exaggerating when I said my Christmas tree pride pins were detailed. Each of these baubles is just over 2mm! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I need to sell 28 more of these before Christmas if I want to break even on the design. We're over half way there so fingers-crossed that new people keep wanting them!
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no one ever had to be forced to use *good* tech.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
no one ever had to be forced to use *good* tech.
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this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
I do love one of our most enduring internet jokes but god it so wasn’t worth it 😫
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I do love one of our most enduring internet jokes but god it so wasn’t worth it 😫
The thing where we’re simultaneously telling people they’re gatekeeping BUT ALSO it’s not that deep and we need to stop lecturing is weird as hell and tiring af.
This is about knitting but also life 😫
This is about knitting but also life 😫
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The thing where we’re simultaneously telling people they’re gatekeeping BUT ALSO it’s not that deep and we need to stop lecturing is weird as hell and tiring af.
This is about knitting but also life 😫
This is about knitting but also life 😫
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Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
The identical twin brother of MAGA Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is hoping to replace his brother in Congress after Nehls announced his retirement on Saturday.
MAGA Rep. Tries to Hand Seat to Literally Identical Successor
Trever Nehls is hoping to replace his brother, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in Congress.
trib.al
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
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this reminds me of the Bridgerton response and how people were so confused that the main characters *changed* after season one, like writing essays about why that was a bad choice
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
this reminds me of the Bridgerton response and how people were so confused that the main characters *changed* after season one, like writing essays about why that was a bad choice
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
Y’all my absolute favorite time of year is starting - when everyone starts tagging me as they put up their Tree-Rexes!! I love love love seeing all your trees with something I made up there every year 🥰
We put up the Christmas tree today. Including the Tree-Rex for the first time, since we didn’t get around to decorating at all last year.
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Y’all my absolute favorite time of year is starting - when everyone starts tagging me as they put up their Tree-Rexes!! I love love love seeing all your trees with something I made up there every year 🥰
Hey guess what’s coming sooooooooon 👀🎄
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Hey guess what’s coming sooooooooon 👀🎄
My oldest child, 5 minutes into A Muppet Christmas Carol, extremely suspiciously: “Heyyyyyyyy wait I know these monsters…”
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
My oldest child, 5 minutes into A Muppet Christmas Carol, extremely suspiciously: “Heyyyyyyyy wait I know these monsters…”
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
Idk what about “Muppet” in the title and also every other viewing of this movie wouldn’t indicate that we would be seeing familiar characters but here we are lol
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As many have been saying for a while, sure seems like the “who could AI replace” question has the opposite answer to what the bosses expect
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
As many have been saying for a while, sure seems like the “who could AI replace” question has the opposite answer to what the bosses expect
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Once upon a time, hateful kids went to school to learn how to twist logic and science for precisely this reason.
Now, they're just crying to TPU, and I for one am glad that hateful shits are no longer learning how to pretend with the trappings of logic.
Now, they're just crying to TPU, and I for one am glad that hateful shits are no longer learning how to pretend with the trappings of logic.
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Once upon a time, hateful kids went to school to learn how to twist logic and science for precisely this reason.
Now, they're just crying to TPU, and I for one am glad that hateful shits are no longer learning how to pretend with the trappings of logic.
Now, they're just crying to TPU, and I for one am glad that hateful shits are no longer learning how to pretend with the trappings of logic.
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I know not every TV critic is familiar with the trappings of the romance genre, but I’m tired of the implication that sex can’t be an important plot driver for individual and shared character development.
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know not every TV critic is familiar with the trappings of the romance genre, but I’m tired of the implication that sex can’t be an important plot driver for individual and shared character development.
My husband got a secondhand VR headset thing and I tried it to see what it was like and started to dry-heave 43 seconds in. My brain said absolutely the fuck not, you were made for books lady 😂
My life update is that I was not made for 3-D movie viewing.
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My husband got a secondhand VR headset thing and I tried it to see what it was like and started to dry-heave 43 seconds in. My brain said absolutely the fuck not, you were made for books lady 😂
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We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.