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@mrscrabapple.bsky.social
powerful and dangerous. born at 333ppm. feminist killjoy forged in fires of rage & grief. renamed by teenagers formerly housed inside me.
i am not a serious person, but i wish you well with that.
no is golden.
i am not a serious person, but i wish you well with that.
no is golden.
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@mrscrabapple.bsky.social
· Jan 16
this is what it looks like inside my head all day every day right now and i really need something to oust this very specific feeling post haste!
not like that, goddammit.
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Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom.
Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”
Choices.
Choices are more free than car dependency.
It’s not a hard concept.
I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.
I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”
Choices.
Choices are more free than car dependency.
It’s not a hard concept.
I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.
I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
December 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom.
Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”
Choices.
Choices are more free than car dependency.
It’s not a hard concept.
I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.
I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?”
Choices.
Choices are more free than car dependency.
It’s not a hard concept.
I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport.
I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.
this really pisses me off.
Harvard cannot allow this kind of sex-based exclusion at the same time as it’s clamping down on (liberal-coded) gender- and race-based affinity groups.
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
this really pisses me off.
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finally, we've created a natural language interface that will make the awesome power of computers accessible to everyone, not just a highly trained caste. any problem we want them to solve in business, ordinary users will just be able to ask. pic unrelated
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
finally, we've created a natural language interface that will make the awesome power of computers accessible to everyone, not just a highly trained caste. any problem we want them to solve in business, ordinary users will just be able to ask. pic unrelated
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ty to everyone who shared this important meme with me. a blueprint for life, really.
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ty to everyone who shared this important meme with me. a blueprint for life, really.
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this dismantling of the regulatory state and the complete defanging of corporate oversight is probably one of the most important stories of the last twenty years, yet it's of little interest to the press. Here it's relegated off to the opinion section where it can be dismissed as conjecture
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
this dismantling of the regulatory state and the complete defanging of corporate oversight is probably one of the most important stories of the last twenty years, yet it's of little interest to the press. Here it's relegated off to the opinion section where it can be dismissed as conjecture
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do you enjoy completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death?
because you're about to get completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death
because you're about to get completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
do you enjoy completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death?
because you're about to get completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death
because you're about to get completely unchecked corporate power resulting in a generation of completely avoidable mass suffering and death
i wonder if the pond at my old school will freeze this year?
i have a feeling it will. which somehow feels really weird.
i have a feeling it will. which somehow feels really weird.
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
i wonder if the pond at my old school will freeze this year?
i have a feeling it will. which somehow feels really weird.
i have a feeling it will. which somehow feels really weird.
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The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
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Do any other DC residents just feel resentment when calls to get in touch with congress to push them come? Like yeah lemme call up nobody. It’s like fuck all the rest of y’all in America, now get on that phone & call your representative & tell them stop oppressing DC while they’re here to serve you.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Do any other DC residents just feel resentment when calls to get in touch with congress to push them come? Like yeah lemme call up nobody. It’s like fuck all the rest of y’all in America, now get on that phone & call your representative & tell them stop oppressing DC while they’re here to serve you.
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LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a movie where everyone in a community has to politely pretend Ryan Gosling’s “companion” is real and not anything other than an overtly obscene blow-up doll he has tailored to his peculiar specifications and i think about it a lot lately
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a movie where everyone in a community has to politely pretend Ryan Gosling’s “companion” is real and not anything other than an overtly obscene blow-up doll he has tailored to his peculiar specifications and i think about it a lot lately
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This month’s newsletter is about the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s role in building and operating the Everglades Concentration Camp and the responsibility the rest of us in emergency management have to hold Kevin Guthrie and FDEM accountable.
disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
Disasterology: September 2025
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).
disasterology.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This month’s newsletter is about the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s role in building and operating the Everglades Concentration Camp and the responsibility the rest of us in emergency management have to hold Kevin Guthrie and FDEM accountable.
disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
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Correct.
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Correct.
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NEW: The NDAA almost had right-to-repair language for the military supported by everyone from Hegseth to Warren in it. Alas! At least it doesn't have language mandating the military pay for subscription repair services in, which it could have. This is by @boone.bsky.social
The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure servicemembers’ ability to fix their own equipment.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
NEW: The NDAA almost had right-to-repair language for the military supported by everyone from Hegseth to Warren in it. Alas! At least it doesn't have language mandating the military pay for subscription repair services in, which it could have. This is by @boone.bsky.social
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This headline got me all exited that Elizabeth Warren was going to fight The Batman.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This headline got me all exited that Elizabeth Warren was going to fight The Batman.
oh this thread is exactly my jam and play it louder and louder for everyone to hear, but we shouldn’t have to, we should support mothers… aaaaaahhhhh!
Breastfeeding advocates often fall into three broad groups:
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
two panda bears are hugging each other while sitting on the ground .
Alt: A baby panda seems to give its mum a kiss before they cuddle.
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
oh this thread is exactly my jam and play it louder and louder for everyone to hear, but we shouldn’t have to, we should support mothers… aaaaaahhhhh!
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I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"
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It’s frustrating that EVERY UBI STUDY shows its utility, benefits, and cost effectiveness yet we still not only ignore it but have to produce MORE studies to validate the same things.
Just give poor people money, we see how well it works for the rich/wealthy who don’t need the assistance.
Just give poor people money, we see how well it works for the rich/wealthy who don’t need the assistance.
A new Washington University study found that St. Louis' guaranteed basic income pilot program helped hundreds of families. But a lawsuit paused payments, and later crises deepened the financial strain many participants already faced.
$500 monthly payments helped St. Louis families — then a lawsuit and a tornado hit
A new Washington University study found that St. Louis' guaranteed basic income pilot program helped hundreds of families. But a lawsuit paused payments, and later crises deepened the financial strain many participants already faced.
www.kbia.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s frustrating that EVERY UBI STUDY shows its utility, benefits, and cost effectiveness yet we still not only ignore it but have to produce MORE studies to validate the same things.
Just give poor people money, we see how well it works for the rich/wealthy who don’t need the assistance.
Just give poor people money, we see how well it works for the rich/wealthy who don’t need the assistance.
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bring back shame, combat vice signaling
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
bring back shame, combat vice signaling
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Somewhere along the way we lost the plot of what money is even for. It's not for hoarding, it's for getting things done. Now we live in a world where hoarding has become so important that the government doesn't even work.
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Somewhere along the way we lost the plot of what money is even for. It's not for hoarding, it's for getting things done. Now we live in a world where hoarding has become so important that the government doesn't even work.
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this is them trying to juice the stock one last time to make sure February isn't a complete bloodbath, but a stopgap measure at best
THE U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT PLANS TO LET NVIDIA EXPORT ITS OLDER H200 AI CHIPS TO CHINA AS A MIDDLE-GROUND POLICY TO AVOID CEDING THE MARKET TO CHINESE RIVALS. || THE DECISION, BACKED BY COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTNICK, COULD SIGNIFICANTLY BOOST NVIDIA’S REVENUE WHILE KEEPING U.S.
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
this is them trying to juice the stock one last time to make sure February isn't a complete bloodbath, but a stopgap measure at best
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appreciate Kagan saying 'when I was a young lawyer and the unitary executive theory was getting its start--'
it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit*
none of this shit is set in stone
it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit*
none of this shit is set in stone
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
appreciate Kagan saying 'when I was a young lawyer and the unitary executive theory was getting its start--'
it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit*
none of this shit is set in stone
it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit*
none of this shit is set in stone
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but notre dame starting a trend might make a difference, so espn et al wouldn't mind making them look silly instead of smart before other colleges decide to stop risking injury on exhibition games
This column already has 400 comments that Notre Dame is right to stick it to ESPN and hurt the bowl TV ratings. A single bowl game's TV ratings difference is not going to impact the bottom line, if that's your take. Which apparently it is for a lot of people.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
but notre dame starting a trend might make a difference, so espn et al wouldn't mind making them look silly instead of smart before other colleges decide to stop risking injury on exhibition games
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Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
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FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FWIW DOJ still has not appealed the ruling disqualifying Halligan, nor have they appealed the Third Circuit ruling disqualifying Alina Habba on similar grounds (and nor did they respond to my request for comment about whether they plan to appeal)