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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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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)
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Justice Barrett is asking SG Sauer, do we really have to decide today which clause of the Constitution is the basis for our unitary executive theory? Can't we just continue "not being very specific about it," as we've been doing?
Question captures something v. important about originalism and text.
Question captures something v. important about originalism and text.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Justice Barrett is asking SG Sauer, do we really have to decide today which clause of the Constitution is the basis for our unitary executive theory? Can't we just continue "not being very specific about it," as we've been doing?
Question captures something v. important about originalism and text.
Question captures something v. important about originalism and text.
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
keep in mind that these are the govt-sanctioned photos by reuters. getting photo access inside any incarceration facility has been extremely hard, even for lawyers documenting emergency conditions or injuries. they were *given* access , which means this is the extreme soft focus take. I want to cry.
Shackles, holding cells and outbound flights: Inside an ICE deportation center in Florida www.reuters.com/pictures/sha...
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
keep in mind that these are the govt-sanctioned photos by reuters. getting photo access inside any incarceration facility has been extremely hard, even for lawyers documenting emergency conditions or injuries. they were *given* access , which means this is the extreme soft focus take. I want to cry.
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Simpsons predicted it (basically)
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Simpsons predicted it (basically)
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"Autistic people are so rigid. They only want to talk about their special interests."
Meanwhile, NT normies when you mention something that doesn't belong to one of three socially sanctioned topics:
Meanwhile, NT normies when you mention something that doesn't belong to one of three socially sanctioned topics:
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Autistic people are so rigid. They only want to talk about their special interests."
Meanwhile, NT normies when you mention something that doesn't belong to one of three socially sanctioned topics:
Meanwhile, NT normies when you mention something that doesn't belong to one of three socially sanctioned topics:
there is a certain, interesting name, that i think is so cool and really love. but *every* person i encounter or read about who was named thus is a *fucking asshole*, and it makes me wonder if it’s like a secret curse unwittingly bestowed upon a baby or something.
December 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
there is a certain, interesting name, that i think is so cool and really love. but *every* person i encounter or read about who was named thus is a *fucking asshole*, and it makes me wonder if it’s like a secret curse unwittingly bestowed upon a baby or something.
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Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.