kw
@icedteakw.bsky.social
Not brave but in my "fuck it" era. Love early bedtimes, Michael Westen, and a good breeze.
Self-loathing gremlin
She/her 😷
Pfp: inflatable robot Baymax asks Hiro to point to the face that matches his pain level
Self-loathing gremlin
She/her 😷
Pfp: inflatable robot Baymax asks Hiro to point to the face that matches his pain level
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@icedteakw.bsky.social
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I want to look good in a knit hat and not like a squid
I always take these opportunities to make it worse by saying stuff like if you subtract the number of years I've been alive from my birth year, it's 1935 😎
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I always take these opportunities to make it worse by saying stuff like if you subtract the number of years I've been alive from my birth year, it's 1935 😎
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him.
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him.
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
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anyone have recommendations for either canned/bottled mocktails or recipes? trying to branch out from my pomegranate or cran juice + seltzer and looking for more festive ideas for the holidays.
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
anyone have recommendations for either canned/bottled mocktails or recipes? trying to branch out from my pomegranate or cran juice + seltzer and looking for more festive ideas for the holidays.
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I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
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Today on the trail was aggressive mist
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Today on the trail was aggressive mist
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Had enough chimichurri left over to dollop onto focaccia. Thanks for the inspiration, @sithwitch.bsky.social!
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Had enough chimichurri left over to dollop onto focaccia. Thanks for the inspiration, @sithwitch.bsky.social!
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I baked bread today. Bread and butter for dinner.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I baked bread today. Bread and butter for dinner.
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Why do plain dinner rolls when you can make focaccia rolls?
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Why do plain dinner rolls when you can make focaccia rolls?
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Wrote this 3 years ago. Would love to update if you know of bike/walk work by/with Indigenous people in the Americas. bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w...
#NDN #Indigenous #cycling #BikeSky #BicyclesChangeLives #PedestrianDignity #RoadSafety #SafeRoutesNow #walking #walkability #VisionZero #trails
#NDN #Indigenous #cycling #BikeSky #BicyclesChangeLives #PedestrianDignity #RoadSafety #SafeRoutesNow #walking #walkability #VisionZero #trails
“We Are Still Here”: Indigenous-focused Bicycle Programs
Tours to highlight tribal history not known to enough people. Programs to get more kids on bicycles. Efforts to develop heritage trails for safety and connectivity. “Pedaling the Pueblo,̶…
bikestylelife.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wrote this 3 years ago. Would love to update if you know of bike/walk work by/with Indigenous people in the Americas. bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w...
#NDN #Indigenous #cycling #BikeSky #BicyclesChangeLives #PedestrianDignity #RoadSafety #SafeRoutesNow #walking #walkability #VisionZero #trails
#NDN #Indigenous #cycling #BikeSky #BicyclesChangeLives #PedestrianDignity #RoadSafety #SafeRoutesNow #walking #walkability #VisionZero #trails
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
Not me going down a rabbit hole to find a font I saw in a dream last night
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Not me going down a rabbit hole to find a font I saw in a dream last night
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do we duel now or what
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
do we duel now or what
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My Major Kira "This Machine Kills Fascists" design is upscaled and available to order on a t-shirt! It's strictly by pre-sale for now and will ship in about four weeks.
willburrows.art/shop
willburrows.art/shop
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My Major Kira "This Machine Kills Fascists" design is upscaled and available to order on a t-shirt! It's strictly by pre-sale for now and will ship in about four weeks.
willburrows.art/shop
willburrows.art/shop
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i... i haven't even finalized sides for thanksgiving
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
i... i haven't even finalized sides for thanksgiving
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I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
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yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
Why is Black Friday automatically populated on my calendar (the shopping one, not its namesake)
This isn't a holiday actually?
This isn't a holiday actually?
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Why is Black Friday automatically populated on my calendar (the shopping one, not its namesake)
This isn't a holiday actually?
This isn't a holiday actually?
O, the validation!
Remember my big haircut a couple weeks ago? That was mainly because I was noticing (as I periodically do) that I was losing so much hair & I can't stand having hairs all around. I often notice this happening when it's fall and my hair has grown past my shoulders.
Remember my big haircut a couple weeks ago? That was mainly because I was noticing (as I periodically do) that I was losing so much hair & I can't stand having hairs all around. I often notice this happening when it's fall and my hair has grown past my shoulders.
Huh, turns out us humans really do shed our hair on a seasonal basis:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
Seasonality of hair shedding in healthy women complaining of hair loss - PubMed
These results confirm the findings of former authors who have indicated seasonal changes in human hair growth, though this is the first study performed systematically in a representative number of women.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
O, the validation!
Remember my big haircut a couple weeks ago? That was mainly because I was noticing (as I periodically do) that I was losing so much hair & I can't stand having hairs all around. I often notice this happening when it's fall and my hair has grown past my shoulders.
Remember my big haircut a couple weeks ago? That was mainly because I was noticing (as I periodically do) that I was losing so much hair & I can't stand having hairs all around. I often notice this happening when it's fall and my hair has grown past my shoulders.
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Huh, turns out us humans really do shed our hair on a seasonal basis:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
Seasonality of hair shedding in healthy women complaining of hair loss - PubMed
These results confirm the findings of former authors who have indicated seasonal changes in human hair growth, though this is the first study performed systematically in a representative number of women.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Huh, turns out us humans really do shed our hair on a seasonal basis:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19407435/
My dreams lately have been much more closely aligned with reality (people & things look like the actual people & things they're supposed to be) and I keep having these moments when I first wake up of not being totally sure if I'm thinking of a memory or a dream.
That part's a little disconcerting.
That part's a little disconcerting.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My dreams lately have been much more closely aligned with reality (people & things look like the actual people & things they're supposed to be) and I keep having these moments when I first wake up of not being totally sure if I'm thinking of a memory or a dream.
That part's a little disconcerting.
That part's a little disconcerting.
On my way to work today I saw an old bearded man standing at the corner of a big intersection holding signs about "release the files."
He was completely by himself, demonstrating right in front of rush hour traffic.
Baller move tbh
He was completely by himself, demonstrating right in front of rush hour traffic.
Baller move tbh
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
On my way to work today I saw an old bearded man standing at the corner of a big intersection holding signs about "release the files."
He was completely by himself, demonstrating right in front of rush hour traffic.
Baller move tbh
He was completely by himself, demonstrating right in front of rush hour traffic.
Baller move tbh
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118 billion people have lived and died on this planet. In the time it takes me to type and post this, another 6 will go. It isn’t necessary to feel feelings for all of them, or to extend sympathy or empathy to people facing the direct consequences of their career involvement in a violent cult.
The probability is extremely high that she is receiving credible threats from MAGA cult & WH as well.
It's not necessary to agree with her, like her, trust her or invite her to our table. But our "tent" aught to at least be large enough to acknowledge the real danger she is in.🤷🏻♀️
It's not necessary to agree with her, like her, trust her or invite her to our table. But our "tent" aught to at least be large enough to acknowledge the real danger she is in.🤷🏻♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
118 billion people have lived and died on this planet. In the time it takes me to type and post this, another 6 will go. It isn’t necessary to feel feelings for all of them, or to extend sympathy or empathy to people facing the direct consequences of their career involvement in a violent cult.