Elizabeth-Marie Helms
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Occult detective. | HistSci + ILS @ Indiana. | Science as culture and the afterlives of ideas.
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Please let David Byrne direct and star in a Joker movie before it’s too late.
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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I think straight and cis people really have no idea what things are like out there for the rest of us. I’ve received minimum one paper Like That per year since I started teaching, if not one or more per semester, all of which contained varying degrees of blunt hate speech directed *at me* lmao
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I think straight and cis people really have no idea what things are like out there for the rest of us. I’ve received minimum one paper Like That per year since I started teaching, if not one or more per semester, all of which contained varying degrees of blunt hate speech directed *at me* lmao
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Any given trans person (particularly one in any role of power or prestige) is at risk of being forcibly cast as the villain in an algorithmic right-wing fairy tale by some grifter who's greatest dream in life is to be a pitchman for crypto schemes and off-brand fertility supplements
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Any given trans person (particularly one in any role of power or prestige) is at risk of being forcibly cast as the villain in an algorithmic right-wing fairy tale by some grifter who's greatest dream in life is to be a pitchman for crypto schemes and off-brand fertility supplements
An unexpected high point these past weeks has been these statements from Indiana Republicans in opposition to redistricting.
> Bohacek also suggested that the president “use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
> Bohacek also suggested that the president “use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
A Republican state senator says he’ll be voting “no” on mid-decade redistricting, citing President Trump’s choice of words as a reason.
State senator cites president's word choice in decision to vote against redistricting
Republican state senator Mike Bohacek says he’ll be voting “no” on mid-decade redistricting, citing President Trump’s choice of words as a reason.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
An unexpected high point these past weeks has been these statements from Indiana Republicans in opposition to redistricting.
> Bohacek also suggested that the president “use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
> Bohacek also suggested that the president “use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
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This is the same thing as when people pretend they're just really super duper concerned about fairness in women's sports. If you take them at face value, they win, because they don't actually care about women's sports. Same thing here.
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is the same thing as when people pretend they're just really super duper concerned about fairness in women's sports. If you take them at face value, they win, because they don't actually care about women's sports. Same thing here.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.
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I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro
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I really struggle with threads like this because while there’s truth here, and OP states they’re not dunking on kids, we’re still avoiding who created this problem. It’s us. It’s adults. This is a natural consequence of repeatedly failing our children, and it’s our collective responsibility.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I really struggle with threads like this because while there’s truth here, and OP states they’re not dunking on kids, we’re still avoiding who created this problem. It’s us. It’s adults. This is a natural consequence of repeatedly failing our children, and it’s our collective responsibility.
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Confirmed: I'm going to spend the next month with Lily Sullivan (as Tony Sony) and her version of "Santa Baby" stuck in my head (aka, "What happened to the pig from Black Mirror?")
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Confirmed: I'm going to spend the next month with Lily Sullivan (as Tony Sony) and her version of "Santa Baby" stuck in my head (aka, "What happened to the pig from Black Mirror?")
Imagining a rival shouting from the sidelines "Huh? That move's impossible!" as I somehow manage to do both _in the outline_ this morning.
Once again I am being unfairly asked to stop analyzing the text and forced to say what I want to say.
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Imagining a rival shouting from the sidelines "Huh? That move's impossible!" as I somehow manage to do both _in the outline_ this morning.
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The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.
Am I out of style? No, it’s the leggings that are wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Am I out of style? No, it’s the leggings that are wrong.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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these people really can’t hack winning can they. yall have everything right now, the house and the senate and the supreme court. one would assume you’d be moonwalking into midterms and you couldn’t even hack one year of this
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
these people really can’t hack winning can they. yall have everything right now, the house and the senate and the supreme court. one would assume you’d be moonwalking into midterms and you couldn’t even hack one year of this
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The basic concept behind tabletop games is pretty simple. Players represent all the characters who are human. The GM, or game master, represents everyone who's a Muppet
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The basic concept behind tabletop games is pretty simple. Players represent all the characters who are human. The GM, or game master, represents everyone who's a Muppet
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take? That sucks. I used to be like that too but then I practiced more by getting up early every morning and not taking any shots. Now I only miss 70% of the shots I don’t take. 30% of the time, the ball just leaps up and goes in the hoop on its own.
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take? That sucks. I used to be like that too but then I practiced more by getting up early every morning and not taking any shots. Now I only miss 70% of the shots I don’t take. 30% of the time, the ball just leaps up and goes in the hoop on its own.
Finger hovering between “At long last we have created the Shadow-cursed Lands” and “Simpsons did it.”
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Finger hovering between “At long last we have created the Shadow-cursed Lands” and “Simpsons did it.”
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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AI art guys try to sell the tech as a great time-saver/labor-equalizer but also insist it requires LOTS of skill and work. It’s a funny negotiation that gets to the emptiness in how some people see art. Hyper outcome-focused but unsure of how to measure that artistic outcome except by time invested.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
AI art guys try to sell the tech as a great time-saver/labor-equalizer but also insist it requires LOTS of skill and work. It’s a funny negotiation that gets to the emptiness in how some people see art. Hyper outcome-focused but unsure of how to measure that artistic outcome except by time invested.
I love that the library's "plumbers" subject heading is 90% Mario, a few juvenile books in the education library, and then a couple of titles like "Pipefitters of Dayton, Ohio, 1889-1914."
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I love that the library's "plumbers" subject heading is 90% Mario, a few juvenile books in the education library, and then a couple of titles like "Pipefitters of Dayton, Ohio, 1889-1914."
A fun thread in search of when exactly the term "the fae" (as a noun, versus fee, fay, fairy, faerie, fair folk...) did go "open source."
A new earliest instance brought to us by @coimeas.bsky.social, excepting the different plural form in the title - 'Quest of the Faes' (1985) by Catherine Geenen-Thrush!
Apparently written earlier than this by the author when she was 18. Not many more examples flooding in though
Apparently written earlier than this by the author when she was 18. Not many more examples flooding in though
Quest of the Faes
Chrysalis could not shoot sparks like Arron... she coul…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A fun thread in search of when exactly the term "the fae" (as a noun, versus fee, fay, fairy, faerie, fair folk...) did go "open source."
I'm not qualified to wade the “rap fatigue" waters, but I remember noticing c.2019-2022 a sudden decrease in how few of my 7th grade boys reported wanting to be rappers. Sports held strong, but streamer was taking off. I wonder who has those numbers...
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm not qualified to wade the “rap fatigue" waters, but I remember noticing c.2019-2022 a sudden decrease in how few of my 7th grade boys reported wanting to be rappers. Sports held strong, but streamer was taking off. I wonder who has those numbers...