Mandalee
@mandalee.bsky.social
Archaeologist, serial immigrant, lover of dogs and coffee. Obstreperous AND unruly. Black is my happy colour.
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Just 10 trans Christmas tree pins remaining! It would be amazing if they sold out before Christmas 🥰
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!
This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!
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This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!
canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just 10 trans Christmas tree pins remaining! It would be amazing if they sold out before Christmas 🥰
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A sane country.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A sane country.
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Struggling not to get stabbed in that London again.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Struggling not to get stabbed in that London again.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
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it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is
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Do you think, in his heart of hearts, he knows that while his death will certainly be covered by TV news & breaking alerts, people will learn about it when they see neighbors spontaneously celebrating, hooting and hollering in the streets, spreading good cheer and pouring each other popped champagne
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Do you think, in his heart of hearts, he knows that while his death will certainly be covered by TV news & breaking alerts, people will learn about it when they see neighbors spontaneously celebrating, hooting and hollering in the streets, spreading good cheer and pouring each other popped champagne
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
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This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
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It’s time for Starmer to quicken the pace on green jobs and green growth. To push harder for the cleaner air, cheaper energy and healthier lives that we all deserve.
Let’s make sure the government feels the heat:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Let’s make sure the government feels the heat:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Make Keir Starmer step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
goodlaw.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s time for Starmer to quicken the pace on green jobs and green growth. To push harder for the cleaner air, cheaper energy and healthier lives that we all deserve.
Let’s make sure the government feels the heat:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Let’s make sure the government feels the heat:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
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From @chrispage90.bsky.social’s FB page:
☀️Good news! We’ve just had our earliest sunset of the year. From here, slow but surely, our evenings will get lighter, despite still loosing daylight over all. How can that be?
☀️Good news! We’ve just had our earliest sunset of the year. From here, slow but surely, our evenings will get lighter, despite still loosing daylight over all. How can that be?
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
From @chrispage90.bsky.social’s FB page:
☀️Good news! We’ve just had our earliest sunset of the year. From here, slow but surely, our evenings will get lighter, despite still loosing daylight over all. How can that be?
☀️Good news! We’ve just had our earliest sunset of the year. From here, slow but surely, our evenings will get lighter, despite still loosing daylight over all. How can that be?
Fantastic thread.
When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Fantastic thread.
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I have thought this for a while, & that an obvious advantage for tutorial-system universities like Oxford is that it’s quite hard to use AI to cheat your way through an hour 1:1 or 1:2 in person with an expert, or in supervised exams. Which is why it’s so stupid of them to have partnered with OpenAI
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
Nothing will make you an education AI skeptic faster than grading some college take home assignments. Admins who haven’t been in a classroom in years push it as a learning tool. Students are laughing at them as they use it as a cheating tool. It’s all instructors are texting about with each other.
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I have thought this for a while, & that an obvious advantage for tutorial-system universities like Oxford is that it’s quite hard to use AI to cheat your way through an hour 1:1 or 1:2 in person with an expert, or in supervised exams. Which is why it’s so stupid of them to have partnered with OpenAI
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I'm going to phrase this as diplomatically as possible. The government of Israel is overstocked with corrupt, dreadful assholes. This is not a justification for you to be an antisemitic asshole. Saul from Sheboygan is not Itamar Ben-Gvir. Be cool and be decent people, yes?
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm going to phrase this as diplomatically as possible. The government of Israel is overstocked with corrupt, dreadful assholes. This is not a justification for you to be an antisemitic asshole. Saul from Sheboygan is not Itamar Ben-Gvir. Be cool and be decent people, yes?
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Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
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What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data?
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data?
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
This is proper good news.
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is proper good news.
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Otters! Glorious story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hightailing along high streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain
Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success story
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Otters! Glorious story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Go Big Red!
At Cornell University, @mariagallucci.bsky.social found a deep-drilling geothermal mission underway to heat a chilly, sprawling campus with minimal emissions.
Cornell’s deep-down and rocky quest to unlock geothermal for New York
The university is drilling for geothermal energy to directly warm its campus upstate. The system could curb emissions without straining the grid.
www.canarymedia.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Go Big Red!
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Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Caravan" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
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You can read it here!
buff.ly/PJBwUYj
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Caravan" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/PJBwUYj
You can read it here!
buff.ly/PJBwUYj
Baking five types of Christmas cookies while listening to "Jungle Boogie". As is traditional*
*well. Maybe not traditional, but it sure as hell keeps my energy levels up
*well. Maybe not traditional, but it sure as hell keeps my energy levels up
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Baking five types of Christmas cookies while listening to "Jungle Boogie". As is traditional*
*well. Maybe not traditional, but it sure as hell keeps my energy levels up
*well. Maybe not traditional, but it sure as hell keeps my energy levels up
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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PS
As Brian Bell (Chair of the MAC) is quoted as saying, the proposed new rules on settlement (apart from being xenophobic, mean-spirited, and contrary to what the vast majority of the public think is fair) are likely to do significant economic damage.
As Brian Bell (Chair of the MAC) is quoted as saying, the proposed new rules on settlement (apart from being xenophobic, mean-spirited, and contrary to what the vast majority of the public think is fair) are likely to do significant economic damage.
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
PS
As Brian Bell (Chair of the MAC) is quoted as saying, the proposed new rules on settlement (apart from being xenophobic, mean-spirited, and contrary to what the vast majority of the public think is fair) are likely to do significant economic damage.
As Brian Bell (Chair of the MAC) is quoted as saying, the proposed new rules on settlement (apart from being xenophobic, mean-spirited, and contrary to what the vast majority of the public think is fair) are likely to do significant economic damage.
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6. So the overall story is that high skilled/high paid workers are strongly fiscally positive, while medium/lower paid workers are (very broadly) fiscally neutral in the long run (although positive in the short run). This is no great surprise to those of us who've looked at the data..
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
6. So the overall story is that high skilled/high paid workers are strongly fiscally positive, while medium/lower paid workers are (very broadly) fiscally neutral in the long run (although positive in the short run). This is no great surprise to those of us who've looked at the data..