merryjane 🎄white
@marijane.bsky.social
ask me about the blanche devereaux mortification scale
wilhoit's and murc's laws rule everything around me
anti-conservative | librarian | enginerd | cat lady | adhd | gen x | pdx
she/they
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wilhoit's and murc's laws rule everything around me
anti-conservative | librarian | enginerd | cat lady | adhd | gen x | pdx
she/they
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merryjane 🎄white
@marijane.bsky.social
· Aug 17
I have one needy cat and one kneady cat.
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It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.
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Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
The deeply personal reasons why many Indiana Senate Republicans said no to Trump | CNN Politics
Jean Leising spoke at a breakfast this fall at her 8th grade grandson’s school. Hours later, when she was set to give him a ride home from basketball practice, he bashfully told her that his entire te...
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Pretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
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Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
The Attack on Somalis is Hate Politics
Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota
www.unpopularfront.news
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
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The National Water Center has issued an updated Key Messages for the ongoing Catastrophic flooding impacts this week in Washington. More info: water.noaa.gov #flooding #wawx
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The National Water Center has issued an updated Key Messages for the ongoing Catastrophic flooding impacts this week in Washington. More info: water.noaa.gov #flooding #wawx
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OpenAI’s Sora just made a deal with Disney. Over 200 Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars characters will be available to use in Sora videos. Disney will also use OpenAI APIs + ChatGPT at work and invest $1B in OpenAI.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
openai.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OpenAI’s Sora just made a deal with Disney. Over 200 Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars characters will be available to use in Sora videos. Disney will also use OpenAI APIs + ChatGPT at work and invest $1B in OpenAI.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
In parallel, Disney just sent a cease & desist to Google for AI copyright infringement.
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Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
How Tennessee 7th’s 13-point Democratic shift would look across the nation for 2026
Last week, Republicans won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by 9%, and it has them scared shitless. That’s because the margin was 13% worse than the previous representat...
heartlandsignal.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
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One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
retractionwatch.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...
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Our community helped bring Jackie Merlos home after she was unlawfully detained with her four U.S. citizen children.
The village won. This weekend we celebrated her freedom and committed to keep fighting for every single family caught up in Trump's cruelty.
The village won. This weekend we celebrated her freedom and committed to keep fighting for every single family caught up in Trump's cruelty.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our community helped bring Jackie Merlos home after she was unlawfully detained with her four U.S. citizen children.
The village won. This weekend we celebrated her freedom and committed to keep fighting for every single family caught up in Trump's cruelty.
The village won. This weekend we celebrated her freedom and committed to keep fighting for every single family caught up in Trump's cruelty.
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Why nonfiction books are so boring.
December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why nonfiction books are so boring.
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🎂 E. H. Shepard was born on this day in 1879. A titan among British illustrators, he’s best remembered for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. 🧸
The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
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The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🎂 E. H. Shepard was born on this day in 1879. A titan among British illustrators, he’s best remembered for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. 🧸
The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
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The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e...
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What is the best Christmas decoration and why is it these ceramic light-up trees
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is the best Christmas decoration and why is it these ceramic light-up trees
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Jared Kushner offers Vladimir Putin a 51% stake in Warner Bros.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Jared Kushner offers Vladimir Putin a 51% stake in Warner Bros.
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“Be honest, journalists — how would you answer questions about the state of the news media?”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
Journalists will accept that their critics are sometimes right
"Be honest, journalists — how would <em>you</em> answer questions about the state of the news media?"
www.niemanlab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Be honest, journalists — how would you answer questions about the state of the news media?”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
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NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
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"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Saturday's NYT shows what its editors can do, when they want to. Why not do this every day?
fallows.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"This post is about an evergreen but newly urgent topic: How mainstream media in general, and the New York Times in particular, ‘frame’ the political news." —@jfallows.bsky.social
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
Read the rest here: fallows.substack.com/p/here-today...
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Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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'TIS THE SEASON BITCHES
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
'TIS THE SEASON BITCHES
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honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
I see the gizmo cult has made its way into the NYT
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
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i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
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i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
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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 6:07 PM
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.
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it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years