Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder
@maureenb2b.bsky.social
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~taking out my earrings~ B2B GTM folks, let’s maybe not be gaslit about AI anymore.
Neither is true: “AI gives us life.” “AI will kill us.” Stop giving any of it oxygen. Instead, focus on what can give you immediate results in acquisition, expansion, retention:
Neither is true: “AI gives us life.” “AI will kill us.” Stop giving any of it oxygen. Instead, focus on what can give you immediate results in acquisition, expansion, retention:
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Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
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At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
Unlearning Cisnormativity - Mozilla Festival 2025
This year at Mozilla Festival, we unlearned the old rules of the internet to imagine new ways to build, connect, and create together. Watch the highlights on-demand.
www.mozillafestival.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
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I get what you're saying, but I spend my life trying to get people to understand you can't analyse any data well if you don't pay attention to how it was produced....
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I get what you're saying, but I spend my life trying to get people to understand you can't analyse any data well if you don't pay attention to how it was produced....
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“This wasn’t a showdown. It wasn’t a humiliation. It wasn’t a triumph for either man. It was something far more revealing: a case study in how a bully behaves when he can’t rely on fear, and how a principled politician behaves when he refuses the role of the victim.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“This wasn’t a showdown. It wasn’t a humiliation. It wasn’t a triumph for either man. It was something far more revealing: a case study in how a bully behaves when he can’t rely on fear, and how a principled politician behaves when he refuses the role of the victim.”
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A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
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The funniest most chilling thing about this is the question of why this has even come up. Who has a burning desire to… display these symbols ?
Update: The U.S. Coast Guard reversed course, saying the swastika and noose were indeed hate symbols that are prohibited.
This came hours after The Post reported that the service was about to enact a new policy that downgraded those symbols.
This came hours after The Post reported that the service was about to enact a new policy that downgraded those symbols.
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The funniest most chilling thing about this is the question of why this has even come up. Who has a burning desire to… display these symbols ?
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@alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social The argument "yes AI is a bubble, but it's a special magic bubble different than any other in history" feels like we may have finally summited bullshit mountain: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
@alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social The argument "yes AI is a bubble, but it's a special magic bubble different than any other in history" feels like we may have finally summited bullshit mountain: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
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He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.
Standing, applauding
What’s interesting is that he performs the same disordered patterns he criticises. Selective evidence, closed causal stories, and a narrative that reinforces itself rather than opening to challenge. It’s the simulated VDA of disordered discourse I've written about before.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Standing, applauding
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Yarvin sees the hollowed-out version of this and assumes the hollowing is inherent. He ignores how neoliberal incentives, bureaucratic drift, and algorithmic platforms have eroded our truth systems.
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Yarvin sees the hollowed-out version of this and assumes the hollowing is inherent. He ignores how neoliberal incentives, bureaucratic drift, and algorithmic platforms have eroded our truth systems.
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If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia
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The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.
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whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
We can be glad anytime anyone is standing up.
But "big tent" talk is super premature.
Let's see a future track record of good faith and good works come ON, @raskin.house.gov. please.
But "big tent" talk is super premature.
Let's see a future track record of good faith and good works come ON, @raskin.house.gov. please.
Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We can be glad anytime anyone is standing up.
But "big tent" talk is super premature.
Let's see a future track record of good faith and good works come ON, @raskin.house.gov. please.
But "big tent" talk is super premature.
Let's see a future track record of good faith and good works come ON, @raskin.house.gov. please.
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Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.
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SHERO 🦸🏻♀️
Not only for inventing Plan B, but for demonstrating prodigious creativity in her insults, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.” 🤣
Not only for inventing Plan B, but for demonstrating prodigious creativity in her insults, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.” 🤣
“What was needed, Dr. Camp realized, was a simple pharmaceutical product… Companies feared liability and boycotts… Dr. Camp felt that the pharmaceutical industry, as she put it, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
SHERO 🦸🏻♀️
Not only for inventing Plan B, but for demonstrating prodigious creativity in her insults, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.” 🤣
Not only for inventing Plan B, but for demonstrating prodigious creativity in her insults, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.” 🤣
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.
terrible things *at scale* indeed
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
terrible things *at scale* indeed
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Breast reductions aren’t feminist – just a new form of misogyny
A trend for the costly cosmetic procedure makes it even harder for women to choose for themselves, writes @sarahmanavis.
🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/3JPN4wE
A trend for the costly cosmetic procedure makes it even harder for women to choose for themselves, writes @sarahmanavis.
🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/3JPN4wE
Breast reductions aren’t feminist – just a new form of misogyny | The Observer
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Breast reductions aren’t feminist – just a new form of misogyny
A trend for the costly cosmetic procedure makes it even harder for women to choose for themselves, writes @sarahmanavis.
🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/3JPN4wE
A trend for the costly cosmetic procedure makes it even harder for women to choose for themselves, writes @sarahmanavis.
🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/3JPN4wE
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This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.