Stephanie Douglas
@stephtdouglas.bsky.social
Astronomer, Assistant Prof of Physics. She/her. (All opinions mine & don't represent employer; likes/RPs not endorsements; etc)
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If I were wealthy, I’d spend my time perfecting so many crafts. I’d have sheds built with commercial quality equipment for each new skill. I’d have a studio with all the musical instruments I could get my hands on. I’d have a tower library. Rich people today are so weird and useless.
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If I were wealthy, I’d spend my time perfecting so many crafts. I’d have sheds built with commercial quality equipment for each new skill. I’d have a studio with all the musical instruments I could get my hands on. I’d have a tower library. Rich people today are so weird and useless.
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what if cops could disable cars, to avoid police chases period, which would save SOOOO many lives, and protect people against kidnapping and car jacking
what if cops could disable cars to rob vulnerable people, rape people, and a fascist govt to trap people is what you have to think
more...
what if cops could disable cars to rob vulnerable people, rape people, and a fascist govt to trap people is what you have to think
more...
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
what if cops could disable cars, to avoid police chases period, which would save SOOOO many lives, and protect people against kidnapping and car jacking
what if cops could disable cars to rob vulnerable people, rape people, and a fascist govt to trap people is what you have to think
more...
what if cops could disable cars to rob vulnerable people, rape people, and a fascist govt to trap people is what you have to think
more...
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PRO TIP
especially in politics...
good people have ideas, and they're good ideas, but they don't think about what that idea would mean if an evil person tried to exploit it
you have to take your good idea
what if cameras everywhere just for violent crimes to protect people
and go 'what if ...'
especially in politics...
good people have ideas, and they're good ideas, but they don't think about what that idea would mean if an evil person tried to exploit it
you have to take your good idea
what if cameras everywhere just for violent crimes to protect people
and go 'what if ...'
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
PRO TIP
especially in politics...
good people have ideas, and they're good ideas, but they don't think about what that idea would mean if an evil person tried to exploit it
you have to take your good idea
what if cameras everywhere just for violent crimes to protect people
and go 'what if ...'
especially in politics...
good people have ideas, and they're good ideas, but they don't think about what that idea would mean if an evil person tried to exploit it
you have to take your good idea
what if cameras everywhere just for violent crimes to protect people
and go 'what if ...'
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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“I know this is out there but this search won’t let me find it, by design” is so frustrating!
Like damn I’ve worked on a reference desk in the past, I know how to make and tinker with a search string. Y’all just don’t want people to find it bc some asshole somewhere is making money this way
Like damn I’ve worked on a reference desk in the past, I know how to make and tinker with a search string. Y’all just don’t want people to find it bc some asshole somewhere is making money this way
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“I know this is out there but this search won’t let me find it, by design” is so frustrating!
Like damn I’ve worked on a reference desk in the past, I know how to make and tinker with a search string. Y’all just don’t want people to find it bc some asshole somewhere is making money this way
Like damn I’ve worked on a reference desk in the past, I know how to make and tinker with a search string. Y’all just don’t want people to find it bc some asshole somewhere is making money this way
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Senate Republicans now say they’re open to extending a ACA funding IF Democrats agree to stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Senate Republicans now say they’re open to extending a ACA funding IF Democrats agree to stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
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Literally fuck all of them.
And just to be clear, don't think that trading away our rights will get you anything.
By the time they are done you will be lucky to get a handful of nerd clusters to treat your cancer.
And just to be clear, don't think that trading away our rights will get you anything.
By the time they are done you will be lucky to get a handful of nerd clusters to treat your cancer.
Senate Republicans now say they’re open to extending a ACA funding IF Democrats agree to stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Literally fuck all of them.
And just to be clear, don't think that trading away our rights will get you anything.
By the time they are done you will be lucky to get a handful of nerd clusters to treat your cancer.
And just to be clear, don't think that trading away our rights will get you anything.
By the time they are done you will be lucky to get a handful of nerd clusters to treat your cancer.
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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
Terrific book that unfortunately remains evergreen.
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
I grew up in MD and yeah, get this show on the road
As a child of the south, where the GOP has been engaging in egregious gerrymandering for fucking ever, now transplanted to California - I frankly think it's past time blue states gerrymandered the fuck out of themselves to maximize blue house seats
funniest outcome last night was nearly 2 in 3 politically active Californians slamming the 'yes' button on the 'Delete Republican Districts' measure
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I grew up in MD and yeah, get this show on the road
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As a child of the south, where the GOP has been engaging in egregious gerrymandering for fucking ever, now transplanted to California - I frankly think it's past time blue states gerrymandered the fuck out of themselves to maximize blue house seats
funniest outcome last night was nearly 2 in 3 politically active Californians slamming the 'yes' button on the 'Delete Republican Districts' measure
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
As a child of the south, where the GOP has been engaging in egregious gerrymandering for fucking ever, now transplanted to California - I frankly think it's past time blue states gerrymandered the fuck out of themselves to maximize blue house seats
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One way to think about the Mamdani campaign is that 14 years ago Mayor Bloomberg and Gov Cuomo worked to crush Occupy Wall Street - a social movement gesturing at what working class politics might look like in a country with a marginalized & disorganized left.
Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.
Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
One way to think about the Mamdani campaign is that 14 years ago Mayor Bloomberg and Gov Cuomo worked to crush Occupy Wall Street - a social movement gesturing at what working class politics might look like in a country with a marginalized & disorganized left.
Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.
Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.
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All the attempts to connect Mamdani to 9/11 are so fucking sick given that he was an elementary school student *living in Manhattan* on 9/11/2001
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All the attempts to connect Mamdani to 9/11 are so fucking sick given that he was an elementary school student *living in Manhattan* on 9/11/2001
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no one hates women like transphobes hate women. you wouldn’t go through life treating trans femmes like they’re using cheat codes if you believed cis women could actually just be better at stuff than a man
Always amazing to me how so much of transmisogyny is just misogyny. Am I (cis woman) male brained when I tell people to fuck off or joke around with the lads (gender neutral) on Discord?
Brianna Wu called our writer, the esteemed @alyssaur.bsky.social, "male brained" for engaging in some light online shit-talking.
Today on Assigned Media, Aly Gibbs has some more words for Brianna.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Today on Assigned Media, Aly Gibbs has some more words for Brianna.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
no one hates women like transphobes hate women. you wouldn’t go through life treating trans femmes like they’re using cheat codes if you believed cis women could actually just be better at stuff than a man
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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Starbucks knows where our union stands. They know our demands.
They need to finalize this contract & stop union busting before the holiday season begins... otherwise, we'll be ready.
ALLIES: Sign our No Contract, No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
They need to finalize this contract & stop union busting before the holiday season begins... otherwise, we'll be ready.
ALLIES: Sign our No Contract, No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
No Contract, No Coffee Pledge
Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, a...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Starbucks knows where our union stands. They know our demands.
They need to finalize this contract & stop union busting before the holiday season begins... otherwise, we'll be ready.
ALLIES: Sign our No Contract, No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
They need to finalize this contract & stop union busting before the holiday season begins... otherwise, we'll be ready.
ALLIES: Sign our No Contract, No Coffee pledge to commit to not crossing a picket line!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
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Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs.
nocontractnocoffee.org
nocontractnocoffee.org
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
nocontractnocoffee.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs.
nocontractnocoffee.org
nocontractnocoffee.org
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.