Laura Palmer
yesthatsmyrealname.bsky.social
Laura Palmer
@yesthatsmyrealname.bsky.social
constantly trying to learn and improve

i was born before twin peaks premiered, my sister named me, and no I definitely haven't watched it.

Home headquarters; ROC, NY
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This exact kind of dangerous "dropping tons of sensitive data into ChatGPT" behavior is happening at an absolutely staggering scale right now, all around the world:
I was the Director of IT at an org and one day, found out our CFO was putting all our MOUs into his personal ChatGPT account and HR was having conversations with a personal ChatGPT account to determine what salaries we should be offering staff.

Very concerning!
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Local chipmunk helps themselves to one of my cherry tomatoes from the front garden... Which he carried all the way to the back porch, so he could eat it in front of the patio door while taunting the cats. 🤣
August 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A kitten break. Kittens from Pet Pride in Victor, NY
July 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is disgusting and the claims from the Trump Administration that it is due to "DEI" is a BS distraction from the truth - your kid's mental health is NOT more important to them than tax cuts for billionaires. These services directly help prevent crises from occurring in schools.
Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hi there!

I'm just going on the record as advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia as well as all other illegally abducted and deported individuals by the Trump administration, and the persecution of the individuals responsible, including those on the ground following orders.

Thanks!
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Back in America from a trip to France. Got sick at the tail end of it and still recovering. Hope to upload photos soon. For now, rest and recovery. Then, supporting my local community and making some radical changes to my personal life to better enable that.
April 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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HHS set up a snitch line to report trans kids and their providers. You know what to do...

www.hhs.gov/protect-kids...
www.hhs.gov
April 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Go to your local museums of all kinds, any place that displays historical or cultural knowledge, and starts recording. Photograph everything. Do slow walking tours while recording. Document everything and publish online before this administration gets there and alters history in their fascist way.
March 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Due process is due to all. It is not optional. It is not custom fitted. It is not a privilege. It is a right.
March 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Media needs to stop acting like Executive Orders are law.
March 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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This account reporting Proud Boys in #Ohio encouraging its members to oppose #TeslaTakedown protesters rallying outside of showrooms.

Far-Right groups are attempting to mobilize in some cities to intimidate demonstrators as Tesla stock plummets and public opinion turns against Musk and Trump.
It has come to our attention the Ohio Proud Boys are planning on attending this Saturday's Tesla protest at Easton. Not in uniform but incognito so to spy on "domestic terrorists". Also known as peaceful older hippies. Be on the lookout for those with pointy grey beards and a miserable disposition.
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The DOE National Labs are the envy of the world and firing federal workers makes the country worse off. I said this in the paper: www.post-gazette.com/business/pow... 🔌💡
The national lab in Pittsburgh's backyard is a place for innovation — and worry
The National Energy Technology Laboratory in South Park, a century-old institution, is at once a pillar of federal fossil fuel research and a shape shifter,...
www.post-gazette.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Absolutely pathetic overreaches of power by people too egotistical to make their own contributions to history and too narcissistic to realize it's their own fault they are the way that they are.
March 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government.

An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts.

It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.
March 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Sanders: You have a president who is suing ABC and CBS and the Des Moines register. He is threatening to investigate PBS and NPR. He loves media that fawns on him.. If you cannot take the criticism, get the hell out of politics
March 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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April 3rd is the 2025 Va. primary filing deadline. Democratic candidates are running in 94/100 HDs. GOP candidates are running in 62/100 HDs. The 6 HDs without Dem candidates are⬇️35, 37, 39, 43, 44, & 45. Giving voters choices on their ballots is the 90for90.org way.
March 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is disturbing. Yet another "4D Chess Move"(aka questionably legal) by the "deal maker" that will, no matter how you shake it, lead to suffering and struggle for the majority of the American populace and likely gains for a very small subset of already very-rich individuals.
Move Fast and Break the Mortgage Market
The chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now also the board chair of both companies. What’s the long game here?
prospect.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

From Around the Horn:
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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It is critical that everyone calls New York Governor Kathy Hochul today and tell her that you oppose any mask ban in New York State: 518-474-8390
March 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Well I know who is getting a call as soon as my meeting is done.
NEW: New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul is reviving her push to ban masks and is urging New York State lawmakers to include a mask ban in the upcoming state budget.

This move endangers public health and threatens civil liberties.
March 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is beyond reprehensible. These children are the victim of a cultural and physical genocide, stolen away to who knows where to suffer who knows what kind of abuse, to have their heritage, language, and family beat out of them. I cannot ever, ever forgive this. Disgusting.
US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children
www.independent.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Apparently the "2025 JFK Files" are out. Another little thread on a wand to distract people from what's happening.

I find it hilarious because if the government was going to cover up something about the assassination, they would have done it AT the point of record. It wouldn't get into the files.
March 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM