claimnoshame.bsky.social
Let's talk about libraries, tech, sci fi, mixedness, exvangelicalism, etc. Swim/bike/run. Nebraskan expat, chili + cinnamon rolls evangelist.
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Loved your dad for many reasons, including his genuine enjoyment of typically masculine pursuits paired with warmth, kindness & curiosity.
Also forever grateful he didn't enforce weird notions of masculinity on his son. Our marriage is the better for it.
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Glutton for punishment, I guess 😔
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Why did I watch this space? I knew exactly what was coming and I hate to see it. "Angel number" should join "god wink" in muted terms in my life
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ffs, what a loser
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You can add -ai to your search to achieve this
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I remain skeptical that the best tailor in the world could make that bodice flattering on any person
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Oh no, that's terrible news 😔
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When does Insecure Man realize he bought a Criticism Factory and just close up shop?
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As I close out my 30s I can confirm, the Evil Feminist Lifestyle was a great way to spend my 20s.
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I have mixed up Good Friday and Black Friday my entire life, and damnit, my way makes more sense
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Obviously not the biggest problem here but, why does Christianity hate friends?
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Ugh, cults*
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This is what leaders of doomsday cuts do, tell stories about how their demonstrably wrong predictions were right. Their followers adopt and adapt the obvious retrofit rather than let their worldview crumble.
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I've spot-checked a few IMLS state profiles, looks like they've been archived.
web.archive.org/web/20250331...
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Thanks so much for collecting these links! I went looking for programs in my home state of Nebraska. IMLS gives a few examples of wonderful programs, including the Talking Book and Braille Service.
My spouse was a volunteer narrator for the program. 😢
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"When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work...You are wasting an outlandish amount of money writing code that already exists."
👏👏 Excellent piece of tech writing.
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Yuck. The main thing I know about Begley is his truly unhinged interest in Megan Hunt. He leaves mean & creepily personal comments on 80% of her posts. Bad stalker vibes.
Can't imagine why a serious publication gave him the time of day.
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Tell Trump HANDS OFF our libraries. The ALA has concrete suggestions here:
www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
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Great idea. Unfortunately, Musk wants the "wholesale removal of regulations."
He's getting his way. He already fired 10% of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who is investigating this crash.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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"Appointing a part time dilettante (remember, he's a mechanical engineer, not a software expert) is not the way to ensure the Department can play its crucial role."
👏👏👏 You are right to say it, federal worker! 👏👏👏
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Absolutely! Flood anticipated negative feedback and tried to step around it scheduling in a smaller, more conservative town. No dice. He got tough questions, including from local high schoolers. They saw right through him.
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I lived most of my life in Nebraska's (blue) capital Lincoln, the largest population center in CD 1.
My takeaway here would be that all "reliably red" districts are more mixed than gerrymandered election outcomes show. I'd be genuinely surprised if reliable conservatives are fed up.
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Howdy Doody (the steer) and Uncle Lee are besties
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Shedd is 28, Tesla is the only job he's had, first as an intern, then an entry level mechanical engineer for 6 years max. In 2017 he was advertising a senior portrait photography business in NorCal.
No leadership experience. What a joke. Meritocracy my left foot.
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Schrödinger's war declaration
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My kingdom for a Democratic Party that channels FDR's "I welcome their hatred" energy
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I highly recommend science librarians as colleagues, their enthusiasm for science-themed food holidays being just one perk.
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Do employees with higher test scores than his immediately switch roles with him?
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This was first published in 1983, so the trad wives of Instagram & Tik Tok did not yet exist, but they are definitely modern examples of the type.
Rothfeld's review does a good job applying Dworkin's analysis to one modern example.
wapo.st/3DC5rlt
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Thanks to Womb House Books in Oakland for the event, to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for her insight and the new foreword, and to all present for a thought-provoking conversation.
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A comment from a woman in the audience got me thinking about "native" right-wing women (raised and isolated in conservative environments) vs. converts to the ideology. Do they warrant different understanding and different approaches?
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Refreshingly, Dworkin doesn't condescend to right-wing women, but is overly generous re: their agency in accepting the bargain. Especially of the way women seek power over others by becoming willing agents of patriarchy (e.g., Schlafley, Malia Shirley).
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The Right is not honest about upholding its end of the bargain, big part of why I didn't stick around.
But I left thinking about the bargain feminism can offer women as an alternative.
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Dworkin observes that the Right offers women a deal: safety, rules, love in exchange for obedience, sex, & childbearing. Women accept that bargain as the best bet against their real fears of violence and poverty.
Coming from Right-Winglandia, this rings true, describes the reality that raised me.
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In other places I've lived I counted on coffee shops for this. Not so much in the Bay, things close early in general. But Milyar Cafe at Adeline and Alcatraz is open late.
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Wired is really coming in hot this year, most comprehensive reporting I've seen on this so far. Thanks!
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NYTimes out this morning with coverage of the full list, then the shortened list, and now the missing list. The reason is the removal is unaddressed, nor any discussion of GSA's future plans for its property.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
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Huh indeed