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ginger.bsky.social
Gen X auntie from ‘76. Unpaid cat servant. In search of mundane joy, reason, and kindness. MN > IA > CO > IL > NYC > NJ.
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I'm increasingly worried that we're spiraling into an AI-fueled mental health crisis -- tons of evidence coming out that AI is picking up on signs of psychosis/delusion in users and ENCOURAGING it futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

- www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is magnificent and sad and beautiful. It’s not newsy or a joke, it’s just one of the best things I’ve read in a while and I implore you to read it

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This is an important paper showing how access to safety net benefits is directly related to mortality. Cuts to services, even in the guise of work requirements, will lead to unnecessary deaths!

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

I’m so proud of my representative. Thank you for standing up for our neighbors here in our district!

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“Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase...There is no utopian vision in any of this. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Jaw dropping. United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out

submitted 49 days ago • 47 comments

Great interview with Adam Scott in @pitchfork.com on the "Music That Made Him" but I didn't see a playlist so I put one together. Pick your flavor. Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6jE... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... pitchfork.com/features/5-1...

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Gotta say, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly is killing it out there—clear, resolute, well informed, not giving an inch. Politicians who wanna look like actual tough guys and not insecure macho tantrum babies could take a few notes youtu.be/z3rIlAITjXk?...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 107 days ago • 1568 comments

I'm very excited for my print to arrive. And the digital files will be put to good use. Long live print!

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Between the FAA/Verizon/Starlink contract news and today's NOAA and NWS firings, remember: the privatization is the point (or one of the main ones). This is about enriching the few, not creating efficiency for the many.

submitted 113 days ago • 26 comments

Birthday weekend with @jasonrikerphoto.com taking pictures, driving, and eating pizza. We went to Dia Beacon to see Steve McQueen's light and bass installation.

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After a horrendous week, we got to laugh together watching the brilliant, weird, and hilarious Betty Gilpin in "Oh, Mary!" A generous friend passed along some tickets at the last minute, and we braved Times Square on a cold February night to see one of the best live performances I've ever seen.

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"It’s also notoriously difficult to profit off of raising and caring for children: Childcare is a form of labor provided either for free by mothers, their families, or their friends or for poverty-level wages by a workforce over 90% female by businesses operating on razor-thin margins."

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I've been rewatching the new Severance episodes, and I have to say the look on Mark's face when Milchick talks about his pain was heartbreaking. Adam Scott deserves an Emmy for that episode alone. Also the diner scene with Devon. 💔

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I so loved watching #Severance S2 E1, but I'll tell you what I think about it in 24-48 hours when my subconscious finishes unpacking it. This was a hard week with David Lynch passing. The Twin Peaks soundtrack was the first CD I ever bought, in a longbox, in a music store in Virginia, MN.

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“Perfectionists are people who consistently notice the difference between an ideal and a reality…This results in the perfectionist experiencing, more often than not, a compulsion to bridge the gulf between reality and an ideal themselves.” books.apple.com/us/book/the-...

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I opened up a book I bought in 2007 and this fell out. A @prairielights.com bookmark from when I was in grad school at Iowa in 2000. I love finding things in old books. I started The Lay of the Land and never finished it. Started it again and it's so much more interesting now that we live in Jersey.

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

If you need a break from terrible and stressful news, give a listen to @benstiller.redhour.com and Adam Scott's Severance podcast. It's fascinating to hear how a bunch of functional creative people work together to make something excellent. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful

submitted 164 days ago • 48 comments