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Ashley! South side bardbarian librarian. Hot toddy evangelist. Scruffy lookin' nerf herder/LLAP. Your gaucho amiga. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this. she/her. Profile pic by @arideo ✶✶✶✶
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Private Eyes, I can't go for that a close second (no can do)

this is another band I don't know, my short jaunt on Spotify provided All Over You

omg I'm gonna pick Fantasy but Breakdown and Always Be My Baby are right up there too

Never heard of them but that's what Spotify is for and The Slowest Drink at the Saddest Bar on the Snowiest Day in the Greatest City is obviously about Chicago so I'll pick that one

Alone and I have sang it at karaoke and I didn't embarrass myself, Ann Wilson has pipes

oh nooooo, shit, Taking it to the Streets but that took a moment.

I only know the one bop Freak on a Leash, but it's my jam

Alright, let's make it happen. (stolen from @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social)

"You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once and move on" this was a WORD from Homer Jay Simpson.

I am a sicko who consumed a lot of EU content and I knew making everything in Star Wars canon was bad because then it becomes too much like homework. MCU started to feel the same way too. It's too much content and I am 30 or 40 years old.

Over at Slate, I wrote about the Nintendo Switch 2 as the end of the console cycle the company began with the NES slate.com/culture/2025...

See, JAMON I could handle.

I knew a guy in college who was an asshole but had had some trauma in his life and he tried to give his memoir to Elie Wiesel. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

@thedazzlingone.bsky.social apropos of your interests weatherstar.netbymatt.com

They’re playing that reggae version of lean on me at the store I’m in, it’s activating my flight or fight response

Or here's a thought--maybe we could hire more actual human teachers, pay them better, make class sizes smaller, build in more paid prep time, and generally just invest in education instead of investing in AI.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

In an exclusive interview with Word In Black, Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosely, CEO of @powertodecide.bsky.social, shares key ways Black women can still feel empowered despite continuous attacks on reproductive health care. Read more: wordinblack.com/2025/06/we-c...

Outdoor Afro is offering scholarships to cover the costs of anyone, at any age, interested in learning how to swim: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@wolter.bsky.social made me think of you