exaggerated.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Once again, I’m begging the media not to headline what Trump says he will do as if speaking the magic words dissolves reality

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

Oof. This will probably not matter. It’s just the Coast Guard, amirite?! And the next one probably won’t matter. But at some point, all these people who didn’t matter will suddenly matter Very Very Much and I suspect that will astound some people in power who don’t think the military are people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 22 comments

Can, like, the international community do something about any of this? Yeah I know the US isn't party to the ICJ/ICC but like. We need an intervention.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 1 day ago • 597 comments

Guys, this isn't that hard to understand. They remember Trump as the time before COVID and Biden as the time after COVID and the oldest members of that cohort were 21 when Trump took office. They thought a vote for Trump was a vote for pre-COVID times and they got this instead.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

👂 Wer wird im öffentlichen Diskurs um genderinklusive Sprache gehört? #Linguistik 🔎 Zu selten Leute, die dazu forschen. Dazu zählen in unserem informellen Nachwuchsnetzwerk fast 40 Menschen, von unterschiedlichen deutschen und ausländischen Unis und aus den verschiedensten Disziplinen. 1/5

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

This is a big problem in the journalism and think tank communities in Washington, DC. Everyone's working similar jobs, so you hang out with them based on that, and ignore the content. E.g., "Yes, his day job is comms director for an openly fascist organization, but he's fun to have beers with."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

I went from mild ME/CFS to moderate-to-severe because I pushed myself to exercise per doctor's orders. This is a permanent degradation in my quality of life and ability to do things. If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid, and are prescribed exercise (or "graded exercise therapy"), GET ANOTHER DOCTOR.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

man can we NOT enshittify one of the few remaining platforms that's actually useful for connecting with people

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

BCS does not want "AI"-edited/AI grammar-checked/flow-edited submissions because we want your own voice. Especially if you are English as a second language; your experience is unique. AI homogenizes narrative to fit patterns averaged from other writers. We want your voice; the voice of your story.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If you need an AI to write an email for you I AM judging you, yes. Do you need an AI to call your mom, too?

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Medicaid work requirements just result in people losing their health coverage. Most Medicaid enrollees are already working or serving as caregivers. Those who aren't generally have pretty significant barriers to working. And Medicaid work requirements don't tend to come with extra funding to help.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Oh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Don't just laugh at the headline and move on. Actually watch this one. I am in tears.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

The disabled aren't in the poem either, and that's equally telling.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

If you can't say, unambigiously and without caveats and without the kind of language an oil company uses at a press conf after it oopsies a million gallons into a fish hatchery, that disappearing people is bad, you do not have a broken moral compass. You pawned it years ago for career advancement.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The men produced no identification. Yet the headline still says they were ICE agents. They were taken out of courthouse. And there was not even an attempt to prevent this?

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

It's launch day for @adambecker.bsky.social's new book, More Everything Forever. This is such an important book. Short thread below.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Glad to see my undergrad alma mater on this list (and if I didn't, I would write to them).

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Bücher zu gewinnen! Anlässlich der 2. Auflage meines Buches "Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten" verlost der S.Fischer Verlag zwei Exemplare. Mitmachen kann jeder, der den Post teilt. (bis 25.4. 17:00)

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

mind you this is all before things start getting really bad we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Come for this amazing witness statement…

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

True, this. Never had a real job Mommy and Daddy didn’t give her other than repping. Hunting ranch, farm, restaurant & B&B are a set of pretty damn good money laundries, because they’re all like a boat — a hole into which one can throw infinite money & it’s easy to fake guests/guest checks for audit

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

My friend's student asks me to share: The administration is trying to destroy the Endangered Species Act from within. Public commenting is basically the only way to thwart this rule before getting to court. If you have a few minutes to comment: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FW...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 5 days ago • 134 comments

Showing that storied Scientology viciousness right out in the open now, eh Neil? What's wrong? You sure did like these ladies when they were silently suffering for your amusement. Ladies, if you're reading this, don't ever give up. We are with you.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

My colleage Jasmine Geonzon wrote about so-called "restorative reproductive medicine" a few months ago. It's basically the rhythm method plus some crunchy right-wingery. Her primer is a must-read: reproaction.org/opposition-i...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

90% of Film Bluesky (and 100% all the biggest accts)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

For those puzzled why the strong box office opening of SINNERS is being framed as disappointing somehow, Vulture gave the game away two days ago. Studios are freaking out about letting the copyright revert to Coogler, so the film can't be seen as a success. The fix is in.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

PSA FOR ARTISTS

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

Before the pandemic, healthcare workers would mask upon request or in high risk settings like NICU, transplant, oncology wards. Now? I hear a story almost every day of someone being infected because the HCW refused to wear a mask. We won’t even protect premature babies who can’t mask themselves

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

(I'm data obviously)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 6 days ago • 1023 comments

Well done Cloudflare 😂

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I know alot of people avoid the news for mental health reasons but I hope con and fandom goers realize that all the wonderful little creators who make pins, plush or other merch are probably not going to be able to afford the costs of running a small business with tariff costs skyrocketing.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Mumsnet is, genuinely, one of the most mainstreamed extremism radicalization sites of the 21st century and it's a little hilarious in the "oh god, really?" way that people don't recognize it as such because it's just those women talking again

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

We did not fail to see it.

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments