Adding “premenstrual” to my idioms: “I’m doing my premenstrual best.” “I’m at my premenstrual limit.”
Ashley Jester
@ajester.bsky.social
Political scientist ∯ Data maven ∯ Librarian ∯ Probably more of a fox than a hedgehog ∯ Not that kind of doctor ∯ Information asymmetry ruins the world ∯ 🦔 = hugs
One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!
agreeing w post via my second-favorite moment in the whole once and future king btw
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 7h agoOne of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something. This is the only thing that never fails." I swear I'm going to memorize this quote (and possibly also reread The Once and Future King)
Tt.@hapax.bsky.social · 3h ago
agreeing w post via my second-favorite moment in the whole once and future king btw
I am imagining the coverage if Stevens had won by the same margin
Politico@politico.com · 17h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
This week I'm having an existential crisis about political science To be clear, I love my discipline & apply things I learned studying it every day – not just the data science either! But I'm worried that too many folks are gaming out elections about hypothetical electability This must end
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
There was a huge amount of skepticism in the early consumer days of the internet, is the only point I'm making, and that consumer skepticism, like prediction markets, doesn't always mean they're correct in advance
While I understand the sentiment behind "We didn't have to sell people on using the internet!", I was in college from 2001-2005 and every (now) bog standard administrative thing my school moved to the computer, we bitched about having to do online
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
You ever think about how often Trump would talk about it if he were actually shot in the ear?
The natural endstate of going viral on Bluesky.
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Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoThis has been a wild ride but I'm going to have to mute this because the depressed doomer reactionaries who don't know how to eat have found it.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
Having successfully achieved its first part-of-rocket Moon landing, SpaceX forecasts a parts-of-people Moon landing by 2030.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h ago(AFP) - A four-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on Wednesday .. @afp.com $SPCX www.yahoo.com/news/science...
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
This is the millstone that mainstream Dems need to hang around Republicans' neck during investigations. "Trump sent your kids to get fucking shredded by Iran, Congress didn't stop him with multiple opportunities, and they lied to you about it"
The Intercept@theintercept.com · yesterdayThe Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 22h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
Giving the credibly accused rapist the final word really gives away the game here.
Everyone killed by these strikes was killed illegally. Deliberate killing of humans outside of armed conflict is murder. And murder is illegal.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
It’s no different than Ted Bundy. They’re just picking people to kill and killing them.
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 2d agoShould be a huge scandal. And yet we know it won’t be.
man, woman, photographs or tapes, moving cameras
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump forgets the word for video: "We have photographs, or tapes... Like, moving cameras, right?"
All Pretentious Literature Boys are all of course the spiritual spawn of the original, archetypal Ur-Pretentious Literature Boy. No better example exists of an Annoying Guy who Singlehandedly Created an Entire New Genre of Annoying Guys
Hugh Kearney@myfisttoe.bsky.social · 2d agoI read "tiresome literature boy" and immediately thought of this.
