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Aleigh Mac, Stitch Witch

@aleighmac.bsky.social

I play games, I make lace, I sew, I write. PhD in AuDHD. Sometimes teacher, always educator. The name has changed but the nerd remains the same.

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Aleigh Mac, Stitch Witch@aleighmac.bsky.social · yesterday

Got my King Gizzard tickets for Asheville in October 2027. 😎 #kglw #hellbender #avl

King Gizzard King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

Alt: The band King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard in the video for the song Fishing for Fishies. Stu sits on a raft floating down a river wearing a yellow shirt and overalls and playing guitar. Tiny figures of the rest of the band, in red jump suits, stand on the raft next to him playing various instruments.

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Pema Levy@pemalevy.bsky.social · last wk.

Imagine a 2028 presidential election where every vote counts equally, not just the margin in a few swing states. The Electoral College props up white supremacy. It makes us vulnerable to authoritarians (J6), biased judges (2000), and foreign influence campaigns (2016). Ending it is possible now:

America finally has the votes to end the Electoral College

After more than 200 years, the midterm results could change how we pick presidents.

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w ago

The NY Times will publish a hit piece on the Democratic Alaska senate candidate six days before an Election but won't mention a new rape allegation against the President of the United States.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

1. It's not illegal (8th paragraph). 2. At worst, it appears that a few political operatives lied to reporters. (Not great, but not exactly unprecedented — and not a nearly 3,000-word story less than a week before the election.) 3. Republicans literally did this to Peltola (33rd paragraph)!

Republicans have also taken advantage of this system. When Ms. Peltola ran for re-election to the House two years ago, the state Republican Party backed an effort to help a Democrat — an inmate who ran his campaign from a New York prison — stay on the ballot.
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 3w ago

With the election looming, the GOP is calling in the big guns. Which means having a megachurch freak named Timmy dispatch an army of walleyed 23yo home-school casualties with YouTube diction to opposing candidates' rallies, where they will demand those candidates reject and denounce the WNBA.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4w ago

It's bananas that it is now state policy that universities can't teach or discuss systemic racism, and gender studies is being outlawed, but they are *obligated* to host people denigrating their students...in the name of free speech.

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · last mo.

as others have noted, a computer program doesn't have agency. the people who programmed it, who supervised it did this. they are responsible. they should be prosecuted.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Aleigh Mac, Stitch Witch@aleighmac.bsky.social · last mo.

I hope this is tongue-in-cheek, although I'm usually disappointed. PhD in education with extensive focus on human development here. Humans do not learn speech from recordings, they learn from listening to real people. I feel like AI bros should be required to take cognitive psychology classes.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last mo.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng : My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al.