tracysnicket
@tracysnicket.bsky.social
Bikes, books, dogs. Board member of Livable City SF
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h agoWhat about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10h agoThere’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
*adding “belarus potash” to the long list of phrases that dominate the news for a couple of days before never being mentioned again*
Hi we're running an insurance scheme and we would like to take the patients that cost us nothing out of the pool
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoDr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
Super excited to see @emilymandel.bsky.social speak tonight, and to read her new book!
This kind of thing seems far more likely (and scary) than AI becoming sentient and deciding to kill us all.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last wk.Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
wired.com
YES: SF should take at least one of its underused golf courses and turn it into a mix of housing and parkland San Francisco doesn’t need this many golf courses sfstandard.com/2026/09/13/s...
San Francisco’s golf courses are draining millions — and barely anyone plays on them
The city loses $4.9 million a year subsidizing six sprawling golf courses used by a shrinking number of players. In a housing-starved city, that’s a tough sell.
sfstandard.com
today i learned 'small potatoes' dates back to the early 1800s which tells me that prior to that all potatoes were huge
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2w agoThese are your words of the week mistrial brain rot small potatoes brazen tantivy www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
As someone who really wants AI companies to be limited in the damage they're doing to the world, it's incredibly frustrating when the most vocal contingent of AI skeptics keep repeating the idea that AI doesn't work at all. Maybe that was the case 3 years ago but not any longer.
it's less about fractured realities as such! and more about deals gone wrong, contracts broken, payoffs sidestepped, dreams deferred—and you know what happens to those—and quests frustrated, wearing the skin of a conspiracy thriller over at least some bones from a decomposing romcom
It was a long time ago, audiobooks were still on cassette/CD, so no online samples or anything. The producer emailed me suggesting Tim Curry, among some others. I replied "That guy should change his name to avoid confusion with THE Tim Curry". They came back with "we mean THE Tim Curry" . . .
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
They have whiplash. Is A.I. the future or is it the end of jobs? It can't be both (they took 1900 hours of AP classes so they know they can figure that out for themselves). Where are all the professors and why are they all in a seminar about A.I. instead of inspiring them or telling them what to do?
Tim Curry narrates the audio books of A Series of Unfortunate Events and they are amazing. Might be time for a relisten
Motherfucker, I'm sorry, you can't take Dolly Parton and Tim Curry from us at the same time, what the fuck.
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
Public Enemy did a great show at Stern Grove today, and of course they closed with youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg
Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO
youtu.be
Nothing you do in your entire life will ever be this embarrassing
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 2mo agoHahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
nytimes.com
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
propublica.org
1/ I honestly do not know what SFPD does. They don't investigate rape. sfstandard.com/2026/07/22/s...
SF supervisors call for hearing after Standard rape-kit investigation
The board will demand answers from the SFPD on the city’s handling of sexual assault cases.
sfstandard.com
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