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Allison Miller

@cliopticon.bsky.social

Journalist | Historian | Master of Disguise | Cultural history & more | If I share it, I've read it. I block generic resistance accounts.

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Tesla Gives Musk $30 Billion Award, Saying ‘Deal Is a Deal’ Tesla Inc. approved an interim stock award worth about $30 billion for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, a massive payout meant to keep the billionaire’s attention on the automaker as a legal fight o...

So you didn’t show up to work for four and a half months? Here’s a zillion dollars, we’re just glad to have you back! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

04.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes but nobody cares about educated people losing work

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Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

02.08.2025 22:23 — 👍 2016    🔁 694    💬 111    📌 189
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WNBA players call out officiating, but league officials trust their process As WNBA players and coaches speak out against officiating they view as inconsistent and dangerous, league officiating leaders defend their system.

WNBA players call out officiating, but league officials trust their process

03.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Me neither, kind of disappointed

03.08.2025 02:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Homophobic and shitty to the players

02.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet

IG 3sixteen

02.08.2025 11:03 — 👍 8208    🔁 2403    💬 329    📌 135

why is it called the Subway website and not the URL of Sandwich

01.08.2025 22:30 — 👍 614    🔁 95    💬 24    📌 7
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Teens spotlight stories of LA Chinatown seniors Chinatown teens, with support from librarian Lynn Nguyen and Conectopod, documented seniors’ stories through film, podcasts, and public forums.

The teen oral history project that’s saving #ChinatownLA stories, via @lapublicpress.bsky.social -> lapublicpress.org/2025/07/teen...

"From Nov 2023 to June 2024, teens interviewed elders in their native dialects, engaged with community leaders & created public archives of voices & visuals." #AAPI

01.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

I was thinking that Trump might fire him “for cause” for not cutting this week

01.08.2025 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did the jobs report just cook Powell's goose?

01.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night
YouTube video by thefilmprojector Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEM...
Could AI produce this? Peter Sellers as Laurence Olivier channeling the Beatles?

01.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Not those batteries, MAGA

31.07.2025 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Batteries. We call them batteries

31.07.2025 22:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Yo, historians, what the actual ****?

I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.

🗃️

30.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 477    🔁 78    💬 58    📌 186

He will personally donate the White House to his presidential library when his term is up

31.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Are AI Girlfriends Good, Actually? AI chatbot companions are everywhere. And so are cautionary tales about their influence. But men are also using them as a way to process hard feelings amid a loneliness epidemic.

Notice how quickly this narrative is shifting.

31.07.2025 20:18 — 👍 148    🔁 22    💬 21    📌 32
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Sources telling me the new transformer has been installed. MTA officials aren’t yet declaring service “resumed” — C and B trains are suspended still — and it doesn’t seem like root cause has been determined yet.

But the trains that are running seem to be at regular speeds through W4 again

31.07.2025 20:35 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, I do remember now seeing posts about that this morning. A friend made it home on the F just now. Really hoping it’s not bad. Safe home

31.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A painting of a street scene, with drops of rain falling in dash-like diagonals. Various figures populate the scene, most of them on the sidewalk. A building with rows of windows appears at right

A painting of a street scene, with drops of rain falling in dash-like diagonals. Various figures populate the scene, most of them on the sidewalk. A building with rows of windows appears at right

Jacob Lawrence, Rain, 1938

31.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 77    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Masterpiece Cakeshop would like a word

31.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for NYC and urged employers to let workers leave early. ❤️ to MTA operators, first responders and everyone else who can’t. Safe home everybody.

31.07.2025 19:27 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Absolutely.

31.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, a ton of people’s health insurance, life insurance, tax status, bank accounts, wills, etc are bound up in marriage. If gay marriage is overturned, these could all be threatened for a minority group.

31.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

NYC, it’s looking like a really bad rush hour. If you’re able to leave work early, I would ask to, especially if you take public transit. Stay safe NYC

31.07.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Nice work! The bot ran out of guesses on this one.

31.07.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

27.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 8526    🔁 3597    💬 143    📌 712

These Venezuelans could have just been deported to their home country. Instead, our government sent them to a third country, to a prison that advertised its own brutality. Andry Hernandez was sexually abused by a guard. The cruelty is barbaric.

27.07.2025 23:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New York Historical Acquires Bill Cunningham Archive

From the King of New York City www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/a...

25.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a 'grueling hell on earth.' The inside story of how the celebrated startup AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.

A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’

The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.

grist.org/agriculture/...

#Food #Agriculture #Kentucky #Climate #Farms #Farming

24.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 91    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 5

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