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Willow

@rockshrimp.bsky.social

Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator. Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.

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*sigh* at least it’s Friday.

09.03.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

08.03.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6431    πŸ” 1160    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 28

I would ask Leavitt:

Does the president rule out shitting his pants in public, dropping his drawers and waving his mushroom dick at the Iranian government?

08.03.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?

08.03.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2280    πŸ” 379    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 5
Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH
YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

08.03.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 14

The gum-chewing. The nonchalance.

08.03.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

if a talking head tells you people are worried about a draft w/r/t ground forces and you ignore that to declare that all options are on the table, your sloppy fucking comms aren’t really anyone else’s problem to clean up, imo

08.03.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1

no one told me that so much of being an adult was just being hungry and also not really wanting to eat at the same time

09.03.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's actually pretty easy for me to explain why I don't feel the need to extend rights I think humans have to things I don't think are human

08.03.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 961    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 13

it's kind of funny that the sort of person most likely to think that LLMs are conscious beings is also the sort of person who most thinks we should build our society around their use as compliant tools!

08.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Blow the whistle! Call it here.

08.03.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, she did get to keep the fuck plane after all.

08.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

"You want my fuck-palace-in-the-sky? Come and take it."

08.03.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1451    πŸ” 374    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 10

It’s been three days I guess I need to go see some theater again.

08.03.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok that makes more sense because I was like wtaf is going on with his face.

08.03.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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New York City crushes 10-man Orlando for first home win of 2026 A Keaton Parks brace and a Maxi Moralez masterclass paced New York City FC to a 5-0 victory at Yankee Stadium, their ninth win from 12 all-time home openers.

New York City FC: Unbeaten through 3 to open MLS season for the first since since 2019, when they finished 1st in East, and with their most points from opening 3 games since taking all 9 to start 2018. Can this squad hit that level? It looked like it during their demolition of Orlando

08.03.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

May his memory be a blessing.

08.03.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean the thing is they blew up a school then Hegseth openly bragged about how he got rid of all the targeting restrictions on TV so at some point I feel like a conversation is in order about when deference to da troopies is no longer owed cuz you can’t be ride THEY SPIT ON US AFTER NAM forever.

08.03.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWill be cast” by whom you cop-tense chicken hawk mother fucker.

08.03.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a man in this subway station with what seems to be a chihuahua/chicken mix.

08.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

As far as I’m concerned, the most important part of this piece is the celebration of the wonderful Selina Alko’s picture book about Judy Blume! Go Selina!

08.03.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yesterday, I stopped by a clothes swap at P.S. 124 in Park Slope. The school has changed in some remarkable ways in recent years. Two shelters opened up during the pandemic, which quickly filled with asylum seekers in the years that followed. (1/2)

08.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of when I would strongly tell my dog to stop licking himself but he couldn't hear me over the sound of him licking himself.

08.03.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

That thing where β€œI’m gonna die some day and so are you” is easier to explain to your kid than β€œsometimes people love each other”

08.03.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI’m gonna die” is easier than β€œsome people like other people”

08.03.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Parents explaining the first 5 minutes of UP.

08.03.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

UP would like a few words.

08.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Press release from my consulting firm reading: I am aware of the recent trend of CEOs eating their company’s product and posting the video on social media.
I love social media trends, but as the CEO of a conservation policy consulting firm focusing on protecting endangered species of sharks, I will not be participating in this trend at this time.
Thanks,
The Management

Press release from my consulting firm reading: I am aware of the recent trend of CEOs eating their company’s product and posting the video on social media. I love social media trends, but as the CEO of a conservation policy consulting firm focusing on protecting endangered species of sharks, I will not be participating in this trend at this time. Thanks, The Management

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

08.03.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Don't let the terrible news distract you from the other terrible news
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

08.03.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DHS deports deaf boy, 6, after preventing him receiving his hearing aid, lawyer says The child, his younger brother and mother, asylum seekers from Colombia, were detained in California earlier this week

I wonder if the ICE agents played dice to see who kept the hearing aids.

08.03.2026 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1