Vai
@vaiamrda.bsky.social
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Vai
@vaiamrda.bsky.social
· Dec 1
NYC. PhD in English. Fiction writer. Bilingual/dual citizen. Making a living in business ops/strategy and digital transformation. Have never relied on social media to make $$ nor am I looking to build audiences or empires. Just here for information, entertainment, and a bit of conversation.
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$9.5 billion not to work… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM
$9.5 billion not to work… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dialogue with my body and it's not necessarily a good thing.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Seriously? Dinner was solid, even had dessert.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Dude. It's past 11 pm.
Body: Popcorn.
Me:
Body: I'll keep saying it.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Seriously? Dinner was solid, even had dessert.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Dude. It's past 11 pm.
Body: Popcorn.
Me:
Body: I'll keep saying it.
September 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dialogue with my body and it's not necessarily a good thing.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Seriously? Dinner was solid, even had dessert.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Dude. It's past 11 pm.
Body: Popcorn.
Me:
Body: I'll keep saying it.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Seriously? Dinner was solid, even had dessert.
Body: Popcorn.
Me: Dude. It's past 11 pm.
Body: Popcorn.
Me:
Body: I'll keep saying it.
Side note but the Irish people rock
solidarity is a beautiful thing to witness. ten years ago if you told a Palestinian that multiple artists would drop out of a career-changing tour in solidarity with their people against genocide, they would not believe you.
never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting.
never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting.
September 16, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Side note but the Irish people rock
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wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
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The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
Go ahead, Kennedy Center, declare "bankruptcy."
September 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Go ahead, Kennedy Center, declare "bankruptcy."
I don't even really want to know why we're talking about the FBI and bestiality but I do want to say: it's spelled "bestiality." I notice only porn sites go with the misspelling, thinking their customers will understand it better?
September 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I don't even really want to know why we're talking about the FBI and bestiality but I do want to say: it's spelled "bestiality." I notice only porn sites go with the misspelling, thinking their customers will understand it better?
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BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
September 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
Ok "AI" advertising has moved from Matthew McConaughey idiotically eating food he doesn't like in the pouring rain bc no chatbot to Lindsay Lohan needing chatbot to validate her makeup choices on way to pick up her kid to Grandma getting knitting advice from chatbot that she ignores anyway.
September 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Ok "AI" advertising has moved from Matthew McConaughey idiotically eating food he doesn't like in the pouring rain bc no chatbot to Lindsay Lohan needing chatbot to validate her makeup choices on way to pick up her kid to Grandma getting knitting advice from chatbot that she ignores anyway.
Everybody knows we should have deployed Alcaraz to take out Z, very unfortunate outcome
September 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Everybody knows we should have deployed Alcaraz to take out Z, very unfortunate outcome
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Breanna Stewart on being a winner:
"I pride myself on being consistently great. That’s showing up when it’s the big moments, the small moments and all the moments in between. It’s an unrealistic confidence I have in myself. "
"I pride myself on being consistently great. That’s showing up when it’s the big moments, the small moments and all the moments in between. It’s an unrealistic confidence I have in myself. "
September 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Breanna Stewart on being a winner:
"I pride myself on being consistently great. That’s showing up when it’s the big moments, the small moments and all the moments in between. It’s an unrealistic confidence I have in myself. "
"I pride myself on being consistently great. That’s showing up when it’s the big moments, the small moments and all the moments in between. It’s an unrealistic confidence I have in myself. "
The narrative generated around that little weenie who quit Anthropic has reached critical mass. My 90 yo mother who does not have internet asked me if "that intelligence thing" is really going to kill us all "by the end of the decade." She even had the timing down.
September 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The narrative generated around that little weenie who quit Anthropic has reached critical mass. My 90 yo mother who does not have internet asked me if "that intelligence thing" is really going to kill us all "by the end of the decade." She even had the timing down.
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The federal government spends more money than it collects in taxes and other revenue.
That difference is the federal deficit.
Because America has developed this very large structural deficit, the cost of carrying its debt has become one of the government’s largest expenses.
That difference is the federal deficit.
Because America has developed this very large structural deficit, the cost of carrying its debt has become one of the government’s largest expenses.
September 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The federal government spends more money than it collects in taxes and other revenue.
That difference is the federal deficit.
Because America has developed this very large structural deficit, the cost of carrying its debt has become one of the government’s largest expenses.
That difference is the federal deficit.
Because America has developed this very large structural deficit, the cost of carrying its debt has become one of the government’s largest expenses.
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Its Elena Rybakina to declare herself the best player in the world in New York. Wins 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 vs Aryna Sabalenka to win the US Open.
• 3rd Grand Slam Title
• Roland Garros Short of Career Slam
• Becomea 30th WTA World #1
• First Since 2016 Kerber to win AO and USO
• Now 8-10 vs Sabalenka
• 3rd Grand Slam Title
• Roland Garros Short of Career Slam
• Becomea 30th WTA World #1
• First Since 2016 Kerber to win AO and USO
• Now 8-10 vs Sabalenka
September 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Its Elena Rybakina to declare herself the best player in the world in New York. Wins 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 vs Aryna Sabalenka to win the US Open.
• 3rd Grand Slam Title
• Roland Garros Short of Career Slam
• Becomea 30th WTA World #1
• First Since 2016 Kerber to win AO and USO
• Now 8-10 vs Sabalenka
• 3rd Grand Slam Title
• Roland Garros Short of Career Slam
• Becomea 30th WTA World #1
• First Since 2016 Kerber to win AO and USO
• Now 8-10 vs Sabalenka
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A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
nativenewsonline.net
September 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
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After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
NEW from me: Lawyers for a witness to the killing of Alex Pretti confirmed she has given an interview to the feds.
Full details inside.
Warning: Disturbing content.
www.huffpost.com/entry/she-wa...
Full details inside.
Warning: Disturbing content.
www.huffpost.com/entry/she-wa...
She Watched Agents Kill Alex Pretti From The Backseat Of An ICE Vehicle. Now She Can Share What She Saw.
She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:45 PM
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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The entire presentation of conservative masculinity is elaborate fantasies about how you would do Taken if an immigrant/hip-hop thug/antifa sicko touched your daughter and when it actually happens they're like "it's very sad, he should go to the doctor :("
Sen. Bernie Moreno on the allegations that his daughter and grandchild were horrifically abused by US Rep. Max Miller: "This is not a political thing. I don't see this through the lens of politics ... I hope he gets the help he needs."
September 11, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The entire presentation of conservative masculinity is elaborate fantasies about how you would do Taken if an immigrant/hip-hop thug/antifa sicko touched your daughter and when it actually happens they're like "it's very sad, he should go to the doctor :("
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As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.
September 9, 2026 at 10:58 AM
As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.
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“Telling people that they need to compromise on privacy is a polite way of framing a nonconsensual takeover; calling a community opposition movement ‘terroristic,’ however, gives the game away.”
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...
www.newyorker.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:51 PM
“Telling people that they need to compromise on privacy is a polite way of framing a nonconsensual takeover; calling a community opposition movement ‘terroristic,’ however, gives the game away.”
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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
www.propublica.org
September 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.