Aisha
@aishaxr.bsky.social
Deeply, intentionally, accidentally. Here to dis/reconnect.
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Deactivated IG only to hop on here for a min.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Deactivated IG only to hop on here for a min.
Can't believe I'm just seeing this, but reposting for posterity (or more for myself to have a record, rather!)
A symposium on "Truth & Trust in a Time of Trumpery" kicks off tomorrow 9.30am at East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman. Read more about the event below and don't miss @ucdischool.bsky.social 's @aishaxr.bsky.social discuss repairing the public square!
Registration details included below 👇
Registration details included below 👇
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Can't believe I'm just seeing this, but reposting for posterity (or more for myself to have a record, rather!)
TIL the word 'jumbotron'
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
TIL the word 'jumbotron'
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MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.
why is everything computer
July 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.
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So glad we fired all the DEI hires with "advanced degrees" and "expertise" and finally installed some qualified people
(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
June 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
So glad we fired all the DEI hires with "advanced degrees" and "expertise" and finally installed some qualified people
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fucking incredible to leave a lorem ipsum in the copy during The Year of Our Lord 2025
a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable
a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable
May 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
fucking incredible to leave a lorem ipsum in the copy during The Year of Our Lord 2025
a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable
a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable
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You know it's *unconditional*, *unwavering* and *true* love that you're not even slightly mad at the fact that your cat literally broke the brand new shoots off a cutting that's been nothing but a stalk, leaf-less and nearly dead, for two years. It started showing signs of life just a fortnight ago.
May 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You know it's *unconditional*, *unwavering* and *true* love that you're not even slightly mad at the fact that your cat literally broke the brand new shoots off a cutting that's been nothing but a stalk, leaf-less and nearly dead, for two years. It started showing signs of life just a fortnight ago.
Started two little (personal) projects today - setting up a friendgroup newsletter, and Substack. Pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the latter is to use.
April 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Started two little (personal) projects today - setting up a friendgroup newsletter, and Substack. Pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the latter is to use.
Apart from all the great presentations at this symposium, one thing that stands out is that I REALLY need to package my work /self better.
April 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Apart from all the great presentations at this symposium, one thing that stands out is that I REALLY need to package my work /self better.
If anyone has any ideas on how I can start writing (non academic) and warm up in media again, I'd like to maybe give it a go (again). Just to keep in touch with my older /ex self, in a way, if that makes sense?
I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.
I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.
April 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If anyone has any ideas on how I can start writing (non academic) and warm up in media again, I'd like to maybe give it a go (again). Just to keep in touch with my older /ex self, in a way, if that makes sense?
I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.
I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.
Rereading Hunger Games, and it never gets old. On Mockingjay now, and feeling sad that it'll be over, much like the first time reading it.
March 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rereading Hunger Games, and it never gets old. On Mockingjay now, and feeling sad that it'll be over, much like the first time reading it.
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Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do
March 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do
Anyway I have a 2000 word assignment on Platform societies due tomorrow and have done a poor 30 word intro so far that has nothing to do with platforms, nor the society shaped by it.
March 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Anyway I have a 2000 word assignment on Platform societies due tomorrow and have done a poor 30 word intro so far that has nothing to do with platforms, nor the society shaped by it.
Finished Sunrise of the Reaping earlier today and just cracked open my old copy of The Hunger Games to do a lil re-read.
Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.
Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.
March 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Finished Sunrise of the Reaping earlier today and just cracked open my old copy of The Hunger Games to do a lil re-read.
Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.
Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.
One person literally just said maybe you can also speak about Palestine, so maybe it's not all of us, it's just you.
Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One person literally just said maybe you can also speak about Palestine, so maybe it's not all of us, it's just you.
At the cost of sounding catastrophic, Meta's lack of fact checking is EXACTLY what led to ethnic riots in SL eight years ago. They had to be banned, and with this, they started introducing regional Trust and Safety teams.
Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.
Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.
January 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At the cost of sounding catastrophic, Meta's lack of fact checking is EXACTLY what led to ethnic riots in SL eight years ago. They had to be banned, and with this, they started introducing regional Trust and Safety teams.
Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.
Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.
The US's spiral and Zuvk's spiral is both horrifying and fascinating to watch
January 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The US's spiral and Zuvk's spiral is both horrifying and fascinating to watch
The account and the thread don't make sense together but what a brilliant and deranged thread
The oompas are leaking out. They're in the candy. They're in the water. There's no getting rid of them. This is our life now. Forever. And it's only going to get worse. We're still eating the candy.
December 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
The account and the thread don't make sense together but what a brilliant and deranged thread
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The open source challenges are also a great opportunity to explore Bellingcat’s Online Investigations Toolkit! The toolkit offers a variety of tools that might be helpful in solving the exercises: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
About | bcattools
A toolkit for open source researchers
bellingcat.gitbook.io
December 16, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The open source challenges are also a great opportunity to explore Bellingcat’s Online Investigations Toolkit! The toolkit offers a variety of tools that might be helpful in solving the exercises: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
Finished "We'll prescribe you a cat" yesterday, and saw "The Blanket Cats" in a library today. Both by different Japanese authors.
December 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Finished "We'll prescribe you a cat" yesterday, and saw "The Blanket Cats" in a library today. Both by different Japanese authors.
Just learned about Bonnie Blue and thinking, Aus is cautiously on the right way with their socials regulations for minors, because it's predatory and insane.
December 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Just learned about Bonnie Blue and thinking, Aus is cautiously on the right way with their socials regulations for minors, because it's predatory and insane.
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If you’re going to read one article this weekend, let it be this piece of accountability reporting with a long view back.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most (Gift Article)
The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:28 PM
If you’re going to read one article this weekend, let it be this piece of accountability reporting with a long view back.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
Watching this 2013 film called Vendetta (not like fantastic) but also not terrible, very creative ways of killing people in it. For vigilante /revenge murders they're quite satisfying?
December 13, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Watching this 2013 film called Vendetta (not like fantastic) but also not terrible, very creative ways of killing people in it. For vigilante /revenge murders they're quite satisfying?
Black Doves was actually solid as far as a murder (?) mystery goes
December 8, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Black Doves was actually solid as far as a murder (?) mystery goes