Alexi Brooks
@alexibrooks.bsky.social
Teaching computer science at UMN. Researching:
-Ethics in computer science education.
-Learning in social media. (No, I'm not researching you.)
Pronouns: They/Them
-Ethics in computer science education.
-Learning in social media. (No, I'm not researching you.)
Pronouns: They/Them
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In honor of TDoR, the full text of First Protocols of Queer Goetia, anonymously published by Contagion Press in 2019, and a text very dear to my heart.
May our grief and our love be twin edges of a keen blade, now and always.
The text begins below:
May our grief and our love be twin edges of a keen blade, now and always.
The text begins below:
November 21, 2024 at 12:03 AM
In honor of TDoR, the full text of First Protocols of Queer Goetia, anonymously published by Contagion Press in 2019, and a text very dear to my heart.
May our grief and our love be twin edges of a keen blade, now and always.
The text begins below:
May our grief and our love be twin edges of a keen blade, now and always.
The text begins below:
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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I think people forget that the only reason opportunities exist to "talk nicely" to people with power over you (your boss, your government, etc.) is because lots of people with the same amount or less power than you literally rioted to win you that privilege.
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I think people forget that the only reason opportunities exist to "talk nicely" to people with power over you (your boss, your government, etc.) is because lots of people with the same amount or less power than you literally rioted to win you that privilege.
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We're going on strike! And if you want to support, we're raising money for our hardship fund. Chip in if you can!
Strike action is ON!!!
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
September 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We're going on strike! And if you want to support, we're raising money for our hardship fund. Chip in if you can!
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If you can't access it, here is the longer original piece: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you can't access it, here is the longer original piece: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Anyone got a recommendation for a good source of long-form (written!!!) explainers? I enjoy learning new things, staying up to date on current events, reading insightful analysis. I used to use Vox to get a variety of useful opinions, but it's gone completely to shit. The last straw:
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Anyone got a recommendation for a good source of long-form (written!!!) explainers? I enjoy learning new things, staying up to date on current events, reading insightful analysis. I used to use Vox to get a variety of useful opinions, but it's gone completely to shit. The last straw:
Put in my vote for the Hugo awards. If you still need to do it, you've got a couple days left but you might want to get on that!
I feel pretty good about the categories I found time to read most of (novel & short story). I remember last time I participated I ranked No Award a lot. Not this time.
I feel pretty good about the categories I found time to read most of (novel & short story). I remember last time I participated I ranked No Award a lot. Not this time.
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Put in my vote for the Hugo awards. If you still need to do it, you've got a couple days left but you might want to get on that!
I feel pretty good about the categories I found time to read most of (novel & short story). I remember last time I participated I ranked No Award a lot. Not this time.
I feel pretty good about the categories I found time to read most of (novel & short story). I remember last time I participated I ranked No Award a lot. Not this time.
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
Observations from some public science on AI in thread. (Let’s shake off the live skeet rust!)
May 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Observations from some public science on AI in thread. (Let’s shake off the live skeet rust!)
Hey NPR, if 1 in 100 people in the US participate in an event… isn’t the takeaway that is a newsworthy amount of people? Immediately? What recent events besides the protests meet this threshold?
April 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey NPR, if 1 in 100 people in the US participate in an event… isn’t the takeaway that is a newsworthy amount of people? Immediately? What recent events besides the protests meet this threshold?
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Medford, Somerville, and Tufts campus communities: Tufts full-time lecturers need your support! Come learn about their contract fight and call the provost and dean with us on Thursday between 10 am and noon. Exploitation of workers affects all of us. We are stronger when we resist together.
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Medford, Somerville, and Tufts campus communities: Tufts full-time lecturers need your support! Come learn about their contract fight and call the provost and dean with us on Thursday between 10 am and noon. Exploitation of workers affects all of us. We are stronger when we resist together.
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"University leaders are unpracticed in reacting quickly & collectively to attacks on their institutions."
If only unis had organized groups of all kinds of workers on campus, with hard-learned tactical skills & a hunger to resist, whom leaders could view as allies rather than annoyances.
Oh wait.
If only unis had organized groups of all kinds of workers on campus, with hard-learned tactical skills & a hunger to resist, whom leaders could view as allies rather than annoyances.
Oh wait.
March 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"University leaders are unpracticed in reacting quickly & collectively to attacks on their institutions."
If only unis had organized groups of all kinds of workers on campus, with hard-learned tactical skills & a hunger to resist, whom leaders could view as allies rather than annoyances.
Oh wait.
If only unis had organized groups of all kinds of workers on campus, with hard-learned tactical skills & a hunger to resist, whom leaders could view as allies rather than annoyances.
Oh wait.
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don't want the US government to disappear you? act in solidarity with Latinx people who are in fact being disappeared today off the streets without warrants, because they're walking around looking brown and wearing tattoos without carrying their papers.
March 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
don't want the US government to disappear you? act in solidarity with Latinx people who are in fact being disappeared today off the streets without warrants, because they're walking around looking brown and wearing tattoos without carrying their papers.
Classes day 1 complete! I survived 5 hours of class time in the same day. No idea how k12 teachers do this every day
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Classes day 1 complete! I survived 5 hours of class time in the same day. No idea how k12 teachers do this every day
I'm not usually much of a breakfast eater, but it feels really good to start the day with making scrambled eggs. I should make time for this more often.
January 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm not usually much of a breakfast eater, but it feels really good to start the day with making scrambled eggs. I should make time for this more often.
Testing out my new ereader on a journal article "They only hate the term: policy branding and the politics of critical race theory"
My initial thought is skepticism + hope. This could be another very bad take where they've forgotten that brands can be attacked. But it could be very interesting!
My initial thought is skepticism + hope. This could be another very bad take where they've forgotten that brands can be attacked. But it could be very interesting!
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Testing out my new ereader on a journal article "They only hate the term: policy branding and the politics of critical race theory"
My initial thought is skepticism + hope. This could be another very bad take where they've forgotten that brands can be attacked. But it could be very interesting!
My initial thought is skepticism + hope. This could be another very bad take where they've forgotten that brands can be attacked. But it could be very interesting!
Story pet peeve: The main character is The Chosen One because they're just that skilled (offscreen of course).
December 25, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Story pet peeve: The main character is The Chosen One because they're just that skilled (offscreen of course).
More organizing 101 I guess...
It is in fact often easier to get a relatively small number of people to do something high effort and risky than it is to get a larger number of people to do something low effort and safe.
In a way this is the entire premise of disruptive protest action. (1/2?)
It is in fact often easier to get a relatively small number of people to do something high effort and risky than it is to get a larger number of people to do something low effort and safe.
In a way this is the entire premise of disruptive protest action. (1/2?)
December 20, 2024 at 10:45 PM
More organizing 101 I guess...
It is in fact often easier to get a relatively small number of people to do something high effort and risky than it is to get a larger number of people to do something low effort and safe.
In a way this is the entire premise of disruptive protest action. (1/2?)
It is in fact often easier to get a relatively small number of people to do something high effort and risky than it is to get a larger number of people to do something low effort and safe.
In a way this is the entire premise of disruptive protest action. (1/2?)
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*smashes repost button* I believe few things more strongly than this.
I genuinely believe a hell of a lot of people have PTSD from 2020 that is going entirely unaddressed.
Yes, mass COVID infections undoubtedly caused cognitive changes for some, but I suspect for many this was their first experience with a long term traumatic situation they could not escape or avoid
Yes, mass COVID infections undoubtedly caused cognitive changes for some, but I suspect for many this was their first experience with a long term traumatic situation they could not escape or avoid
December 19, 2024 at 2:53 PM
*smashes repost button* I believe few things more strongly than this.
A reminder from community moderation 101.
Q: What do you do with someone who repeatedly steps right up to the edge of bannable behavior and then stops?
A: You can them.
Q: What do you do with someone who repeatedly steps right up to the edge of bannable behavior and then stops?
A: You can them.
December 13, 2024 at 11:20 PM
A reminder from community moderation 101.
Q: What do you do with someone who repeatedly steps right up to the edge of bannable behavior and then stops?
A: You can them.
Q: What do you do with someone who repeatedly steps right up to the edge of bannable behavior and then stops?
A: You can them.
Today I learned about windows+shift+s for rapidly taking screenshots.
November 28, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Today I learned about windows+shift+s for rapidly taking screenshots.
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This should be obvious, but it's not for mind-boggling reasons, so here we go: Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans enbys are enby. Trans people being trans doesn't harm you. "Harm" is trans people not being able to exist safely in public. "Harm" is trans people dying due to bigotry.
November 21, 2024 at 3:21 AM
This should be obvious, but it's not for mind-boggling reasons, so here we go: Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans enbys are enby. Trans people being trans doesn't harm you. "Harm" is trans people not being able to exist safely in public. "Harm" is trans people dying due to bigotry.
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(Before I go on: The decisions about where to draw the picket line were made by Tech Guild members. If you think it should’ve been drawn somewhere else, I hope you can trust that the workers thought very carefully through the asks they felt were strategically best.)
November 4, 2024 at 12:41 PM
(Before I go on: The decisions about where to draw the picket line were made by Tech Guild members. If you think it should’ve been drawn somewhere else, I hope you can trust that the workers thought very carefully through the asks they felt were strategically best.)
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Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods by @casella.bsky.social
www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/t...
www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/t...
September 30, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods by @casella.bsky.social
www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/t...
www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/t...
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Please sign in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a graduate student whom Cornell is threatening with immediate deportation for his pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism. Signatures from outside the Cornell community are welcomed.
We Demand the Reinstatement of Momodou Taal
We write with outrage over the recent temporary suspension of graduate worker Momodou Taal, on the grounds of his alleged participation in a recent Pro-Palestine and anti-genocide campus protest. This...
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September 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Please sign in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a graduate student whom Cornell is threatening with immediate deportation for his pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism. Signatures from outside the Cornell community are welcomed.