Amy Isikoff Newell
@amynewell.bsky.social
hope from despair. Forest Witch. Baba Yaga type. Crazy. Artist, Aspiring Activist, Recovering Engineering Leader. bipolar, bisexual, and bitchy AF she/they 🏳️🌈
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I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
You don't have to dirty your soul to be a successful academic or a scientist. Have some fucking pride. Have some fucking principles.
If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.
If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.
February 1, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
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Blessings on @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.
Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Blessings on @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.
Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.
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This elite project taking place right now to distance Epstein from his friends and allies and try to wipe their slates clean is a way to protect elitism itself in the face of more evidence that it is a house of cards, filled with people who do not deserve to be there.
February 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This elite project taking place right now to distance Epstein from his friends and allies and try to wipe their slates clean is a way to protect elitism itself in the face of more evidence that it is a house of cards, filled with people who do not deserve to be there.
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The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped
February 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped
please understand you may be engaging in psychological warfare against yourself and choose accordingly.
pro-tip: if you want a fun way to ruin your weekend, search the epstein files for founders of companies you used to work for. or professors you admired.
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
please understand you may be engaging in psychological warfare against yourself and choose accordingly.
pro-tip: if you want a fun way to ruin your weekend, search the epstein files for founders of companies you used to work for. or professors you admired.
February 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
pro-tip: if you want a fun way to ruin your weekend, search the epstein files for founders of companies you used to work for. or professors you admired.
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Dr Abeba Birhane runs the coolest AI research I know: critical analysis of its biases &c including its effects on society. Please help her out if you know how to mitigate esp. # 2 below.
I am assembling resources for @aial.ie to mitigate/reduce risks (due to our research) from potential:
1)retaliation, defamation lawsuit etc for work on politically charged topics
2)emotional harm from dealing with sensitive issues (CSAM, hate, etc)
know of any helpful resources? pls share/repost
1)retaliation, defamation lawsuit etc for work on politically charged topics
2)emotional harm from dealing with sensitive issues (CSAM, hate, etc)
know of any helpful resources? pls share/repost
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Dr Abeba Birhane runs the coolest AI research I know: critical analysis of its biases &c including its effects on society. Please help her out if you know how to mitigate esp. # 2 below.
I once refused to do business with someone because in a former venture he'd made such poor business choices that he'd completely fucked over all his employees and he did not seem to care. So I have very little patience with these "my lab /startup needed funding" defenses.
I co-ran a company for 10 years that relied heavily on philanthropic funding. We had a clear and detailed ethical framework for who we'd accept money from.
We turned down several grants from orgs whose founders were problematic in ways that don't begin to approach Epstein.
We turned down several grants from orgs whose founders were problematic in ways that don't begin to approach Epstein.
February 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I once refused to do business with someone because in a former venture he'd made such poor business choices that he'd completely fucked over all his employees and he did not seem to care. So I have very little patience with these "my lab /startup needed funding" defenses.
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“That girls are so mistreated; that powerful men still get away with it: we cannot stop pushing until we have a world in which this is unthinkable.
Instead, it is Saturday.”
Instead, it is Saturday.”
This ought to be unthinkable. Instead, it's Saturday katemanne.substack.com/p/katie-john...
Katie Johnson is Still at the Heart of the Epstein/Trump Story
Plus what the new files released tell us and what they don’t
katemanne.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:38 AM
“That girls are so mistreated; that powerful men still get away with it: we cannot stop pushing until we have a world in which this is unthinkable.
Instead, it is Saturday.”
Instead, it is Saturday.”
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
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The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.
I want more people to make the connections.
I want more people to make the connections.
January 31, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.
I want more people to make the connections.
I want more people to make the connections.
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Say what you will about SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, I do believe that this sketch helped kill Amazon Go out of the gate 🎯
Amazon Go - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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January 31, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Say what you will about SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, I do believe that this sketch helped kill Amazon Go out of the gate 🎯
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What data are apps collecting without you realizing it?
Evan Greer, director at @fightforthefuture.org, explains why privacy risks aren’t limited to the apps people usually worry about, but affect many apps built on surveillance advertising.
Full ep w/ @rabble.nz & @evangreer.bsky.social, out now.
Evan Greer, director at @fightforthefuture.org, explains why privacy risks aren’t limited to the apps people usually worry about, but affect many apps built on surveillance advertising.
Full ep w/ @rabble.nz & @evangreer.bsky.social, out now.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
What data are apps collecting without you realizing it?
Evan Greer, director at @fightforthefuture.org, explains why privacy risks aren’t limited to the apps people usually worry about, but affect many apps built on surveillance advertising.
Full ep w/ @rabble.nz & @evangreer.bsky.social, out now.
Evan Greer, director at @fightforthefuture.org, explains why privacy risks aren’t limited to the apps people usually worry about, but affect many apps built on surveillance advertising.
Full ep w/ @rabble.nz & @evangreer.bsky.social, out now.
the shingles vaccine is legit amazing and it’s ridic that you can’t get it till you turn 50.
I don’t want to brag or anything but there are advantages to turning 50 (shingles vaccine)
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 PM
the shingles vaccine is legit amazing and it’s ridic that you can’t get it till you turn 50.
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
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The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved.
www.thedartmouth.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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I'm realizing I now have 6 years of work centered around birds.
Saying this out loud in case a museum or gallery might be looking for exhibition ideas.
Prints, web, pedagogy, participatory practice, audio, video.
Saying this out loud in case a museum or gallery might be looking for exhibition ideas.
Prints, web, pedagogy, participatory practice, audio, video.
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I'm realizing I now have 6 years of work centered around birds.
Saying this out loud in case a museum or gallery might be looking for exhibition ideas.
Prints, web, pedagogy, participatory practice, audio, video.
Saying this out loud in case a museum or gallery might be looking for exhibition ideas.
Prints, web, pedagogy, participatory practice, audio, video.
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There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon.
If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.
Thank you 🫶🏻
If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.
Thank you 🫶🏻
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
standwithminnesota.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon.
If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.
Thank you 🫶🏻
If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.
Thank you 🫶🏻
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I hope to see libraries included in the list of “sensitive spaces”. Like other places in that list, libraries serve as a critical educational, civic, and cultural community resource and should be a safe place for every individual.
The governor said federal immigration actions are “making no one safer." Any legislation she files to bar agents from entering certain spaces would need buy-in from lawmakers.
Healey moves to keep ICE agents out of schools, courts, hospitals and other 'sensitive spaces'
The governor said federal immigration actions are “making no one safer." Any legislation she files to bar agents from entering certain spaces would need buy-in from lawmakers.
www.wbur.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I hope to see libraries included in the list of “sensitive spaces”. Like other places in that list, libraries serve as a critical educational, civic, and cultural community resource and should be a safe place for every individual.
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greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
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The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
January 13, 2026 at 3:13 AM
The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
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Massachusetts Road Signs
Massachusetts<br> Road Signs
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 11, 2026 at 2:35 AM
one of my new years resolutions was to memorize more phone numbers of my loved ones and I am happy to report that I have 1 down and it was frankly much easier than I thought it would be.
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
one of my new years resolutions was to memorize more phone numbers of my loved ones and I am happy to report that I have 1 down and it was frankly much easier than I thought it would be.