Dr. Kate Ringland
@kateringland.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at University of California Santa Cruz in Computational Media. PhD. HCI & Accessibility. I study the intersection of people, play, & tech. she/they, opinions own
https://kateringland.com
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness:
The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open...
🔭 🧪
The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open...
🔭 🧪
Rubin opens its eye. And what it sees is the Universe.
Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness:
The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open...
🔭 🧪
The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open...
🔭 🧪
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As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...
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I dunno guys but I just think maybe scicomm would be more effective if we really thought about this like it's sharing
If we regularly help the rest of the public feel some of the feelings that we feel -- which means admitting that science makes us feel things -- then that helps them understand why science matters so much to us scientists and see that they are key partners in the work that we do.
June 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I dunno guys but I just think maybe scicomm would be more effective if we really thought about this like it's sharing
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Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! I edited today's @thenarwhal.ca story, which comes from the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay. Fascinating science journalism and stunning visuals, but also — in the spirit of the day — a couple pics of some very cute Indigibabies enjoying a celebration. Enjoy!!
Arctic sea ice is disappearing, and changing life in the Far North — but the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nvt., sees hope in a geoengineering experiment to refreeze the ocean. ✍️ by @chloewilliams.bsky.social & 📷 by @gjohnjournalism.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/real-ice-cam...
Real Ice: the plan to refreeze the Arctic | The Narwhal
U.K. company Real Ice is refreezing sea ice in Cambridge Bay, Nvt., in a bold experiment to mitigate climate change and help preserve Inuit traditions
thenarwhal.ca
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! I edited today's @thenarwhal.ca story, which comes from the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay. Fascinating science journalism and stunning visuals, but also — in the spirit of the day — a couple pics of some very cute Indigibabies enjoying a celebration. Enjoy!!
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“The idea of a flag that unites us all is no different than a universally designed product that is intended for all. Both require the totalizing force of colonization to unify the masses through homogeny.” Read my and @fractalecho.bsky.social latest:
buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
June 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The idea of a flag that unites us all is no different than a universally designed product that is intended for all. Both require the totalizing force of colonization to unify the masses through homogeny.” Read my and @fractalecho.bsky.social latest:
buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
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Yesterday was a historic day in New York history (indeed, in US history): Mahmoud Khalil was released from ICE and returned to New York City, and Zohran Kwame Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan. Both brave men have me thinking about the powerful politics of being vulnerable.
June 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yesterday was a historic day in New York history (indeed, in US history): Mahmoud Khalil was released from ICE and returned to New York City, and Zohran Kwame Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan. Both brave men have me thinking about the powerful politics of being vulnerable.
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JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.
June 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
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scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera
June 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
June 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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For the folks talking about the "3.5% rule", remember that after you come out for a rally you also need to take part in organized, effective resistance. Materially disrupt things. Make trouble. Create support networks to feed your neighbors and bail out protesters.
Don't show up just one day.
Don't show up just one day.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
For the folks talking about the "3.5% rule", remember that after you come out for a rally you also need to take part in organized, effective resistance. Materially disrupt things. Make trouble. Create support networks to feed your neighbors and bail out protesters.
Don't show up just one day.
Don't show up just one day.
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Find something you can do. There is *always* something. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
For the folks talking about the "3.5% rule", remember that after you come out for a rally you also need to take part in organized, effective resistance. Materially disrupt things. Make trouble. Create support networks to feed your neighbors and bail out protesters.
Don't show up just one day.
Don't show up just one day.
June 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Find something you can do. There is *always* something. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
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Every fascist uses illness and violence to disable opponents.
They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia.
They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other.
Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.
They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia.
They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other.
Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every fascist uses illness and violence to disable opponents.
They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia.
They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other.
Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.
They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia.
They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other.
Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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Case in point: my dad began at No Kings today said it was packed, no crazy cop presence, then went to the zucotti park one explicitly anti-Ice and pro Palestine, cops are everywhere.
I'm not against the No Kings protest - you should go. But also be careful not to compare this to what we're watching in LA. There's a difference between a permitted, coordinated march that advocates a return to a sense of status quo & a grassroots movement that calls for its abolition. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Case in point: my dad began at No Kings today said it was packed, no crazy cop presence, then went to the zucotti park one explicitly anti-Ice and pro Palestine, cops are everywhere.
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Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out.
In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out.
In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."
organizingmythoughts.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.
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I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
June 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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As LAPD makes this announcement over a P.A.:
"I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly"
Literally 5 SECONDS later, the first impact munition round is fired.
MULTIPLE munitions are launched before the announcement is finished. It's no longer audible over the booms and frightened screams.
"I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly"
Literally 5 SECONDS later, the first impact munition round is fired.
MULTIPLE munitions are launched before the announcement is finished. It's no longer audible over the booms and frightened screams.
Unlawful assembly has been declared in downtown Los Angeles where hundreds of anti-ICE protesters are pushing back against recent immigration raids
June 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
As LAPD makes this announcement over a P.A.:
"I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly"
Literally 5 SECONDS later, the first impact munition round is fired.
MULTIPLE munitions are launched before the announcement is finished. It's no longer audible over the booms and frightened screams.
"I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly"
Literally 5 SECONDS later, the first impact munition round is fired.
MULTIPLE munitions are launched before the announcement is finished. It's no longer audible over the booms and frightened screams.
Reposted by Dr. Kate Ringland
Have you ever observed/participated in pushback related to accessibility/disability computing research? We’re collecting short stories which will remain confidential, of pushback, at ALL levels in both industry and academia, to identify tensions in the research community.
June 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Have you ever observed/participated in pushback related to accessibility/disability computing research? We’re collecting short stories which will remain confidential, of pushback, at ALL levels in both industry and academia, to identify tensions in the research community.