Liza W (she/they)
@lizawemakor.bsky.social
Writer | Clarion West ‘23 | English Ph.D. candidate @ UC Riverside | ‘Loving Safoa’ sapphic vampire novella available @ Neon Hemlock Press
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writing updates, media analyses, notes and scraps
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Socialism is anyone they don’t like doing anything that they’re not a fan of
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Socialism is anyone they don’t like doing anything that they’re not a fan of
Everyone should be thinking critically about their control issues tbh, and how they might be attached to the idea that people shouldn’t be able to leave them or find alternatives even if their needs are very unmet. These control issues are systemic.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Everyone should be thinking critically about their control issues tbh, and how they might be attached to the idea that people shouldn’t be able to leave them or find alternatives even if their needs are very unmet. These control issues are systemic.
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Manipulative people by design or strategy
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Manipulative people by design or strategy
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
Like to convince you that having an appropriate response to awful treatment is “not smart” / “unhealed”
as a method of control.
People who voted for someone who expressed they thought you were subhuman
Don’t actually deserve unlimited grace
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It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
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If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.
Worded another way, a hyper-individualistic culture is antisocial. A hyper-repressive culture is antisocial. It is not only individuals who are capable of being antisocial. A group of people, even a large group of people, can be antisocial, together.
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Worded another way, a hyper-individualistic culture is antisocial. A hyper-repressive culture is antisocial. It is not only individuals who are capable of being antisocial. A group of people, even a large group of people, can be antisocial, together.
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Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.
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i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!
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hey they put my writing in a magazine how bout that! you can even read it if you want to!
it's got the grinding misery of mech combat, vat-grown horrors that love more deeply than you or i ever could, and the most ethereally beautiful boy in the whole universe!
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it's got the grinding misery of mech combat, vat-grown horrors that love more deeply than you or i ever could, and the most ethereally beautiful boy in the whole universe!
whatiwanted.org/alexandria.h...
Jane Alexandria — violence&Body | WANTED
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November 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!
bsky.app/profile/j-al...
bsky.app/profile/j-al...
My heart’s the same, but my aim has changed
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My heart’s the same, but my aim has changed
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have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity
I like to incorporate elements of black party culture into my fiction, and there’s only so much explaining I’m willing to do about that. I enjoy fic outside of my immediate cultural context without authors needing to plead their case, and it seems fair to expect the same openness of mind in return.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I like to incorporate elements of black party culture into my fiction, and there’s only so much explaining I’m willing to do about that. I enjoy fic outside of my immediate cultural context without authors needing to plead their case, and it seems fair to expect the same openness of mind in return.
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they know grievance is a great motivator
I don't honestly know what maga has to be angry about. They're getting everything they wanted and more.
October 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
they know grievance is a great motivator
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D’Angelo has spoken against his sex icon image. He was pushed into that by the label and hated when he was on tour and ladies were treating him like a stripper. I hope in his passing we can celebrate his incredible musicality and dedication to the craft. 🌚
October 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
D’Angelo has spoken against his sex icon image. He was pushed into that by the label and hated when he was on tour and ladies were treating him like a stripper. I hope in his passing we can celebrate his incredible musicality and dedication to the craft. 🌚
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Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
I want social structures that make sense, and last. Which means I want social structures that don’t require hazing and ring kissing and conditioning and repression to function, which is what most of this world’s social infrastructure requires.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I want social structures that make sense, and last. Which means I want social structures that don’t require hazing and ring kissing and conditioning and repression to function, which is what most of this world’s social infrastructure requires.
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
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Those LLMs are absolutely more real to them than we are
October 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Those LLMs are absolutely more real to them than we are
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a certain kind of liberal has a cycle of being confidently wrong, coming to the right conclusion way too late, forgetting all the people who told them they were wrong in the first place, never reflecting on it or learning any humility, and then being confidently wrong again to start the cycle anew
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
a certain kind of liberal has a cycle of being confidently wrong, coming to the right conclusion way too late, forgetting all the people who told them they were wrong in the first place, never reflecting on it or learning any humility, and then being confidently wrong again to start the cycle anew
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And these posts never come with a mea culpa like "I should have listened to the people I brushed off as hysterical"
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I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
And these posts never come with a mea culpa like "I should have listened to the people I brushed off as hysterical"
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I lowkey have things to say about people considering dystopia and alternative realities less speculative than other speculative tropes
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I lowkey have things to say about people considering dystopia and alternative realities less speculative than other speculative tropes
My cat knows not to mess with the tablecloth, but he did it anyway and tore a big hole in the fabric, which he then stuck his head through. Of course he got stuck and ended up panicking, and twisting the cloth tighter around himself, and the only way out was with my help. Seems like a metaphor.
September 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My cat knows not to mess with the tablecloth, but he did it anyway and tore a big hole in the fabric, which he then stuck his head through. Of course he got stuck and ended up panicking, and twisting the cloth tighter around himself, and the only way out was with my help. Seems like a metaphor.
anything taken by force will not be had with ease
September 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
anything taken by force will not be had with ease
I am feeling a need to be more uncompromising. Too many people have not been told No enough, and despite the clearly negative ramifications of their behavior, they continue it.
September 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I am feeling a need to be more uncompromising. Too many people have not been told No enough, and despite the clearly negative ramifications of their behavior, they continue it.
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You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
It’s such a task to maintain your sense of self when you’re dealing with people who have actually lost their damn minds
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It’s such a task to maintain your sense of self when you’re dealing with people who have actually lost their damn minds