Lisa Piazza
@lmpiazza.bsky.social
oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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Just give people money to buy food. Every people. Every people can have food money. Yay, farmers have money and people have food and nobody's baby goes to bed hungry. Food is not something you should have to be worthy of. What a concept.
Both times I've been on SNAP, I was recently laid off from Tech jobs in the Bay Area. Nothing in my life looked different, but I knew my cupboards were bare.
It annoys me when people say “they’re on SNAP but their hair and nails are done and they’ve got tattoos”. It’s extremely normal to do your own hair and buy press on nails, and tattoos literally last forever. What do tattoos someone got 10 years ago have to do with them needing to eat now
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just give people money to buy food. Every people. Every people can have food money. Yay, farmers have money and people have food and nobody's baby goes to bed hungry. Food is not something you should have to be worthy of. What a concept.
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Excellent thread. In my ~15 years in higher ed — mostly at places that would describe themselves as sympathetic to this idea — I’ve found that most people trying to tell you this is impossible / inadvisable is trying to sell you something
October 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excellent thread. In my ~15 years in higher ed — mostly at places that would describe themselves as sympathetic to this idea — I’ve found that most people trying to tell you this is impossible / inadvisable is trying to sell you something
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It’s that time of year again!
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It’s that time of year again!
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In his first week, our new provost commanded everyone to use AI to create more efficiency and cost savings. Even faculty senate (AI cannot assist in any of our work. None. zero. zip.nada) 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In his first week, our new provost commanded everyone to use AI to create more efficiency and cost savings. Even faculty senate (AI cannot assist in any of our work. None. zero. zip.nada) 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Nothing reveals capitalism’s reification of labor, history & knowledge than a technology that no one wants or asked for, will literally torch the planet, will destroy art, literature & work itself, & yet we are told is also unstoppable, inevitable & we must pour tremendous resources into supporting
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Nothing reveals capitalism’s reification of labor, history & knowledge than a technology that no one wants or asked for, will literally torch the planet, will destroy art, literature & work itself, & yet we are told is also unstoppable, inevitable & we must pour tremendous resources into supporting
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Happy, happy pub day, Amber!!!!
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy, happy pub day, Amber!!!!
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” understands how nightmarish it is to juggle love and living in the modern age, when simply surviving is a task that requires all of our energy.
Rose Byrne stares down the breaking point of motherhood
In “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Mary Bronstein reveals the messy truth of modern motherhood.
www.salon.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” understands how nightmarish it is to juggle love and living in the modern age, when simply surviving is a task that requires all of our energy.
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Victoria Chang
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Victoria Chang
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I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
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Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
The Anything-But-Perfect World of Teaching: An Interview with Porcupine Literary
A conversation with Editors Rachel Becker & Judy McClure
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Read this amazing interview with our amazing editors Judy McClure and Rachel Becker about their work here at Porcupine with @wildroofjournal.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
open.substack.com/pub/wildroof...
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I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
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The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?
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And it says, here
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
It Says Here - Billy Bragg on Breakfast TV
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
And it says, here
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
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“He let me drive the winding
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.
I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
@uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.
I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
@uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...
Love Lyric by Jessica Abughattas - curated and introduced by Victoria Chang
I loved the lie I loved lying next to the winter I lived beside the lie lying thin & white. I loved lying beside the tides. He let me drive the winding canyon to Malibu. ...
www.tupeloquarterly.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“He let me drive the winding
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.
I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
@uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...
canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind.
I loved being alive the winter I lay
so close to loving I thought I’d die.”
—Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric”
@uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...
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I had to become the moving water I already am, falling back into the human shape in order not to frighten my children, grandchildren, dogs and friends. Our old cat doesn’t care. He laps the water where my face used to be.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
September 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I had to become the moving water I already am, falling back into the human shape in order not to frighten my children, grandchildren, dogs and friends. Our old cat doesn’t care. He laps the water where my face used to be.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
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Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
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The adults are pushing AI on the kids. Don't get it twisted.
Today I asked my students to respond to two questions.
1. How often do you use an AI chatbot? 1=never, 10=every day
2. What are your feelings about the future of AI? 1=apocalyptically dystopian, like I foresee dying at the hands of a murder robot, 10=I think AI will improve our lives immensely.
1. How often do you use an AI chatbot? 1=never, 10=every day
2. What are your feelings about the future of AI? 1=apocalyptically dystopian, like I foresee dying at the hands of a murder robot, 10=I think AI will improve our lives immensely.
August 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The adults are pushing AI on the kids. Don't get it twisted.
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Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.