Liz Ard
@macrophyllum.bsky.social
Landscape designer, ecology nerd, artist. Mostly here for the parasocial relationships.
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Seems like the sign worked.
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Seems like the sign worked.
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I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
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“If they were willing to do that to clergy in broad daylight in front of rows of media who were recording, I just can’t even imagine what they’re doing to our immigrant neighbors behind boarded-up windows and doors,” Harris-Ferree said.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“If they were willing to do that to clergy in broad daylight in front of rows of media who were recording, I just can’t even imagine what they’re doing to our immigrant neighbors behind boarded-up windows and doors,” Harris-Ferree said.
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Every major US city is run by the cops. The fact that the public is fine with this is the only issue.
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Every major US city is run by the cops. The fact that the public is fine with this is the only issue.
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It is the norm.
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It is the norm.
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Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
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Unique among inmates, Ghislaine Maxwell gets room service in her cell, after-hours access to recreation, a private visitor suite with refreshments and even a service-dog puppy to play with.
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Ghislaine Maxwell Has Custom Meals and Pet A Puppy Behind Bars: Lawmakers
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee say a whistleblower revealed that Maxwell has received special treatment in prison.
people.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Unique among inmates, Ghislaine Maxwell gets room service in her cell, after-hours access to recreation, a private visitor suite with refreshments and even a service-dog puppy to play with.
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?
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There's a lot we can win. There really is. But it's a consistent fight.
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
There's a lot we can win. There really is. But it's a consistent fight.
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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Now I will say that these epstein emails have been a timely reminder that the wealthy and powerful are not required to form coherent ideas, and are used to unseen underlings transforming their shapeless impulses into real things for which they can take credit
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Now I will say that these epstein emails have been a timely reminder that the wealthy and powerful are not required to form coherent ideas, and are used to unseen underlings transforming their shapeless impulses into real things for which they can take credit
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Like Beethoven invented *new kinds of musical notation* bc he wanted to be very fucking clear about how it was meant to be played
And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"
And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Like Beethoven invented *new kinds of musical notation* bc he wanted to be very fucking clear about how it was meant to be played
And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"
And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"
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There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things
B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use
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Evelyn Normielib is coming for this administration and its goons
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Evelyn Normielib is coming for this administration and its goons
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
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I feel that over the last two years I have personally experienced the way social pressures to make conditions better for minorities in STEM have evaporated and while it’s understandable that people are distracted, it’s not acceptable that people are using that as an excuse
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I feel that over the last two years I have personally experienced the way social pressures to make conditions better for minorities in STEM have evaporated and while it’s understandable that people are distracted, it’s not acceptable that people are using that as an excuse
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It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
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And another thing about genAI that sucks is the need to constantly argue over if something, anything, is AI.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
And another thing about genAI that sucks is the need to constantly argue over if something, anything, is AI.
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"Tax cuts are not what motivates investors or entrepreneurs, they’re not what creates jobs, and they undermine the things that do: broad economic stability and strong consumer demand... [Universal Basic Income] creates reliable consumer demand beyond subsistence spending."
Canada should do UBI.
Canada should do UBI.
Why Canada's proposed corporate tax relief is not the answer - Basic Income Is.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Why Canada’s proposed corporate tax relief is not the answer
Tax cuts are not what motivates investors or entrepreneurs, they’re not what creates jobs, and they undermine the things that do.
www.thestar.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Tax cuts are not what motivates investors or entrepreneurs, they’re not what creates jobs, and they undermine the things that do: broad economic stability and strong consumer demand... [Universal Basic Income] creates reliable consumer demand beyond subsistence spending."
Canada should do UBI.
Canada should do UBI.
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“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities and ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas and tackle an elderly man. “We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”
Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that's now a model for other cities
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal governme...
apnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities and ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas and tackle an elderly man. “We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”
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The answer to how do we keep kids safe online isn't destroy everyone's privacy. It's not force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content. And it's certainly not ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The answer to how do we keep kids safe online isn't destroy everyone's privacy. It's not force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content. And it's certainly not ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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A whale caught in crab nets is fighting for her life on the Oregon Coast near Yachats, with so many people rushing there before official help arrives at dawn. The whale is vocalizing distress, asking for help. It's devastating. We have to find a way to stop entanglements. Unconscionable.
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A whale caught in crab nets is fighting for her life on the Oregon Coast near Yachats, with so many people rushing there before official help arrives at dawn. The whale is vocalizing distress, asking for help. It's devastating. We have to find a way to stop entanglements. Unconscionable.
This is too real 😭
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is too real 😭
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.