Sarah Pawlicki
@skpawlicki.bsky.social
Public historian | Anti-capitalist | White settler on Peoria homelands | she/they | Conscientious objector
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we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
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If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
Donate to Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by Sudean Peters
My name is Sudean Peters, and I am the Executive Director of … Sudean Peters needs your support for Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa
gofund.me
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
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From the AP: places to donate to help recovery in Jamaica apnews.com/article/hurr...
How to help those impacted by Hurricane Melissa
Relief organizations are mobilizing to help across the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in histo...
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
From the AP: places to donate to help recovery in Jamaica apnews.com/article/hurr...
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
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Also still have our ko-fi goal which has been stalled at 22%. Thankfully I've been able to pick up a few jobs this month that allowed me to make payments which have been just buying us time.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Also still have our ko-fi goal which has been stalled at 22%. Thankfully I've been able to pick up a few jobs this month that allowed me to make payments which have been just buying us time.
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
I'm so looking forward to reading this and continuing to learn from @ktgerbs.bsky.social!
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Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
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October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm so looking forward to reading this and continuing to learn from @ktgerbs.bsky.social!
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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights.
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...
Italian Americans Who Fought for Justice
Profile. Brief bios of people of Italian heritage who were committed to social justice.
www.zinnedproject.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights.
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...
#TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...
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BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly
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The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,
and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
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Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...
blackwhiteandread.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.
A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.
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What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
gothamist.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Emergency ask. It is always so humbling and not in good way to constantly be in financial crisis, especially when I look at all the work that I do. We are at risk of losing our housing and need to come up with 3 months rent by the 1st, which is an impossible ask.
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
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Support Johnnie Jae ❤️
Support Johnnie Jae
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September 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Emergency ask. It is always so humbling and not in good way to constantly be in financial crisis, especially when I look at all the work that I do. We are at risk of losing our housing and need to come up with 3 months rent by the 1st, which is an impossible ask.
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...
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If white folks all aren’t having these conversations and emotionally processing what is happening that their people were and are so willing to sacrifice the country for authoritarian power, I would be really worried if I were you.
September 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If white folks all aren’t having these conversations and emotionally processing what is happening that their people were and are so willing to sacrifice the country for authoritarian power, I would be really worried if I were you.
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You cannot "bargain" with fascists. I think that everyone should refuse to do this and also to stop supporting people who do this.
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
You cannot "bargain" with fascists. I think that everyone should refuse to do this and also to stop supporting people who do this.
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Some of this stuff is easily remedied with Pop-Up community created "history of US chattel slavery" exhibitions in front of parks, museums, community centers etc... Folks can also just stand out front and hand out zines on the topic to people who are visiting these sites and spaces.
September 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Some of this stuff is easily remedied with Pop-Up community created "history of US chattel slavery" exhibitions in front of parks, museums, community centers etc... Folks can also just stand out front and hand out zines on the topic to people who are visiting these sites and spaces.