Oliviaaaah
@unbuildingwalls.bsky.social
She/her | librarian & legal researcher| 🪐📚 | U.P.➡️Chicago➡️Milwaukee
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Frustrating that the Milwaukee Alliance Française only has in person classes during business hours. I really need some face to face instruction if I'm ever going to get conversant and I cannot swing the PTO or $45/hour private tutoring.
January 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Frustrating that the Milwaukee Alliance Française only has in person classes during business hours. I really need some face to face instruction if I'm ever going to get conversant and I cannot swing the PTO or $45/hour private tutoring.
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this article is a good example of what i mean — literal kids work the orchards where the bulk of our oranges/lemons are grown, earning a piece-rate that can work out to less than minimum wage, and i genuinely don’t know what you or i can do about it even if it disgusts us. that’s shame
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
this article is a good example of what i mean — literal kids work the orchards where the bulk of our oranges/lemons are grown, earning a piece-rate that can work out to less than minimum wage, and i genuinely don’t know what you or i can do about it even if it disgusts us. that’s shame
I'm so grateful that I am a Bad Poster. Having a high follower count seems like a nightmare.
January 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I'm so grateful that I am a Bad Poster. Having a high follower count seems like a nightmare.
Today might be a good day to listen to this NPR two-part podcast.
Inside the Jan. 6 Capitol riot: Part 1 of 2 : Consider This from NPR
In this NPR investigation, we take a close look at the brutal violence that took place on Jan. 6, 2021, the investigation that followed, and the campaign Trump has waged to whitewash it.For sponsor-fr...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Today might be a good day to listen to this NPR two-part podcast.
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Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.
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Excellent 🧵 with excellent links. But I'd just like to add that Miller is someone who had every educational opportunity & yet none of it stuck. He's a well educated ignoramus driven by the degenerate racism & bigotry he learned from his parents & the mentors he sought out.
Quote tweeted with alt text and also want to note that everything he's written is a lie. Colonization stole wealth from those countries and in the years since those countries ended formal ties neo colonization found new ways of continuing to mine those countries for their wealth
January 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Excellent 🧵 with excellent links. But I'd just like to add that Miller is someone who had every educational opportunity & yet none of it stuck. He's a well educated ignoramus driven by the degenerate racism & bigotry he learned from his parents & the mentors he sought out.
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This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity
Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...
link.springer.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
<<shoves down my incredibly niche hot take about how the seven continents are more a social construct than geological/geographical fact>>
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
<<shoves down my incredibly niche hot take about how the seven continents are more a social construct than geological/geographical fact>>
Just got a targeted ad and I cannot tell if it's slop or if this is an actual aesthetic choice made by a human? Who is this weird little tree for?
January 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Just got a targeted ad and I cannot tell if it's slop or if this is an actual aesthetic choice made by a human? Who is this weird little tree for?
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
I was prepared for the possibility of a parent with cognitive decline but oh boy, I was not mentally prepared for that liminal space where said parent insists they are fine, will not undergo any diagnostic testing, but absolutely cannot handle navigating the world on their own.
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I was prepared for the possibility of a parent with cognitive decline but oh boy, I was not mentally prepared for that liminal space where said parent insists they are fine, will not undergo any diagnostic testing, but absolutely cannot handle navigating the world on their own.
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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NYT:
The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.
The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.
January 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
NYT:
The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.
The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.
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Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
a lot of interesting revelations between the lines of this story www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
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12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
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I think we should assume two things.
1. Trump is lying about the details because that’s what he does.
2. They don’t have a plan. He just believes he’s go to fail upwards because he’s never had to face consequences.
1. Trump is lying about the details because that’s what he does.
2. They don’t have a plan. He just believes he’s go to fail upwards because he’s never had to face consequences.
Even from a stragegic perspective, why not just install Maria Corina? She technically won the last election in Venezuela, has support and has shown a willingness to do what Trump says. Or is it the Nobel Peace Prize thing?
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I think we should assume two things.
1. Trump is lying about the details because that’s what he does.
2. They don’t have a plan. He just believes he’s go to fail upwards because he’s never had to face consequences.
1. Trump is lying about the details because that’s what he does.
2. They don’t have a plan. He just believes he’s go to fail upwards because he’s never had to face consequences.
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So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.
Chuck Schumer, not the man for the moment (evergreen)
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Chuck Schumer, not the man for the moment (evergreen)
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I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country"
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country"
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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insider sports betting on regime change
What a future
What a future
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
insider sports betting on regime change
What a future
What a future
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therefore as of Monday I am introducing articles of impeachment against Rubio et. al.
What? You mean that's not what he said?
What? You mean that's not what he said?
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
January 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM
therefore as of Monday I am introducing articles of impeachment against Rubio et. al.
What? You mean that's not what he said?
What? You mean that's not what he said?
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It’s giving Four Seasons Total Landscaping 2.0.
Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping.
Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?
Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
It’s giving Four Seasons Total Landscaping 2.0.