Alicia Elliott
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
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Flipside of the national dream. Buffalo skulls awaiting shipment by rail east in Saskatoon, 1886, for fertilizer or to be ground for bone china. Clearing the land.
Local History Collection Saskatoon
Local History Collection Saskatoon
February 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Flipside of the national dream. Buffalo skulls awaiting shipment by rail east in Saskatoon, 1886, for fertilizer or to be ground for bone china. Clearing the land.
Local History Collection Saskatoon
Local History Collection Saskatoon
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Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirty by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.
February 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirty by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.
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Show me the tears of the racist team
a woman wearing a suit and tie is making a serious face
Alt: a woman wearing a suit and tie is making a serious face
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Show me the tears of the racist team
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half time show 2025
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
half time show 2025
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An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
February 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
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The city of Buffalo is gonna throw a party that’s gonna last all week.
February 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The city of Buffalo is gonna throw a party that’s gonna last all week.
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we're done with doing it for love. we're doing it for spite, hate, and pettiness from here on out.
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
we're done with doing it for love. we're doing it for spite, hate, and pettiness from here on out.
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Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening
February 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening
Truly a night for the haters, I love it
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Truly a night for the haters, I love it
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Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
December 27, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
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New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:31 PM
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
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Fully agree. AI cannot do your job, but it pretends good enough that your boss thinks it can. And then the smaller team will end up having to deal with people even more irate with the AI and there will be fewer of them because the boss fired people he didn't think he needed with AI. Vicious circle.
Yeah, the thing is, it’s going to lead to twice the work, because both times this has happened, the AI answering service was not able to understand what I needed.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
Not from you, I am sure, but the front facing staff take so much abuse from the public that the turnover rate is high and it's hard to find people. But AI only ever convinces bosses it can do the job enough so it can fire these folks. This has management written all over it.
December 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Fully agree. AI cannot do your job, but it pretends good enough that your boss thinks it can. And then the smaller team will end up having to deal with people even more irate with the AI and there will be fewer of them because the boss fired people he didn't think he needed with AI. Vicious circle.
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Yeah, the thing is, it’s going to lead to twice the work, because both times this has happened, the AI answering service was not able to understand what I needed.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
Not from you, I am sure, but the front facing staff take so much abuse from the public that the turnover rate is high and it's hard to find people. But AI only ever convinces bosses it can do the job enough so it can fire these folks. This has management written all over it.
December 16, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, the thing is, it’s going to lead to twice the work, because both times this has happened, the AI answering service was not able to understand what I needed.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.
Guess what? I got a job teaching Creative Nonfiction!! For only one class for one semester, but still!! I'm so excited in a way that I wouldn't let myself be until now, because I was so sure my lack of MFA would prevent me from being hired. The ways trauma keeps us from expecting good things
December 17, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Guess what? I got a job teaching Creative Nonfiction!! For only one class for one semester, but still!! I'm so excited in a way that I wouldn't let myself be until now, because I was so sure my lack of MFA would prevent me from being hired. The ways trauma keeps us from expecting good things
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you—one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. There are no explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
#20books
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
#20books
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you—one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. There are no explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
#20books
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
#20books
#booksky
#20bookchallenge
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
I also think And Then She Fell is a five-star story 😂
Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀
Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀
Ten incredible reads if you’re looking for a winner!! @wordsandguitar.bsky.social @ashleyposton.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 12:20 AM
I also think And Then She Fell is a five-star story 😂
Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀
Still time to pick it up for a gift for yourself or a friend 👀
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v v tough to go from dronER to dronEE
At least eight US military facilities have reported unauthorized "drone" incursions in the past 3 months:
- Picatinny Arsenal (NJ)
- Naval Weapons Station Earle (NJ)
- R.A.F. Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell, & Fairford (UK)
- Wright Patterson Airforce Base (OH)
- Ramstein Airforce Base (Germany)
- Picatinny Arsenal (NJ)
- Naval Weapons Station Earle (NJ)
- R.A.F. Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell, & Fairford (UK)
- Wright Patterson Airforce Base (OH)
- Ramstein Airforce Base (Germany)
December 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
v v tough to go from dronER to dronEE
i can't wait for the robot ai to get so advanced they don't want to fuck these losers, either. incels who think they're joaquin phoenix in "joker" fully becoming joaquin phoenix in "her" is the best timeline
women you better lower your standards or else i’m warning you i will become even more pathetic
December 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM
i can't wait for the robot ai to get so advanced they don't want to fuck these losers, either. incels who think they're joaquin phoenix in "joker" fully becoming joaquin phoenix in "her" is the best timeline
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Canada is at risk of democratic backsliding if right-wing populist Pierre Poilievre & the CPC get in govt. PPs admitted plans to invoke notwithstanding clause to overide the Charter & break down democratic institutions/guardrails are warning signs we cannot ignore
#cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
What We Risk by Normalizing Poilievre’s Politics | The Tyee
We face losing nothing less than Canadian decency, decorum and democracy. Do news media recognize this?
thetyee.ca
December 16, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Canada is at risk of democratic backsliding if right-wing populist Pierre Poilievre & the CPC get in govt. PPs admitted plans to invoke notwithstanding clause to overide the Charter & break down democratic institutions/guardrails are warning signs we cannot ignore
#cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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it's so funny that they mean this as a threat bc every woman i know reads shit like this and says "oh thank god they'll leave us alone"
women you better lower your standards or else i’m warning you i will become even more pathetic
December 16, 2024 at 1:34 AM
it's so funny that they mean this as a threat bc every woman i know reads shit like this and says "oh thank god they'll leave us alone"
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Alberta is dealing with the highest rising rents in Canada. Alberta has a healthcare crisis, a massive teacher shortage. It is a province whose governance is falling apart.
Albertans have so many other problems to deal with first and foremost. Trans people existin' ain't one of them.
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Albertans have so many other problems to deal with first and foremost. Trans people existin' ain't one of them.
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December 16, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Alberta is dealing with the highest rising rents in Canada. Alberta has a healthcare crisis, a massive teacher shortage. It is a province whose governance is falling apart.
Albertans have so many other problems to deal with first and foremost. Trans people existin' ain't one of them.
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Albertans have so many other problems to deal with first and foremost. Trans people existin' ain't one of them.
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For reference, the three previous times the Alberta legislature has considered the notwithstanding clause is to:
→ restrict compensation for sterilization victims (1998);
→ allow its Human Rights Code to *not* protect on the basis of sexual orientation (1998);
→ define marriage as str8 (2000).
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→ restrict compensation for sterilization victims (1998);
→ allow its Human Rights Code to *not* protect on the basis of sexual orientation (1998);
→ define marriage as str8 (2000).
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December 16, 2024 at 4:29 AM
For reference, the three previous times the Alberta legislature has considered the notwithstanding clause is to:
→ restrict compensation for sterilization victims (1998);
→ allow its Human Rights Code to *not* protect on the basis of sexual orientation (1998);
→ define marriage as str8 (2000).
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→ restrict compensation for sterilization victims (1998);
→ allow its Human Rights Code to *not* protect on the basis of sexual orientation (1998);
→ define marriage as str8 (2000).
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Alberta just admitted that it's willing to bypass 🇨🇦 constitutional protections re: the right "to life, liberty and security of the person" and "not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment" in order to uphold a GAC ban.
This is bad.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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This is bad.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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Alberta Premier Smith willing to use the notwithstanding clause on trans health bill
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says using the notwithstanding clause to shield her government's transgender health restrictions is on the table as a "last resort."
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
December 16, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Alberta just admitted that it's willing to bypass 🇨🇦 constitutional protections re: the right "to life, liberty and security of the person" and "not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment" in order to uphold a GAC ban.
This is bad.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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This is bad.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...
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