@babalang.bsky.social
Earth-loving, feminist, socialist, white, able-bodied, middle-aged mom, partner, reader, poet, & recovering academic 👩🏻🏫
Interested in social & environmental justice, women’s spirituality, community, and the poetry of experience ☮️🌳👣
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Interested in social & environmental justice, women’s spirituality, community, and the poetry of experience ☮️🌳👣
(she/her)
Thank you. Resonant. Going to dig into this book again. I set it down, oh about ten years ago, unsettled by something in the tone. Undertone. I suspect it’ll pitch match now that faint ringing left by 2020, 2021, 2022… 🍂
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December 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Thank you. Resonant. Going to dig into this book again. I set it down, oh about ten years ago, unsettled by something in the tone. Undertone. I suspect it’ll pitch match now that faint ringing left by 2020, 2021, 2022… 🍂
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What an ugly little Grinch, inside and out.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What an ugly little Grinch, inside and out.
Thomas the Train?
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Thomas the Train?
Has a more pathetic human ever existed? This is his gift to humanity? Just insane loser stuff.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Has a more pathetic human ever existed? This is his gift to humanity? Just insane loser stuff.
K-5 Public School education.
I sure do prefer Richard Scarry
I sure do prefer Richard Scarry
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
K-5 Public School education.
I sure do prefer Richard Scarry
I sure do prefer Richard Scarry
OG Search was beautiful. One of humanity’s great achievements. I hate AI that much more for the fullthrottle enshittification of Search. It had already gotten bad but, my god, what a wasted gift
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
OG Search was beautiful. One of humanity’s great achievements. I hate AI that much more for the fullthrottle enshittification of Search. It had already gotten bad but, my god, what a wasted gift
Needed that laugh.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Needed that laugh.
In our hour of greatest need, you have failed so completely. Retire from public life in your disgrace and incompetence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In our hour of greatest need, you have failed so completely. Retire from public life in your disgrace and incompetence.
For the demolition crew? Wouldn’t want to amputate the wrong leg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For the demolition crew? Wouldn’t want to amputate the wrong leg.
Yes but then they blame it on populations furthest from power, and their voters believe them.
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Yes but then they blame it on populations furthest from power, and their voters believe them.
I recently came across this CA group w a model of building community power through place (experiencing defunding).
May be a contact for you?
May be a contact for you?
Community Vision
communityvisionca.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I recently came across this CA group w a model of building community power through place (experiencing defunding).
May be a contact for you?
May be a contact for you?
Not that censors are particularly concerned with being evidence-based, but I did recoil at the thoughts of these visualizations being used in entirely other chilling ways.
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not that censors are particularly concerned with being evidence-based, but I did recoil at the thoughts of these visualizations being used in entirely other chilling ways.
Don’t go, Lori. We need everyone who values and has experienced freedom to light the way for the next generation who aren’t going to know it shines brighter than any gilded ballroom. Bring it as scorn if you have to. We need every truthteller
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Don’t go, Lori. We need everyone who values and has experienced freedom to light the way for the next generation who aren’t going to know it shines brighter than any gilded ballroom. Bring it as scorn if you have to. We need every truthteller
The image was surprisingly hurtful. That’s our house.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The image was surprisingly hurtful. That’s our house.
Similar things could be said about the research industrial complex and we just gutted that.
We don’t have to organize society around death dealing as a central concept (or discipline and punishment if you want to look at the prison industrial complex/ICE/policing).
Everything is a choice.
We don’t have to organize society around death dealing as a central concept (or discipline and punishment if you want to look at the prison industrial complex/ICE/policing).
Everything is a choice.
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Similar things could be said about the research industrial complex and we just gutted that.
We don’t have to organize society around death dealing as a central concept (or discipline and punishment if you want to look at the prison industrial complex/ICE/policing).
Everything is a choice.
We don’t have to organize society around death dealing as a central concept (or discipline and punishment if you want to look at the prison industrial complex/ICE/policing).
Everything is a choice.
How the sausage gets made=details most ppl don’t want +won’t agree on.
Start, like a household budget: what are our shared priorities? What do we have to have?
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Healthcare
Education
Jobs
Childcare
Clean environ
Oh–now the Pentagon budget can’t be larger than most countries’?
Start, like a household budget: what are our shared priorities? What do we have to have?
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Healthcare
Education
Jobs
Childcare
Clean environ
Oh–now the Pentagon budget can’t be larger than most countries’?
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
How the sausage gets made=details most ppl don’t want +won’t agree on.
Start, like a household budget: what are our shared priorities? What do we have to have?
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Healthcare
Education
Jobs
Childcare
Clean environ
Oh–now the Pentagon budget can’t be larger than most countries’?
Start, like a household budget: what are our shared priorities? What do we have to have?
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Healthcare
Education
Jobs
Childcare
Clean environ
Oh–now the Pentagon budget can’t be larger than most countries’?
This was my sign.
It’s not savvy to accept corruption. It’s corrupt.
It’s not savvy to accept corruption. It’s corrupt.
October 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This was my sign.
It’s not savvy to accept corruption. It’s corrupt.
It’s not savvy to accept corruption. It’s corrupt.
Plus we now have evidence that change can be dramatic so why NOT build the solutions–like universal healthcare–we want?
When so many jobs have been eliminated and so many flailing systems broken now beyond repair, I think even moderates are going to say – ok let’s rebuild radically w the good stuff
When so many jobs have been eliminated and so many flailing systems broken now beyond repair, I think even moderates are going to say – ok let’s rebuild radically w the good stuff
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Plus we now have evidence that change can be dramatic so why NOT build the solutions–like universal healthcare–we want?
When so many jobs have been eliminated and so many flailing systems broken now beyond repair, I think even moderates are going to say – ok let’s rebuild radically w the good stuff
When so many jobs have been eliminated and so many flailing systems broken now beyond repair, I think even moderates are going to say – ok let’s rebuild radically w the good stuff
Great photo. He’s so clearly suggesting here that they eat cake.
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great photo. He’s so clearly suggesting here that they eat cake.
Yes and *who* we view as Humanity
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Yes and *who* we view as Humanity
Latent in the methods underpinning modern computer science, eg,
“Father of Indian Statistics”Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded Indian statistical institute with focus on biometrics /social darwinism /eugenics
“Father of Indian Statistics”Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded Indian statistical institute with focus on biometrics /social darwinism /eugenics
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Latent in the methods underpinning modern computer science, eg,
“Father of Indian Statistics”Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded Indian statistical institute with focus on biometrics /social darwinism /eugenics
“Father of Indian Statistics”Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded Indian statistical institute with focus on biometrics /social darwinism /eugenics
History of statistics plays a starring role in these analyses
October 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
History of statistics plays a starring role in these analyses
We do it for ourselves. Because being in the company of many other people who care is to remember that we can be good and kind even under oppressive systems. We can show up for one another.
October 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
We do it for ourselves. Because being in the company of many other people who care is to remember that we can be good and kind even under oppressive systems. We can show up for one another.