Alexandra Walling
@chorizanthe.bsky.social
I'm a biologist (AMNH -> URI -> SBU) and a socialist organizing with the Democratic Socialists of America. Free Palestine.
Chutney:
12 oz cranberries
1 large red onion
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 tsp mustard seeds
1 stick cinnamon
8 whole cloves
4 green cardamom, crushed
2 sprigs curry leaves
3/4 cup sugar
Lemon juice to taste at the end
12 oz cranberries
1 large red onion
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 tsp mustard seeds
1 stick cinnamon
8 whole cloves
4 green cardamom, crushed
2 sprigs curry leaves
3/4 cup sugar
Lemon juice to taste at the end
November 27, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Chutney:
12 oz cranberries
1 large red onion
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 tsp mustard seeds
1 stick cinnamon
8 whole cloves
4 green cardamom, crushed
2 sprigs curry leaves
3/4 cup sugar
Lemon juice to taste at the end
12 oz cranberries
1 large red onion
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 tsp mustard seeds
1 stick cinnamon
8 whole cloves
4 green cardamom, crushed
2 sprigs curry leaves
3/4 cup sugar
Lemon juice to taste at the end
I post about my feelings of grief, rage, and fear often but I want to remember these words of Mike Davis tonight:
Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.
This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.
Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.
This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.
November 27, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I post about my feelings of grief, rage, and fear often but I want to remember these words of Mike Davis tonight:
Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.
This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.
Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.
This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.
I feel shame every day about my feelings of powerlessness re: ending the genocide in Gaza. I am happy for people of Lebanon there will be ceasefire there but terrified for Palestine
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 AM
I feel shame every day about my feelings of powerlessness re: ending the genocide in Gaza. I am happy for people of Lebanon there will be ceasefire there but terrified for Palestine
I am really struggling today to balance the love I feel for old friends and the rage I feel about their "progressive except for Palestine" politics. These friendships were never based on politics, they're not close any longer, but I am losing my ability to even fake it.
November 26, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I am really struggling today to balance the love I feel for old friends and the rage I feel about their "progressive except for Palestine" politics. These friendships were never based on politics, they're not close any longer, but I am losing my ability to even fake it.
Woke up today seething with anger about friends and family’s indifference to US support of genocide. Stomach in knots. I know this is not productive but it is how I feel.
November 26, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Woke up today seething with anger about friends and family’s indifference to US support of genocide. Stomach in knots. I know this is not productive but it is how I feel.
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1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:47 PM
1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.
Just got blocked by Moira Donegan lol
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Just got blocked by Moira Donegan lol
I am very over people acting like the true statement that people should not face social bigotry for being fat therefore means there are no physical problems associated with fatness. Yes! There are!! My health sucks ass!!! That's why I want to be less fat!!!!
November 26, 2024 at 1:53 AM
I am very over people acting like the true statement that people should not face social bigotry for being fat therefore means there are no physical problems associated with fatness. Yes! There are!! My health sucks ass!!! That's why I want to be less fat!!!!
Ranking the movies I've dragged my husband to:
1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together)
2. The Northman
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably)
5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol)
6. 1917
7. Cats
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)
1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together)
2. The Northman
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably)
5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol)
6. 1917
7. Cats
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)
November 26, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Ranking the movies I've dragged my husband to:
1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together)
2. The Northman
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably)
5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol)
6. 1917
7. Cats
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)
1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together)
2. The Northman
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably)
5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol)
6. 1917
7. Cats
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)
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Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
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fintech innovation is so exciting and fun and important, its great that we
: checks notes :
brought the savings and loan crisis back
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
: checks notes :
brought the savings and loan crisis back
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:29 PM
fintech innovation is so exciting and fun and important, its great that we
: checks notes :
brought the savings and loan crisis back
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
: checks notes :
brought the savings and loan crisis back
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
Discovered last night that AR Rahman did a Lord of the Rings album in the UK in 2008 which is a truly unexpected intersection of my interests
November 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Discovered last night that AR Rahman did a Lord of the Rings album in the UK in 2008 which is a truly unexpected intersection of my interests
No more meta discourse!!
November 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
No more meta discourse!!
The best bagel sandwich - imho - is *cream cheese*, NOT American cheese, a runny egg, tomato, and bacon.
November 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
The best bagel sandwich - imho - is *cream cheese*, NOT American cheese, a runny egg, tomato, and bacon.
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Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever.
In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:
- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off
In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:
- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever.
In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:
- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off
In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:
- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off
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Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city.
November 23, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city.
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Mom come pick me up the NATO twinks are inventing eugenics again
November 23, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Mom come pick me up the NATO twinks are inventing eugenics again
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Read about a hundred pages on Weimar democracy from Richard Evans’ Coming of the Third Reich and I am once again envious of their cultural efflorescence. They got Bauhaus and Brecht, we have AI art and Cybertrucks
November 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Read about a hundred pages on Weimar democracy from Richard Evans’ Coming of the Third Reich and I am once again envious of their cultural efflorescence. They got Bauhaus and Brecht, we have AI art and Cybertrucks
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Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
Remembering the time I showed my mom Pan's Labyrinth and she turned it off because she thought the Francoist stepfather was portrayed too evil
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Remembering the time I showed my mom Pan's Labyrinth and she turned it off because she thought the Francoist stepfather was portrayed too evil
Hey @aoc.bsky.social - voted for you a couple of times, volunteered for your office to talk to people in Woodside after Hurricane Ida. Why did you just vote to institutionalize the IHRA definition of anti-semitism?
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Hey @aoc.bsky.social - voted for you a couple of times, volunteered for your office to talk to people in Woodside after Hurricane Ida. Why did you just vote to institutionalize the IHRA definition of anti-semitism?
This is simply not true lol, Hillary 2016 explicitly counterposed identity politics to economic populism and people still do this!
November 21, 2024 at 12:17 AM
This is simply not true lol, Hillary 2016 explicitly counterposed identity politics to economic populism and people still do this!
He's not on here so I can say this - my brother, erstwhile social democrat, precarious academic, and paper DSA member has been teaching a class on Marxism at a liberal arts college and says he radicalized himself while teaching Bernstein, Kautsky, Luxemburg, and Lenin - he's team Lenin/Luxemburg lol
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
He's not on here so I can say this - my brother, erstwhile social democrat, precarious academic, and paper DSA member has been teaching a class on Marxism at a liberal arts college and says he radicalized himself while teaching Bernstein, Kautsky, Luxemburg, and Lenin - he's team Lenin/Luxemburg lol