Ellie (they/she)
@elliejvela.bsky.social
Queer Scholar of Technology and Power || 🌲25 || MSCS in HCI
Stanford -> Seattle! Currently looking for employment 👍
Stanford -> Seattle! Currently looking for employment 👍
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Ellie (they/she)
@elliejvela.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Excited to be applying for PhD programs soon! I’m interested in queer + trans technology, social computing, and game design. Ultimately, I hope to bring a critique of power to my studies of technology. Would really appreciate any advice/connections, especially if you’re an academic in HCI or InfoSci
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zoomers are ruining the planned obsolescence industry
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
zoomers are ruining the planned obsolescence industry
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It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
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working in a cafe and guys sitting next to me are talking about Charles Murray (praising the bell curve as the most important and influential work ever).
turns out, i don’t have the moral strength and discipline to restrain myself so i’m moving
turns out, i don’t have the moral strength and discipline to restrain myself so i’m moving
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
working in a cafe and guys sitting next to me are talking about Charles Murray (praising the bell curve as the most important and influential work ever).
turns out, i don’t have the moral strength and discipline to restrain myself so i’m moving
turns out, i don’t have the moral strength and discipline to restrain myself so i’m moving
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Mortal Kombat Voice: Katie Wilson WINS.
Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor
Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.
www.seattletimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Mortal Kombat Voice: Katie Wilson WINS.
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Please check all that apply
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Please check all that apply
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
The women’s bathroom is closed but luckily I’m genderfluid and can simply perform advanced gender justsu to flow my gender in the direction called for by any given situation
October 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The women’s bathroom is closed but luckily I’m genderfluid and can simply perform advanced gender justsu to flow my gender in the direction called for by any given situation
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"In this context of closing the women’s office, the LGBTQ office, and in the context of Brown capitulating on understandings of gender, it’s hard not to imagine that a tenure decision about a star scholar in the WGS program would not have also been influenced by this political moment."
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"In this context of closing the women’s office, the LGBTQ office, and in the context of Brown capitulating on understandings of gender, it’s hard not to imagine that a tenure decision about a star scholar in the WGS program would not have also been influenced by this political moment."
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Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.
This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause
How stable are the gender identities of younger children?
A study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind
econ.st
September 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.
This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
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the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
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Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us
www.them.us/story/trump-...
www.them.us/story/trump-...
FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says
The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.
www.them.us
September 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us
www.them.us/story/trump-...
www.them.us/story/trump-...
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What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.
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the powerful are aligned supporting genocide and silencing critical voices. use your power and hit them where it hurts, boycott these products. and pass it on
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
the powerful are aligned supporting genocide and silencing critical voices. use your power and hit them where it hurts, boycott these products. and pass it on
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
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this is probably a good time for you to consider whether that disney+ subscription is worth it just to watch andor for the fourteenth time, tbh
September 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
this is probably a good time for you to consider whether that disney+ subscription is worth it just to watch andor for the fourteenth time, tbh
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So much of the absurdity in how some elites talk about Charlie Kirk—or navigate the authoritarian politics of this regime—stems from political science’s and the elite class’s fixation on polarization, and the misguided belief that it’s inherently bad and that the “remedy” is civil submission.
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So much of the absurdity in how some elites talk about Charlie Kirk—or navigate the authoritarian politics of this regime—stems from political science’s and the elite class’s fixation on polarization, and the misguided belief that it’s inherently bad and that the “remedy” is civil submission.
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ah, well
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ah, well
To me the discourse around Charlie Kirk has the familiar reek of GamerGate - ie a decentralized harassment campaign aiming to silence criticism of powers that be. This time, though, what really scares me is the federal government joining by inflaming and acting on behalf of the harassers.
September 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
To me the discourse around Charlie Kirk has the familiar reek of GamerGate - ie a decentralized harassment campaign aiming to silence criticism of powers that be. This time, though, what really scares me is the federal government joining by inflaming and acting on behalf of the harassers.