Elsebelle
@elsebelle.bsky.social
TrentU Dept Social Work. LSE Social Policy. Research on children of prisoners, punishment, social policy, social justice. Settler, she/her.
Everything would be so much better if they’d make “has read a single book about topic” a prerequisite for being a news show guest.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Everything would be so much better if they’d make “has read a single book about topic” a prerequisite for being a news show guest.
The saddest. I don't know much about doing comedy, but I'm pretty sure that putting someone's picture into grok and reading out its worst, vulgar insults isn't a 'roast' or funny to anyone but a few 14 yr old edgelords.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The saddest. I don't know much about doing comedy, but I'm pretty sure that putting someone's picture into grok and reading out its worst, vulgar insults isn't a 'roast' or funny to anyone but a few 14 yr old edgelords.
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The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
That anyone would describe LLMs as AI any kind of or "intelligence" is laughable - just read this insanity! It's like describing a latex doll as a 'girlfriend'.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
That anyone would describe LLMs as AI any kind of or "intelligence" is laughable - just read this insanity! It's like describing a latex doll as a 'girlfriend'.
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Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
C'mon @harvard.edu, you can do it! There's only one acceptable response to learning that this should-be-retired profs flew with Epstein and sought his advice for how to have convince his grad student to have sex with him. Please, please don't make a mess of it-- just fire this revolting wanker
Breaking News: Larry Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and would step back from public commitments, but continue teaching.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
C'mon @harvard.edu, you can do it! There's only one acceptable response to learning that this should-be-retired profs flew with Epstein and sought his advice for how to have convince his grad student to have sex with him. Please, please don't make a mess of it-- just fire this revolting wanker
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks.
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks.
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)
September 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)
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Wait, so he’s saying the core beliefs of the whole structure that is the US military are held up by one thing, which is ‘grooming standards’? Seems a bit cosplay-y, no?
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wait, so he’s saying the core beliefs of the whole structure that is the US military are held up by one thing, which is ‘grooming standards’? Seems a bit cosplay-y, no?
If there’s a hell, then anyone who facilitates the cutting of effing Head Start is going straight there, do not pass Go.
A federal judge on blocked Trump administration restrictions on services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education.
Judge blocks a Trump policy cutting off some social services for immigrants in the US illegally | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration restrictions on services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education.
www.cnn.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If there’s a hell, then anyone who facilitates the cutting of effing Head Start is going straight there, do not pass Go.
Every criminologist:
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Every criminologist:
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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
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economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this
When your “superpower” as a country is self-delusion about upward mobility it enables the status quo. Because nobody is demanding substantive change if the majority believe they’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires, as the saying goes.
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this
Imagine you’re just a bird teenager trying to live your life, and then a giant monster traps you, makes you wear ugly jewellery, puts your picture on the internet and says your name is ‘yellow rumped,’ and then flattens out your bum! So rude.
August 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Imagine you’re just a bird teenager trying to live your life, and then a giant monster traps you, makes you wear ugly jewellery, puts your picture on the internet and says your name is ‘yellow rumped,’ and then flattens out your bum! So rude.
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The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
OMG the Mamdani campaign is utterly brilliant. Chef's kiss. Art.
We have Clue #3!!
I don't know which NYC Mayor this is, but I'm willing to bet location 3 is the Staten Island Ferry — which is FREE!
#ZcavengerHunt
I don't know which NYC Mayor this is, but I'm willing to bet location 3 is the Staten Island Ferry — which is FREE!
#ZcavengerHunt
August 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
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Mamdani's #ZCavengerHunt shows what politics can be when it's rooted in joy and community. We deserve leaders who uplift our neighborhoods, celebrate our culture and invite everyone to play along, rather than stoking fear or division. This is the energy we need.
August 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Mamdani's #ZCavengerHunt shows what politics can be when it's rooted in joy and community. We deserve leaders who uplift our neighborhoods, celebrate our culture and invite everyone to play along, rather than stoking fear or division. This is the energy we need.
This is a thousand layers of awesome! Engaging and social, cool but joyful, innovative and creative, resisting fear narratives, educational and political but not didactic, accessible for everyone but also geared to gen Zs. Wish we had even a single Ontario politician like this 😍
We finished #ZcavengerHunt around 6pm and waited in line for a little over an hour. This was a great way to spend the day. We finished it using public transport. We talked to some fun people in the line. It was nice to visit parts of the city I normally wouldn't go to and learn about past NYC mayors
August 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is a thousand layers of awesome! Engaging and social, cool but joyful, innovative and creative, resisting fear narratives, educational and political but not didactic, accessible for everyone but also geared to gen Zs. Wish we had even a single Ontario politician like this 😍
How anyone could write the phrase “decolonially trained AI” with a straight face, much less use it as a defence/justification/excuse for anything, is just amazing. It’s so beyond stupid.
Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots
August 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
How anyone could write the phrase “decolonially trained AI” with a straight face, much less use it as a defence/justification/excuse for anything, is just amazing. It’s so beyond stupid.
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I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
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Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
July 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Universal childcare would be one of the best ways to stimulate the economy. Studies have shown an increase in workplace participation and wages. For kids, it helps foster development. The ROI on childcare is insane.
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
July 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Universal childcare would be one of the best ways to stimulate the economy. Studies have shown an increase in workplace participation and wages. For kids, it helps foster development. The ROI on childcare is insane.
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
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The myth that the economy runs like a family's household finances is a myth that really needs to end.
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The myth that the economy runs like a family's household finances is a myth that really needs to end.