Ellen C. Bush
@iambicellen.bsky.social
Poet cat lady surviving capitalism so far as a scholarly publishing data nerd. queer she/her 🍉 I need alt text; please provide it
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Ellen C. Bush
@iambicellen.bsky.social
· Dec 31
What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?
Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull
Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...
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This is a great tutorial for alt text on bluesky. Note that in addition to making your images readable to more users, alt text allows discovery of your images in a text search!
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I love my community.
(Photo by Andy Thayer)
(Photo by Andy Thayer)
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I love my community.
(Photo by Andy Thayer)
(Photo by Andy Thayer)
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Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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Dutch is a native New Yorker, he teaches kindergarten and he got his apartment through a housing lottery. Dutch is a good person.
October 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Dutch is a native New Yorker, he teaches kindergarten and he got his apartment through a housing lottery. Dutch is a good person.
My friend Joe asks for international boycott:
“The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”
“The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”
🧵 Thread: I know the USA has a reputation for, um, impolity: our citizens are sometimes considered rude or boorish abroad; our federal government is out of control. I like seeing No Kings protests internationally, but I think Canada & Mexico would be lining the borders w/ hate signs. I'm tired…
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My friend Joe asks for international boycott:
“The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”
“The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”
My poem “Also Accidental” gets some love from @rosswhite.com in the “Poem I Carry” series at Read a Little Poetry 💕 readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/12/a...
Also Accidental by Ellen C. Bush • Read A Little Poetry
“the way you flinch / the way you guide someone's fingers to it / the way you stay still / the way that hand pulls back” — Ellen C. Bush
readalittlepoetry.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My poem “Also Accidental” gets some love from @rosswhite.com in the “Poem I Carry” series at Read a Little Poetry 💕 readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/12/a...
Cops lie, part eleventy million
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Cops lie, part eleventy million
Well done, @merriam-webster.com !
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Well done, @merriam-webster.com !
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I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.
She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.
A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking
prismreports.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.
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Flagging the deadline again:
Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Flagging the deadline again:
Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Two ways to make the world less fascist today:
1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!
2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:
1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!
2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
maskbloc.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Two ways to make the world less fascist today:
1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!
2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:
1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!
2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:
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Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
A monograph I’d like to read (let me know if it already exists): post-WWII need in Allied countries to send empowered working women back out of workforce
August 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A monograph I’d like to read (let me know if it already exists): post-WWII need in Allied countries to send empowered working women back out of workforce
Some good news, for once!
Some personal news…
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
therumpus.submittable.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Some good news, for once!
I don’t understand why Trump wd be afraid of exposure here. MAGA didn’t care that he’s an adjudicated rapist. They wd dismiss it if Trump were on it. We already know Bill Clinton is on it, so claiming Hillary created it is laughable. Trump is protecting someone other than himself, someone he needs.
a deranged Trump claims Obama and Hillary wrote the Epstein files and urges people to not care about them 🥴
July 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t understand why Trump wd be afraid of exposure here. MAGA didn’t care that he’s an adjudicated rapist. They wd dismiss it if Trump were on it. We already know Bill Clinton is on it, so claiming Hillary created it is laughable. Trump is protecting someone other than himself, someone he needs.
“Prison phone calls have been shown to compel good behavior and rehabilitation. . . . Studies have also shown that communication with loved ones and strong family ties lead to decreased violence in prison and make people more likely to succeed and refrain from criminality after release.”
Biden’s FCC passed rules to make phone calls from prison cheaper, to help keep people connected to their families.
Trump's FCC has now blocked that change.
An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
Trump's FCC has now blocked that change.
An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
Priced Out of Phone Calls Home - Bolts
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
boltsmag.org
July 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Prison phone calls have been shown to compel good behavior and rehabilitation. . . . Studies have also shown that communication with loved ones and strong family ties lead to decreased violence in prison and make people more likely to succeed and refrain from criminality after release.”
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Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
Way to go New York!
This really was a case of organized people over organized money.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
June 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Way to go New York!
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They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
NEW
The Justice Department says the J6ers who paid restitution to Congress for the damage caused to the US Capitol should have their funds returned now that their convictions have been wiped out.
Full Story: bit.ly/42mehfL
The Justice Department says the J6ers who paid restitution to Congress for the damage caused to the US Capitol should have their funds returned now that their convictions have been wiped out.
Full Story: bit.ly/42mehfL
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
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Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
![a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpxmpiumlpxxclzsgar5lnq/bafkreic6uzw2erxbl6v67yece6647wgdmxvqjfglrs767cq7rghazbukxu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
This is my chapbook publisher, and he’s good at ALL the things
Are you dreaming of starting your literary thing but need some help? Bull City Press's incubator program can give you free web hosting (including WordPress, WooCommerce, and a submission manager), podcast hosting, and consulting. So if you're serious about an idea, holler at me sometime.
March 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is my chapbook publisher, and he’s good at ALL the things
I gave an inch. Can you give an inch?
So so so so close!!
7%
Hello, here is jamal from gaza we did so great I can’t describe and it’s little left, we did 93% of our target and just 7 % left
If 270 donated by 25£ we will do it this night, please Im going to sleep let me wake up on it, just repost it if u see it
Donate here 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
gofund.me/a625d5ba
Hello, here is jamal from gaza we did so great I can’t describe and it’s little left, we did 93% of our target and just 7 % left
If 270 donated by 25£ we will do it this night, please Im going to sleep let me wake up on it, just repost it if u see it
Donate here 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
gofund.me/a625d5ba
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I gave an inch. Can you give an inch?
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So so so so close!!
7%
Hello, here is jamal from gaza we did so great I can’t describe and it’s little left, we did 93% of our target and just 7 % left
If 270 donated by 25£ we will do it this night, please Im going to sleep let me wake up on it, just repost it if u see it
Donate here 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
gofund.me/a625d5ba
Hello, here is jamal from gaza we did so great I can’t describe and it’s little left, we did 93% of our target and just 7 % left
If 270 donated by 25£ we will do it this night, please Im going to sleep let me wake up on it, just repost it if u see it
Donate here 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
gofund.me/a625d5ba
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
So so so so close!!
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Good point! Thanks to reps like Frost, Crockett, Waters, and others for showing up to take action & also strategizing for the long term ahead
Republicans have a 2 seat majority in the House. They’d love nothing more than a few progressive members of Congress being behind bars for days/weeks while fighting federal obstruction charges. Every vote matters over the next two years.
February 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Good point! Thanks to reps like Frost, Crockett, Waters, and others for showing up to take action & also strategizing for the long term ahead