kiki cauliflower
@kieranwcollier.bsky.social
boston-based writer | quadball coach | spreadsheet-loving virgo | they/them
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this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
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This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
Lía Smith, a missing trans student in Vermont has been found dead.
"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
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"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Missing Middlebury College student confirmed dead after dayslong search, Vermont police say
Middlebury student Lia Smith, 21, was found dead Thursday, Vermont police confirmed. She had been reported missing several days prior.
www.boston.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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It’s like I always say: if we don’t teach our students to play and learn with broken glass shards responsibly and ethically, who will? They’re going to play with them whether we like it or not, so we might as well show them how to have fun doing so
This is one of the big reasons why @AFT.org has started the National Academy for AI Instruction - so that educators and students can learn and explore with AI responsibly and ethically, to see what is possible. #TEACH25 … bsky.app/profile/aft....
As Rebecca Winthrop noted, "When kids are in explorer mode, they're unstoppable." But in many current school conditions, only a small percentage of students say they're given the opportunity to explore AI or what they learn. Winthrop says both students & teachers need that chance to explore. #TEACH
July 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It’s like I always say: if we don’t teach our students to play and learn with broken glass shards responsibly and ethically, who will? They’re going to play with them whether we like it or not, so we might as well show them how to have fun doing so
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this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target
August 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target
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You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?
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If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com
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“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.
www.latimes.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
yelled at my coworkers who continually misgender me, happy pride
June 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
yelled at my coworkers who continually misgender me, happy pride
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THEY ARE ARRESTING ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR PEACEFULLY OPPOSING THE REGIME’S ILLEGAL ACTIONS.
DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
May 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
THEY ARE ARRESTING ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR PEACEFULLY OPPOSING THE REGIME’S ILLEGAL ACTIONS.
DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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It's considered uncouth to say this but the entire impetus of the antivaxx movement is the idea that having an autistic child is worse than a dead child
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's considered uncouth to say this but the entire impetus of the antivaxx movement is the idea that having an autistic child is worse than a dead child
when i think of myself as trans, i think of who i am now, with my poetry degree and gender studies minor and all of the fancy words i can use to name myself. queer, nonbinary, trans, etc.
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
when i think of myself as trans, i think of who i am now, with my poetry degree and gender studies minor and all of the fancy words i can use to name myself. queer, nonbinary, trans, etc.
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🚨🚨NEW VIDEO🚨🚨
Since 1999, Democrats have turned to The West Wing for its inspiring take on American politics. But what is that vision, exactly? What is The West Wing hopeful for? And is it part of the solution, or part of the problem?
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Since 1999, Democrats have turned to The West Wing for its inspiring take on American politics. But what is that vision, exactly? What is The West Wing hopeful for? And is it part of the solution, or part of the problem?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSv...
The Hollow Fantasy of The West Wing
YouTube video by Skip Intro
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March 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🚨🚨NEW VIDEO🚨🚨
Since 1999, Democrats have turned to The West Wing for its inspiring take on American politics. But what is that vision, exactly? What is The West Wing hopeful for? And is it part of the solution, or part of the problem?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSv...
Since 1999, Democrats have turned to The West Wing for its inspiring take on American politics. But what is that vision, exactly? What is The West Wing hopeful for? And is it part of the solution, or part of the problem?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSv...
an ekphrasis star and the best human!!! <3
I’m so excited to announce that my chapbook, “good luck in the real world”, has been selected by Button Poetry for publication with plans for a spring 2026 release. thank you to Button & Hanif Abdurraqib for believing in this collection. preorders coming soon!!!
March 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
an ekphrasis star and the best human!!! <3
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And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.
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before trans participation in sports was banned in utah in 2022:
• 4/75,000 school athletes were trans
• 1/75,000 was a trans girl
not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.
• 4/75,000 school athletes were trans
• 1/75,000 was a trans girl
not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.
Tommy Tuberville: "We're getting to a point where women and girls sports are getting ready to be extinct. Because already in states across this country, we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating against girls."
Where is this happening?
Where is this happening?
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
before trans participation in sports was banned in utah in 2022:
• 4/75,000 school athletes were trans
• 1/75,000 was a trans girl
not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.
• 4/75,000 school athletes were trans
• 1/75,000 was a trans girl
not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.
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Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix.
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November 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix.
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
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Yes. Because whiteness exists as a blank monolith whose only demand is to give up what makes you unique.
Are you Czech-American or White? It won't allow you to be both. To fully hold onto your own ways.
And if you want the safety of their cruelty, you must turn your back on your ancestors.
Are you Czech-American or White? It won't allow you to be both. To fully hold onto your own ways.
And if you want the safety of their cruelty, you must turn your back on your ancestors.
It’s been a journey toward understanding this and I’m happy to share.
White supremacy’s only goal is total annihilation. When we try to make ourselves “small” to be fit in and not be a bother or whatever, we’re actually doing white supremacy’s job.
White supremacy’s only goal is total annihilation. When we try to make ourselves “small” to be fit in and not be a bother or whatever, we’re actually doing white supremacy’s job.
What you said today about when you’re making yourself small you’re doing the work of white supremacy for them is going to be with me forever
February 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Yes. Because whiteness exists as a blank monolith whose only demand is to give up what makes you unique.
Are you Czech-American or White? It won't allow you to be both. To fully hold onto your own ways.
And if you want the safety of their cruelty, you must turn your back on your ancestors.
Are you Czech-American or White? It won't allow you to be both. To fully hold onto your own ways.
And if you want the safety of their cruelty, you must turn your back on your ancestors.
happy 1st birthday to my best bud
February 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
happy 1st birthday to my best bud