Sarah Glaser | Lionbyrd
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𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜: 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚜
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Got to try sumi ink in stick form for the first time last night at the weekly doodlefest meet-up, and I'm hooked! Look at that texture 😭
June 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Got to try sumi ink in stick form for the first time last night at the weekly doodlefest meet-up, and I'm hooked! Look at that texture 😭
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this is the worst thing ever and simultaneously the perfect metaphor for contemporary white wealth in the united states
April 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
this is the worst thing ever and simultaneously the perfect metaphor for contemporary white wealth in the united states
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In my view it is far worse than that. misogyny actively prevents people from developing an imaginative capacity in the first place and narrows the possibilities they see in the world.
Go with me here.
Go with me here.
So much of what we're facing now with mainstream misogyny comes from the fact that many men see anything not cis, het, and white, as a threat to their existence & understanding of what it is to be a man.
If one never even sees women depicted as heroic, strong, clever, brave, it erodes imagination.
If one never even sees women depicted as heroic, strong, clever, brave, it erodes imagination.
March 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In my view it is far worse than that. misogyny actively prevents people from developing an imaginative capacity in the first place and narrows the possibilities they see in the world.
Go with me here.
Go with me here.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
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And they deserve not to have their benefits cut just because they do get married!
March 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
And they deserve not to have their benefits cut just because they do get married!
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Guide to travelers on making your phone safe from inspection during travel:
1) Back up your phone
2) Full device reset
3) Do not log into any services or restore backup
4) Once in country, reset again and restore from backup
5) Repeat each time you travel
1) Back up your phone
2) Full device reset
3) Do not log into any services or restore backup
4) Once in country, reset again and restore from backup
5) Repeat each time you travel
March 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Guide to travelers on making your phone safe from inspection during travel:
1) Back up your phone
2) Full device reset
3) Do not log into any services or restore backup
4) Once in country, reset again and restore from backup
5) Repeat each time you travel
1) Back up your phone
2) Full device reset
3) Do not log into any services or restore backup
4) Once in country, reset again and restore from backup
5) Repeat each time you travel
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the silicon valley ai worshipping cult stuff is so incredibly strange i'm not even sure how to approach commenting on it
There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
the silicon valley ai worshipping cult stuff is so incredibly strange i'm not even sure how to approach commenting on it
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Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
www.newyorker.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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The rhetoric of “replacement” is a red herring. The logic is actually additive and subtractive. California State University, e.g., isn’t “replacing” profs with AI; the state of California *slashed” the uni’s budget which will reduce the professoriate. AND they contracted for $16million with Open AI.
March 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The rhetoric of “replacement” is a red herring. The logic is actually additive and subtractive. California State University, e.g., isn’t “replacing” profs with AI; the state of California *slashed” the uni’s budget which will reduce the professoriate. AND they contracted for $16million with Open AI.
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Hey my Literary Lovelies! It’s Women’s History Month, so I feel like it’s time for a new book thread. Here’s what’s on my TBR for March. Horror & Sci Fi written by Black, Indigenous and other Women of color. Let’s get started shall we? 💙📚 #BlackBooksky #DiverseBookSky
March 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hey my Literary Lovelies! It’s Women’s History Month, so I feel like it’s time for a new book thread. Here’s what’s on my TBR for March. Horror & Sci Fi written by Black, Indigenous and other Women of color. Let’s get started shall we? 💙📚 #BlackBooksky #DiverseBookSky
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You're going to hear a lot of DC types going on the record to say they can't figure out why any of this is happening.
It's really quite straightforward: this is happening because MAGA is a eugenics project, this is eugenics.
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
It's really quite straightforward: this is happening because MAGA is a eugenics project, this is eugenics.
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
Social Security Administration announces ‘massive’ reorganization, job cuts
The Social Security Administration announced a “massive” reorganization and “significant” job cuts on Thursday that critics said could increase customer-service wait times and make it more difficult t...
www.marketwatch.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You're going to hear a lot of DC types going on the record to say they can't figure out why any of this is happening.
It's really quite straightforward: this is happening because MAGA is a eugenics project, this is eugenics.
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
It's really quite straightforward: this is happening because MAGA is a eugenics project, this is eugenics.
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
I don't expect much. Lasting change comes from habitual practices we can incorporate into our every day.
I wonder whether todays buy nothing diffuse action will be the left equivalent to the entirely vibes-based “shoplifting” narrative from last year: a vibe, yes, but one that orients the narrative.
February 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I don't expect much. Lasting change comes from habitual practices we can incorporate into our every day.
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this is the effect of social media on social movements
Celebrities are pushing Blackout Friday, telling people not to shop at places like Target or Amazon. But it's unclear what Blackout Friday actually stands for – and its creator is a "Mindfulness Coach" who wants to abolish income taxes and the federal government.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...
February 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
this is the effect of social media on social movements
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i spent the 8 months as a federal employee managing emc's verification software. before that, i developed the verification for the gfs.
so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.
so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.
February 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
i spent the 8 months as a federal employee managing emc's verification software. before that, i developed the verification for the gfs.
so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.
so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.
Got to teach a drawing workshop yesterday! Check out a brief recap and pictures on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/123180...
February 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Got to teach a drawing workshop yesterday! Check out a brief recap and pictures on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/123180...
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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
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Constructing society around the whims of monied/landed white guys who see certain kind of humans as property at best, and vermin at worst, and in either case not actually as people at all, is bad, actually.
February 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Constructing society around the whims of monied/landed white guys who see certain kind of humans as property at best, and vermin at worst, and in either case not actually as people at all, is bad, actually.
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“The project is a protest against a government proposal to let AI firms train their algorithms on the work of creative professionals under a new copyright exemption.”
Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“The project is a protest against a government proposal to let AI firms train their algorithms on the work of creative professionals under a new copyright exemption.”
Why I get tf away from ppl that are always "just kidding" and live like there "ain't no rules" about it.
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why I get tf away from ppl that are always "just kidding" and live like there "ain't no rules" about it.
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I cannot imagine losing the pleasure and challenge and frustration of reading a book, instead asking some chatbot to "read" for you and summarize it for you.
You don't get to experience all the little riffs of language, the way you glimpse other worlds, other people, other minds through books.
You don't get to experience all the little riffs of language, the way you glimpse other worlds, other people, other minds through books.
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I cannot imagine losing the pleasure and challenge and frustration of reading a book, instead asking some chatbot to "read" for you and summarize it for you.
You don't get to experience all the little riffs of language, the way you glimpse other worlds, other people, other minds through books.
You don't get to experience all the little riffs of language, the way you glimpse other worlds, other people, other minds through books.
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Send this to people who claim AI isn't taking artists' jobs.
There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore.
www.ft.com/content/185e...
There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore.
www.ft.com/content/185e...
February 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Send this to people who claim AI isn't taking artists' jobs.
There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore.
www.ft.com/content/185e...
There is no amount of 'adapting' that will spontaneously generate more work if companies decide they don't want to pay you anymore.
www.ft.com/content/185e...