liv
@livya.bsky.social
you, who are on the road
must have a code
that you can live by
the revolution will not be liveskeeted
must have a code
that you can live by
the revolution will not be liveskeeted
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@livya.bsky.social
· Feb 4
How are y'all dealing with the cognitive dissonance of much of your daily life continuing as normal right now even as really really really bad shit is happening in government (that will certainly have ripple effects that will reach us all)? Because I'm honestly feeling a little insane right now.
the best advice I have: do something that makes you feel brave. something deeply aligned with your values, something validating.
something wholly unpolitical.
your strength there will carry you here.
something wholly unpolitical.
your strength there will carry you here.
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I really don't think it's a good thing that you can casually browse a website you've never been on before for 30 seconds and suddenly they can email you like HEY ARE YOU SURE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BUY SOMETHING. I'm bravely saying that should not be able to happen.
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I really don't think it's a good thing that you can casually browse a website you've never been on before for 30 seconds and suddenly they can email you like HEY ARE YOU SURE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BUY SOMETHING. I'm bravely saying that should not be able to happen.
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![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
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I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it really is bizarre reading news in the post-copyediting era
today I read an article where a girl “balls her eyes out,” which sounds like she’s been taking a melon baller to them
(it’s “bawls,” if you didn’t know)
but this is the sort of thing editors were supposed to catch
today I read an article where a girl “balls her eyes out,” which sounds like she’s been taking a melon baller to them
(it’s “bawls,” if you didn’t know)
but this is the sort of thing editors were supposed to catch
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
it really is bizarre reading news in the post-copyediting era
today I read an article where a girl “balls her eyes out,” which sounds like she’s been taking a melon baller to them
(it’s “bawls,” if you didn’t know)
but this is the sort of thing editors were supposed to catch
today I read an article where a girl “balls her eyes out,” which sounds like she’s been taking a melon baller to them
(it’s “bawls,” if you didn’t know)
but this is the sort of thing editors were supposed to catch
my dysautonomia has progressed to passing out occasionally when under stress, esp when I forget to drink water. so that’s super fun.
on many other metrics it’s actually gotten a lot better. resistance training is starting to make EDS life easier. instead, I feel good right up until I… don’t.
on many other metrics it’s actually gotten a lot better. resistance training is starting to make EDS life easier. instead, I feel good right up until I… don’t.
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
my dysautonomia has progressed to passing out occasionally when under stress, esp when I forget to drink water. so that’s super fun.
on many other metrics it’s actually gotten a lot better. resistance training is starting to make EDS life easier. instead, I feel good right up until I… don’t.
on many other metrics it’s actually gotten a lot better. resistance training is starting to make EDS life easier. instead, I feel good right up until I… don’t.
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I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
IN THIS HOUSE WE
have really dry and itchy ears
have really dry and itchy ears
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
IN THIS HOUSE WE
have really dry and itchy ears
have really dry and itchy ears
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools.
(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)
(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools.
(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)
(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)
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Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize LLMs in evil ways" which is in the news every day.
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize LLMs in evil ways" which is in the news every day.
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
look colorado’s elections may pale in comparison to the big picture tonight, but early results suggest that we’ll pass permanent free breakfast and lunch for schoolkids and a raise for the cafeteria workers
no matter what I’m calling the night a win
no matter what I’m calling the night a win
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
look colorado’s elections may pale in comparison to the big picture tonight, but early results suggest that we’ll pass permanent free breakfast and lunch for schoolkids and a raise for the cafeteria workers
no matter what I’m calling the night a win
no matter what I’m calling the night a win
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A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
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You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.
absolutely not, lol
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
absolutely not, lol
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.
ah yes, the White Whale Way
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
ah yes, the White Whale Way