Alison Ryland

@acryland.bsky.social

No TERFs, no SWERFs, no cop apologists. A gestapo by any other name is still a gestapo. Genocide is bad, actually. So are concentration camps.

I am indeed a professor. I read ugh, theory. I read a lot of history; articles and books. Its because the stuff I read for work is so dark, and intense that I need something to change the gears. So hell yes, I read absolutely trashy romance novels, and I read smut. We can do it all, I believe.

When people say they’ve read 100 books a year and it’s all smut I get mad. That shit does not count. 

Wanna know who actually reads hella books per year? Professors. On top of journal articles. On top of student essays. 

Saying that porn counts is stolen valor
7:15 AM · Aug 18, 2026

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Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.

The Jason Arday story exposes left-wing media’s tendency to parrot right-wing media stories, language and talking points. They are subsumed by their own antiblackness which they try to cover up with class politics.

BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet ignored the warnings. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway

Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet continued anyway

thecanary.co

As a Jewish Canadian lawyer, this struck me as deeply bizarre because I had never heard of this organization. A quick Google & perusal of LinkedIn reveals this “national organization for Jewish lawyers” was founded in May 2024 by a guy who graduated law school in 2023 & was called to the bar in 2024

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦@jakelandau.ca · 11h ago

NEW COLUMN: Why must our election be a circus for Jesse Brown’s nonsense? www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-first-...

browsing the AI coding reddits and seeing a lot of posts like "im outputting code at 100x the rate i used to but im getting a bit worried about the fact that nobody at the company understands any of our codebase anymore" and the replies range from existential crises to "its fine. this is the future"

I wanted to add a crazy thing on this subject. In France when you're unemployed you have mandatory coaching on jobs... My coach is basically regurgitating AI at this point and has the same eulogistic talk as typical AI about my resume and path. Which is completely useless to help me.