Emily Bolger

@ebolger06.bsky.social

PhD candidate in CMSE at MSU studying computing education. Also, feminist, ally, crocheter, and book-lover. she/her

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems. Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away

A defining feature of patriarchal violence is that it isn’t just directed at women. It’s also directed at other men in power struggles to determine whose ideology should dominate. It is unsurprising that men who encourage violence to jockey for political power will find themselves subjected to it.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

One of the biggest mistakes the left makes is that we accept Republicans’ wins. And most of the time, that means ceding ground that makes the next fight much, much harder to win too. We have to reject the idea of a lost cause. Especially when it comes to civil rights.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Musk throwing out Trump’s history of sexual violence is just another example of a man objectifying survivors for his own political gain. The only time any of these men think rape is wrong is when they suspect taking that stance will give them a competitive edge over another man.