Anne Hedonia
@elephantsaxophone.bsky.social
Companion to two ridiculous rabbits. Dabbler in music, knitting, and drawing chicago (formerly baniak on bird site)
doesn't this just mean that fewer food suppliers/distributors are doing the right thing and recalling?
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 18h agoSurprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Framing "The problem w ICE" as "billions that could be spent on healthcare" is a centrist messaging template crafted to avoid talking about racism — racism as a significant condition of both a war against migrants and opposition to public healthcare. A form of "the culture wars are a distraction."
Famous terf threatened Amnesty Int'l so hard over their report calling out terf organisations that they're trying to remove it from the whole internet. Wild to watch Amnesty bury a human rights issue because of boy wizard money.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2d agoI've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
RT if you want immigration enforcement in every form to disappear tomorrow
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agonot saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next…
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d agoI cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.
I look at Flock the same way I look at "deep fake" technology: a means of patriarchal violence enforced remotely and virtually. Both are primarily used by cishet men (note that part) to attack/harass women b/c they believe that they HAVE to have access at all times.
🎀 Melty Hot Pie 🎀@mick-ee.blacksky.app · 3d agoThere are way too many cases of Flcok being used to stalk and abuse women
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
parents in ancient mesopotamia 🤝parents in contemporary america "damn these kids playing with their tablets"
Hey everyone be advised...ICE helicopters just left my neighborhood in Woodlawn and are now circling near Chinatown.
Something something property 😡 something something "violence" 😇
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2y agoHere's how you know if vandalizing or destroying property is violent: You ask yourself, can this property physically or emotionally hurt a person like a child. And then ask if the property can ever in any way possibly feel pain. And then you do the fuckin math on what's violence and what's not.
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
Yes, you read that write. The IDF marked Palestinians and gave them numbers in the West Bank. archive.is/2CylM#select... www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
IDF marks detained Palestinians with numbers as northern West Bank raids expand
After a West Bank raid the IDF said targeted Palestinians involved in planning attacks, several Palestinians were released with numbers written in marker on their face or bodies
haaretz.com
REMINDER! the word Grimoire (book of magic) comes from the Old French word grammaire, or grammar. The word "spell," like a magical incantation, comes from the Germanic "spel" which means "storytelling." Be careful with stories! They have power. And so do the people who tell them well
🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · 2y agoI mean depends on the witch. Some of us do have real powers, it just looks different than you expect 😉
What people who hate on sex workers don't get is that sex workers are some of the most politically informed people in our society. They have to be woke to survive their profession. Even if people regard them as trash almost every sex worker has an articulate politic & engages in political activity.
Oh nooo guys we missed an important anniversary 30 years ago yesterday, @alyankovic.bsky.social visited the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota
But what’s key? We do not have to let them succeed in killing us all if we take individual & collective agency! @williamcson.bsky.social
Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5d agoAnybody got questions as to whether this administration is trying to kill us all? I’ll clarify. Yes they are, intentionally. The poisoned food supply’s just one part, the collapsed infrastructure & slashing of services, ICE abducting & detaining thousands in torture & fully funded to capture us all.
Anybody got questions as to whether this administration is trying to kill us all? I’ll clarify. Yes they are, intentionally. The poisoned food supply’s just one part, the collapsed infrastructure & slashing of services, ICE abducting & detaining thousands in torture & fully funded to capture us all.
“there will be a large human workforce on the moon by the early 2030s” no there won’t that isn’t true
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 5d agoActual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
Someone tell NASA that we found a short cut.
No non Black person is going to be informing you on lynchings in the south like Black people. The last lynching happening in Raleigh where my parents are now. Listen to Black voices on this even as non Black allies like @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social elevate it to your attention.
Activists and community members gathered at The Home Depot in Monrovia for a vigil to mark the one year anniversary of the death of Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, and to remember others who have died over the past year during ICE raids, in ICE custody, or while in detention. 📹: Izzy Ramirez
Great thread. It’s about how manipulating salience — raising the profile of facts that fit a desired narrative — is a potent form of propaganda. I’d go even further: this is the most important way public opinion is changed today, and it’s the core method used by rightwing media. 1/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d agoI've watched the right use this communication strategy (and close cousins of it) my entire life - and of course, it is much older. quick examples: "solar panels fail at night", "not all men" etc. In each case a true statement is made, yet each is a case of the bad kind of propaganda. 2/
![From Wikipedia:
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer,[1] who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".[2] It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behaviour is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behaviour with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xa4eltdd2z3scndtv4yvb65p/bafkreiem4i55e3gqp6endhcbz2voh2vgqd4y5xdo7bd5qgkrvnz745riby)
