“Caveat stacking” is an excellent, dismayingly useful term. Inoculating against predictable bad-faith responses can easily turn into a way of pre-legitimizing those bad-faith responses.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is one of the reasons I left Twitter. I started thinking of the practice as “caveat stacking,” listing all the things I wasn’t saying that I knew somebody might claim I was saying, even though it was perfectly clear that I wasn’t saying them. It was bad for my brain.

I just figured out how to block someone on IG who had blocked me first (meaning they could just unblock me anytime and view my profile). This person has been harassing me for 3+ years. They post about me nearly every single day. The posts probably won’t stop but I feel an immense sense of relief.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Hi All, lots of new followers so wanted to do a brief intro/re-intro. You can read about me and my work here! nativeappropriations.com/2024/10/a-re...

A Reintroduction

The last few days/months/years have brought a lot of new folks to me, my work, and this ever-aging blog. I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself to anyone who may be new here, and re-introduc…

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ok i took the suggestions on INDIGENOUS FUTURISM recommended reads and made this graphic with most of the suggestions. please feel free to share and/or drop any recommendations you think should be on it!

to recap: — Trump was *for* the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

Ok I’m gonna spell the plot out. It has nothing to do with TikTok as a platform and everything to do with major corporations ignoring a national security law passed by Congress and upheld by SCOTUS because a man who isn’t even president yet told them to. That’s the plot!!!

I know that people are going to flock right back to that app, but even though I think they’re all wrong for doing it, Congress passed a law and the Supreme Court agreed unanimously and now a guy who *isn’t even president* is putting it back online and this is very bad.

Any iteration of TT that “comes back”, I ain’t interested in. It is now GONE gone, for me.

First comments stopped loading, then profile pictures went gray, then likes stopped registering, until somehow I was left only with the first TikTok I watched this morning: Isabel Klee’s foster dog Cezar gently biting an Xmas ornament still on the tree. I let it loop. I couldn’t even heart it.

Question for independent scholars: how do you obtain IRB approval? Are you paying for private IRBs? Always having a co-PI at a university? Figuring out ways to have a university affiliation for IRB access? Just curious as I navigate this new space.

This week's must-read roundup has arrived early (and was still tough to narrow down). Here are some articles you won't want to miss, along with ways to support Native people this weekend and my final thoughts for the week.

Must-Reads and Some Ways to Support Native People This Weekend

"Colonialism has been destroying worlds for hundreds of years."

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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Beach beading today. Been working on this beaded cedar gorget with embedded LED lights. ✨

I loved this book so much I wrote about two of these stories in my own book being released next year. Beautifully written and curated anthology about Palestinian futures.

Sonia Sulaiman@soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next week is this amazing panel with contributors to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Come and join us on November 20th at 6 pm EST!

For folks wondering, I ended up going with the free github instructions in this thread--a very calm german programmer made a little youtube video to walk you through and I followed the instructions no problem. Took the program about 3 hrs to delete 27k tweets.

Adrienne Keene@nativeapprops.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thread on how/why to delete your old tweets by Friday! Going to tackle this tomorrow and will report back. 🫡 TY Chanda!

Deleted 15 years of tweets. Had a moment of panic as it started, but feel relieved now. Twitter was a source of a lot of joy and community for me, and I'm proud to have been part of it from the beginning, but holy ish was there a lot of stress, hatred, and pain involved too.

Thread on how/why to delete your old tweets by Friday! Going to tackle this tomorrow and will report back. 🫡 TY Chanda!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Well I dumped all my tweets today but I am sure there's one angry person out there who still has screenshots of the time I said all physicists/astronomers ought to know some general relativity lol Anyway if you also need to clear out your twitter QUICKLY before Friday, this is it: delete.tweets.app

Hi! Happy to see some familiar friends from the other place! ❤️