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@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social
Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶
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Hey new followers, I recognize a few of you from Bird Hell Site (detector webapp came online or got noticed?) so I assume y'all know this, but so the rest of you know what's in the tin:
* quite autistic
* numbers are fun
* yarn yarn yarn
* cute lizard is cute
* fuck Nazi bullshit
* quite autistic
* numbers are fun
* yarn yarn yarn
* cute lizard is cute
* fuck Nazi bullshit
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Let's fix this a bit. (the thread gives links)
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Let's fix this a bit. (the thread gives links)
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
I'm leaning air conditioning vent sounds, with increasing creaking and groaning until someone catches on.
Need ideas for this year's April Fools bluetooth speaker prank. Last year I hid it behind stuff on a shelf and switched on Purrli and I'd like to top it this year.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I'm leaning air conditioning vent sounds, with increasing creaking and groaning until someone catches on.
Need ideas for this year's April Fools bluetooth speaker prank. Last year I hid it behind stuff on a shelf and switched on Purrli and I'd like to top it this year.
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Need ideas for this year's April Fools bluetooth speaker prank. Last year I hid it behind stuff on a shelf and switched on Purrli and I'd like to top it this year.
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The regime is going to court to overrule a judge’s order to release 5 year old Liam Ramos from custody.
They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child
Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”.
A camp with a measles outbreak.
Monsters.
They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child
Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”.
A camp with a measles outbreak.
Monsters.
February 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
The regime is going to court to overrule a judge’s order to release 5 year old Liam Ramos from custody.
They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child
Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”.
A camp with a measles outbreak.
Monsters.
They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child
Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”.
A camp with a measles outbreak.
Monsters.
🤣🤣🤣😹!!!
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February 5, 2026 at 5:16 AM
🤣🤣🤣😹!!!
We have more cops than we need anyway...any legitimate functions that have been assigned to ICE can be taken away and assigned elsewhere, and the whole damn remaining organization thrown into a woodchipper that has its outflow side pointed at a dumpster fire.
Survey data shows that most Americans do not want to rein in ICE. They want to abolish it.
Federal agents tear-gassed demonstrators and children in Portland.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 4:51 AM
We have more cops than we need anyway...any legitimate functions that have been assigned to ICE can be taken away and assigned elsewhere, and the whole damn remaining organization thrown into a woodchipper that has its outflow side pointed at a dumpster fire.
Just realized I picked up and moved my super skitty cat from one feedbowl to the other bc I thought she was my other cat that looks the same from above, and SHE LET ME!!!!! 😻
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Just realized I picked up and moved my super skitty cat from one feedbowl to the other bc I thought she was my other cat that looks the same from above, and SHE LET ME!!!!! 😻
TFW a plastic part of your *old* inkjet printer breaks, so you think about buying a 3D printer to fix your 2D printer.
February 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
TFW a plastic part of your *old* inkjet printer breaks, so you think about buying a 3D printer to fix your 2D printer.
Home from protesting
They'll be going at it a while yet I think, but apparently 41 is too old to forget to pregame an ibuprofen
They'll be going at it a while yet I think, but apparently 41 is too old to forget to pregame an ibuprofen
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Home from protesting
They'll be going at it a while yet I think, but apparently 41 is too old to forget to pregame an ibuprofen
They'll be going at it a while yet I think, but apparently 41 is too old to forget to pregame an ibuprofen
Once at a protest, I wore bread on my hat for Sandwich Guy.
People asked why, I mentioned Sandwich Guy, and they were like "ohhhhh! nice!"
Alt text is like telling people the bread is for Sandwich Guy -- it brings more people into getting what you're expressing visually.
People asked why, I mentioned Sandwich Guy, and they were like "ohhhhh! nice!"
Alt text is like telling people the bread is for Sandwich Guy -- it brings more people into getting what you're expressing visually.
Reposting with Alt Text, which is so easy with the live text tool!
Alt text doesn’t just help low vision folk, it gives you 2000 characters to add context, or shade, snark, sarcasm - whatever!
Bonus: Alt text is searchable!
Alt text doesn’t just help low vision folk, it gives you 2000 characters to add context, or shade, snark, sarcasm - whatever!
Bonus: Alt text is searchable!
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Once at a protest, I wore bread on my hat for Sandwich Guy.
People asked why, I mentioned Sandwich Guy, and they were like "ohhhhh! nice!"
Alt text is like telling people the bread is for Sandwich Guy -- it brings more people into getting what you're expressing visually.
People asked why, I mentioned Sandwich Guy, and they were like "ohhhhh! nice!"
Alt text is like telling people the bread is for Sandwich Guy -- it brings more people into getting what you're expressing visually.
Separation of church and state matters BUT it would be OK if the government were to copy this kind of Biblical values.
"The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio legally will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks the Trump administration from revoking it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
January 29, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Separation of church and state matters BUT it would be OK if the government were to copy this kind of Biblical values.
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"The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio legally will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks the Trump administration from revoking it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 AM
"The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"
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This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.
The administration is insisting that its masked goons are so emotionally stunted that words can launch them into a murderous rage.
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
January 29, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.
Has anyone else gotten stuck in the parking lot after work in a doomscrolling hole bc gathering the executive function to turn the damn key and go home a few times lately, or is that just me?
January 28, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Has anyone else gotten stuck in the parking lot after work in a doomscrolling hole bc gathering the executive function to turn the damn key and go home a few times lately, or is that just me?
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Hatted Ravelry
Reminder that two of Ravelry's top patterns right now are melt the ice hat (knit) and melt the ice hat (crochet)
A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Hatted Ravelry
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Sink the careers of thse fuckers.
these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
January 28, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Sink the careers of thse fuckers.
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Don't causejack.
Don’t causejack. Not ever. If I’m posting about one tragedy, don’t whatabout me with another. It trivialises both subjects, and makes you look a performative, self-important, virtue-signalling public morality cop and I will not endorse your cause - for you have discursively POISONED IT.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Don't causejack.
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You can no longer find my writing on Substack. It is long overdue, but I just can't justify forcing people to use a platform that supports such hateful ideologies just to read my stuff.
So now you can find it on my own site! ravnicanreadingnook.com
#writersky #vorthos #indywriter #FuckICE
So now you can find it on my own site! ravnicanreadingnook.com
#writersky #vorthos #indywriter #FuckICE
January 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
You can no longer find my writing on Substack. It is long overdue, but I just can't justify forcing people to use a platform that supports such hateful ideologies just to read my stuff.
So now you can find it on my own site! ravnicanreadingnook.com
#writersky #vorthos #indywriter #FuckICE
So now you can find it on my own site! ravnicanreadingnook.com
#writersky #vorthos #indywriter #FuckICE
The arc of history bends IN THE DIRECTION *WE FUCKING WELL **PUSH** IT*
The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
January 27, 2026 at 4:44 AM
The arc of history bends IN THE DIRECTION *WE FUCKING WELL **PUSH** IT*
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The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
This is at the brainstorming stage, but:
Employee-side employment law sounds like a fun specialty bc who you metaphorically use as a chew toy is shitty bosses/companies.
Obviously the "...you lose some" part would be frustrating when applicable, but that would be true for anything.
Employee-side employment law sounds like a fun specialty bc who you metaphorically use as a chew toy is shitty bosses/companies.
Obviously the "...you lose some" part would be frustrating when applicable, but that would be true for anything.
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is at the brainstorming stage, but:
Employee-side employment law sounds like a fun specialty bc who you metaphorically use as a chew toy is shitty bosses/companies.
Obviously the "...you lose some" part would be frustrating when applicable, but that would be true for anything.
Employee-side employment law sounds like a fun specialty bc who you metaphorically use as a chew toy is shitty bosses/companies.
Obviously the "...you lose some" part would be frustrating when applicable, but that would be true for anything.
Signal is secure enough that if something leaks through Signal, the rational conclusion is that the leak is another person in the conversation.
The big unvetted group where you figure out who's bringing the veggie tray to the potluck has infiltrators/blabbermouths in it; post accordingly.
The big unvetted group where you figure out who's bringing the veggie tray to the potluck has infiltrators/blabbermouths in it; post accordingly.
Of course no one should assume Signal is perfectly secure, and yes, for certain extreme circumstances, you should use no electronic comms.
But for 99.9% of Americans right now? “Signal is just as insecure as other forms of comms” is utterly irresponsible and counterproductive advice.
But for 99.9% of Americans right now? “Signal is just as insecure as other forms of comms” is utterly irresponsible and counterproductive advice.
January 26, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Signal is secure enough that if something leaks through Signal, the rational conclusion is that the leak is another person in the conversation.
The big unvetted group where you figure out who's bringing the veggie tray to the potluck has infiltrators/blabbermouths in it; post accordingly.
The big unvetted group where you figure out who's bringing the veggie tray to the potluck has infiltrators/blabbermouths in it; post accordingly.