Lisa Meece
@lisameece.bsky.social
Working towards a hopeful future. Internationally certified in hugging. Host of the Starbase Indy podcast. Have you been to Starbase Indy?
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This is old metoo bitch erasure
Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
February 12, 2026 at 3:45 AM
This is old metoo bitch erasure
WRITERS!
Your self-doubt is yours. No one else's. Embrace it. Recognize the signs.
Such doubt plagues every good writer who cares about their craft and the reader's response to it.
What the worst that can happen? You'll need to edit?
You're going to do that anyway.
#FreeYourself to create.
Your self-doubt is yours. No one else's. Embrace it. Recognize the signs.
Such doubt plagues every good writer who cares about their craft and the reader's response to it.
What the worst that can happen? You'll need to edit?
You're going to do that anyway.
#FreeYourself to create.
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is useful information about the nightmares happening after folks are detained.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM
This is useful information about the nightmares happening after folks are detained.
I recently had the pleasure of talking with @justinkey.bsky.social about his new book The Hospital at the End of the World. I highly recommend the book. Hear more from its author on the @sbipodcast.bsky.social or our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/cUNXWp_onNU
TalkingAboutTheHospitalAtTheEndOfTheWorldVideo
YouTube video by Starbase Indy
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February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
I recently had the pleasure of talking with @justinkey.bsky.social about his new book The Hospital at the End of the World. I highly recommend the book. Hear more from its author on the @sbipodcast.bsky.social or our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/cUNXWp_onNU
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Apart from the difference in art (the kids stuff radiates joy a life and the ai stuff is just dead on arrival) the kids experience something while doing it. That experience is communicated in the art too. Art isn’t just the end result.
The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Apart from the difference in art (the kids stuff radiates joy a life and the ai stuff is just dead on arrival) the kids experience something while doing it. That experience is communicated in the art too. Art isn’t just the end result.
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Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
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Chatbots can write code but they cannot do software engineering.
Writing code and understanding the process are two entirely different things and have two entirely different goals.
One you can do the chatbot the other you never will.
You don't fire people over this.
substack.com/@bloodinthem...
Writing code and understanding the process are two entirely different things and have two entirely different goals.
One you can do the chatbot the other you never will.
You don't fire people over this.
substack.com/@bloodinthem...
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the internet.
substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Chatbots can write code but they cannot do software engineering.
Writing code and understanding the process are two entirely different things and have two entirely different goals.
One you can do the chatbot the other you never will.
You don't fire people over this.
substack.com/@bloodinthem...
Writing code and understanding the process are two entirely different things and have two entirely different goals.
One you can do the chatbot the other you never will.
You don't fire people over this.
substack.com/@bloodinthem...
We saw this in action during the pandemic....
UBI doesn't remove the desire to work... It just changes the incentives so folks can do what they're passionate about instead of just what billionaires will pay them for.
UBI doesn't remove the desire to work... It just changes the incentives so folks can do what they're passionate about instead of just what billionaires will pay them for.
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 AM
We saw this in action during the pandemic....
UBI doesn't remove the desire to work... It just changes the incentives so folks can do what they're passionate about instead of just what billionaires will pay them for.
UBI doesn't remove the desire to work... It just changes the incentives so folks can do what they're passionate about instead of just what billionaires will pay them for.
Anybody else wondering why the headlines right now aren't
"GOP Insistance on Funding ICE Threatens all Federal Operations"
The Republicans are in power. These headlines are assuming capitulating to whatever the GOP wants is the Dems duty.
I'm betting voters see that one differently
"GOP Insistance on Funding ICE Threatens all Federal Operations"
The Republicans are in power. These headlines are assuming capitulating to whatever the GOP wants is the Dems duty.
I'm betting voters see that one differently
January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Anybody else wondering why the headlines right now aren't
"GOP Insistance on Funding ICE Threatens all Federal Operations"
The Republicans are in power. These headlines are assuming capitulating to whatever the GOP wants is the Dems duty.
I'm betting voters see that one differently
"GOP Insistance on Funding ICE Threatens all Federal Operations"
The Republicans are in power. These headlines are assuming capitulating to whatever the GOP wants is the Dems duty.
I'm betting voters see that one differently
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No-till farming helps Canada post record grain exports. Canadian farmers are harvesting record spring wheat and canola crops, driven largely by widespread no-till and zero-till farming that locks in soil moisture and cuts erosion. Reuters #ShareGoodNewsToo
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
No-till farming helps Canada post record grain exports. Canadian farmers are harvesting record spring wheat and canola crops, driven largely by widespread no-till and zero-till farming that locks in soil moisture and cuts erosion. Reuters #ShareGoodNewsToo
Rationalization is easy, and it sounds good.
It's time for us to take a breath and start putting a skeptical focus to what we hear. The regime's lies can't withstand thoughtful analysis; that's *why* they work so hard to keep us too unbalanced to apply it.
Breath. Think. Respond. Resist.
It's time for us to take a breath and start putting a skeptical focus to what we hear. The regime's lies can't withstand thoughtful analysis; that's *why* they work so hard to keep us too unbalanced to apply it.
Breath. Think. Respond. Resist.
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Rationalization is easy, and it sounds good.
It's time for us to take a breath and start putting a skeptical focus to what we hear. The regime's lies can't withstand thoughtful analysis; that's *why* they work so hard to keep us too unbalanced to apply it.
Breath. Think. Respond. Resist.
It's time for us to take a breath and start putting a skeptical focus to what we hear. The regime's lies can't withstand thoughtful analysis; that's *why* they work so hard to keep us too unbalanced to apply it.
Breath. Think. Respond. Resist.
There's always a reason.
Follow the money is a pretty good way to find it.
Follow the money is a pretty good way to find it.
THREAD
H2A guest worker visas are finally a big enough program that farmers are ready to switch to that instead of undoc'd workers.
That's why they're rounding up undoc'd people.
Farms don't really need them anymore, & they're "too hard to control."
That hasn't changed!
H2A guest worker visas are finally a big enough program that farmers are ready to switch to that instead of undoc'd workers.
That's why they're rounding up undoc'd people.
Farms don't really need them anymore, & they're "too hard to control."
That hasn't changed!
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
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(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
There's always a reason.
Follow the money is a pretty good way to find it.
Follow the money is a pretty good way to find it.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway
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anyway, my dudes, you are too old to believe in the logistics fairy
January 26, 2026 at 2:21 AM
anyway, my dudes, you are too old to believe in the logistics fairy
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The funny thing is that I agree with Mr. Berry: the Silent Majority *does* exist, and they *are* sick of being held hostage by a violent and vocal minority.
He's just misunderstood which one of them he belongs to
He's just misunderstood which one of them he belongs to
At 7:04 PM yesterday, Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry told his 164K followers that “If Trump doubles down, invokes the Insurrection Act, crushes these feral Communist riots, and arrests the leaders responsible, his popularity will go up 10 points.” 1/ x.com/joelwberry/s...
January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
The funny thing is that I agree with Mr. Berry: the Silent Majority *does* exist, and they *are* sick of being held hostage by a violent and vocal minority.
He's just misunderstood which one of them he belongs to
He's just misunderstood which one of them he belongs to
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You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Some of y'all haven't watched Andor yet and it's showing...
Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.
January 25, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Some of y'all haven't watched Andor yet and it's showing...
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
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Announcement: We are OPEN for submissions of novels and poetry collections (and short fic, poetry, and visual art for the Antifa Lit Journal). Check our submission guidelines and send your query letter. The window will close quickly!
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January 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Announcement: We are OPEN for submissions of novels and poetry collections (and short fic, poetry, and visual art for the Antifa Lit Journal). Check our submission guidelines and send your query letter. The window will close quickly!
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This is not new.
That doesn't mean we don't need to stand up against it
That doesn't mean we don't need to stand up against it
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 25, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is not new.
That doesn't mean we don't need to stand up against it
That doesn't mean we don't need to stand up against it
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."