Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
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NEW: "We — as people in an ever-changing D.C. that is not at all reflective of where we grew up — occasionally see these special glimpses and you're like, 'Oh, shit, it's still there.'"
Meet two co-founders of The Pack World, who work to capture how the D.C. that raised them is still alive:
Meet two co-founders of The Pack World, who work to capture how the D.C. that raised them is still alive:
How these D.C. natives are fighting to preserve the city's Black culture
By creating content, merch, and experiences that are for and about Chocolate City
51st.news
February 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
NEW: "We — as people in an ever-changing D.C. that is not at all reflective of where we grew up — occasionally see these special glimpses and you're like, 'Oh, shit, it's still there.'"
Meet two co-founders of The Pack World, who work to capture how the D.C. that raised them is still alive:
Meet two co-founders of The Pack World, who work to capture how the D.C. that raised them is still alive:
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I dare say it won’t change shit, but it’s important that there’s video evidence of a guy who looks like he’s about to burst into tears because, finally, someone has come within spitting distance of making him admit that Replacement Theory is the politics of lies.
February 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I dare say it won’t change shit, but it’s important that there’s video evidence of a guy who looks like he’s about to burst into tears because, finally, someone has come within spitting distance of making him admit that Replacement Theory is the politics of lies.
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They. Can. Not. Honestly articulate their beliefs or values. This is a powerful line of questioning, cause it dares them to admit how dumb their entire credo is, and they won’t do it.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
They. Can. Not. Honestly articulate their beliefs or values. This is a powerful line of questioning, cause it dares them to admit how dumb their entire credo is, and they won’t do it.
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The universe offers signs
totally enthralled by this oven mitt with an onion sitting on it at LAX with the words “2. Keep important medications with you” over it. I took dozens of photos
February 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
The universe offers signs
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Last year, Europe bought over half a billion dollars’ worth of diesel from America’s leading refiner of Venezuelan crude. According to customs and shipping records, in 2025, European countries imported at least $565 million worth of diesel, with the 🇳🇱 and the 🇬🇧 among the top destinations.
Europe poised to help US companies profit from Venezuelan oil
Europe and the UK already have a blueprint for supporting Venezuela's people – stop importing its oil while it is controlled by the US
globalwitness.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Last year, Europe bought over half a billion dollars’ worth of diesel from America’s leading refiner of Venezuelan crude. According to customs and shipping records, in 2025, European countries imported at least $565 million worth of diesel, with the 🇳🇱 and the 🇬🇧 among the top destinations.
"on to PR back foot" what is that? a desperate attempt to avoid saying they did something of substance wrong and turn it all into a pr perception game?
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it was their own stupid "policy" that forced them on to - ugh this is a terrible headline anyway not even worth it but COME ON
Heraskevych’s ‘helmet of memory’ forces IOC on to PR back foot at Winter Olympics | Sean Ingle
February 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"on to PR back foot" what is that? a desperate attempt to avoid saying they did something of substance wrong and turn it all into a pr perception game?
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OK but this is too exciting to wait on sharing: my book! It has a cover! (Coming in November from Fortress Press, pre-orders will be available sooooooon)
February 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
OK but this is too exciting to wait on sharing: my book! It has a cover! (Coming in November from Fortress Press, pre-orders will be available sooooooon)
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Put differently dominant academic writing conventions have pushed marginalized voices into sounding like robots for generations and now that robots can mimic those conventions suddenly many are seeing a crisis that has always existed for many of us.
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Put differently dominant academic writing conventions have pushed marginalized voices into sounding like robots for generations and now that robots can mimic those conventions suddenly many are seeing a crisis that has always existed for many of us.
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I have seen increasing discourse about how AI is taking our voice away from us. As somebody who has been constantly told my home language practices were inappropriate in academic writing I can attest to the fact that for many of us that problem is not new. Perhaps now we can actually address it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I have seen increasing discourse about how AI is taking our voice away from us. As somebody who has been constantly told my home language practices were inappropriate in academic writing I can attest to the fact that for many of us that problem is not new. Perhaps now we can actually address it.
it was their own stupid "policy" that forced them on to - ugh this is a terrible headline anyway not even worth it but COME ON
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
it was their own stupid "policy" that forced them on to - ugh this is a terrible headline anyway not even worth it but COME ON
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Middle southern journos take note:
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
arkansasspj.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Middle southern journos take note:
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
The contest is open to residents of AR, LA, MS, MI, OK, TN, and TX, and entries can be submitted through March 16.
$15,000 in cash will be distributed to reporters and their newsrooms.
arkansasspj.org/category/dia...
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checking my references and discovered that Ezra Pound, whom Bryher hated, once tried to teach her tennis bc he’d taken 2 lessons from a random Italian guy this one time. She’d been playing since age 6 & wiped the floor with him.
February 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
checking my references and discovered that Ezra Pound, whom Bryher hated, once tried to teach her tennis bc he’d taken 2 lessons from a random Italian guy this one time. She’d been playing since age 6 & wiped the floor with him.
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I bought cheap notebooks as reading journals for my class this semester, and just about halfway through, it’s been a huge success. I’ve never a higher percentage of the class participating, and coming to class having read well with good questions. In a 2000 level Gen Ed class of mostly non-majors.
Last semester, I shifted what had been a 4-part series of online discussion posts to a 4-part series of in-class, pen and paper short essays. I've never received more positive feedback in student evals from a single pedagogical decision ever. www.chronicle.com/article/to-s...
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Some say it’s a better way to keep students focused and engaged.
www.chronicle.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I bought cheap notebooks as reading journals for my class this semester, and just about halfway through, it’s been a huge success. I’ve never a higher percentage of the class participating, and coming to class having read well with good questions. In a 2000 level Gen Ed class of mostly non-majors.
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And Kobo et al! This is a fantastic history, strongly recommended, snap it up!
Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
And Kobo et al! This is a fantastic history, strongly recommended, snap it up!
paging @megelder.bsky.social who knew they would do shit like that second chyron and knows he absolutely would not
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
paging @megelder.bsky.social who knew they would do shit like that second chyron and knows he absolutely would not
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SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?
LYONS: We do not do that
LYONS: We do not do that
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?
LYONS: We do not do that
LYONS: We do not do that
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Colorado has started putting polling places in prisons, and people have been voting at really high rates there!
This is great. They should also be able to vote while in prison.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Colorado has started putting polling places in prisons, and people have been voting at really high rates there!
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we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
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The budgets for these lawless federal agencies are larger than the military budgets of many countries. Would love it if we used that money to fund libraries, to fund a social safety net, to make it so that that even well-known Hollywood actors don’t have to sell their shit to pay for healthcare. 🔥👊🏻
February 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The budgets for these lawless federal agencies are larger than the military budgets of many countries. Would love it if we used that money to fund libraries, to fund a social safety net, to make it so that that even well-known Hollywood actors don’t have to sell their shit to pay for healthcare. 🔥👊🏻
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Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
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And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for a lot of what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities responded with collective action through locally coordinated networks.
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for a lot of what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities responded with collective action through locally coordinated networks.
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That’s solidarity and mutual aid in action. Happens also in storm/fire/ emergency response too.
And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for a lot of what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities responded with collective action through locally coordinated networks.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
That’s solidarity and mutual aid in action. Happens also in storm/fire/ emergency response too.
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I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
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Even after another four days of rain, the tree is moving on.
From a distance it now has a feint white haze to it. Close up, the twigs are full of flowers and buds. There were lots of birds in the tree today, chirping. And the scent was lovely too.
#BlossomWatch
From a distance it now has a feint white haze to it. Close up, the twigs are full of flowers and buds. There were lots of birds in the tree today, chirping. And the scent was lovely too.
#BlossomWatch
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Even after another four days of rain, the tree is moving on.
From a distance it now has a feint white haze to it. Close up, the twigs are full of flowers and buds. There were lots of birds in the tree today, chirping. And the scent was lovely too.
#BlossomWatch
From a distance it now has a feint white haze to it. Close up, the twigs are full of flowers and buds. There were lots of birds in the tree today, chirping. And the scent was lovely too.
#BlossomWatch
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All the rain doesn't seem to be holding the tree back. Many more flowers now.
February 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
All the rain doesn't seem to be holding the tree back. Many more flowers now.