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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

AI slop. it's what's for dinner. Thanks tech overlords! Keep looking in the mirror while you sing the song about your utopian genius!

Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner

Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

Hugely gratifying!

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

Yep. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the [Democratic] wife to placate and soothe the [Republican] husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

www.theguardian.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

It's very possible by looking at other cultures (and I've been blessed to be around gay men since I was 13, who overall refuse the assignment and allow themselves a far wider spectrum of possibilities).

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

Not shocking they converge in their miserable notions of How to Be a Man.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

Are you sure that's not Andrew Tate?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

Wonderful to see @maxkennerly.bsky.social speak about it.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

Nate Silver is definitely not the left, but restrictive ideas about masculinity exist across the social spectrum.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

Wrote about that in The Mother of All Questions.

A certain kind of emotional wholeness is the price men pay for power, and the renunciations begin early. When I questioned a nephew, as neutrally as possible, just before he turned five, about why pink was no longer among his favorite colors, he knew exactly what we were talking about: “I like girls. I just don’t like girl things,” he exclaimed, and he knew what girl things were and that he must not let them define him. In fact, he already despised them and seg- ued into a tirade against My Little Pony.
I thought five was early to be bombarded until I shopped for a friend’s unborn son and was reminded that our roles seize us at birth. Girls get being cuddly, pretty, attractive, and maybe passive: warm colors, kittens and flowers and flourishes. Boys get distance: cool colors and active figures, often menacing ones or ones that are removed from intimacy and emotion—sports figures, balls and bats, rocket ships, cold-blooded animals like reptiles, dinosaurs, and sharks, strange choices for helpless mammals who depend on nurture.
Masculinity is a great renunciation. The color pink is a small thing, but emotions, expressiveness, receptiveness, a whole array of possibilities get renounced by successful boys and men in ev- eryday life, and often for men who inhabit masculinized realms—sports, the military, the police, all-male workforces in construction or resource extraction—even more must be renounced to belong.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”

Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

It's a brilliant design whose battery means it can run on any regular outlet because it stores up energy also useful in a blackout, because you can still cook on it (though my very boss four-burner river-rafting camp stove is what I assume will get me and the neighbors through a big earthquake).

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Ms Marvel, you come here and we'll visit the fabulous Copper hq in Berkeley and its cool teams and then have tea on a hill somewhere.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Got one in 2020, got the heat-pump hot water heater this spring (after the really unpleasant death of my gas water heater), and I'm one stove away from the all-electric mostly-run-on-renewables home of my dreams. Pretty sure it'll be Copper's glorious induction stove. copperhome.com/products/cha...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.

Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)

Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

As for people who think Jews are homogenous, yes the Beastie Boys, Bernie Madoff, Susan Sontag, that ultra-Orthodox rabbi, and Irving Berlin are indistinguishable from each other.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

love the joke "if you put two Jews in a room, you get three opinions." And wrote at greater length about our non-homogeneousness here..... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

Trump lied. His ICE is not going after the "worst of the worst" like he promised.

The vast majority of the people being taken are hardworking, law-abiding members of our communities. They are just trying to provide for their families and contribute to America.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

And this one and also lots of essays and illustrations.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Also includes 25 other maps including these....

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

www.ucpress.edu/books/nonsto...

Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

A veritable semi-semitic Easter Egg hunt I am indeed!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

This might be higher res (still a screenshot from the PDF of the book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Still a draft; the Yiddish got reversed by the design program and fixed later.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

It's in our NYC atlas, Nonstop Metropolis, from UC Press, 2016. The work of me and @Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and a whole lot of fantastic contributors.

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