Dr. Tamara L. Siuda
@tamarasiuda.com
she/they🏳️🌈| author & editor | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | tech & its (mis)use | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda
@tamarasiuda.com
· Nov 12
Combining awelcome to all the new members under the Bluesky with the #TuesdayPetPic tax. I’m Tamara, I study & write mostly about Egypt in multiple contexts, but I have many interests. I share the house with Seamus here, who has entirely too much sass - and too many toes - for his own good.
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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
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He drew it himself.
www.gq.com/story/police...
www.gq.com/story/police...
Kansas Cop Resigns After Writing “Pig” on His Own Coffee Cup
After receiving national attention, the McDonald's security cameras revealed he was the real culprit the whole time.
www.gq.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
He drew it himself.
www.gq.com/story/police...
www.gq.com/story/police...
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"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToo
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"
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I'm lighting the "hey buddy" signal and putting a call out for people to reply with cute animal pictures to send some cheer to us in Minnesota. I sure could use it.
HEY BUDDY (show me your buddies)
HEY BUDDY (show me your buddies)
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I'm lighting the "hey buddy" signal and putting a call out for people to reply with cute animal pictures to send some cheer to us in Minnesota. I sure could use it.
HEY BUDDY (show me your buddies)
HEY BUDDY (show me your buddies)
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If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
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Yay it's #portfolioday! Check out the hashtag to see the cool artists around you here.
January 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Yay it's #portfolioday! Check out the hashtag to see the cool artists around you here.
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If I personally don’t share any one of these families’ funds, they don’t get any help. To survive.
I don’t have secret sauce. I’m like anyone else. Pick one, search my posts for “📌 tutorials” help for free for just 5 minutes a day.
You will transform their ability to survive.
linktr.ee/divyamp
I don’t have secret sauce. I’m like anyone else. Pick one, search my posts for “📌 tutorials” help for free for just 5 minutes a day.
You will transform their ability to survive.
linktr.ee/divyamp
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January 13, 2026 at 2:42 AM
If I personally don’t share any one of these families’ funds, they don’t get any help. To survive.
I don’t have secret sauce. I’m like anyone else. Pick one, search my posts for “📌 tutorials” help for free for just 5 minutes a day.
You will transform their ability to survive.
linktr.ee/divyamp
I don’t have secret sauce. I’m like anyone else. Pick one, search my posts for “📌 tutorials” help for free for just 5 minutes a day.
You will transform their ability to survive.
linktr.ee/divyamp
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The USA does trade with Iran.
"U.S. goods and services trade with Iran totaled an estimated $838.4 million in 2024, up 3.4 percent ($27.2 million) from 2023." (US gov trade)
Is he going to slap a tariff on himself?
"U.S. goods and services trade with Iran totaled an estimated $838.4 million in 2024, up 3.4 percent ($27.2 million) from 2023." (US gov trade)
Is he going to slap a tariff on himself?
January 13, 2026 at 8:14 AM
The USA does trade with Iran.
"U.S. goods and services trade with Iran totaled an estimated $838.4 million in 2024, up 3.4 percent ($27.2 million) from 2023." (US gov trade)
Is he going to slap a tariff on himself?
"U.S. goods and services trade with Iran totaled an estimated $838.4 million in 2024, up 3.4 percent ($27.2 million) from 2023." (US gov trade)
Is he going to slap a tariff on himself?
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You can say Merry Protein again
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
You can say Merry Protein again
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Jerome Powell remembers his oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same."
His allegiance is to the public and the Constitution, not to a wanna be king.
Respect. ✊🏼 #RememberYourOath
His allegiance is to the public and the Constitution, not to a wanna be king.
Respect. ✊🏼 #RememberYourOath
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Jerome Powell remembers his oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same."
His allegiance is to the public and the Constitution, not to a wanna be king.
Respect. ✊🏼 #RememberYourOath
His allegiance is to the public and the Constitution, not to a wanna be king.
Respect. ✊🏼 #RememberYourOath
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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Stay vigilant, but take your Ws where you get them.
BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Stay vigilant, but take your Ws where you get them.
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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There, that was easy. Malaysia and Indonesia showing the way.
Grok AI: Malaysia and Indonesia block X chatbot over sexually explicit deepfakes
Sexualised images of real people generated by Grok have circulated on X in recent weeks.
www.bbc.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 AM
There, that was easy. Malaysia and Indonesia showing the way.
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Democratic Senators have "a role" in why our country feels so much more fascist lately, and it's a big one
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Democratic Senators have "a role" in why our country feels so much more fascist lately, and it's a big one
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this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
if you are in minneapolis please continue to spread the word about Defend612.com ans the Monarcha line
if you are in minneapolis please continue to spread the word about Defend612.com ans the Monarcha line
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
if you are in minneapolis please continue to spread the word about Defend612.com ans the Monarcha line
if you are in minneapolis please continue to spread the word about Defend612.com ans the Monarcha line
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As the sing, one participant holds a sign that reads “Jesus was an immigrant, stop ICE.”
People drive by honking in support, prompting cheers.
People drive by honking in support, prompting cheers.
January 11, 2026 at 8:22 PM
As the sing, one participant holds a sign that reads “Jesus was an immigrant, stop ICE.”
People drive by honking in support, prompting cheers.
People drive by honking in support, prompting cheers.
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A good reminder that the function of ICE isn’t immigration enforcement, but a private paramilitary force being sent into blue cities under false pretext of participatory conspiracy theories confabulated by online content creators and their audiences on X and in the federal government.
In her interview today, Kristi Noem says she has dramatically surged DHS forces in Minnesota to deal with an "outbreak of sexual misconduct involving sexual predators." Which is curious, because the ICE forces deployed include Timothy Ryan Gregg, 51, a known sexual predator.
Feds charge Minnesota Homeland Security agent on child sexual abuse videos
A Minnesota-based Homeland Security agent is charged with exploiting a 17-year-old girl to produce child sex abuse videos.
www.mprnews.org
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
A good reminder that the function of ICE isn’t immigration enforcement, but a private paramilitary force being sent into blue cities under false pretext of participatory conspiracy theories confabulated by online content creators and their audiences on X and in the federal government.
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Scowling Long Island security guys, arms folded outside Sunglass Hut, seeming ready to lay down their life to protect the merch in case the DSA lady blowing a vuvuzela gets violent, spark joy for me.
January 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Scowling Long Island security guys, arms folded outside Sunglass Hut, seeming ready to lay down their life to protect the merch in case the DSA lady blowing a vuvuzela gets violent, spark joy for me.
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extremely good cat thread
goodnight 💤
goodnight 💤
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
extremely good cat thread
goodnight 💤
goodnight 💤
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NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM
NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest
January 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest
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Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
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A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care — Interrupting Criminalization
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You by Kely Hayes and Mariame Kaba is a practical and imaginative resource for activis...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...