Oliviaaaah
@unbuildingwalls.bsky.social
She/her | librarian & legal researcher| 🪐📚 | Lake Michigan adjacent (U.P.➡️Chicago➡️Milwaukeee)
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Trans rights are nonnegotiable 🏳️⚧️
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
Where do I enlist?
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Where do I enlist?
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
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more like crapitalism, amirite
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
more like crapitalism, amirite
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A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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Just because he's the one that signed it doesn't make it his project, come the fuck on
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-Dam_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-Dam_...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Just because he's the one that signed it doesn't make it his project, come the fuck on
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-Dam_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-Dam_...
I hate that my brain can't just sit with something being sad without jumping immediately to "how is the unhinged president going to respond to/use this tragedy?"
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I hate that my brain can't just sit with something being sad without jumping immediately to "how is the unhinged president going to respond to/use this tragedy?"
More of this, please. Landback!
Franciscan Sisters transfer land to Lac du Flambeau tribe in bid to repair boarding school legacy
In a historic moment, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have completed the first known land transfer nationwide from a Catholic instituti...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
More of this, please. Landback!
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“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
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I don't want a LLM, I want an LMS that actually fucking works.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don't want a LLM, I want an LMS that actually fucking works.
Can't stop won't stop (watching/reading reporting on the Klamath First Descent)
Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...
First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River after the largest dam removal in U.S. history
YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Can't stop won't stop (watching/reading reporting on the Klamath First Descent)
This is so cool.
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is so cool.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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years ago they cast Don Cheadle in a grim dark version of Captain Planet for laughs but they should have just made the actual movie
people older than me and people younger than me are equally ignorant of climate change as a global crisis
Captain Planet target audience stands firm
Captain Planet target audience stands firm
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
years ago they cast Don Cheadle in a grim dark version of Captain Planet for laughs but they should have just made the actual movie
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
I have the best welcome wagon.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I have the best welcome wagon.
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Keep up the good work, Chicago! Sounds like 62 ads along the Brown line need defacing.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Keep up the good work, Chicago! Sounds like 62 ads along the Brown line need defacing.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
This is a gentle nudge to look this up if you put gravel at the bottom of your house plants.
Just helped repot a huge monstera and I got to teach my sisters about perched water tables. Always super satisfying as a youngest child (with four super accomplished siblings) to be all "hold up fam, let me show you how it's done."
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is a gentle nudge to look this up if you put gravel at the bottom of your house plants.
Just helped repot a huge monstera and I got to teach my sisters about perched water tables. Always super satisfying as a youngest child (with four super accomplished siblings) to be all "hold up fam, let me show you how it's done."
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just helped repot a huge monstera and I got to teach my sisters about perched water tables. Always super satisfying as a youngest child (with four super accomplished siblings) to be all "hold up fam, let me show you how it's done."
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Today is one of those days when I really need someone to come up to me, look deeply into my eyes, take my hands, and say, “I believe in you. You are worthy. And I think you will do GREAT and BEAUTIFUL things with this billion dollars."
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today is one of those days when I really need someone to come up to me, look deeply into my eyes, take my hands, and say, “I believe in you. You are worthy. And I think you will do GREAT and BEAUTIFUL things with this billion dollars."