Erica Palmisano (she/her)
@eapalmisano.bsky.social
designer, political organizer, crafter, lifter, talker
Avatar: Erica smiles at the camera on a beach. She is a white woman with pale skin, short brown/gray hair and she wears a mustard summer sweater she knit with sunglasses on her head.
Avatar: Erica smiles at the camera on a beach. She is a white woman with pale skin, short brown/gray hair and she wears a mustard summer sweater she knit with sunglasses on her head.
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When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
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I didn't end up doing a lot of longer-form writing this year (due to the newsletter and my nn/g work)
but I'm still quite proud of this piece of satire — mostly because reading comprehension is dead and people either say "you are right! this is good!" or "how can you believe such a thing?"
but I'm still quite proud of this piece of satire — mostly because reading comprehension is dead and people either say "you are right! this is good!" or "how can you believe such a thing?"
The future of AI-driven development isn’t Agile. It’s XGH.
The eXtreme Go Horse method perfectly complements the strengths of AI-powered dev tools. Introducing XGH+AI.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I didn't end up doing a lot of longer-form writing this year (due to the newsletter and my nn/g work)
but I'm still quite proud of this piece of satire — mostly because reading comprehension is dead and people either say "you are right! this is good!" or "how can you believe such a thing?"
but I'm still quite proud of this piece of satire — mostly because reading comprehension is dead and people either say "you are right! this is good!" or "how can you believe such a thing?"
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As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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I love alt text. Not only does it make images accessible, I be having fun with the descriptions. Extra space for my lil jokes
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I love alt text. Not only does it make images accessible, I be having fun with the descriptions. Extra space for my lil jokes
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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🧵ICE cut off her wedding ring.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby.
She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby.
She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
🧵ICE cut off her wedding ring.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby.
She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby.
She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.
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“‘I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way with my head held up high,’ Abrego Garica said in Spanish, through a CASA translator.”
marylandmatters.org/2025/12/12/k...
marylandmatters.org/2025/12/12/k...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, out of ICE custody, leaves with 'head held up high' - Maryland Matters
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a free man, at least for now. The Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident walked out of a check-in Friday at the ICE field office in Baltimore, a day after a federal judge o...
marylandmatters.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“‘I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way with my head held up high,’ Abrego Garica said in Spanish, through a CASA translator.”
marylandmatters.org/2025/12/12/k...
marylandmatters.org/2025/12/12/k...
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just a thought
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
just a thought
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There are people who think we should abide racism to achieve solidarity against class war, but that gets it backwards.
Racist scapegoating is the exact tool that strengthens class war and if you work to root out and shame racism, you weaken the wealthy who leverage it.
Racist scapegoating is the exact tool that strengthens class war and if you work to root out and shame racism, you weaken the wealthy who leverage it.
December 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are people who think we should abide racism to achieve solidarity against class war, but that gets it backwards.
Racist scapegoating is the exact tool that strengthens class war and if you work to root out and shame racism, you weaken the wealthy who leverage it.
Racist scapegoating is the exact tool that strengthens class war and if you work to root out and shame racism, you weaken the wealthy who leverage it.
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It's good to be reminded that there is bad news, yes but it's not the only news. Many people are plugging away and doing what they can against the forces of oppression. We aren't alone in this.
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It's good to be reminded that there is bad news, yes but it's not the only news. Many people are plugging away and doing what they can against the forces of oppression. We aren't alone in this.
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Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
This! Ugh! 😖
The United States has many problems and among the most important ones is that the American people suffer from President Brain which makes them peasants. You have to be Legislature Pilled to be a citizen of a democracy.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This! Ugh! 😖
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In these moments, I hope we reckon honestly with our current reality. I hope we make the choice to act, together and strategically. I hope we all find the deep reservoirs of love and courage we never knew we had.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In these moments, I hope we reckon honestly with our current reality. I hope we make the choice to act, together and strategically. I hope we all find the deep reservoirs of love and courage we never knew we had.
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The current construct seeks to limit our imaginations.Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making.We want life; we want livingness for all.
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We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
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November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The current construct seeks to limit our imaginations.Who will remind us to shoot for a place beyond the moon? The status quo is unrealistic and impractical. In fact, for most of the planet, it is oppressive and death-making.We want life; we want livingness for all.
open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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This is a good read, but one of the great frustrations of seeing everyone react to the (not-at-all-surprising) "revelation" that the manipulators on Twitter are foreign accounts is that Musk & his cronies were the ones that attacked & defunded the researchers who were telling everyone about this!
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is a good read, but one of the great frustrations of seeing everyone react to the (not-at-all-surprising) "revelation" that the manipulators on Twitter are foreign accounts is that Musk & his cronies were the ones that attacked & defunded the researchers who were telling everyone about this!
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.