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Ellen C. Bush

@iambicellen.bsky.social

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Poet cat lady surviving capitalism so far as a scholarly publishing data nerd. queer she/her 🍉 I need alt text; please provide it

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Dec 31

This is a great tutorial for alt text on bluesky. Note that in addition to making your images readable to more users, alt text allows discovery of your images in a text search!

Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Dec 16

What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?

Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull

Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...

manningkrull.com

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · 1d

Cops lie, part eleventy million

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · 7d

Well done, @merriam-webster.com !

Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 7d

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅

youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

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YouTube video by Merriam-Webster

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 13d

I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.

She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking

prismreports.org

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · 21d

“Signing up for a protest” was never a thing for 250 yrs and being asked to do so now is all kinds of wrong

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22d

Flagging the deadline again:

Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service

A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · Sep 8

Two ways to make the world less fascist today:

1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!

2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:

Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

maskbloc.org

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 31

Counterpoint: i’m an introvert who started smoking partly in order to have an entry to conversation: got a light?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 30

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nevermind: the answer was to knock them all up: thus the baby boom

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Talk to @bencollins.bsky.social!

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 27

They’re not paper-only but I’m curious to see what happens over time. Establishing subscribers from digital audiences is part of both of those models so far.

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Different audiences, but The Onion has recently launched paper, and more recently, Autostraddle. I think there is increasing desire for analog for all kinds of reasons and I say keep pursuing it!

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Just started watching Dope Girls on hulu, about this situation post-WWI

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Aug 12

A monograph I’d like to read (let me know if it already exists): post-WWII need in Allied countries to send empowered working women back out of workforce

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some good news, for once!

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some personal news…

@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

The Rumpus Submission Manager

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...

therumpus.submittable.com

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 15

I should clarify that I think prisons should be abolished bc no reform is enough to rid systemic rot. Highlighting counter-effectual policy reported by incarcerated people is part of that project.

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 13

Dersh wanted to get a tweet trail in before release of Epstein files.

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 13

Also not helping his own case that the list doesn’t exist

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 13

I don’t understand why Trump wd be afraid of exposure here. MAGA didn’t care that he’s an adjudicated rapist. They wd dismiss it if Trump were on it. We already know Bill Clinton is on it, so claiming Hillary created it is laughable. Trump is protecting someone other than himself, someone he needs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 12

a deranged Trump claims Obama and Hillary wrote the Epstein files and urges people to not care about them 🥴

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Prison phone calls have been shown to compel good behavior and rehabilitation. . . . Studies have also shown that communication with loved ones and strong family ties lead to decreased violence in prison and make people more likely to succeed and refrain from criminality after release.”

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jul 12

Biden’s FCC passed rules to make phone calls from prison cheaper, to help keep people connected to their families.

Trump's FCC has now blocked that change.

An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

Priced Out of Phone Calls Home - Bolts

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

boltsmag.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 28

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Way to go New York!

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jun 25

This really was a case of organized people over organized money.
prospect.org/politics/202...

In one of the most stunning results in Democratic politics in years, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is poised to come from nowhere and pull off a major victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment’s overwhelming choice for the job. With 90 percent of the results in, Mamdani had captured 43.5 percent of the vote to Cuomo’s 36.3 percent. The final results with all allocations in the ranked-choice process will be announced next Tuesday.

The win is a shock considering what Cuomo and his deep-pocketed allies threw at Mamdani in the late stages of the race, including tens of millions of dollars in Super PAC ads, endorsements from former president Bill Clinton and kingmaker former House leader Jim Clyburn, and a flurry of media rage. But as Mamdani said on Stephen Colbert’s show this week, while Cuomo had organized money, he had organized people.

Cuomo conceded that late Tuesday evening with a de facto concession speech in which he praised Mamdani’s campaign.

The margin, which virtually no pollster predicted, matches the excitement that canvassers have seen throughout New York for weeks and saw again on Tuesday. A near-record heat wave had some convinced voters would stay home, especially after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state of emergency for 32 counties on Sunday, including for all five New York City boroughs. But the results speak for themselves.

Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jun 14

And on/for his fucking birthday

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 14

[Exit King.]

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Ellen C. Bush @iambicellen.bsky.social · Jun 14

I got called “anti-intellectual” by a prof in grad school. I was an MFA student in a PHD lit class and wanted to talk about the text. Prof wanted to talk about critics talking abt the text. 🙃