Izabella Laba 🇨🇦
@ijlaba.bsky.social
Mathematician. Childless cat lady. Noise is the new secondhand smoke.
ORCID 0000-0002-3810-6121
ORCID 0000-0002-3810-6121
So, here's Ursula K. Le Guin, looking like a normal human being who has earned her age and wisdom: "Hard times are coming... We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM
So, here's Ursula K. Le Guin, looking like a normal human being who has earned her age and wisdom: "Hard times are coming... We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
I wish that Chadwick Boseman were here for this.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I wish that Chadwick Boseman were here for this.
I’m so sorry. This sucks so much.
February 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I’m so sorry. This sucks so much.
I live in Vancouver. If you come here again I'm going to have some recommendations...
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I live in Vancouver. If you come here again I'm going to have some recommendations...
I’m all for it if he wants to participate in person.
January 30, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I’m all for it if he wants to participate in person.
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by Izabella Laba 🇨🇦
application-facing outcomes
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
application-facing outcomes
innovation, impact, enhancement, cross-disciplinary, leadership, recognized strengths
(why yes, I'm stuck in committee work rn reviewing a bunch of proposals)
(why yes, I'm stuck in committee work rn reviewing a bunch of proposals)
January 27, 2026 at 8:15 PM
innovation, impact, enhancement, cross-disciplinary, leadership, recognized strengths
(why yes, I'm stuck in committee work rn reviewing a bunch of proposals)
(why yes, I'm stuck in committee work rn reviewing a bunch of proposals)
Reposted by Izabella Laba 🇨🇦
Watching this feels like August 1980 in Poland. The anti-communist movement had been small and contained and, to most people, weird. And then it wasn't.
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Watching this feels like August 1980 in Poland. The anti-communist movement had been small and contained and, to most people, weird. And then it wasn't.
Watching this feels like August 1980 in Poland. The anti-communist movement had been small and contained and, to most people, weird. And then it wasn't.
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Watching this feels like August 1980 in Poland. The anti-communist movement had been small and contained and, to most people, weird. And then it wasn't.