Lisa Schmeiser
lschmeiser.bsky.social
Lisa Schmeiser
@lschmeiser.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, No Jitter; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of an intermittent Substack (lschmeiser.substack.com); parent/partner/community volunteer/aspiring long distance swimmer.
Evergreen:
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Finally had a chance to read the @adamserwer.bsky.social piece in the Atlantic, and what great timing to read this passage after watching Chuck Schumer today.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 28, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Forty years ago today: A snow day, me baking cookies, my dad calling home to tell us to turn on the television, and the incomprehensible sight of the Challenger blowing up. I remember reading "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee Jr. in the wake of the news.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157986...
January 28, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I am, as always, reminded of the passage in @greatdismal.bsky.social's "Zero History" dissecting competence cosplay. What we're seeing in some quarters is profound semiotic confusion because the signifiers of competence/exclusivity are being stripped of meaning for these guys in real time.
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Relevant:
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It will surprise absolutely nobody that the United States is the only United Nations member state to refuse to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Here are all the rights of children our nation refuses to recognize: www.unicef.org.au/convention-r...
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
TIL Clem Fandango is WUTHERING HEIGHTS, so I am now interested in the movie and the remote possibility of cameos from Ray Purchase and Stephen Toast.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I will be teaching an afternoon session at our Girl Scout council's all-day training on Saturday, which requires me to assemble a slide deck, an informational medium I am still trying to master.

Anyway, here's my slide for when I ask participants about their experience level:
January 21, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Giving big "You stay classy, San Diego" vibes
January 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
If corporations are people, it's clear that under U.S. law, some people's rights to profit as possible supersede anyone else's rights to live at all.
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Rhetoric like this leads directly to laws like the Taliban has imposed on Afghani women.

Never forget: Now that the modern GOP has successfully eliminated women's healthcare, they're coming for our financial autonomy and ability to participate in public life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM
It's like the ICE agents in Portland read this and failed to understand it was satire.
January 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Tonight, I will be reviewing the Declaration of Independence, starting with this passage:

www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Banger of a headline from the Financial Times:
January 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is the second screen of wholly fact-free Google gibberish. Note that the "beloved symbol of [Smuin's] unique holiday magic" is, in fact, the long feather boa worn during the annual "Santa Baby" number, something that has actually been reported: www.sfgate.com/entertainmen...
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Note that in 8 years of going to the ballet, I have never once seen a number based on "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy," and the dancers do not wear hockey jerseys. I CAN confirm that there's no Nutcracker-esque numbers because I have 8 years of programs & tracked all numbers via spreadsheet.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I was going to treat myself to a purchase of this movie to get in the mood for the season but alas, it's only available to rent.
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Included for your delectation, two screens in which literally nothing is correct, accurate or useful.
December 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
How one estranged mother reacted when her child did not invite her to their wedding The timing!

(the article: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...)
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Trend forecasters looked at things like this and decided the white-stuff aesthetic was fine to tack into. Not the millennial-coded "stuff white people like" (including performative diversity). White as an explicity rejection of diversity & a move to aesthetic conformity:
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All of these things are possible because retailers offer them. Or, as was brilliantly encapsulated in "The Devil Wears Prada":
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So the gendered coding is fundamental to fascism -- as is the factually incorrect narrative that we've fallen from some peak, homogenous civilization. The Nazis loved invoking the ancient Greeks for this reason; we have AI glurge about 1950s housewives:
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM