Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
PhD student in Evolution, studying lizards. Former AK Press worker. Still an anarchist.
@mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
@mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
Pinned
Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Reposting my recent fieldwork thread from Twitter so as to have Content. Posts/images from July. Incoming: lizards, science, beautiful Alpine vistas 🧵
I'd meant to make a new fieldwork thread like this one for 2025, but instead we've gone and made a whole account for it: @teamlizard.bsky.social -- follow for cute lizard pictures &c.
Reposted by Molly
Reposted by Molly
when you're a diasporic korean of 8 years old on your second visit to korea, your uncles may take you to the independence hall museum, and at some point you might see life-size animatronics of brutal tortures used by the japanese occupiers like confinement boxes
and you will have nightmares after
and you will have nightmares after
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
when you're a diasporic korean of 8 years old on your second visit to korea, your uncles may take you to the independence hall museum, and at some point you might see life-size animatronics of brutal tortures used by the japanese occupiers like confinement boxes
and you will have nightmares after
and you will have nightmares after
Reposted by Molly
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Reposted by Molly
for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Reposted by Molly
All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.
Reposted by Molly
Love how transphobes refused to accept "cis" and said it was a slur and that proper womanhood mustn't be diluted by adjectives, and now they've discovered they do need a word to distinguish cis people from trans people but they can't use "cis" so they're just like "...biological people??"
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Love how transphobes refused to accept "cis" and said it was a slur and that proper womanhood mustn't be diluted by adjectives, and now they've discovered they do need a word to distinguish cis people from trans people but they can't use "cis" so they're just like "...biological people??"
Reposted by Molly
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
Reposted by Molly
And they really do just fall apart when you don’t agree with the assertion that *those people* shouldnt be able to live in the country. They know it looks bad to say the racism and xenophobia out loud so they keep it as this nebulous,yknow *the illegal illegals that are illegal* for *reasons* (wink)
This white supremacist nationalism of britain for the british disgusts me and its so insulting how its an assumed truth borders and cruelty to foreigners is only natural and good
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
And they really do just fall apart when you don’t agree with the assertion that *those people* shouldnt be able to live in the country. They know it looks bad to say the racism and xenophobia out loud so they keep it as this nebulous,yknow *the illegal illegals that are illegal* for *reasons* (wink)
They are very relatable birds! I once saw a crow pick up a slice of bread and land on a sloping tram shelter to eat. It slid and couldn't get purchase so flew to the other side, but dropped the bread on the tracks as it flew. Then a tram came and ran over the bread while it watched.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
They are very relatable birds! I once saw a crow pick up a slice of bread and land on a sloping tram shelter to eat. It slid and couldn't get purchase so flew to the other side, but dropped the bread on the tracks as it flew. Then a tram came and ran over the bread while it watched.
Editor absolutely nailed it with this subheading, "One even recommended a book ‘similar’ to Lolita".
Recommending "a book similar to Lolita" is *so much more alarming* than recommending Lolita. And indeed, it goes on to detail that the relevant similarity is pedophilic lust, not anything literary.
Recommending "a book similar to Lolita" is *so much more alarming* than recommending Lolita. And indeed, it goes on to detail that the relevant similarity is pedophilic lust, not anything literary.
Don't forget all these repulsive men who helped boost Jeffrey Epstein's reputation even after his horrific deeds were well known.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
People like Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Lawrence Krauss, et al
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
People like Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Lawrence Krauss, et al
The academics who stuck by financier to the end – and those who didn’t | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Editor absolutely nailed it with this subheading, "One even recommended a book ‘similar’ to Lolita".
Recommending "a book similar to Lolita" is *so much more alarming* than recommending Lolita. And indeed, it goes on to detail that the relevant similarity is pedophilic lust, not anything literary.
Recommending "a book similar to Lolita" is *so much more alarming* than recommending Lolita. And indeed, it goes on to detail that the relevant similarity is pedophilic lust, not anything literary.
Reposted by Molly
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Reposted by Molly
uk government just made it illegal to glance at a lighthouse.
I'd hate to be a boat owner after this passes.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
uk government just made it illegal to glance at a lighthouse.
I live about 10-15 minutes' cycle from campus, and was 15 minutes late coming in this morning – so obviously an unpredicted torrential downpour started just after I left home. Karmic punishment rain.
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I live about 10-15 minutes' cycle from campus, and was 15 minutes late coming in this morning – so obviously an unpredicted torrential downpour started just after I left home. Karmic punishment rain.
My mind keeps circling around Democrats telling the military that they are "allowed to refuse illegal orders" -- as opposed to reminding them that their oath *requires* them to refuse illegal orders.
I thought this section of the USA's Law of War manual uses an interesting example of a Clearly Illegal Order
I'm bringing this up for no particular reason whatsoever
I'm bringing this up for no particular reason whatsoever
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
My mind keeps circling around Democrats telling the military that they are "allowed to refuse illegal orders" -- as opposed to reminding them that their oath *requires* them to refuse illegal orders.
Reposted by Molly
The real Turing test is that AI will stop using em dashes if you ask; humans will make you pry their favorite punctuation out of their cold, dead hands.
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The real Turing test is that AI will stop using em dashes if you ask; humans will make you pry their favorite punctuation out of their cold, dead hands.
Reposted by Molly
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Reposted by Molly
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
Reposted by Molly
I know this is besides the point but watching lawyers say that the 1st Amendment protects you from getting a bad grade on an essay is so genuinely unhinged it strips the bourgeoisie's mask of civility away and reveals the Christian nationism inherent in the sustem
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know this is besides the point but watching lawyers say that the 1st Amendment protects you from getting a bad grade on an essay is so genuinely unhinged it strips the bourgeoisie's mask of civility away and reveals the Christian nationism inherent in the sustem
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Take a break from your doomscrolling to appreciate the fact that there are foot-long (≥28cm!!) 'supergiant' amphipods roaming the hadal depths of the world's oceans.
The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🦑🌊🧪
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Take a break from your doomscrolling to appreciate the fact that there are foot-long (≥28cm!!) 'supergiant' amphipods roaming the hadal depths of the world's oceans.
Reposted by Molly
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
Reposted by Molly
#OtD 1 Dec 1991 Anti-Fascist Action successfully stopped the neo-Nazi British National Party from holding a march in Glasgow. Fascists were confronted in the streets while BNP leadership were trapped inside a bar and forced to escape via the sewers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8059...
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#OtD 1 Dec 1991 Anti-Fascist Action successfully stopped the neo-Nazi British National Party from holding a march in Glasgow. Fascists were confronted in the streets while BNP leadership were trapped inside a bar and forced to escape via the sewers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8059...
Reposted by Molly
have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
Reposted by Molly
Elections are 3+ years away, Greens are surging in the polls, and there are already elements of UK academia pre-emptively bending the knee to Reform, which is not even in power.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Elections are 3+ years away, Greens are surging in the polls, and there are already elements of UK academia pre-emptively bending the knee to Reform, which is not even in power.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
Bus I'm on left the station a full minute early, so that a guy who was rushing for it missed the door by seconds. I thought we were supposed to be a civilised society.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Bus I'm on left the station a full minute early, so that a guy who was rushing for it missed the door by seconds. I thought we were supposed to be a civilised society.
People keep saying that anarchists need to be "realistic" because "party politics is the only way to actually get things done" and then party politics is like
Interviewer: Zarah Sultana is obviously another big voice in the party
Corbyn: Yes, she's here
Interviewer: Are you friends?
Corbyn: We're colleagues in parliament and we obviously communicate and we'll see each other tomorrow in the conference.
news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
Corbyn: Yes, she's here
Interviewer: Are you friends?
Corbyn: We're colleagues in parliament and we obviously communicate and we'll see each other tomorrow in the conference.
news.sky.com/story/jeremy...
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Ms Sultana had previously claimed she was being "sidelined" by a "sexist boys' club" within the fledgling party.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
People keep saying that anarchists need to be "realistic" because "party politics is the only way to actually get things done" and then party politics is like