Nylce Prada Myers
@nylcep.bsky.social
Dreamer, reader, procrastinator, pilgrim, perpetual student, sometime teacher...lucky human
Morning giggles 😂
Persefone opening the early flatbed scanner, holding the book and her hands into it, making the first #scanninghands of human digital history. I ❤️ it, #skystorians
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Morning giggles 😂
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I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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Perversely, grotesquely, and without a modicum of self-awareness reinforcing his core tenet that "migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homeland."
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Perversely, grotesquely, and without a modicum of self-awareness reinforcing his core tenet that "migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homeland."
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The sad irony is Miller is the one who has failed to assimilate properly into our society. He's the one that's bringing the broken terror and pogroms of his ancestors homelands to the US
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The sad irony is Miller is the one who has failed to assimilate properly into our society. He's the one that's bringing the broken terror and pogroms of his ancestors homelands to the US
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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When you were told in the nest that being a grown-up Heron would be more fun than it is currently turning out to be...
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When you were told in the nest that being a grown-up Heron would be more fun than it is currently turning out to be...
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The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
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Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
“Things happen.”
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Things happen.”
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
Things happen??
This amoral man has no sense of shame, but I am ashamed that our nation has foisted him and his depraved understanding of what matters in life on the rest of the world not just once, but twice.
Ye gods, what a travesty.
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I've mostly stayed out of the AI discourse bc while I have feelings, I haven't done a lot of research.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I've mostly stayed out of the AI discourse bc while I have feelings, I haven't done a lot of research.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
I will say this, however. I think the student use of AI lays bare what students think of education: It's a hoop through which they need to jump.
The adults have done that & we need to undo it.
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Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
This Year, We All Realized That Kids Aren’t Reading Books in School. Only the Right Is Offering a Solution.
Common Core and the College Board are my enemies. But the classical education movement is not my friend.
slate.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
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If we don’t talk about the army of enablers, we will have more Epsteins, more Trumps, and many many more traumatized women and girls.
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If we don’t talk about the army of enablers, we will have more Epsteins, more Trumps, and many many more traumatized women and girls.
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
That is simply intolerable. 3/3
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In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
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so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last night I watched about 100 middle school musicians rip an orchestra cover of Thriller, complete with zombie dancers in the aisles.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
Whatever eventually remains of this civilization, I hope it’s half as good as that.
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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
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He's talking like a man who realizes he won the lottery. He got wealthy doing the thing he loved and would be willing to do for much much less.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
He's talking like a man who realizes he won the lottery. He got wealthy doing the thing he loved and would be willing to do for much much less.
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“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
O. Good. Grief.
Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.
Author @jodipicoult.bsky.social is being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a high school musical.
“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...
“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
O. Good. Grief.
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The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Twin Cities area voters, please read this before heading to the polls and puzzling over the school board candidates on the ballot.
A 3-3 split between liberals and conservatives at the state’s largest school district has led to gridlock over issues including the budget and state social studies standards.
Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social
Written by @bzosiad.bsky.social
After battles over equity, Anoka-Hennepin school board race could tip balance of power
Voters could break a 3-3 split between conservatives and liberals on the Anoka-Hennepin school board, which oversees the state’s largest school district, in November.
sahanjournal.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Twin Cities area voters, please read this before heading to the polls and puzzling over the school board candidates on the ballot.