Eleanor 🌿📚💌
@swellanora.bsky.social
Recovering Academic (Classics)
Podcast- Frances Wright: America's Forgotten Radical
🍃hobbit, janeite, elder nerd📖
📣BIPOC & LGBTQ+ history IS American History
Podcast- Frances Wright: America's Forgotten Radical
🍃hobbit, janeite, elder nerd📖
📣BIPOC & LGBTQ+ history IS American History
Who? The guy who told transphobes to "fix your hearts or die?"
I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there
May 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Who? The guy who told transphobes to "fix your hearts or die?"
This thread is full of words tasty to the tongue and the mind!
Quick thread of lost and forgotten words that we need to bring back:
“Overmorrow,” the day after tomorrow, and “yesterneve,” yesterday evening.
“Nodcrafty”: to nod along sagely when someone is talking, despite not having a clue what they’re banging on about.
“Overmorrow,” the day after tomorrow, and “yesterneve,” yesterday evening.
“Nodcrafty”: to nod along sagely when someone is talking, despite not having a clue what they’re banging on about.
April 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This thread is full of words tasty to the tongue and the mind!
Do you want swill milk? Because this is how you get swill milk.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Do you want swill milk? Because this is how you get swill milk.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Lots to take in here. One thing that strikes me is how much hate Nader got for vote-splitting in 2000, but he doesn't even rank on this graph.
Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections
Wild
Wild
April 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lots to take in here. One thing that strikes me is how much hate Nader got for vote-splitting in 2000, but he doesn't even rank on this graph.
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This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Verily
Torne bitwene makinge Jurassic Parke reference jokes about dire wolves and, on the othir hande, NOT doinge that, yn order to honor the observaciouns of scientistes that these are not dire wolves and that no thinge kan be "brought back" from extinctioun simplye by applyinge capitalism to it
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Verily
"Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
They trained their model on a diverse body of excellent writing. . . and got the stupidest search tool I've ever encountered. Just another example of how the "plausible phrases" that LLMs spit out is NOT the same as "information."
Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
March 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They trained their model on a diverse body of excellent writing. . . and got the stupidest search tool I've ever encountered. Just another example of how the "plausible phrases" that LLMs spit out is NOT the same as "information."
Clear-eyed, evidence-based, historically inspired hope is my favorite kind.
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
January 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Clear-eyed, evidence-based, historically inspired hope is my favorite kind.
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This is a helpful locator of nonprofit news orgs. findyournews.org Also I prefer the term “corporate media” over “mainstream” because it emphasizes the ownership and who they’re beholden to.
Find Your News
findyournews.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is a helpful locator of nonprofit news orgs. findyournews.org Also I prefer the term “corporate media” over “mainstream” because it emphasizes the ownership and who they’re beholden to.
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
I've been thinking a lot about this They Might Be Giants song lately. For some reason.
youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...
youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...
When Will You Die? - They Might Be Giants (Official Video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I've been thinking a lot about this They Might Be Giants song lately. For some reason.
youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...
youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...
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For Booksky 📚
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For Booksky 📚
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.
✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!
❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.
✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.
👋 I'm a TikTok refugee, but also GenX- so maybe I'll fit in here? Interested in #books, #Tolkien, #crafts, #adhd, and #resistance.
January 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
👋 I'm a TikTok refugee, but also GenX- so maybe I'll fit in here? Interested in #books, #Tolkien, #crafts, #adhd, and #resistance.
Watching people say goodbye to TikTok and the communities they built there was really touching. But the next presidency is planning to wrench people from their homes and communities by force. Don't be distracted by deals to "save" TikTok.
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
Immigrants and advocacy organizations brace for Trump's Day One actions
Days before Donald Trump takes office with the promise of mass deportation, immigrants are bracing for Trump's potential first actions. Some are staying away from going to work, while immigrant advoca...
www.npr.org
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Watching people say goodbye to TikTok and the communities they built there was really touching. But the next presidency is planning to wrench people from their homes and communities by force. Don't be distracted by deals to "save" TikTok.
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...