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Alexandra Walling

@chorizanthe.bsky.social
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I'm a biologist (AMNH -> URI -> SBU) and a socialist organizing with the Democratic Socialists of America. Free Palestine.

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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Chutney: 12 oz cranberries 1 large red onion 1 apple, peeled and diced 2 tsp mustard seeds 1 stick cinnamon 8 whole cloves 4 green cardamom, crushed 2 sprigs curry leaves 3/4 cup sugar Lemon juice to taste at the end
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I post about my feelings of grief, rage, and fear often but I want to remember these words of Mike Davis tonight: Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely. This to me is how I prevent despair. Even if I see no cause for hope I fight because there is a chance.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I feel shame every day about my feelings of powerlessness re: ending the genocide in Gaza. I am happy for people of Lebanon there will be ceasefire there but terrified for Palestine
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am really struggling today to balance the love I feel for old friends and the rage I feel about their "progressive except for Palestine" politics. These friendships were never based on politics, they're not close any longer, but I am losing my ability to even fake it.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Woke up today seething with anger about friends and family’s indifference to US support of genocide. Stomach in knots. I know this is not productive but it is how I feel.
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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.
motherjones.com
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just got blocked by Moira Donegan lol
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am very over people acting like the true statement that people should not face social bigotry for being fat therefore means there are no physical problems associated with fatness. Yes! There are!! My health sucks ass!!! That's why I want to be less fat!!!!
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Ranking the movies I've dragged my husband to: 1. Midsommar (first movie we saw together) 2. The Northman 3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 4. Oppenheimer (he'd place this #1 probably) 5. Dune Part 1 (11 pm showing and he fell asleep lol) 6. 1917 7. Cats 8. Avatar: The Way of Water (SUCKED ASSSS)
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
theverge.com
How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
fintech innovation is so exciting and fun and important, its great that we : checks notes : brought the savings and loan crisis back www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
cnbc.com
'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Discovered last night that AR Rahman did a Lord of the Rings album in the UK in 2008 which is a truly unexpected intersection of my interests
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
No more meta discourse!!
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The best bagel sandwich - imho - is *cream cheese*, NOT American cheese, a runny egg, tomato, and bacon.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever. In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following: - Masks in healthcare - Clean air in public spaces - Free vaccines, tests & respirators - Paid time off
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Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city.
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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Mom come pick me up the NATO twinks are inventing eugenics again
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🖤 envy 🖤 @envy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Read about a hundred pages on Weimar democracy from Richard Evans’ Coming of the Third Reich and I am once again envious of their cultural efflorescence. They got Bauhaus and Brecht, we have AI art and Cybertrucks
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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
MissionLocal graphic with a picture of a dinosaur skeleton at the cal academy of sciences with the text "Cal Academy of Sciences cuts youth program after teens show solidarity with union"
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Remembering the time I showed my mom Pan's Labyrinth and she turned it off because she thought the Francoist stepfather was portrayed too evil
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hey @aoc.bsky.social - voted for you a couple of times, volunteered for your office to talk to people in Woodside after Hurricane Ida. Why did you just vote to institutionalize the IHRA definition of anti-semitism?
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is simply not true lol, Hillary 2016 explicitly counterposed identity politics to economic populism and people still do this!
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
He's not on here so I can say this - my brother, erstwhile social democrat, precarious academic, and paper DSA member has been teaching a class on Marxism at a liberal arts college and says he radicalized himself while teaching Bernstein, Kautsky, Luxemburg, and Lenin - he's team Lenin/Luxemburg lol
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It’s hard for me to stomach liberals denouncing Trump orbit criminality given the total lawlessness of Biden admin policy toward weapons shipments to Israel. Laws for me but not for thee.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Read some news and watched some videos out of Palestine and I am once again furiously angry and struggling with my feelings of impotence.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Which Democrat will switch sides to the Republican Party first? A) Fetterman B) Eric Adams
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Given how much physicians have just acquiesced to Dobbs/abortion bans I'm not hopeful about them resisting the Dr. Oz and RFK jr fucking with the healthcare/public health systems
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I would like to know why I never get horny DMs on twitter (or BlueSky for that matter) but constantly have the biggest losers in the world DMing me on reddit
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Every couple of nights I have a hypnic jerk so powerful I convince myself it’s a seizure and have a panic attack until I google “hypnic jerk” and remember I don’t have epilepsy. You would think i would learn
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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Displaced families do not know whether to protect themselves from the rain or from missiles and planes. They only have a tattered piece of cloth to protect the bodies? Will our lives remain cheap? I wonder how a world that sends ships into space can fail to stop the killing of an innocent person⁉️🇵🇸💔
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bryan @bauhiniarose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
follow @ctdsa.org the one true most locked in DSA chapter in the country
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The "never register for a protest" thing is dumb. Yeah, if you're going to smash windows in black bloc, don't use your real name anywhere associated, but like if you're going to a rally at the statehouse with big unions you can + should give contact info so they can plug you in!
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
All the annoying academics I’ve had muted for years are on here
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I can’t decide whether to be relieved or nervous that I already changed the gender markers on my driver’s license and passport
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Are Palestinians allowed to post on this website or what, like I hate twitter as much as the next person but I'm mostly on it for news about Gaza and Lebanon at this point
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times
Magazine.
The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts everything grows smaller and harder from from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more g
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Most popular Halloween costume in my neighborhood is definitely Unicorn. Not a single Barbie!
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I just do not believe that the American people support the US sending troops to occupy Gaza on behalf of Israel. It is abhorrent. Not in my name.
bloomberg.com
US and Israel Weigh Peacekeepers for the Gaza Strip After Hamas
The US and Israel are exploring options for the future of the Gaza Strip, including the possibility of a multinational force that may involve American troops if Israeli forces succeed in ousting Hamas...
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Who wants to see my dog yell at some deer
A video of a beagle on a blue leash baying at white tail deer in the distance
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Please tell me this person is not an actual reverend
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
his family was sheltering in central Gaza, which is where Israeli forces have told people to go. His wife, his 15 year old son, his 7 year old daughter, all killed by IDF strikes www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/m...
cnn.com
An Al Jazeera journalist learned his family had been killed while on the air. It offered the world a...
Grief in Gaza: Al Jazeera is grieving. The Qatari-funded news network said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike had killed the family of its Gaza bureau chief, Wael Al-Dahdouh — a devastating reali...
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Nothing makes me feel like a fancy pants PhD quite like using words like "stochastic" and "homoscedasticity"
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 26/10/2023
I occasionally check if Google has cured itself from AI-brain rot, alas this is a screenshot from just now
Search for "african country starting with k"

There's text first thing that reads:
"While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter 'K'. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a 'K'; sound, but is actually spelled with a 'K' sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this."
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
The fact that Cavalier KC spaniels - arguably the cutest dog breed on earth - basically all have brains too big for their skulls causing pain and disability is a huge argument against artificial selection for looks rather than function
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/10/2023
Per CBS News—sourced to a Maine law-enforcement bulletin—the suspect in the Lewiston mass shootings is a trained firearms instructor in the US Army Reserve stationed in Saco.
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
This detail- that Lewiston parents were caught in lockdowns at their children’s schools - shook me. Did the kids teach their parents howto shelter in place?
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Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Keep trying to get my friends on here... Twitter is bad for you, I say... Blue sky is still boring and solipsistic, it'll help ween you from your social media addiction like a nicotine patch
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