Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Chutney: 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 100
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I 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. 041
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I 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 030
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I 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. 030
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Woke 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. 010
Reposted by Alexandra WallingRachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 22/11/20241/ 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.comPolice 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.” 551756502
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I 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!!!! 020
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Ranking 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) 010
Reposted by Alexandra WallingKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Ever 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.comHow to watch a babyA digital comic by Kristen Radtke. 410426
Reposted by Alexandra Wallingm. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 24/11/2024fintech 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 crisisCNBC 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. 823687
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Discovered 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 000
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The best bagel sandwich - imho - is *cream cheese*, NOT American cheese, a runny egg, tomato, and bacon. 110
Reposted by Alexandra WallingKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Anytime 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 311261362
Reposted by Alexandra WallingSarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city. 411462
Reposted by Alexandra Wallingbarbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Mom come pick me up the NATO twinks are inventing eugenics again 6918
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Read 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 010
Reposted by Alexandra WallingDripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Shame 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. 311386417
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Remembering the time I showed my mom Pan's Labyrinth and she turned it off because she thought the Francoist stepfather was portrayed too evil 040
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Hey @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? 030
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This is simply not true lol, Hillary 2016 explicitly counterposed identity politics to economic populism and people still do this! 150
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024He'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 220
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It’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. 010
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Read some news and watched some videos out of Palestine and I am once again furiously angry and struggling with my feelings of impotence. 000
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Which Democrat will switch sides to the Republican Party first? A) Fetterman B) Eric Adams 120
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Given 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 020
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I 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 010
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Every 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 000
Reposted by Alexandra Walling𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Displaced 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⁉️🇵🇸💔 315160
Reposted by Alexandra Wallingbryan @bauhiniarose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024follow @ctdsa.org the one true most locked in DSA chapter in the country 172
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The "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! 071
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024All the annoying academics I’ve had muted for years are on here 030
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I can’t decide whether to be relieved or nervous that I already changed the gender markers on my driver’s license and passport 010
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Are 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 030
Reposted by Alexandra WallingSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/11/2023Anne 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.” 5333341370
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 01/11/2023Most popular Halloween costume in my neighborhood is definitely Unicorn. Not a single Barbie! 000
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 01/11/2023I 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.comUS and Israel Weigh Peacekeepers for the Gaza Strip After HamasThe 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... 010
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 30/10/2023Please tell me this person is not an actual reverend 000
Reposted by Alexandra WallingOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/10/2023his 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.comAn 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... 6293143
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Nothing makes me feel like a fancy pants PhD quite like using words like "stochastic" and "homoscedasticity" 020
Reposted by Alexandra WallingThomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 26/10/2023I occasionally check if Google has cured itself from AI-brain rot, alas this is a screenshot from just now 1002786761
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023The 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 131
Reposted by Alexandra WallingJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/10/2023Per 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. 35020
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023This 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? 000
Alexandra Walling @chorizanthe.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Keep 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 010