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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it’s all fun and games until someone tells Ted Cruz about Greenfield, Massachusetts

Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

not a single person I’ve met irl since i moved to a new city a few weeks ago has brought up AI in conversation, not even to complain about it, not even when i say i am a computer scientist. possibly i am just putting myself in the right social situations this time. or maybe SF was really just Hell

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is my least favorite type of internet antisocial behavior

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI safety people are always like "what if they hack the nukes" instead of "what if self-propagating LLM script kiddie swarms hack the worst-secured 1% of internet-connected industrial control hardware and casualtymaxx" & it's because only one of those is an ad for the capabilities of frontier models

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the moon report 🌗 @seachanger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i don't think we spend enough imagining how quiet and idyllic life would be if we flipped the ratio of bike/transit : car infrastructure.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/08/2026

one thing's for sure, you see a dude who says he's "politically homeless", it's 100% clear where his home is

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

if i ever end up in the British press for any reason, institutionalize me immediately to be on the safe side

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If a picture can speak a thousand words, these are the two pictures I'd pick to express the value of Woke 1.1 and the problem of Woke 1.2:

Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid take a knee wearing their 49ers uniforms during the national anthem.

Nancy Pelosi and members of the House and Senate take a knee in the entrance to the Capitol wearing kente cloth scarves.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

nobody ask me about what I’m doing with my career for the next academic year (or maybe 2) (or maybe forever). i’m taking some time to be delusional about something.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

never wanted to click on anything less in my life

List of topics trending on Substack with the final item highlighted.

Perez Hilton TikTok self-harm incident, Girls leadership in sports, Tremont Home eight indie makers, Imperialist Realism Empire of Grunge, Al feminism debate Hank Green

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the university was created by the collective bargaining of the gremlins w/ both governments & the church, who begrudgingly acknowledged it was in everyone’s best interest if they created the legal & physical space to let the gremlins do pretty much whatever they wanted

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

what did i do to be cursed with the extremely specific punishment of being a Bluesky user who agrees with **** ******* approximately 50% of the time

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

am I going to get in trouble for wondering aloud whether the vibecession phenomenon can be explained by a change in *who* is struggling rather than *how many people* are struggling

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

car ownership is sometimes a necessity/ cost efficiency thing, but a lot of the time it’s a skill issue & those justifications are pure cope. it’s hard to tell which is happening in specific cases on social media but seeing it all the time in real life makes me 🫩 on a daily basis

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ironically, high-viz vests help you hide in plain sight. They're great for tactical urbanism projects.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

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matthewdezii.bsky.social @matthewdezii.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My friend is dead. A driver, through neglect, recklessness or malice, has killed Louisa. I’m beside myself with grief and filled with righteous anger at a city that has stalled and slow-walked safety improvements for all road users. Louisa should be here with us.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

fascinated reading about the guys who plucked platner out of obscurity just cuz of his vibe, convinced him to run and spent like $3 vetting him. "the agency sent us some of his reddit posts but not all of them" i GUARANTEE you i could have run a better background check www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

wsj.com

The ‘Mad Scientist’ Behind Graham Platner’s Scandal-Plagued Rise

Dan Moraff rushed the vetting of the Maine Senate candidate. He says he’s trying to blow up the way Democrats run campaigns.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"it is difficult to ... not prefer the pure, misguided heart over the cynical and cautious one" lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

caught up on uk politics over the past few months and now I have twice as many worms in my brain

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tbh lots of ent brains got cooked once pandemic + social media suddenly exposed them to any dirtbag hobbit being able to call bullshit on their long-winded entmoot incrementalism/neutrality

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

so we've all been thru this huh lol

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2026

genuinely inspiring.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

can you make money being +epsilon ahead of the curve on pop music? maybe kalshi is my plan C career path...

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

maybe it was all a dream 🤞

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/06/2026

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

Tom Nichols •
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
I don't know what caused this but I could get on board with the thing about bike lanes

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/06/2026

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

got us again I’ll admit

8/19/25, 12:05 PM
I did fall for that schtick with Fetterman but also he had a stroke that made him evil so what are the odds of that happening again
8/19/25, 12:05 PM
That's exactly what I was thinking

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i don't understand people who are weird about adolescent transition. don't you want children to be successful? like kim petras??

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

before or after “Diet Pepsi” dropped?

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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey, if you're a CA voter who hasn't returned your ballot, and you also want to pass the #BillionaireTax, then there is a great strategic voting opportunity here. If there are no R governor candidates on the ballot in November, then the sub-tabs of recent polling suggest the tax wins easily.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

usa.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Honestly, I’m going to vote for the candidate that materially proves to me that they will secure trans rights. I don’t have the luxury of waiting for someone perfect or someone I relate to. I would like to be able to live. I would like my trans students and my trans sisters to live.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

another grim election season in CA

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/05/2026

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Construction photo of the Sen̓áḵw housing project in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

my brother and i got in an argument with our dad about this recently. like he was shocked and angry to learn all our experiences since leaving for college have led us to adopt this worldview. and we had to be like sir you have not been on the job market since like 1999

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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