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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 22h

Honest question, re: Jane Doe and all things Cornell Fraternity culture, etc. Booze. At the heart of all trauma-inducing behavior on the parts of undergraduates in college, is booze. WHY is alcohol necessary, for the undergraduate college experience? 1/2

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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 23h

Elections are held in what I call electoral dictatorships. To maintain power, electoral dictators hold unfair elections and suppress opponents. If the GOP retains control of Congress, then an electoral dictatorship is likely in the US. My latest @TheEmancipator.org theemancipator.org/2026/10/06/i...

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The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S. Next? Midterms Could Decide.

When Americans first elected Donald Trump president in 2016, there were nearly 4 billion people living in nations where they could vote in fair and competitive elections. Last year, when Trump took o...

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sickened + speechless. Cruelty and selfishness ARE the point. As if this were membership to a country club.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026

So fucking glad we don't have to listen to Charlie Kirk's opinion on the Cornell story

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Owls hooting. Coyotes howling. A lone elk bugle. 💖

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday self-soothing. By making an infographic. As I do. TL;DR, no singular point of intervention will fix this. We can keep simplifying what's not simple, or dig-in to really fix shit. Now, taking my OCD (and PTSD'd) self out to do farm chores. I am also Jane Doe. It's been a week.

Infographic demonstrating the layers of formative influence, violent assault, and accountability systems in place that encourage, mitigate, perpetrate, and hold to account, those that impose a lifetime of trauma onto others.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 03/10/2026

My dear friend Sharif is in dire need of donations to take care of his children. Like so many displaced Gazans. His accounts here are constantly, and erroneously, deleted as spam. Also like so many. Please give if you can. No amount is too small.

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My Children Lost Their Mother—Don’t Let Them Lose Life Too

Hello, my name is Sherif Samir Abdullah.I am 38 years oldA father of three children:

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Fair shake" is the new "good people on both sides."

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My farmer's market has an electric guitarist busking this week, and he played Holy Diver while I was shopping next to his booth. Not exactly a Dio fan, but that brought me a greater sense of belonging in Sandy, Oregon I think, than anything else, yet.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some of my favorite activists are historians and/or anthropologists and I really wish the digital rights space hired more people like this.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This afternoon we found out our sweet Tigger is in the end stages of liver failure. 2 weeks into his cancer treatment. Sunday we'll be sending him over the rainbow bridge via an at-home euthenasia vet. Big day of ugly crying, snuggles, and loving on our 16y/o guy.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Get to know the complex story of trans athletes competing in elite sports. They carry all the biological disadvantages, not the cisgender athletes; but they also exude far more joy. www.olympics.com/en/news/laur...

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Laurel Hubbard: Meet the history making transgender weightlifter at Tokyo 2020

Laurel Hubbard competes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Monday (August 2). So who is the New Zealand native?

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Murphy's Law: Sleepless via allergies, and a rare AM meeting ahead.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What if Dolly's book club sent books to every child from 0-15yrs, then international newspapers from 15-25? Is that in her will? Please???

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I worked at Fox Motocross, we really thought motocross was going to take over the world. Be bigger than football. It was crushing Europe and Japan. Dominance over mankind, was on the horizon!

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Counting an elderly and sick pet's calories is way more stressful, than counting my own. :(

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Spent idle brain time today thinking about the completely opposite journeys yet convergent impacts of Gloria and Dolly on women's rights. Dolly's subversive cultural liberation of women celebrating our sexuality and owning our self-worth w/o apology. Gloria's movement and policy transformations. 🙏🏻

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The communal tradition has deep roots, dating back thousands of years to Indigenous communities that cooked meats and vegetables over a fire, with enslaved Africans later becoming early innovators of what we would now recognize as barbecue. The modern cookout emerged in the 20th century…”

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Keeping the Cookout Going (Gift Article)

Black barbecues have long offered a joyful, safe space for attendees. A new generation is determined to keep the fires burning.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Leni Riefenstahl was also "a genius," and we don't need a retrospective on her, for the same reason. Man, Anna, way to end your career on a low note. Delighted to read The Met made the right choice. Finally. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s...

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How the Met’s Galliano Show Fell Apart

Anna Wintour put her full power and prestige behind a designer convicted of an antisemitic hate crime. Behind the scenes, influential New Yorkers revolted.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wanting an award for adulting and compensation, for my +5hrs spent on the phone today, resolving various outstanding healthcare & insurance issues. All, to credit with our dumb system. Why must things be so hard?!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026

People are frustrated by emerging tech because it's something being done to them– surveilling, manipulating, draining resources- rather than providing tools to improve their lives, @legind.bsky.social told @azfamily.com. “These seem like things that are just so disempowering. So out of our control.”

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‘Fed up’: Why there’s so much pushback against data centers, Flock cameras

Several cities and towns across Maricopa County, including Tempe and Cave Creek on Wednesday, have announced plans to end their contracts with Flock.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Because everyone is now calling it the Gulf Of America... ?!

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rob Halford nailed it: she was beautiful TO people. She made beauty a verb, while also owning our expectation of beauty, as an external embellishment of ourselves. How to treat others with unconditional beauty. How to live beauty as a spiritual and social virtue, and not just an aesthetic virtue.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s completely legal to sing “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” to the tune of “WKRP in Cincinnatiiiiii.” No one can stop you.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There is zero data validating this effort, yet SCOTUS cleared the way. This is textbook election interference, and an excuse to collect rolls for ICE to work from to detain our neighbors. apnews.com/live/trump-e...

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Live update: The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to restrict mail-in voting

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm not a fan of AI slop. But, it does sometimes provide a great outlet for therapeutic snark transgressions. Really hoping this latest court situation, gets us to where Joe Camel is, today, but with our enshittified hellscape.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Been spending too many brain-cells lately, considering the intent of "fractional" over the more common "part-time" in tech worker self-labels. As an asthmatic, am I a fractional-breather?

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Why does EVERYBODY else get called on their bullshit, except for this one?!

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15/08/2026

If you ride with Cursor, you ride with fascism.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I can't not constantly see my own mortality, in the aging rockstars of my youth. James Hetfield now resembles Wilford Brimley in leather. Rob Halford, queer/jolly Santa Claus. Margo Timmins' white hair. Robert Smith's look now seems like it had always been intended, vs peak deathrock dreamboat.

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Andrew Hawkins @beardeduniverse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Goodnight from Scotland, catch you tomorrow beautiful souls 😁

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

ICE has decided it’s now going to attack the global press, including the Associated Press (AP), because they are reporting the truth. This administration will stop at nothing to prevent the press from telling Americans what’s actually happening.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mt Hood Meadows is being evacuated. This is 45min from my house. I'm currently in Portland proper, and it's sunny and beautiful. My partner at home is wearing a mask, inside the house. When I got into my truck to leave, a cloud of ash blew off the roof. 370 AQI.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Earlier today, I measured the AQI outside my house: 370. In my livingroom, it's currently 150. In my bedroom with everything shut and the air-cleaner blasting, it's down to 29.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Iran War’s Forgotten Captives: Sailors Trapped in the Persian Gulf Thousands of civilian workers remain stranded on ships at risk of attack by Iran. On one vessel, sailors have been held by the Iranian navy for more than three months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

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Sailors Working in Strait of Hormuz Are Caught in Crossfire of Iran War

Thousands of civilian workers remain stranded on ships at risk of attack by Iran. On one vessel, sailors have been held by the Iranian navy for more than three months.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/08/2026

If you use Signal to work with sensitive contacts, it’s not a “set it and forget it” app. You do need to maintain the safety of your account. Our digital security team walks through foundational account security settings to help.

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What journalists need to know about Signal account safety

There are a few straightforward steps you can take to make your account and identity much more secure

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've seen outrage but I haven't seen anything we might do to support Aangad. I don't mean money via a GFM, but some way to let all the angry posters direct their energy into something positive. I don't want us to Craig Shergold him but could we do something?

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's not even noon, and my timeline has already exhausted everything I had to bring to my desk, this AM.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.

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nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really wishing that Anthropic would give Claude an optional Usage meter that is visible to users as we work. Sure, it can have a hover state or a click state for more detail—but it'd be really nice to see which things tax what models, how.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026

The most corrupt president in history and it's not close: "Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows"

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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House

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