Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
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Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Sorry this took so long, but I finally got the doc I prepared for my friend up on Google Docs. It is a deliberately short Long Covid On Ramp for folks just discovering they are sick and wondering what to do next. Thanks to all who contributed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I have very few good memories of my undergrad years, but one of them is listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales for the first time performed by two brilliant Irish classmates. Thank you for the reminder @annelouiseavery.bsky.social. youtu.be/SDdEvkQf9ko?...
Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ “A Child's Christmas in Wales” 1961
YouTube video by Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
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December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I have very few good memories of my undergrad years, but one of them is listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales for the first time performed by two brilliant Irish classmates. Thank you for the reminder @annelouiseavery.bsky.social. youtu.be/SDdEvkQf9ko?...
When I wake up in the middle of the night and look out the window to see everything enveloped in mist and fog it gives me the same feeling I had as a child waking up in the night to unexpected snow.
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
When I wake up in the middle of the night and look out the window to see everything enveloped in mist and fog it gives me the same feeling I had as a child waking up in the night to unexpected snow.
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Asked the dog if she's planning to haunt me when she dies and she wagged her tail.
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Asked the dog if she's planning to haunt me when she dies and she wagged her tail.
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FOLKS, don't post video, esp. disturbing video, WITHOUT:
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This video:
Isn't related to Somalis
Shows Nov. 25, 2025
Shows St. Paul
Posted by "Feznander" & Minnesota 50501
Posting misinfo + mislabelled video isn't news or community-minded.
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This video:
Isn't related to Somalis
Shows Nov. 25, 2025
Shows St. Paul
Posted by "Feznander" & Minnesota 50501
Posting misinfo + mislabelled video isn't news or community-minded.
CALL IT OUT!
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
www.instagram.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
FOLKS, don't post video, esp. disturbing video, WITHOUT:
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This video:
Isn't related to Somalis
Shows Nov. 25, 2025
Shows St. Paul
Posted by "Feznander" & Minnesota 50501
Posting misinfo + mislabelled video isn't news or community-minded.
CALL IT OUT!
Dates/times
Specific location
Source
Credit
This video:
Isn't related to Somalis
Shows Nov. 25, 2025
Shows St. Paul
Posted by "Feznander" & Minnesota 50501
Posting misinfo + mislabelled video isn't news or community-minded.
CALL IT OUT!
New favorite comfort watch: people making incredibly detailed sewing projects and explaining their process in detail on You Tube, especially this charming and wildly talented person. youtu.be/BG5QlWo0M0w?...
Can You 3D Print a Ghost?
YouTube video by Grace DuVal
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
New favorite comfort watch: people making incredibly detailed sewing projects and explaining their process in detail on You Tube, especially this charming and wildly talented person. youtu.be/BG5QlWo0M0w?...
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Our current medical establishment were over partisan actors for years.
They stoked anger and rage about any effort to limit covid, radicalizing many.
They appealed to emotions and anger under the ruse of being neutral scientists.
Walker is right about their covid myths.
They stoked anger and rage about any effort to limit covid, radicalizing many.
They appealed to emotions and anger under the ruse of being neutral scientists.
Walker is right about their covid myths.
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Our current medical establishment were over partisan actors for years.
They stoked anger and rage about any effort to limit covid, radicalizing many.
They appealed to emotions and anger under the ruse of being neutral scientists.
Walker is right about their covid myths.
They stoked anger and rage about any effort to limit covid, radicalizing many.
They appealed to emotions and anger under the ruse of being neutral scientists.
Walker is right about their covid myths.
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FUCK YES!!!
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
FUCK YES!!!
Listening to a pretty great fiction podcast about sexy vampires in Toronto who run a detective agency (Woodbine) that comes with several truly loathsome ads (I know, I know but you guys I already belong to SO many Patreons) the most loathsome of which is for a true crime podcast called Crime Salad.
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Listening to a pretty great fiction podcast about sexy vampires in Toronto who run a detective agency (Woodbine) that comes with several truly loathsome ads (I know, I know but you guys I already belong to SO many Patreons) the most loathsome of which is for a true crime podcast called Crime Salad.
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(It's CLEAR Clinic, which is an amazing local org!)
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
(It's CLEAR Clinic, which is an amazing local org!)
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To be clear I'm not the organizer, I'm just underemployed and online and it's easy for me to share it 😂!!!! Thank you for sharing!
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
To be clear I'm not the organizer, I'm just underemployed and online and it's easy for me to share it 😂!!!! Thank you for sharing!
I so appreciate Lydia organizing this and making it easy for the rest of us to do a good thing. We’re more than halfway there now.
A mom in Portland has been separated from her child since June bc ICE kidnapped her. The only thing standing between her & her baby right now is a $7,500 bond. There's 5k to go. PLEASE let's do this. Many hands make light work. This is literally the reason for the gd mfing season gofund.me/3e980d9d3
Donate to Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention, organized by CLEAR Clinic
Our client Lorena (pseudonym) is a single-parent asylum-seeker w… CLEAR Clinic needs your support for Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention
gofund.me
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I so appreciate Lydia organizing this and making it easy for the rest of us to do a good thing. We’re more than halfway there now.
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art archives, John Constable's 1822 Cloud Study. Written on the back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art archives, John Constable's 1822 Cloud Study. Written on the back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."
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Amid the increase of reports of ICE arrests in the cities surrounding Seattle over the past weeks, a member of a federally recognized tribe says she was also stopped and interrogated by apparent immigration officials.
ICE stops Native American actress Elaine Miles in Redmond
Amid the increase of reports of ICE arrests in the cities surrounding Seattle over the past weeks, a member of a federally recognized tribe says she was also stopped and interrogated by apparent immig...
www.kuow.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Amid the increase of reports of ICE arrests in the cities surrounding Seattle over the past weeks, a member of a federally recognized tribe says she was also stopped and interrogated by apparent immigration officials.
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Just to show you a few recent, cool entries. The blank expression is key, but as to where you pose, you can see a lot is acceptable. (This is not yet a comment on what will be accepted for the book, since we can only use a few.) (Claim your photo if u want, but did not want to preemptively ID.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just to show you a few recent, cool entries. The blank expression is key, but as to where you pose, you can see a lot is acceptable. (This is not yet a comment on what will be accepted for the book, since we can only use a few.) (Claim your photo if u want, but did not want to preemptively ID.)
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San Francisco wants to build social housing to make housing for all a reality, and the City needs a plan to get there. So we issued an RFP to develop one! Hope this reaches even one or two more people who could answer the RFP who wouldn't have seen this otherwise.
www.sfgov.org/lafco/rfp-mu...
www.sfgov.org/lafco/rfp-mu...
RFP for Municipal Housing Agency Study | Local Agency Formation Commission
Originally Posted: Febraury 9, 2024 Updated: November 17, 2025 The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) seeks proposals to conduct a study to determine the viability and recommended...
www.sfgov.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
San Francisco wants to build social housing to make housing for all a reality, and the City needs a plan to get there. So we issued an RFP to develop one! Hope this reaches even one or two more people who could answer the RFP who wouldn't have seen this otherwise.
www.sfgov.org/lafco/rfp-mu...
www.sfgov.org/lafco/rfp-mu...
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Including AI annotators, and particularly where billion dollar ventures seek out this labor, was always part of The Control Problem. My first draft of those scenes is dated June 2016.
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Including AI annotators, and particularly where billion dollar ventures seek out this labor, was always part of The Control Problem. My first draft of those scenes is dated June 2016.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that tech claiming to save labor and resources has only hidden its exploited workers and environmental devastation. (And not very well.)
Companies that use AI regularly turn to overseas workers to train their algorithms, often because the labor is cheaper. But the nature of Flock’s business—creating a surveillance system that constantly monitors U.S. residents—means that footage might be more sensitive than other AI training jobs.
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that tech claiming to save labor and resources has only hidden its exploited workers and environmental devastation. (And not very well.)
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"Reckless" as a word in official congressional e-newsletters has had a really interesting trajectory over the past 15 years.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Reckless" as a word in official congressional e-newsletters has had a really interesting trajectory over the past 15 years.
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Never take nonsense from bad faith folks.
Don't argue with them.
Block them instead.
Don't argue with them.
Block them instead.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Never take nonsense from bad faith folks.
Don't argue with them.
Block them instead.
Don't argue with them.
Block them instead.
The view from here.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The view from here.
Named my fists Stephen and Sondheim because every day’s a little death, you know what I mean, bro?
named my fists simon and garfunkel 'cause if you fuck with me all you're gonna hear is the sound of silence
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Named my fists Stephen and Sondheim because every day’s a little death, you know what I mean, bro?
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Press conference now:
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Press conference now:
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
CM Sandy Nurse calls on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to drop the charges on demonstrators detained yesterday.
New Mexico continuing to do some amazing things on the policy front.
Curious to see how this project incorporating housing costs into the minimum wage will affect workers and the local economy. Some landlords will be caught between greed at charging more rent if tenants make more and being forced to pay higher wages if they also own businesses lol.
Santa Fe’s Plan for a Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons for Costly California
New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.
capitalandmain.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New Mexico continuing to do some amazing things on the policy front.
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::whispers:: i know him
A muffin man, making deliveries to households and announcing his presence with a handbell, London, 1924
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
::whispers:: i know him