Alyssa S.
@drsepinwall.bsky.social
Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
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Big sale at @upmississippi.bsky.social til Wed. 11/19.
ALL books - PB or HB - are $20.26. Free shipping!
That includes my book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE #HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES, & all other 📽️ & 🗃️ books! HB is usually $120 & PB $30.
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
ALL books - PB or HB - are $20.26. Free shipping!
That includes my book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE #HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES, & all other 📽️ & 🗃️ books! HB is usually $120 & PB $30.
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Setting record for tomorrow in case I sleep in.
I hate mass-kitsch stuff like America's Got Talent - but I cannot resist the #parade... Less than 12 hours away!
I hate mass-kitsch stuff like America's Got Talent - but I cannot resist the #parade... Less than 12 hours away!
I love almost everything about the parade - but I’m grateful I’m a little behind so I can fast forward through Jimmy Fallon. He’s so icky that he disrupts the magic of the rest of the nostalgia-kitsch.
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Setting record for tomorrow in case I sleep in.
I hate mass-kitsch stuff like America's Got Talent - but I cannot resist the #parade... Less than 12 hours away!
I hate mass-kitsch stuff like America's Got Talent - but I cannot resist the #parade... Less than 12 hours away!
🤗 It is almost that time!! #Parade
I've been focused on grading & prepping to cook today - & I forgot the PARADE is tomorrow. The parade! I normally hate kitsch but the parade is my favorite childhood-nostalgia kitsch.
You never know who'll be on the next float - a teen YouTuber you never heard of, a sports legend, Girls5Eva && 😁
You never know who'll be on the next float - a teen YouTuber you never heard of, a sports legend, Girls5Eva && 😁
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
🤗 It is almost that time!! #Parade
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law.
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Trump regime is disappearing people to indefinite detention in third countries they’ve never been to, often giving them no chance to contest their deportation and breaking U.S. and international law.
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cruelty and inhumanity beyond belief.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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(I mean, it's newly relevant? cuz it wouldn't be a scandal anymore, I guess? 😬😬😬)
(I mean, it's newly relevant? cuz it wouldn't be a scandal anymore, I guess? 😬😬😬)
should we do a group watch of shattered glass as therapy
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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(I mean, it's newly relevant? cuz it wouldn't be a scandal anymore, I guess? 😬😬😬)
(I mean, it's newly relevant? cuz it wouldn't be a scandal anymore, I guess? 😬😬😬)
Do I want to keep working on Tday Eve? No!
Am I in a writing groove, banging out letters of rec that've been sitting on my to-do list & are due soon? Yes!
I'm going to do one more LOR while the muse is here. Then some leisure streaming & hopefully no work tomorrow!
Am I in a writing groove, banging out letters of rec that've been sitting on my to-do list & are due soon? Yes!
I'm going to do one more LOR while the muse is here. Then some leisure streaming & hopefully no work tomorrow!
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Do I want to keep working on Tday Eve? No!
Am I in a writing groove, banging out letters of rec that've been sitting on my to-do list & are due soon? Yes!
I'm going to do one more LOR while the muse is here. Then some leisure streaming & hopefully no work tomorrow!
Am I in a writing groove, banging out letters of rec that've been sitting on my to-do list & are due soon? Yes!
I'm going to do one more LOR while the muse is here. Then some leisure streaming & hopefully no work tomorrow!
1st cup of coffee from my new anti-HUAC mug. #StopAmericasThoughtPolice.
Once I write the new book, maybe I need merch too! 😆
(This is from the NYHS Blacklisted exhibit, an early Hanukah present!)
Once I write the new book, maybe I need merch too! 😆
(This is from the NYHS Blacklisted exhibit, an early Hanukah present!)
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
1st cup of coffee from my new anti-HUAC mug. #StopAmericasThoughtPolice.
Once I write the new book, maybe I need merch too! 😆
(This is from the NYHS Blacklisted exhibit, an early Hanukah present!)
Once I write the new book, maybe I need merch too! 😆
(This is from the NYHS Blacklisted exhibit, an early Hanukah present!)
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
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Thanksgiving weekend📽️!
Missed our uplifting 11/18 live webinar with Dr. Fakhira Halloun & Prof. Oren Yiftachel of the Israeli-Palestinian movement, A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, moderated by our board member Rabbi Andrea London? Well, here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxW...
Missed our uplifting 11/18 live webinar with Dr. Fakhira Halloun & Prof. Oren Yiftachel of the Israeli-Palestinian movement, A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, moderated by our board member Rabbi Andrea London? Well, here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxW...
A Better Kind of “River to the Sea:” A Land for All’s Vision of Two States in A Shared Homeland
YouTube video by Partners for Progressive Israel
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thanksgiving weekend📽️!
Missed our uplifting 11/18 live webinar with Dr. Fakhira Halloun & Prof. Oren Yiftachel of the Israeli-Palestinian movement, A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, moderated by our board member Rabbi Andrea London? Well, here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxW...
Missed our uplifting 11/18 live webinar with Dr. Fakhira Halloun & Prof. Oren Yiftachel of the Israeli-Palestinian movement, A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, moderated by our board member Rabbi Andrea London? Well, here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxW...
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"I'd like to thank the Grammy voters, my manager, my family, and the AI that wrote the prompt that inspired another AI to write the song."
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"I'd like to thank the Grammy voters, my manager, my family, and the AI that wrote the prompt that inspired another AI to write the song."
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
I am thankful today for @waybackmachine.bsky.social.
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Thanks @archive.org for keeping content for us when it disappears! 🗃️
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Thanks @archive.org for keeping content for us when it disappears! 🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I am thankful today for @waybackmachine.bsky.social.
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Thanks @archive.org for keeping content for us when it disappears! 🗃️
🙏💙🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙 🙏💙
Thanks @archive.org for keeping content for us when it disappears! 🗃️
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~A month or so ago the nu faculty assembly voted like 598 to 7 for no deal.
"A Northwestern spokesman did not return multiple requests for comment."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
~A month or so ago the nu faculty assembly voted like 598 to 7 for no deal.
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stupid and cruel - Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant - CBS Minnesota share.google/Gb1JDDIKq8Q5...
Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant
After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child.
share.google
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
stupid and cruel - Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant - CBS Minnesota share.google/Gb1JDDIKq8Q5...
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The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.
ICE ordered to stop holding immigrants in S.F. until it improves facility conditions
The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The judge said declarations from immigrants showed that ICE “routinely” holds immigrants in freezing temperatures without providing beds, mattresses, pillows or blankets.
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Calling ICE on your immigrant partner so you can steal the child you two created together is a vestige of chattel slavery and what it did to how USians understand ‘family.’
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Calling ICE on your immigrant partner so you can steal the child you two created together is a vestige of chattel slavery and what it did to how USians understand ‘family.’
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You know AI is useful and not at all harmful because every large (and some small) tech company is forcing it on us at every opportunity, and all of the platforms on which it is foisted on us allows users to opt out easily and permanently.
Oh, wait.
Oh, wait.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
You know AI is useful and not at all harmful because every large (and some small) tech company is forcing it on us at every opportunity, and all of the platforms on which it is foisted on us allows users to opt out easily and permanently.
Oh, wait.
Oh, wait.
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
Why does media like the NYT keep trying to push us to find *some*, *any* useful purpose for AI?
No thank you, I do not need a bot that makes shit up to try to find gifts for people I love.
No thank you, I do not need a bot that makes shit up to try to find gifts for people I love.
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why does media like the NYT keep trying to push us to find *some*, *any* useful purpose for AI?
No thank you, I do not need a bot that makes shit up to try to find gifts for people I love.
No thank you, I do not need a bot that makes shit up to try to find gifts for people I love.
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Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’
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"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
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2/3
Wikipedia: Free France says the capital was London but scroll down and it says in law and in reality it was Brazzaville.
The silence and obfuscation are how they suppress their reliance on Africa and Black people globally.
But the ancestors remember. They remind us.
Wikipedia: Free France says the capital was London but scroll down and it says in law and in reality it was Brazzaville.
The silence and obfuscation are how they suppress their reliance on Africa and Black people globally.
But the ancestors remember. They remind us.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
2/3
Wikipedia: Free France says the capital was London but scroll down and it says in law and in reality it was Brazzaville.
The silence and obfuscation are how they suppress their reliance on Africa and Black people globally.
But the ancestors remember. They remind us.
Wikipedia: Free France says the capital was London but scroll down and it says in law and in reality it was Brazzaville.
The silence and obfuscation are how they suppress their reliance on Africa and Black people globally.
But the ancestors remember. They remind us.