Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects. Jack of all trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
· Jun 3
Time for another what-is-AI thread, because there’s a lot of confusion, seeded on purpose by shitty vulture capitalists trying to sell stuff.
AI is a legit branch of computer science with a LOT of different approaches & addressing MANY different types of problems.
AI is a legit branch of computer science with a LOT of different approaches & addressing MANY different types of problems.
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please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
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I want to emphasize this, and note that I have been saying it consistently for over 10 years now: *everything* about Trump is immediately visible. Everything. There's no there there, no depth, nothing hidden, no secrets. He's shallow as a puddle. It's all right there, immediate, obvious, glaring.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want to emphasize this, and note that I have been saying it consistently for over 10 years now: *everything* about Trump is immediately visible. Everything. There's no there there, no depth, nothing hidden, no secrets. He's shallow as a puddle. It's all right there, immediate, obvious, glaring.
I love that I can repost this with no context and absolutely everyone knows who it’s about.
Joffrey Baratheon at 80, with dementia
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I love that I can repost this with no context and absolutely everyone knows who it’s about.
My mini poodle has LOVED her crate her whole life (she is 7 now!) but her old crate pad (thin, no separate cover) finally disintegrated a couple months ago and I bought a replacement—a cushier pad with a fake-fur zip-off cover (she LOVES fake fur) and she has avoided her crate since. 🙃
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
My mini poodle has LOVED her crate her whole life (she is 7 now!) but her old crate pad (thin, no separate cover) finally disintegrated a couple months ago and I bought a replacement—a cushier pad with a fake-fur zip-off cover (she LOVES fake fur) and she has avoided her crate since. 🙃
Show me your menorahs tonight! ❤️ I always love @erinbiba.bsky.social ‘s menorah threads. Moar menorahs! Moar nights!
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Show me your menorahs tonight! ❤️ I always love @erinbiba.bsky.social ‘s menorah threads. Moar menorahs! Moar nights!
What’s for dinner at your place? Today, we had scallion oil halibut with fresh crusty bread (to dredge in the oil!) and roasted Brussels sprouts. Nice to have a vehicle for oil that isn’t deep fried 😂
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
What’s for dinner at your place? Today, we had scallion oil halibut with fresh crusty bread (to dredge in the oil!) and roasted Brussels sprouts. Nice to have a vehicle for oil that isn’t deep fried 😂
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Vance literally blaming antisemitism on rootless cosmopolitans
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Vance literally blaming antisemitism on rootless cosmopolitans
Some posts to report/users to block. 😵💫
Bsky has had a dramatic upswing in open Islamophobia and antisemitism this weekend. It’s awful, awful.
Bsky has had a dramatic upswing in open Islamophobia and antisemitism this weekend. It’s awful, awful.
Bluesky: Where You Can Be As Fucking Islamophobic As You Want And We Won’t Take Your Post Down Or Remove Your Account
What’s the fucking difference between Bluesky and Twitter??
What’s the fucking difference between Bluesky and Twitter??
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Some posts to report/users to block. 😵💫
Bsky has had a dramatic upswing in open Islamophobia and antisemitism this weekend. It’s awful, awful.
Bsky has had a dramatic upswing in open Islamophobia and antisemitism this weekend. It’s awful, awful.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
YIKES
Dear god. If you live in Tukwila, Renton, Kent or Auburn WA in the valley, a levee just broke. 40k are on GO NOW orders. Please share and get ahold of your people. This is terrifying. www.kiro7.com/news/local/l...
Levee on Green River fails in Tukwila; get to higher ground immediately
A levee has failed on the Green River, and people who are in low-lying areas of Kent, Renton, and Tukwila should move to higher ground immediately.
www.kiro7.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
YIKES
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Wrong Person Dies Again: tinyurl.com/5afdfp9x
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Wrong Person Dies Again: tinyurl.com/5afdfp9x
Haha yesss may all their schemes come to dust.
For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
Jared Kushner’s Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law has sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Haha yesss may all their schemes come to dust.
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He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
Grateful for abortion drugs today. Had a post-minor-surgery uterus clot causing lots of bleeding and instead of ANOTHER surgery, I got to take meds also used for abortions and get rid of the clot with some cramping at home. Much safer and easier.
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Grateful for abortion drugs today. Had a post-minor-surgery uterus clot causing lots of bleeding and instead of ANOTHER surgery, I got to take meds also used for abortions and get rid of the clot with some cramping at home. Much safer and easier.
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It's the last day to sign up for ACA health insurance. I know there's uncertainty, but you can always sign up and cancel; you can't not sign up and decide to later (without a qualifying event).
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's the last day to sign up for ACA health insurance. I know there's uncertainty, but you can always sign up and cancel; you can't not sign up and decide to later (without a qualifying event).
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shows off some colorful, Hanukkah socks on the International Space Station on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 22, 2019.
January 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shows off some colorful, Hanukkah socks on the International Space Station on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 22, 2019.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
Hanukkah sameach, loves.
God I love this poem. It is gorgeous and angry and life-affirming. a perfect reflection after a weekend of protests.
![[second page of poem]
not the gods who teach us all that comes
from dirt returns to it holy—
the holiest word i know is no.
no more money for the endless
throat of money. no more
syllogisms that permission
endless suffering. no more.
and on the eighth day of a holiday
meant to represent a people
fighting occupation my teachers
who stretch a drop of oil into a week
of light take each other's arms
across eight bridges of this settler colony
singing prayers older than any country
as the chevron burns in the distance.
o stilted vernacular of life—
o pedagogs of the godly pausing—
what mycelia spreads its speaking
limbs beneath the floors of our cities.
the only holy land i know
is where life is. in the story
i was taught alongside my first
language it takes god six days
to make the terrible world
and on seventh day he rested
and on the eighth we blocked traffic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gemibcrbznvsjnysicxvww6p/bafkreigfas4hcs7davfywim2hba76nnz3edhnlqimpgsden4hnsztrscce@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hanukkah sameach, loves.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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full toon (from Jan 25)
![Elderly lady: Electric scooters should be illegal
Man on scooter: Well they're not
EL: I don't like your pants
Guy on street: So what, deal with it
EL: [at neighborhood mtg, into mic] We should get to decide what other people do with their property
Concerned neighbors: "Great point! She's right! Hear hear](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreigikh2cyh3nryt6egt27k2g4tjgkggrey5lig6pd5usxf5rogm24e@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
full toon (from Jan 25)
And I am once again asking John Podesta to fuck off into the sun.
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
And I am once again asking John Podesta to fuck off into the sun.
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We honor the bravery of Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander who risked his life to protect those under fire. The lesson, yet again, is all too clear: Our safety is bound up together.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We honor the bravery of Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander who risked his life to protect those under fire. The lesson, yet again, is all too clear: Our safety is bound up together.