Alice D. Einander
@alicedurcheinander.bsky.social
Infovore, neurovore, disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Proof of cat provided upon demand or provocation. She/hers/elle.
Pinned
In the morning, the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the aftermath […] which bore some relation to the smell of bitten apples. It was the smell of death and destruction, and it smelled fresh and lively and hopeful. (A.S. Byatt, Possession)
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"They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." 🔥
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." 🔥
so much hoping that
humans can be good, at least sometimes (we can do it!)
humans can be good, at least sometimes (we can do it!)
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
so much hoping that
humans can be good, at least sometimes (we can do it!)
humans can be good, at least sometimes (we can do it!)
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'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block reut.rs/4qDiyGV
'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block
The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.
reut.rs
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block reut.rs/4qDiyGV
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
just a long-time follower, but yes, I see you!
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
just a long-time follower, but yes, I see you!
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Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
“‘You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.’”
“‘You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.’”
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
“‘You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.’”
“‘You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.’”
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Good news from Chicago! Rivers can be cleaned up, and are being cleaned up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years
Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Good news from Chicago! Rivers can be cleaned up, and are being cleaned up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
share.google
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
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That’s neat
Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
share.google
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
That’s neat
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This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.
September 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.
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Liking the same shit as someone else is the basis of friendship. Pretending to like the same shit as someone else is the basis of manners. Pretending to like the same shit someone else is pretending to like as an excuse for hating the same people as someone else is the basis of politics.
September 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Liking the same shit as someone else is the basis of friendship. Pretending to like the same shit as someone else is the basis of manners. Pretending to like the same shit someone else is pretending to like as an excuse for hating the same people as someone else is the basis of politics.
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I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
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It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
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Cat poem and cat drawing and my cat Bjork
August 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Cat poem and cat drawing and my cat Bjork
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Ottawa threatens Mohawks with third-party management if they don’t resolve the cancelled election crisis by Wednesday at noon.
One legal expert argues that could be illegal. Our story:
therover.ca/ottawa-impos...
One legal expert argues that could be illegal. Our story:
therover.ca/ottawa-impos...
Ottawa Imposes Hard Deadline for Mohawks to Resolve Political Crisis – The Rover
Minister threatens third-party management of Kanesatake, setting the stage for a battle in federal court
therover.ca
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ottawa threatens Mohawks with third-party management if they don’t resolve the cancelled election crisis by Wednesday at noon.
One legal expert argues that could be illegal. Our story:
therover.ca/ottawa-impos...
One legal expert argues that could be illegal. Our story:
therover.ca/ottawa-impos...
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This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.
“Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office”
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
The university also is pausing a scholarship program which honors its first Black female graduate, Sadie T.M. Alexander.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Ph.D was the 3rd profile in my dissertation. She was on the AME's National Affairs Post War Cmtte making demands of Roosevelt-1944;appointed to Truman's Cmtte on Civil Rights-1946 & Carter as chair of WH Conf on Aging-1979 had the appointment withdrawn by Reagan's HHS
This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.
“Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office”
August 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Ph.D was the 3rd profile in my dissertation. She was on the AME's National Affairs Post War Cmtte making demands of Roosevelt-1944;appointed to Truman's Cmtte on Civil Rights-1946 & Carter as chair of WH Conf on Aging-1979 had the appointment withdrawn by Reagan's HHS
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Mostly small stations in rural areas that are news deserts; residents rely on them for local news, emergency warnings (radio works even when cell service doesn't). Mostly in Alaska or serving tribal communities. There are stations in CO, WV, NM, and AZ. One station lost 97% of its budget.
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Mostly small stations in rural areas that are news deserts; residents rely on them for local news, emergency warnings (radio works even when cell service doesn't). Mostly in Alaska or serving tribal communities. There are stations in CO, WV, NM, and AZ. One station lost 97% of its budget.
thank you, @rincewind.run , I forgot that to achieve the perfectly inflected anger of Esme, I need to deal with my Sam ( in other words, I’m re-reading my first Pratchett…Jingo)
July 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
thank you, @rincewind.run , I forgot that to achieve the perfectly inflected anger of Esme, I need to deal with my Sam ( in other words, I’m re-reading my first Pratchett…Jingo)
@bcdreyer.social this is not an urgent request. I have got myself to the point where I think I can watch Cabaret without disturbing my neighbours. Movie, play video (and if so, which one) or no, you will be anti-social
July 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
@bcdreyer.social this is not an urgent request. I have got myself to the point where I think I can watch Cabaret without disturbing my neighbours. Movie, play video (and if so, which one) or no, you will be anti-social
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I saw this last year in Germany, explaining how much goes into an urban tree. Blew my mind a little bit!
July 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I saw this last year in Germany, explaining how much goes into an urban tree. Blew my mind a little bit!
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...