Mélissa MK (they/them)
@techlissa.bsky.social
👩💻Social justice x tech
🔎History of Tech, tech & society,
AI regulation
🧗♀️Very often off social media
If you miss me, listen to my podcast
🎧 Activists of Tech: rss.com/podcasts/activistsoftech
🔎History of Tech, tech & society,
AI regulation
🧗♀️Very often off social media
If you miss me, listen to my podcast
🎧 Activists of Tech: rss.com/podcasts/activistsoftech
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It's giving phrenology, who paid for this study? 😭
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It's giving phrenology, who paid for this study? 😭
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
But then how would they put these bought/rented buildings as an expense and pay even less taxes based on that while maintaining the image of an ever growing company and inflating their stock value? ;( and what would these empty spaces be used for? Downtown affordable housing? Madness.
If corporations didn’t own office buildings they’d be the first arguing for people to work from home.
“Why should we buy a place for you to work when you can work from home??”
“Why should we buy a place for you to work when you can work from home??”
August 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
But then how would they put these bought/rented buildings as an expense and pay even less taxes based on that while maintaining the image of an ever growing company and inflating their stock value? ;( and what would these empty spaces be used for? Downtown affordable housing? Madness.
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Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech
August 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech
Scenarios in which it is ok to recline your seat on a plane:
1) there is nobody behind you
2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps
1) there is nobody behind you
2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps
May 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Scenarios in which it is ok to recline your seat on a plane:
1) there is nobody behind you
2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps
1) there is nobody behind you
2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
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A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
www.idahostatesman.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
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Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.
JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion – AsAmNews
The accomplishments of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat unit and the 100th Infantry Battalion have been removed from the Army's website.
asamnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
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Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
Trump: "The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that's the purpose of it. And they've done a good job of it. But now I'm president."
February 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs
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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
I'm still processing what is unfolding in the U.S, part of me perfectly understands what's going on while the other is in denial
February 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm still processing what is unfolding in the U.S, part of me perfectly understands what's going on while the other is in denial
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives.
Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!
Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.
Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!
Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.
February 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives.
Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!
Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.
Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!
Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.
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It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷♂️
February 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷♂️
Every day I wake up thinking it cannot be worse than yesterday for the US and I'm wrong. I should just read more about nazi Germany to memorize the patterns of "governance", that may help with the daily shock and disbelief
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Every day I wake up thinking it cannot be worse than yesterday for the US and I'm wrong. I should just read more about nazi Germany to memorize the patterns of "governance", that may help with the daily shock and disbelief
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So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.
So glad to have found out that I'm not the only one adding "Elon Musk attempts a coup" to my 2025 bingo card. I am not /that/ insane.
February 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So glad to have found out that I'm not the only one adding "Elon Musk attempts a coup" to my 2025 bingo card. I am not /that/ insane.
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Not ICE checking IDs of Native Americans. Native. Americans. NATIVE. AS IN INDIGENOUS TO THE REGION. I just
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not ICE checking IDs of Native Americans. Native. Americans. NATIVE. AS IN INDIGENOUS TO THE REGION. I just