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melissanyc.bsky.social
UX Researcher in Big Tech, erstwhile librarian, diving into collapse informatics/disaster research, esp. how volunteer groups use tech during the emergency lifecycle. Views my own. Also into ✒️s, 📷, 🎨, & writing. Texas Gulf Coast ex-pat loving NYC. 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽
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I talked to @npr.org about SINNERS today! On horror and healing. How 'Sinners' fits into the Black horror genre one.npr.org/i/wburwp-101...

Hear me out- Ugly by Trindad James is just Pretty Hurts for boys. youtu.be/FC3qE1kq3AM?...

It's really unfair to compare Elon Musk and David Koresh because Koresh actually read books to his kids.

“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Venn diagram between prosperity gospel evangelists and people celebrating the immense cruelty of forced deportations is a circle.

I've come to realize that my love for tiny things extends to tiny stickers for my hobonichi, but where and how does one store them all? I'm at a loss.

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.

If you could benefit from a writing coach, I would especially love to support BIPOC (& particularly BIPOC LGBTQIA+ disabled) folx & I am even willing to take this selfie with my latest hard cover anthology, if it helps get the word out! Please please please share this post widely, if able to help! 🙏🏾

If the Naomi be Klein, you’re doing fine! But if the Ezra be Klein- it’s a bad sign.

Bugs bunny meme wishing elon a very lowtax speedrun

Seems like the sort of thing you'd want if you had any real intention of colonizing another planet.

How I feel about writing, and poetry especially

Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true. One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.

Wanting power over others should be an immediate disqualifier to recieving power over others, and the current administration is proof.

If you're wondering why they are increasingly referring to protestors as violent criminals...

Has anyone been to a Taco Bell drive-thru lately and could tell me what greeting they used? It's for a writing thing.

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

Is Canadian fentanyl the new “weapons of mass destruction”?

It’s never a bad day to tap the @meganhunt.bsky.social sign either

I hope like hell that one day “Camp Justice” will be seen as just as insidious as “work sets you free”.