Victoria Marinelli

NOOOOO

I have missed you! Especially when I listen to Midnights. (I fell in love with “Antihero” from your Instagram post about it, before I even heard the song.)

We were in differently snowy M-states, but still kinda like we were hanging out

I have missed you!

Oh god. I’ve missed you dude.

If you were part of my OG Twitter fam, I love you. Even if I’m rarely here to say so, I do. 🥰

Things are just… a LOT right now.

I’m intermittently here, and elsewhere:

linktr.ee/vmarinelli

Also O’ahu F/friends: I’ll be in Honolulu 2/23–3/16 to help care for Ma, hit me up if you want to hang 🌺

*remembers that MN has some of the worst racial equity gaps in the country*

Anyway, the official GFMs are in the thread

The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...

Incisive, well-sourced reporting from @esqueer.net; highly recommend reading in full.

I will never understand fascists’ limitless capacities for cruelty, while my own heart is full to bursting with horror and despair.

For as long as I live. 💔

American Society of Hematology, I get why your journal is called “Blood,” but as a phrase, “RESULTS OF CLINICAL STUDIES PUBLISHED IN BLOOD” is… concerning.🩸

Thoughts, @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
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Two posters with all-caps black lettering on a white background, with blue bands at top where each says “NOTICE,” attached to a metallic structure which I’m guessing involves some municipal utility, in the pedestrian / bike area at the turnoff from Naito Parkway onto Hawthorne Bridge. Over a layer of faded, now indecipherable graffiti, the top poster reads “NOTICE: YOU’RE NEVER ALONE, SWEETIE,” while the bottom poster reads, “NOTICE: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS.”

✨NOTICE✨

(@ Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, Oregon)

Netanyahu is under criminal indictment in Israel and facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza.

Trump is a convicted felon who has spent years trying to stay in power to avoid jail time.

How many lives will be lost so two men can keep living above the law?

My daughter Mariarosa supporting my mother Suzanne in taking her first steps, following her earlier stroke in ICU, at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.

And finally, here’s a longer, explanatory IG post re: my firstborn’s rising to the challenge of caring for her grandma, and challenges that’s presented (for instance, she can’t take paid FMLA leave because my Ma isn’t her first-degree relative). So grateful for her 🙏
www.instagram.com/p/DLJjpJPu5eW/

CaringBridge Help ensure no one goes through a health journey alone.

Here, too, is her CaringBridge page, documenting how far she’s come, even if she still faces a long road to recovery: www.caringbridge.org/site/41e7623...

Donate to Help Suzanne Get Home!, organized by Maria Marinelli Over the last month, many kind and generous people have asked how they can support Suzanne Mari… Maria Marinelli needs your support for Help Suzanne Get Home!

Friends: Last month while visiting family in RVA, my mother was hospitalized for injuries after a fall, and subsequently suffered a stroke. Slowly but surely, though, she’s recovering! ❤️‍🩹 If you’d like to join the effort to support her healing (and ultimately help her to get home), here’s the link! 🙏

During early boarding, flight attendant needing to get by me, carrying ice bucket for galley: “So sorry.”

Me: “Long as that’s the only ‘ice’ allowed on board, no problem!”

(a beat, then grim chuckle ensued)

Screenshot of post from Threads (I KNOW Meta is evil, but dammit, sometimes a girl needs more forgiving character limits), reading as follows: Greetings! Although I’d rather drown myself in a prison toilet than date again,⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ I’m still every bit the sapphic-leaning, variously butch and femme-presenting, bisexual and queer woman I’ve been since I came out in 1989 at the age of 18. 🏳️‍🌈 💃 So HAPPY FUCKIN’ PRIDE to all my LGBTQIA+ friends and fam in the fight. You are precious. 🫶 _____________ ⁽¹⁾ probably (😂) ⁽²⁾ dudes, anyway (🤢)

Happy Fuckin’ Pride!

APPLAUSE! 👏👏

Best no-context theatre I’ve encountered in recent memory. Zero idea what’s going on, but I feel the need to publicly applaud 👏

YouTube video by Muslim Central Guernica, Spain in Solidarity 🇪🇸🇵🇸

Missed this when it happened last year, but it’s SO powerful. The people of Guernica (in Basque, “Gernika”) in mass protest of the genocide in Gaza: youtu.be/RB2fJUGa5HU

What a loss for this city, state, and country. Wishing her and her mom a safe landing in B.C., and supportive community in which to recover from this needless cruelty.

Screenshot of a tweet from X user Azad / username @PDDOPN dated May 25, 2025, reading: “I just got a refund from a gaza gofundme because the entire family is dead…”

💔

The only good news I read today 👏👏

The unimaginable, sickening, enraging, and relentless horror

YouTube video by Utopia Pavements | Official Trailer | Utopia

Trailer: youtu.be/UvR4aihyRXQ

Screenshot showing times playing for limited theatrical release at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon for the film, “Pavements.”

@upright.bsky.social I should go to this, right? (It looks bonkers)

America’s brain drain will take one of two forms: dedicated scientists and academics uprooting their lives or staying here to work in finance or tech. Either way we’re about to lose a generation of scientific progress.

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Sound advice!

Rest In Power Virginia Giuffre.

I’m not okay. 💔😭

I was in a generous mood 🤣