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Em, midly

@lefttheprairie.bsky.social

Emily Chicago, IL she/her emidly.08 on Signal

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It was a throwaway moment in a presentation on why AI is sexist but damn

05.03.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine a country without a rampant gun culture

05.03.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m listening to a presentation from the UK and the presenter referred to bulletproof vests as β€œstab vests”

05.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

My anger is definitely in the ICE hauling my neighbors’ babies off to concentration camps register, which is the highest it can go.

I think there are some atrocities perpetrated by the US government that there simply aren’t words or concepts for.

05.03.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty over having a mad king, I have to say

05.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll have to watch that next

05.03.2026 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Netflix one, Come Hell and High Water

05.03.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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1997 Red River flood in the United States - Wikipedia

This was my context for flooding at the time, so it took awhile to absorb the reason New Orleans was left to fend for itself and Grand Forks was given resources and support

05.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the folks in power realized what they could get away with

05.03.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I was just starting to realize that all the stuff they did competently in Grand Forks in β€˜97 wasn’t offered to New Orleans and the reason was not just scale

05.03.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god. I wish I had the fucking sense to pay attention at the time, but I wasn’t really living in the wider world yet, just going to college in a town that had experienced its own devastating flood a few years prior

05.03.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can really see everybody in a position of power just abdicated all duty of care for the people of New Orleans before the hurricane even made landfall

05.03.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Black folks really were always living in the reality the rest of us are waking up to now

05.03.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and I knew I wasn’t angry enough but I didn’t realize

05.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

This is just like our conservative D Senate candidate in IL making a point to say he opposes β€œTrump’s DHS”

04.03.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw! Your Goose looks so much like Catimir ❀️

04.03.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Millennium Challenge 2002 - Wikipedia

reading about Iran depleting expensive missile defense systems with cheap drones and remembering the time America did war games and Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper was winning by using massed cheap attacks so they changed the rules to get the outcome they wanted

lol

04.03.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8

Kristi turned the entire upper Midwest into freedom fighters and Pete felt left out

04.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Email whistlerequests@proton.me! They’re completely free!

04.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I’d like to go back all the way, because I think Manifest Destiny is still rattling around in there somewhere

03.03.2026 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It didn’t speak to me, but I’m sure it’s right for some cat!

03.03.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mishu, but they just named him last week, so he’s not attached.

03.03.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly!!

03.03.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I’m leaning toward Goose today.

03.03.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been so bad lately!!!

03.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Americans’ pathological need to turn systemic failings into individual choices, then to boil all individual choices down to intent, ignoring impact

03.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as β€œthe middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

03.03.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2222    πŸ” 441    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 13

Maybe it’s just Banana Wars all the way down

03.03.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess the other question is whether post-9/11 is really a different flavor of β€œyes, blood for oil” than Gulf War I or our Cold War era fucking around. You can kind of read it as a sequel/β€œnow it’s personal” but maybe it’s all the same old empire

03.03.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up Lutheran so we focused a little more on the β€œlove thy neighbor” parts of the Bible than the end times shit of questionable provenance.

I remember reading Revelations and being super disappointed that it didn’t quite live up to the drama culture imbued it with.

03.03.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0