Julie Salley

If I were a believer, this would definitely be one of those “Jesus take the wheel” moments.

I saw a comment on .. somewhere where a person referred to people who love AI as “botlickers” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it

It will always baffle me that we can’t even agree that stockpiling data on the movements of millions of people in this state without their consent is a violation of Californians’ constitutional right to privacy, especially at this particularly dangerous moment in time.

Years Ago, Black Feminists Worked Together to Unmask Twitter Trolls Posing as Women of Color. If Only More People Paid Attention. The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”

The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming

Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention.

(Context for #EndFathersDay)

Getting people in my comments saying, oh you do have to learn how to work with a chatbot effectively. Whatever brain genius skills you believe you’ve mastered, I guarantee you that students aren’t learning them by clicking “summarize” on a PDF +

No one gave a shit if a gay man was lonely navigating a homophobic society. No one gave a shit if a woman was lonely in an abusive marriage. No one ever gave a shit if the Black kid in a white school was lonely.

But we all need to care about straight white men being lonely.

Miss me with this bs.

Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.

Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze:
Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services. 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

For those looking for ways to find information or resources related to the Los Angeles fires. As someone who lost her childhood home to these fires, my heart is broken but Altadenans are a resilient bunch. Love to you all.

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Here’s a New Year's resolution for Trump’s America: no snitching | Hamilton Nolan Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’

Sounds like the perfect resolution to me. . . 🤫

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My mother - all the time.