Vee Lawson

Boosting my own Feminist Connections ad with no shame--Anyone interested in a virtual writing group? 🧑🏼‍💻

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A rocky California coast with trees in the foreground. The colors are shifted to shades of orange and blue. The ocean is a peachy orange, and the rocks and trees are blue and teal.

Waves crashing on rocks. The ocean and sky are orange, and the rocks and shadows in the waves are blue.

A view of the coastline through tress. The water and sky are a muted orange, and the trees and land are shades of blue.

A view of trees on a coastline. The sky and water are orange, and the land is blue.

Point Lobos shot in LomoChrome Turquoise looks like it belongs in ST:TOS

A Judith Butler Apology Form From: Date: Reason For Behaviour: [] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s [] I never actually read their work [] I miss not thinking about gender [] I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender [] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag [] Mercury was in retrograde -- [] I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

Political Heterosexuality, or: The Tragedy of Feminism On the specter that is haunting feminism.

Today, I would like to present a deep dive into feminist history that got away from me.

Like, really got away from me.

It is about the futility of a politics of appeasement. It is about the unburial of a neglected feminist history. But most of all, it's about lesbian feminism, and sins unforgiven.

A pink English rose in a winter garden on a sunny day. A bee is crawling on the center of the flower.

Bringing some #bloomscrolling to the feed with this rose from the community #garden plot.

Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series (four books) is also excellent! It's more mature than Monk & Robot imo because it's set in a wider galaxy w/ various tensions and histories, but still gentle sci-fi and has her usual trans/nb rep. The third book is my favorite, but they're all great

Depends on if you're focusing on Christianity or multiple traditions, but Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@/theradr.bsky.social) & Cindy Milstein (@/cbmilstein.bsky.social) could be good people to add!

I cried a lot playing @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xResist so it's a complex kind of joy, but it was also an incredible game/narrative. I've genuinely never played anything like it

store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

@communalytic.org could probably do this

A dark green sweater sleeve with a cabled design.

One sleeve done, one to go! I've started listening to Critical Role S4, since it's basically all audio description. So far, Tyranny is my favorite

Today's goal: Finish the first sleeve on the cardigan, and make some good progress on the second sleeve before it gets too dark to see the almost-black "pine green" yarn I decided to use for this 🙃

Floating Floating is our very softest yarn made of alpaca, silk, cashmere, with each stitch, you feel as if you are floating on a cloud. With a generous 437 yards per skein, you can surely use it to create a s...

Third priority goes to the not-yet-started cabled scarf I want to make my brother out of this super gorgeous yarn from an East Bay lys

www.averbforkeepingwarm.com/products/flo...

Sophie Hood pattern by PetiteKnit The Sophie Hood is worked in one piece from tip to tip. It is worked flat, back and forth, in garter stitch with built-in i-cord edges. The hood is shaped using increases and decreases, and its back i...

Second priority goes to the Sophie Hood (so original, I know) that I decided to cast on last week for my sister. In better news, I'm about to the hood shaping, so it's about 40% done, and garter stitch is great tv knitting

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Sandstone Peak pattern by Irina Anikeeva If you purchase 5 patterns from my

Top priority goes to the Sandstone Peak cardigan I started for my mom <checks notes> 3 years ago. It still needs 1.3 sleeves + a collar, button band, and patch pockets 🥲

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Every year, I plan to knit holiday gifts for family and think "Surely this time I will have them all finished by November!"

but, it's one week before USPS's ship-by deadline, and here we are, so this is my knitting update thread haha

2025 Contingent Book List When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

a woman says " i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you " Alt: Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model says "I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you"

Every Lions fan watching this game rn

Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥

#NoContractNoCoffee

A brown and orange tabby cat naps in the sun, using a treat puzzle as a pillow.

Happy #Caturday! Here's Meep figuring out how to use her sister's treat puzzle

The Cal State Long Beach campus in Long Beach on April 24, 2024. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters. Hed:

California State University’s trustees will vote tomorrow on whether to increase how much the system’s 22 campus presidents and other senior executives earn. bit.ly/4oHbzv6

📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social
📸 Jules Hotz

This thread, and to be frank, it's interesting to see that posting figurative death threats is the hill so many leftist men are willing to [redacted] upon. See you all on fedsky, I guess

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When I worked for Starbucks full-time, I'd routinely get scheduled to close the store at 10pm then come back and open it at 5am. For a fun bonus, management would schedule full daytime shifts, then send us home halfway through to cut labor costs.

Starbucks workers deserve a fair contract.

Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.

Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface

www.404media.co/byte-magazin...

"At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?"

This looks so useful for #TeamRhetoric folks seeking to reframe our social media pedagogy!

so Grokipedia is really bad, in case anybody was wondering, but I'm going to just kind of quickly write a short thread about why. I'm going to focus on the article of neo-fascist William Luther Pierce, because I just published my MA thesis on him a few months ago.
Which Grokipedia cites.

a laptop with a picture of a kitten on it Alt: A cat is frantically "typing" on a laptop. An image of a kitten yelling is superimposed over the typing cat's face.

Me adding all the Grokipedia pages to the @waybackmachine.bsky.social archive for future research use

Last week, I wrote about Doublespeed, essentially a click farm that sells “synthetic influencers” to astroturf whatever product or service you want across social media, despite it being a clear violation of every social media platform's policy on inauthentic behavior. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. a16z’s Speedrun is also backing: Creed: An AI company “rooted in Christian Values” which produces Lenny, a “Bible-based AI buddy who's always got your back with wise words, scripture-inspired guidance, and a listening ear whenever you need it.” Zingroll: The “world’s largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform,” which is another way of saying it’s a Netflix populated exclusively with AI Slop. Vega: which is building “AI-powered social orbits.” What does that mean? Not entirely clear, but the company has produced one of the most beautiful Mad Libs paragraphs I’ve ever seen: “We’re building the largest textual data moat on human relationships by gamifying the way people leave notes for each other. For the first time, LLMs can analyze millions of raw, human-written notes at scale and turn them into structured meaning, powering the most annotated social graph ever created.” Moona Health: an AI-powered Sleep care app the company says is covered by insurance. “Our AI-powered platform automates insurance claims and scheduling and analyzes sleep data – providing personalized session guidelines to therapists,” Moona says. Jooba: “The world’s first autonomous recruiting firm.” Margin: “The World’s first AI powered credit card.” Margin says “Customers earn points, with dynamic rewards that adapt to their preferences in real time.” First Voyage: A wellness app that gives you AI “mythological pets that turn wellness into play.” Axon Capital: billed as “DeepMind for Finance,” Axon says it has “pioneered brain-inspired, low-latency AI for financial markets.”

This is so bleak:

www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...