Alexa Woodward

Brings back my NYC memories. Roller skating in the Halloween parade with my Penington Friends House roommates. What a great chapter. New York is a be-ing.

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”

We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

This.

What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine

There really are two American internets now. @matteowong.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

so many people tweeting "how are 40 million Americans on food stamps"

the supplemental poverty rate is ~12% and there are ~350 million people here, do the math

why does nobody google even the most basic facts about reality man

Yeah.

😅 somebody call RFK Jr with this breaking study

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Some new pieces are up in my weird #pottery shop! Unimpressed unicorn cats, merhorses, etc. critterceramics.etsy.com

These people show us what has been festering in the US, Klan or Neo-Nazi, or a sick American hybrid of both.

Safeguard Incarcerated Journalists Defending press freedom for the next generation

ICE isn’t the secret police, and the private detention centers it contracts with to hold tens of thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests.

Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

Updating my LEGO White House

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

“A wild, very ‘polite’ and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern California zoo.”

can't wait for Mike Johnson to come out tomorrow and say he hasn't seen the pictures of the white house and doesn't know a thing about it

‘Craftivism’ draws knitters, crocheters to Portland ICE protests Protesters can now get free crochet lessons outside the ICE building.

Protesters can now get free crochet lessons outside the ICE building.

Mike Johnson sure “doesn’t know” about a lot of things these days.

Congratulations (to us) for making a Valencian-approved paella 🥘 under suboptimal (regular) stove top conditions in honor of our excellent cohort of visiting PhD scholars from Spain:

Natasha Lyonne Asks AI Leaders: "Whatever Happened to Being Cool?" YouTube video by TIME

Comedians are heroes in the dark. Well said Natasha Lyon. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

“My role in the group chat in question was a procedural one about bylaws and floor strategy. There were often periods of multiple days when I didn't check this group chat and I was unfortunately unaware of those comments,” Douglass said in a written statement sent to Vermont Public Wednesday afternoon. “I should've been more vigilant, more careful, and less naive about who I associate with and my digital environments.”

The Vermont state senator in the Hitler chat group is playing the, "I am but an innocent smol bean" card.

Samuel Douglass hasn't decided yet if he'll resign: www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

“Bring respect back”
Thanks @jelaniya.bsky.social
This insidious racism and normalization of neo-nazi beliefs - indeed the popularization of these sick ways of viewing other human beings- needs to be condemned. White people in particular need to outspokenly call out and condemn it.

YouTube video by Alexa Woodward Elephant

here's an old song I wrote :) The ratio of fulfillment is to create more than we consume: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8u...

Students and faculty standing outside for a group picture on a fall day in Vermont

It’s fall in Vermont and here we are with @uvmvermont.bsky.social president Dr. Marlene Tromp for the annual social on the green 🍁🍂

New paper dropped!

Led by @thosvarley.bsky.social and Pai Vaibhav, we show that flows of information within a #xenobot resemble flows of information observed in adult human brains.

Thomas provides caveats and context below.

w/ @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Caitlin Grasso, & Jeantine Lunshof.