Sydnie Dan'el Mares

Breaking Down Family Policing Copaganda in the New 'Lilo & Stitch' - upEND Movement by Sydnie Dan’el Mares  Disney’s latest live-action remake, Lilo and Stitch (2025) grossed $341 million in its opening weekend at the box office. Set in Hawai’i, against the backdrop of violent family...

NEW BLOG POST: Breaking Down Family Policing Copaganda in the New ‘Lilo & Stitch’ - by @upendmovement.org’s Communications Manager @syddanel.com 🎬

upendmovement.org/2025/06/09/b...

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New chronic illness just dropped, 4 months before my 30th birthday. So this next decade will look a little different than I thought. ✨

"We need a shared recognition that we are all suffering in wholly preventable, manufactured ways–and that corporations and billionaires are our collective enemies."

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YouTube video by 60 Minutes Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.

Brian Eno on AI:

“For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.”

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Awesome selection of free ebooks plus they’re doing a great sale on paper/hardbacks for holiday gifts!

Slide describing who is eligible, and he hospitality employee 35 or older. Where the event is happening, tacos a go go 3401 WTC jester. And when, register at the link I provided by November 26th, mammogram day is December 2nd.

Exterior shot of the mammogram bus

Houston area folks: It's time for the IHWSH mammogram bus. FREE to anyone 35+ who works in food & beverage in any capacity. Preventative care is self care. 💜
www.illhavewhatsheshaving.org/12224mammogr...

Odessa, Texas has voted to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law that applies to PRIVATE bathrooms.

This means even in queer spaces.

If a cisgender person encounters a transgender person, they can sue them for $10,000 or more.

This is the first law of its kind in the nation.

You know what is a top tier feeling???

LAYING DOWN!!!

I'm thinking about starting a coat, but it's so many steps to commit to 😳😳

Texas’ order to ask hospital patients’ citizenship status renews focus on the state’s large uninsured population On Nov. 1, hospitals will begin asking patients their citizenship status. But data suggests uninsured citizens, not immigrants, cost Texas hospitals more.

Yeah, and we just had a rule implemented where medical staff have to ask everyone about their citizenship at hospitals
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UN Report: Israel’s Tactics in Gaza Are “Consistent With Genocide” Israel’s “unprecedented destruction” has deprived Palestinians of all conditions of life, the group found.

"A UN special committee has found that Israel’s tactics of starvation and mass civilian slaughter in Gaza are 'consistent with genocide,' in one of the strongest worded reports by a UN group yet on the Israeli siege."

My nonprofit is me, my best friend @biensur-jetaime.bsky.social, and 2 other people along with the lawyer and accounting firm we hired. We ALL have full time jobs and I run storage from my apartment.

We’re in 25 states & have served 10,300 women and girls in 4 years.

thurmanperryfoundation.org

And my memory is so bad, this is actually a necessity. If you ask me what my favorite movie is, I'll forget every movie I've ever watched. If you ask me what we should make for dinner this week, suddenly I've forgotten what a recipe is. There's so many notes apps out there but I love Notion.

I love the notion app, my whole life is on there. I just love lists.

I have a database for
- every movie I've ever watched
- articles I've read + saved
- recipes
- makeup shades I use
- family health records
- car records
- travel plans
- budget + savings calculator
- project plans

My debut novel THE EDUCATION OF KIA GREER is officially available for preorder! In honor of the occasion, I'll be sharing a blurb a day :) seeing kind words like these sprinkle in has been a shining highlight my year.

I cannot wait for y'all to meet Kia. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739902...

Collective Survival, Adaption and Direct Action Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.

I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.

Some of Substack’s Biggest Writers Rely On AI Writing Tools An analysis of Substack’s top newsletters estimated that around 10 percent publish AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

Exclusive: AI writing is commonplace in top Substack newsletters: www.wired.com/story/substa...

Yorkie dog wears a Hawaiian shirt with her chest hairs out

Taking this opportunity to share the Tom Selleck coded photo I have of my dog 😂😂

How We endUP - upEND Movement

Hi Ashley, I'm really curious about your thoughts on our work at upEND. (upendmovement.org/how-we-end-up/) We're working on a new collection of essays that will be published next year on non-carceral responses to harm. Your book helped me wrestle with some of these questions and I'm grateful. ❤️

Shoutout to the online yassification of Conclave for delivering me through this last week

I'm sorry for the person I will become when this comes out

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition a book by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, "What if abolition is some...

This is an excerpt (published in @truthout.bsky.social) from "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition," the new anthology I co-edited with Kim Wilson.

You can buy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/pare...