Nicole Holliday

I think this album is her weakest and I’ll never forgive her for making me listen to Wood. Also, I want some justice for Charli…at 35, punching down on someone less famous is a bad look.

This may be the boldest opinion I’ve ever posted on the internet, please don’t cancel me.

Exhorting children and then threatening their parents with violence is surely pro-family policy, right? 😡

During my 10-mile run today in DC, I counted over 30 National Guard members. Not one of them seemed to be doing anything other than standing around and making the citizens feel like we live in occupied territory. Just a reminder that this is not, and should never be normal.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Awesome, so if universities “proactively” agree to sell out their students, staff, faculty, and academic freedom, the administration will let them keep money that has already been appropriated. And shame specifically on UT for the proactive boot-licking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

A photo of Jane Goodall, in her later days with a quote from her: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other."

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

A colleague shared that a recent poll of UC students in DC showed 23% of them saying they'd be excited to vote for AOC as president in 2028. This is exactly why, and it's the type of compassionate leadership that I hope people demand in the future.

So excited to see this research! My students just learned the word “sycophantic” today, for exactly this reason! We talked about the types and qualities of conversations you can have with a sycophant, and why this matters for how we process the output of LLMs.

Imagine telling a black, female professor who lives in Los Angeles that the government isn’t out to get them when it has explicitly promised to do so. Bye, troll.

I live in Pasadena, where ICE has certainly terrorized people. But it pails in comparison to DTLA, where they’ve been tear gassing journalists.

This is only compounded by the fact that pretty much all speech and visual “AI” systems dramatically underperform for minoritized populations due to smaller training data, poor model assumptions, and the fact that tech companies DGAF about black people.

Also, I’m a former census bureau employee and I have a Ph.D. in a field where I both do and teach quantitative research. But no amount of qualifications will ever be enough for these folks, especially not when I look like this.

Love to be treated this way online on a post whose point was that the president has threatened war on millions of Americans (including me). And what was his issue? I used city populations instead of MSA numbers when talking about how many people Trump declared war on. Some of y’all are exhausting.

Literally, I told you that I used city populations from the U.S. Census bureau. You used MSA numbers. My stats aren’t sloppy, you’re just being mean, and totally missing the point at the same time.

Podcasts! I like Atlas Obscura and 99% Invisible for late evening!

Yes the MSAs are obviously much bigger, I should’ve specified city pop but I forgot that Bluesky is pedantic.

I went by city limits, not MSA, but you’re correct that many, many more people would be impacted. I live in the LA metro, I’m very aware.

If the Dems concede, lots of people lose their healthcare. If they don't, lots of people lose their healthcare. So why in the world would they not at least try to fight at this point?

Unbelievably racist video, but of the 30 seconds, about half of it is claiming that Latinos (not specifically immigrants, even) are "too stupid" to speak English. English-only and English-superiority narratives are a bedrock of this regime's racism. They know nothing about how language works.

Of course the 100% tariff on pharmaceuticals was a grift. It's always a grift to put more money in his pockets.

Hegseth uses rare meeting of generals to announce new military standards He warned commanders who don’t support the changes could leave the service.

He lied to Congress when he said he didn't oppose women in the military. Indict him.
"The new rules will put in place the “highest male standard” for fitness in combat roles, he said, which are “gender neutral.”But he acknowledged women may not be able to meet them" www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The president has *literally* declared war on over 16 million people, including everyone in our 3 largest cities/commercial centers. That's it, that's the post.

Mr. Wendel by Arrested Development is what radicalized me about housing policy as a child :)

I hate talking about “woke” despite possibly being the world’s leading expert on it. But it’s telling that a term created by black people to remind people not to take rights for granted, became pejora... TikTok video by Nicole Holliday

I talked a little more about woke over on TikTok, with a shout out to the post by @judah-grunstein.bsky.social. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SKaKrd/

A grad student came to an undergrad class outside of his field specifically to agitate, a university committee found no wrongdoing, and no one has even heard the (possibly illegal) surreptitious recordings that constitute the “evidence”.

This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.

I’m also hoping this sticks, so I’ll be watching it for word of the year! Defined as “being unlawfully detained due to racial profiling authorized by the Supreme Court” bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

“Stay woke” was always used by black people to implore each other to be aware of our history and our rights, because our freedom has always been tenuous here. Judah is spot on about how its perversion in the mainstream is a spot on representation of our current moment.

Stood outside a building in DC on the phone for 30 minutes yesterday evening…I saw 4 groups of National Guard (they always travel in 3s). Every time, I walked around the block because I was afraid of being harassed for standing outside. Reminder that this is not normal, we can’t get used to it!

I started at Berkeley last year, and I honestly terrified. I still think it’s one of the best places to be in the country, but that’s not saying much.

Black women and others said SO MANY TIMES that this would happen, and no one believed us. We know because we study history and we know how we’ve been treated. I’m not hopeful that more people will listen next time, but let’s take this as one more cautionary tale.

Yeah, we don’t teach them to speak/use it, rather about the history and culture…but authoritarians really don’t like when you teach about the history of oppression…that’s why Trump keeps targeting universities as well as things like the Smithsonian.