Mélissa MK (they/them)

don't make me tap the sign meme you can't change liberals

It's giving phrenology, who paid for this study? 😭

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

What blows my mind is that we are asking to *wear a mask indoors*, not to go to a 45 minutes session of crossfit. How is that too hard for some people?? The lack of care over personal comfort & vanity made me cut MANY people from my life tbh.

This, 200%.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

But then how would they put these bought/rented buildings as an expense and pay even less taxes based on that while maintaining the image of an ever growing company and inflating their stock value? ;( and what would these empty spaces be used for? Downtown affordable housing? Madness.

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Scenarios in which it is ok to recline your seat on a plane:
1) there is nobody behind you
2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps

Roses are red
Violets are blue

West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion – AsAmNews The accomplishments of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat unit and the 100th Infantry Battalion have been removed from the Army's website.

Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.

"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

I'm still processing what is unfolding in the U.S, part of me perfectly understands what's going on while the other is in denial

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social the secret messages things sounds like a case of erotomania my god

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives.

Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!

Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

Every day I wake up thinking it cannot be worse than yesterday for the US and I'm wrong. I should just read more about nazi Germany to memorize the patterns of "governance", that may help with the daily shock and disbelief

So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.

So glad to have found out that I'm not the only one adding "Elon Musk attempts a coup" to my 2025 bingo card. I am not /that/ insane.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Not ICE checking IDs of Native Americans. Native. Americans. NATIVE. AS IN INDIGENOUS TO THE REGION. I just

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.