Liz Botkin
@lizbotkin.bsky.social
Someone told me I could do anything I want, so I am. ๐ Activist, trainer, book nerd, polymath, angry civilized American. #fightthepower Ko-Fi.com/fivebees
created November 16, 2024
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Street Art Utopia (@streetartutopia.com) reposted
Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... ๐
bombaycrone.bsky.social (@bombaycrone.bsky.social) reposted
We must not let anyone forget what happens after, AFTER the 2026 midterms. H.R.1 will be in play the day after the results of the midterms come in. Make sure you vote for your own security and welfare.
butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
Mainstream Media isnโt reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Alright, engineer dude : How does AI make complex decisions with only binary decision making power? I'll wait. I started coding at 10 in 1993. :)
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Let it happen, set up shadow government institutions for continuity. He can defend himself poorly in international court once we start government 2.0 with a less white male founding document.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not. I'm a programmer and you're being sold snake oil.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
AI is an advanced web crawler with word frequency algorithms for chat. That's it.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Weโve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside itโand still have room left over.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
If you're bailing and have access to documents you can safely save, you should. TB external hard drives are cheap
Louise Fryer (@louisecfryer.bsky.social) reposted
Thank you to everyone who reposts my photo's, I really appreciate it ๐ค #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #seagulls #sky #scape #photographersofbluesky
orion (@toofarwest4comfort.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Keep your eyes on the real canary in the coal mine. If he doesnโt golf today or tomorrow, I suspect he has ceased to be didtrumpgolftoday.com
Pops (@pops131.bsky.social) reposted
The significant issue with their lack of understanding of government isn't legal; it's about the ability to eliminate waste. Without knowledge, attempts to improve efficiency are futile, akin to a chimpanzee attempting to repair a car engine. And I would trust the chimp.
David Combest (@decombest.bsky.social) reposted
Chicago keeping art alive:
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm glad you could find it! The ones I tried were absolutely useless ๐
Thank you!
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Darn. I'll see if a plant identifier can help since I'm not close by to be assertively awkward ๐๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Join my movement to deport them to gender segregated Siberian factory towns without internet access. They can get out with voluntary denazification and lifetime monitoring.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Record their names and addresses. We will help Justice balance her scales at the end of this.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm here for tea and horror movies to distract me from the live action one going on outside
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
What variety is this? ๐ฅฐ
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans hate the free market, that's why they screech so pathetically when the market rejects their monstrous ideas.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Hey friends! I'm a secret computer nerd and just want to let you know you should score a cheap 2TB+ external drive or make a private server for anything you want to save. Photos, videos, documents. Going analog (as much as you can) from here on out is a great idea
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
They have made society depressed with depressed wages and depressed freedom and a depressed junk economy -- they want to disarm you so you can't fix it.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
When we take down the coup
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Hard agree. Everyone should be blocking them on any platforms and shunning them in person; they're not good faith actors. They're enemy combatants trying to take over to kill everyone they don't like.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Iowa, I hate you less now. Love, Your Jealous Nebraskan Neighbor
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Reading is good for your mental health ๐ #rise
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ #catsofbluesky will also enjoy these pictures
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Mental health issues are going to intrude in more spaces with safety nets being nuked and poverty becoming abject. Buckle up, everyone ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
You may not want it but brain science says it's happening. After we fix that, then we can say it doesn't matter
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CAKE (@thebandcake.bsky.social) reposted
Ahem
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
If you want me to teach you basic research taught to 9th graders across the US since the 70s, you're going to need to Venmo my tutoring fee. I charge $75 to book the slot, and $75/hour. I paid for my education. ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Luncheon liberals can be mad at me every day for insisting we vote based on actions, not superficial lip service. I've been watching this train wreck since I woke up in the 1900s at 16. If you want justice and liberty, you must do your civic duty and not succumb to lazy voting. #abolishice
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
And I've never had to ask how to identify a credible source. ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not the one using AI as a source for data, because that would be truly asinine. AI is nothing more than an advanced web crawler being marketed by modern snake oil salesmen.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
He's asking so his gang of parrots will start insisting he can be the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
In Damascus tonight, mosques are calling out prayers to mark the 12th anniversary of the killing of 1,400 people in a Sarin nerve agent attack on Eastern Ghouta under the dictator Assad. Lots of bad stuff happening in the world, but Syria is a better place now itโs deposed the dictator. A lesson.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I have hyperlexia 3 and an English degree so... sure. โบ๏ธ
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you fail 9th grade English? :p
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I need their food. Some pundit promised me a taco truck on every corner in 2016 and I am still waiting
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
OR we could just end the War on Drugs and follow Portugal's lead. Pretty sure that'll work better since we haven't won any wars.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Mlem (join us on #catsofbluesky, cutie!)
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
AI gets fed data from ????. You're better off consulting a primary data aggregation source.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Good. I glow under UV lights and I think we've been a total scourge and our only only original-ish culture is bland cream sauces.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
๐ฏ You can't "get along" with violent, antisocial zombies without the stink following you. It's a decision to help them feel normal. Don't.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Social media engagement also has monetary value, so when you keep posting and reposting and engaging in mass histrionic, you're feeding the monster. But a monster with no audience is simply a weird creep in a corner. Take away the attention.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
What you're all missing is they know they're full of baloney. They bluster and create lingo and try to scoop up all the money they can, then they move on to another scam. Stop letting them fool you, stop using their products, stop commenting, stop reacting. Let them go broke.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Since he's topical today, here's your reminder to stop kneeling before false idols. No one has been that great or you wouldn't be in a fascist country. You can't kill people extrajudicially around the world then Shocked Pikachu when it lands back home. #fascism #weareone #rise
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, you can't fight it with strongly worded letters or reason. This is the only valid use of gerrymandering.
Bargdaffy (@bargdaffy.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
#BlueMAGADelusions: The Ds' aren't fighting Fascism, they are fighting for control over a System already steeped in Fascism, the Ds' are just as much Corporate Fascists as the Rs' are. The Ds' just have more "Joy" as they are stabbing the Working Class in the Back. #GeneralStrike
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
No one wants to talk about how Clinton, Obama, and Biden set us up for concentration camps. They want to pretend that illusion was real because it was -- for monied, able-bodied white people. Beware luncheon liberals. They are snakes.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
He killed more brown people than GW. No.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
The balls won't be real without a full purge of the board.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Good.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I can, but I grew up as a disabled child of Agent Orange in the 90s.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
Boycotts work. Also, make sure you remove tracking tags from web links before sharing. It's easy with this tool and will help harm profits : linkcleaner.app
White Rose Resistance (@whiteroseresistance.org) reposted
Crystal Frasier (@amazonchique.bsky.social) reposted
The key to modern American politics is that the Confederacy never went away. There was no punishment for their treason and it quietly became a Cold War. The states currently sending troops to DC have masturbated to the idea of their soldiers marching through DC streets for generations.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Danish Windmill Museum in the middle of the corn hole that is suddenly terrified of them share.google/ghq2OIy8DMNZ...
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
That's part of the system. You'll notice collision and drunk driver incidents don't pay out enough to replace your vehicle if you b survive, your stolen property rarely makes it back, etc unless you're in a certain tax bracket
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_b...
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, they absolutely add far more than necessary. But I think the chicken from a farm is better also because the industrial chickens have this genetic mutation now that makes the meat weird. You will get way more bang for your buck buying local + it will cook up normally
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Loudly proclaiming that you're functionally illiterate is exciting. No one is abusing drugs by using insulin for Type 1, nor are they abusing the GLP-1 protein by injecting it for Type 2 or other metabolic disease. That page is dumbed down for idiots. It's you.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
What hole do you live in?
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's your reminder that they can't operate these huge corps without us. AI is snake oil, it can't competently replace anything. It can only pass the Turing test -- which is not a sentience check.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
We've known weight is primarily hereditary and hormonal for a while. But that doesn't give the weight loss and fitness industry any money, nor does it preoccupy you with stress. ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
There was a study I learned about from that nice young lady scientist on TT/YT just yesterday. Tl;dr : If your mom experiences famine during early pregnancy, you and your children are more prone to metabolic diseases www.ohsu.edu/school-of-me...
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
You're uneducated. Grats. Go to school, become an obesity specialist in med school, and understand why this was dumb.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I see a bunch of war criminals and one reformed war criminal who spent his entire life trying to make up for what he did. Stop romanticizing the military industrial pawns/implementers of legislation Trump is using to make concentration camps.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
A country that hates Trump should offer them a permanent residency and a tiny home, otherwise they'll just be assassinated
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
C'mon. Do it. โบ๏ธ
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Offer them a picture with Darth Vader. ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
When people hear "You are the company you keep", they hear "Following this rich guy will make me rich!" instead of "Hanging out with scam artists makes you a bad person. And poor."
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I think we need to revive Bearshare or Kazaa. While I do enjoy preserving physical media in case they "archive" it forever, I don't have the physical space to store it all. What I do have is a 2TB hard drive.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Get chicken from a local farm, you'll be happier. You do need to make a brine to inject into the meat if you want to process and freeze it though, it helps preserve the texture
Harlowโs Musings (@harlowsmusings.bsky.social) reposted
So many latinos, what a shame. It's really disturbing to see so many POCS. What a bunch of disappointments. It is unbelievable to me that brown ppl will work for ICE. So, do they have a safe word when they're out in public, in case their own masked ppl try to grab them? #ICEraids #AgentsExposed
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social)
If you notice conservatwits trying to suck you into a "debate" (it's not a debate, it's a troll), here's a handy sticker :
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
I should mention that my interest in these topics originated with being a debate champion in my state. If you want to have a real discussion, maybe try some books. Having thoughts and opinions based off other thoughts or opinions isn't a discussion, it's a smokescreen.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
No, I know why quorum exists because I read a book every day, which includes writings by the people who put quorum into the legislative system. You're an idiot if you think strawmen are questions. Asking me what I'd do if I had an argument and everyone left the room isn't analogous.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah. Forget their names, we need to ship them off to an isolated village in Siberia to live out their lives without internet or entertainment. They can have factory work.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh look. They are the Nazis we said they were for decades. Shocking.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
They were there, using dog whistles. You'll know better for the future at least
Ahhhhh (@nerdjpg.com) reposted
Wow who could have predicted if you just vote for evil and lesser evil capitalist politicians they just enable fascism
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
But this was an excellent example of genetic fallacy. ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, his Ratio is pretty great if we actually followed the principle. Unfortunately, we got the Puritans so we're vindictive, bloodthirsty, and intent on posthumous exonerations over eliminating the death penalty.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Lordt. Vote. Based. On. Records. Not. On. Popular. Antics. You're not better than MAGA when you guys do this ๐
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Who is "you guys"? At this point one can only assume you're trying to bulldoze through every logical fallacy and using AI to generate wrong answers about what a politician can do to stop a coup.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
You have no idea what their jobs are. Try some books. :) I worked in this field and you've got opinions. Guess who wins here.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
So yes, the way you deal with people who build concentration camps is to do anything to stop them from advancing that legislation.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
If I was trying to install myself as the lord of a fiefdom, they would if they still had their wits. You're one of those redcoat dipshits who needs means testing for internet access. There is no negotiating with bad actors, little buddy. Take a logical argumentation class.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably. It's wildly illegal and those officers need a spot on the barge taking our Nazis to Siberia at the end.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the predictable outcome of a system that makes learning unappealing. If you weren't weak minded, you would have looked up what quorum is and why it's a requirement instead of being Ignorant White Guy Who Learns From Ignorant White Guy Podcasts
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
The stunt exists to stop fascism, monarchism, and other tyranny. But good on you for having zero reading comprehension yet still the audacity to pretend you understand legislative procedures designed to block authoritarian coups.
johnwthompson.bsky.social (@johnwthompson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Reminiscent...
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
โThey did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.โ โThey did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.โ This is what eugenics sounds like.
Liz Botkin (@lizbotkin.bsky.social) reply parent
But we fall for this and other propaganda because our number and reading literacy is indeed trash ๐