Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶
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Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Since we can do pinned posts now, hi, I’m Alyssa and make things! You can find them in several places:
Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
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Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
I don’t understand the derangement this man inspires. Why is every man over 52 obsessed with him like the bad guy in The Bodyguard
me, reading the headline: well, he’s a public figure and actual malice is a hard standard to reach
me, reading the article: ohhhhhhh
me, reading the article: ohhhhhhh
October 28, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I don’t understand the derangement this man inspires. Why is every man over 52 obsessed with him like the bad guy in The Bodyguard
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It's cool seeing Brazil become a reference against the far-right, but you can't focus exclusively on online strategies.
Lula also had politics that engaged people: he banned online gambling, reduced work hours, improved wages, defended public healthcare, etc.
You don't mobilize masses on centrism.
Lula also had politics that engaged people: he banned online gambling, reduced work hours, improved wages, defended public healthcare, etc.
You don't mobilize masses on centrism.
October 28, 2026 at 3:47 AM
It's cool seeing Brazil become a reference against the far-right, but you can't focus exclusively on online strategies.
Lula also had politics that engaged people: he banned online gambling, reduced work hours, improved wages, defended public healthcare, etc.
You don't mobilize masses on centrism.
Lula also had politics that engaged people: he banned online gambling, reduced work hours, improved wages, defended public healthcare, etc.
You don't mobilize masses on centrism.
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I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.
October 26, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.
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in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.
October 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
in the two weeks since online gambling was banned in Brazil, nationwide retail spending rose 6.5% and 10% in the South and in areas of the Southeast.
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Absolutely unspeakable
More evil done by the US military, but it barely gets any attention because they're doing it to Africans.
US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliber...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Absolutely unspeakable
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What's funny Trump threw a tantrum about comparison to Cheesecake Factory, but was fine with Saddam Hussein opening it.
October 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
What's funny Trump threw a tantrum about comparison to Cheesecake Factory, but was fine with Saddam Hussein opening it.
Every once in a while I have to put together a portfolio for something and it becomes so clear so quickly that I should have been diagnosed with some form of neurodivergence at a MUCH earlier age 😂
October 28, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Every once in a while I have to put together a portfolio for something and it becomes so clear so quickly that I should have been diagnosed with some form of neurodivergence at a MUCH earlier age 😂
Oh the guy who profits from the snake oil told you every dr should be required to use snake oil? No way
October 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Oh the guy who profits from the snake oil told you every dr should be required to use snake oil? No way
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"Iteration with an AI is faster."
"Be honest"
"Iteration with an AI lets me explore more questions."
"Be honest"
"When I dialogue those questions with AI, it's sycophantic and I like that."
"Thank you."
"Be honest"
"Iteration with an AI lets me explore more questions."
"Be honest"
"When I dialogue those questions with AI, it's sycophantic and I like that."
"Thank you."
October 27, 2026 at 10:28 PM
"Iteration with an AI is faster."
"Be honest"
"Iteration with an AI lets me explore more questions."
"Be honest"
"When I dialogue those questions with AI, it's sycophantic and I like that."
"Thank you."
"Be honest"
"Iteration with an AI lets me explore more questions."
"Be honest"
"When I dialogue those questions with AI, it's sycophantic and I like that."
"Thank you."
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I'm sorry but if a film is in the top 3 ticket sales despite being an oddball and still "failing" I don't think that's audiences failing to support it, I think that's an absolutely impossible standard that films must make back more than their cost opening weekend or they "failed". Wha???
LAIKA's WILDWOOD is a Box Office Bomb and Audiences Are Failing Great Movies
LAIKA's WILDWOOD is a Box Office Bomb and Audiences Are Failing Great Movies
This is heartbreaking. LAIKA's Wildwood is one of the best movies of 2026, an absolutely incredible achievement in stop-motion animation, and audiences aren't showing up to support it. I was in awe of...
geektyrant.com
October 27, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I'm sorry but if a film is in the top 3 ticket sales despite being an oddball and still "failing" I don't think that's audiences failing to support it, I think that's an absolutely impossible standard that films must make back more than their cost opening weekend or they "failed". Wha???
Hey just a quick PSA to tell you you can just make a little mushroom riding a snail. There’s even a book to show you how and maybe your library has a copy that you can borrow on a Tuesday night for FREE like it’s nbd 🧶 #crochet
bookshop.org/p/books/croc...
bookshop.org/p/books/croc...
October 28, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Hey just a quick PSA to tell you you can just make a little mushroom riding a snail. There’s even a book to show you how and maybe your library has a copy that you can borrow on a Tuesday night for FREE like it’s nbd 🧶 #crochet
bookshop.org/p/books/croc...
bookshop.org/p/books/croc...
Oh good I can’t wait to have elevated blood pressure for long enough that my watch calls 911 for me 😭
oops our parental estrangement episode is an hour and 52 minutes long
October 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Oh good I can’t wait to have elevated blood pressure for long enough that my watch calls 911 for me 😭
It’s not the list pressing issue of our time obviously but the way Apple has absolutely fucked their timer app is a hate crime against people with adhd
October 27, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It’s not the list pressing issue of our time obviously but the way Apple has absolutely fucked their timer app is a hate crime against people with adhd
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"You can't block someone just for being annoying!"
Those are actually the most important people to block
Those are actually the most important people to block
October 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
"You can't block someone just for being annoying!"
Those are actually the most important people to block
Those are actually the most important people to block
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"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Mamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friends
The choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.
www.politico.com
October 27, 2026 at 6:23 AM
"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero
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I can’t stop thinking about “changing the framing is a tool that’s right there for you to grasp”
it’s the best way I’ve ever heard anyone articulate the rage I feel when the left just grants the right’s talking points (in particular, though naturally not limited to, trans kids in sports)
it’s the best way I’ve ever heard anyone articulate the rage I feel when the left just grants the right’s talking points (in particular, though naturally not limited to, trans kids in sports)
It is, ultimately, damaging your ability to accomplish things long term or to win elections long term because you assume that you can't change the framing of the conversation even though changing the framing is a tool that's right there for you to grasp. It's incompetence. Malpractice.
October 27, 2026 at 7:07 AM
I can’t stop thinking about “changing the framing is a tool that’s right there for you to grasp”
it’s the best way I’ve ever heard anyone articulate the rage I feel when the left just grants the right’s talking points (in particular, though naturally not limited to, trans kids in sports)
it’s the best way I’ve ever heard anyone articulate the rage I feel when the left just grants the right’s talking points (in particular, though naturally not limited to, trans kids in sports)
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I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy.
October 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy.
His plan really was to have a Trump and Facebook steal the election. SURPRISE!!!!! You cannot actually depend on the worst people in the world!!!
1. Lose election
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
“Flávio has given up,” an adviser to the Bolsonaro family told me. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”
October 27, 2026 at 5:24 PM
His plan really was to have a Trump and Facebook steal the election. SURPRISE!!!!! You cannot actually depend on the worst people in the world!!!
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1. Lose election
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
“Flávio has given up,” an adviser to the Bolsonaro family told me. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”
Bolsonaro effectively concedes in Brazil after Trump suggests he won’t help
Trump says the presidential election looked “rigged” but did not say he planned to intervene on behalf of the right-wing politician.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 27, 2026 at 4:39 AM
1. Lose election
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
2. Assume Trump will steal election for him
3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election
4. Oh shit oh fuck
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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says.
The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze
The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze
October 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says.
The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze
The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze
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It's important to recognize this - and I think it's important for me, as a trans man, to clearly say I recognize this:
Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.
Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.
October 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM
It's important to recognize this - and I think it's important for me, as a trans man, to clearly say I recognize this:
Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.
Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.
One of the first things I learned after hanging out my shingle with handmade goods is that people don’t WANT perfection. They want to know a human made it. Coming to a happy medium was (and sometimes is) really difficult for a perfectionist tinkerer
China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend.
By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago.
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago.
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
China’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box Office
Bona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
One of the first things I learned after hanging out my shingle with handmade goods is that people don’t WANT perfection. They want to know a human made it. Coming to a happy medium was (and sometimes is) really difficult for a perfectionist tinkerer
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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year:
More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe.
If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.
More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe.
If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.
October 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A reminder, because it is almost that time of year:
More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe.
If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.
More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe.
If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.
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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
October 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets
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There’s a southern black saying: a hit dog will holler, and…
the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers
October 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
There’s a southern black saying: a hit dog will holler, and…