nina eleanor alter
@ninavizz.bsky.social
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork.
“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
bigwheel.net
“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
bigwheel.net
Sickened + speechless. Cruelty and selfishness ARE the point. As if this were membership to a country club.
The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here.
These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals
These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals
October 4, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Sickened + speechless. Cruelty and selfishness ARE the point. As if this were membership to a country club.
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So fucking glad we don't have to listen to Charlie Kirk's opinion on the Cornell story
October 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
So fucking glad we don't have to listen to Charlie Kirk's opinion on the Cornell story
Owls hooting. Coyotes howling. A lone elk bugle. 💖
October 4, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Owls hooting. Coyotes howling. A lone elk bugle. 💖
Saturday self-soothing. By making an infographic. As I do. TL;DR, no singular point of intervention will fix this. We can keep simplifying what's not simple, or dig-in to really fix shit.
Now, taking my OCD (and PTSD'd) self out to do farm chores. I am also Jane Doe. It's been a week.
Now, taking my OCD (and PTSD'd) self out to do farm chores. I am also Jane Doe. It's been a week.
October 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Saturday self-soothing. By making an infographic. As I do. TL;DR, no singular point of intervention will fix this. We can keep simplifying what's not simple, or dig-in to really fix shit.
Now, taking my OCD (and PTSD'd) self out to do farm chores. I am also Jane Doe. It's been a week.
Now, taking my OCD (and PTSD'd) self out to do farm chores. I am also Jane Doe. It's been a week.
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My dear friend Sharif is in dire need of donations to take care of his children. Like so many displaced Gazans.
His accounts here are constantly, and erroneously, deleted as spam. Also like so many.
Please give if you can. No amount is too small.
His accounts here are constantly, and erroneously, deleted as spam. Also like so many.
Please give if you can. No amount is too small.
My Children Lost Their Mother—Don’t Let Them Lose Life Too
Hello, my name is Sherif Samir Abdullah.I am 38 years oldA father of three children:
chuffed.org
October 3, 2026 at 4:20 AM
My dear friend Sharif is in dire need of donations to take care of his children. Like so many displaced Gazans.
His accounts here are constantly, and erroneously, deleted as spam. Also like so many.
Please give if you can. No amount is too small.
His accounts here are constantly, and erroneously, deleted as spam. Also like so many.
Please give if you can. No amount is too small.
"Fair shake" is the new "good people on both sides."
October 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
"Fair shake" is the new "good people on both sides."
My farmer's market has an electric guitarist busking this week, and he played Holy Diver while I was shopping next to his booth. Not exactly a Dio fan, but that brought me a greater sense of belonging in Sandy, Oregon I think, than anything else, yet.
September 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
My farmer's market has an electric guitarist busking this week, and he played Holy Diver while I was shopping next to his booth. Not exactly a Dio fan, but that brought me a greater sense of belonging in Sandy, Oregon I think, than anything else, yet.
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Some of my favorite activists are historians and/or anthropologists and I really wish the digital rights space hired more people like this.
September 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Some of my favorite activists are historians and/or anthropologists and I really wish the digital rights space hired more people like this.
This afternoon we found out our sweet Tigger is in the end stages of liver failure. 2 weeks into his cancer treatment. Sunday we'll be sending him over the rainbow bridge via an at-home euthenasia vet. Big day of ugly crying, snuggles, and loving on our 16y/o guy.
September 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
This afternoon we found out our sweet Tigger is in the end stages of liver failure. 2 weeks into his cancer treatment. Sunday we'll be sending him over the rainbow bridge via an at-home euthenasia vet. Big day of ugly crying, snuggles, and loving on our 16y/o guy.
Get to know the complex story of trans athletes competing in elite sports. They carry all the biological disadvantages, not the cisgender athletes; but they also exude far more joy.
www.olympics.com/en/news/laur...
www.olympics.com/en/news/laur...
Laurel Hubbard: Meet the history making transgender weightlifter at Tokyo 2020
Laurel Hubbard competes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Monday (August 2). So who is the New Zealand native?
www.olympics.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Get to know the complex story of trans athletes competing in elite sports. They carry all the biological disadvantages, not the cisgender athletes; but they also exude far more joy.
www.olympics.com/en/news/laur...
www.olympics.com/en/news/laur...
Murphy's Law: Sleepless via allergies, and a rare AM meeting ahead.
September 10, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Murphy's Law: Sleepless via allergies, and a rare AM meeting ahead.
What if Dolly's book club sent books to every child from 0-15yrs, then international newspapers from 15-25? Is that in her will? Please???
September 9, 2026 at 4:31 AM
What if Dolly's book club sent books to every child from 0-15yrs, then international newspapers from 15-25? Is that in her will? Please???
When I worked at Fox Motocross, we really thought motocross was going to take over the world. Be bigger than football. It was crushing Europe and Japan. Dominance over mankind, was on the horizon!
September 9, 2026 at 4:26 AM
When I worked at Fox Motocross, we really thought motocross was going to take over the world. Be bigger than football. It was crushing Europe and Japan. Dominance over mankind, was on the horizon!
Counting an elderly and sick pet's calories is way more stressful, than counting my own. :(
September 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Counting an elderly and sick pet's calories is way more stressful, than counting my own. :(
Spent idle brain time today thinking about the completely opposite journeys yet convergent impacts of Gloria and Dolly on women's rights. Dolly's subversive cultural liberation of women celebrating our sexuality and owning our self-worth w/o apology. Gloria's movement and policy transformations. 🙏🏻
September 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Spent idle brain time today thinking about the completely opposite journeys yet convergent impacts of Gloria and Dolly on women's rights. Dolly's subversive cultural liberation of women celebrating our sexuality and owning our self-worth w/o apology. Gloria's movement and policy transformations. 🙏🏻
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“The communal tradition has deep roots, dating back thousands of years to Indigenous communities that cooked meats and vegetables over a fire, with enslaved Africans later becoming early innovators of what we would now recognize as barbecue. The modern cookout emerged in the 20th century…”
Keeping the Cookout Going (Gift Article)
Black barbecues have long offered a joyful, safe space for attendees. A new generation is determined to keep the fires burning.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:37 AM
“The communal tradition has deep roots, dating back thousands of years to Indigenous communities that cooked meats and vegetables over a fire, with enslaved Africans later becoming early innovators of what we would now recognize as barbecue. The modern cookout emerged in the 20th century…”
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Art and the Authoritarian Deracialization Campaign
Ernest Cole, The True America (1968-71)
sherrilyn.substack.com
September 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Leni Riefenstahl was also "a genius," and we don't need a retrospective on her, for the same reason. Man, Anna, way to end your career on a low note. Delighted to read The Met made the right choice. Finally.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s...
How the Met’s Galliano Show Fell Apart
Anna Wintour put her full power and prestige behind a designer convicted of an antisemitic hate crime. Behind the scenes, influential New Yorkers revolted.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Leni Riefenstahl was also "a genius," and we don't need a retrospective on her, for the same reason. Man, Anna, way to end your career on a low note. Delighted to read The Met made the right choice. Finally.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s...
Wanting an award for adulting and compensation, for my +5hrs spent on the phone today, resolving various outstanding healthcare & insurance issues. All, to credit with our dumb system. Why must things be so hard?!
August 28, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Wanting an award for adulting and compensation, for my +5hrs spent on the phone today, resolving various outstanding healthcare & insurance issues. All, to credit with our dumb system. Why must things be so hard?!
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People are frustrated by emerging tech because it's something being done to them– surveilling, manipulating, draining resources- rather than providing tools to improve their lives, @legind.bsky.social told @azfamily.com. “These seem like things that are just so disempowering. So out of our control.”
‘Fed up’: Why there’s so much pushback against data centers, Flock cameras
Several cities and towns across Maricopa County, including Tempe and Cave Creek on Wednesday, have announced plans to end their contracts with Flock.
www.azfamily.com
August 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
People are frustrated by emerging tech because it's something being done to them– surveilling, manipulating, draining resources- rather than providing tools to improve their lives, @legind.bsky.social told @azfamily.com. “These seem like things that are just so disempowering. So out of our control.”
Because everyone is now calling it the Gulf Of America... ?!
August 27, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Because everyone is now calling it the Gulf Of America... ?!
Rob Halford nailed it: she was beautiful TO people. She made beauty a verb, while also owning our expectation of beauty, as an external embellishment of ourselves.
How to treat others with unconditional beauty. How to live beauty as a spiritual and social virtue, and not just an aesthetic virtue.
How to treat others with unconditional beauty. How to live beauty as a spiritual and social virtue, and not just an aesthetic virtue.
August 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Rob Halford nailed it: she was beautiful TO people. She made beauty a verb, while also owning our expectation of beauty, as an external embellishment of ourselves.
How to treat others with unconditional beauty. How to live beauty as a spiritual and social virtue, and not just an aesthetic virtue.
How to treat others with unconditional beauty. How to live beauty as a spiritual and social virtue, and not just an aesthetic virtue.
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It’s completely legal to sing “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” to the tune of “WKRP in Cincinnatiiiiii.” No one can stop you.
August 25, 2026 at 3:37 AM
It’s completely legal to sing “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” to the tune of “WKRP in Cincinnatiiiiii.” No one can stop you.
There is zero data validating this effort, yet SCOTUS cleared the way. This is textbook election interference, and an excuse to collect rolls for ICE to work from to detain our neighbors.
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Live update: The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to restrict mail-in voting
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting.
apnews.com
August 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
There is zero data validating this effort, yet SCOTUS cleared the way. This is textbook election interference, and an excuse to collect rolls for ICE to work from to detain our neighbors.
apnews.com/live/trump-e...
apnews.com/live/trump-e...