Alexis

so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank

US Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, Poppies in a Field, 1888 #womensart

Either you’re too okay for it to have been very bad or you’re too messed up to be credible. 🙃

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Reservation Dogs is truly a masterpiece and wish more people watched it spoke of it and referenced it. #shitass

Overwhelming contrast: the astronauts blessing the earth and our interconnection on one hand, and an old man on our planet threatening to obliterate an entire other country, seemingly at whim, on the other

international women’s day

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I find my most optimistic time of day is after a long grueling run and midway through a coffee.

When I was growing up in San Diego (90s) there was a NOLA-style breakfast place in Pacific Beach. It had glass topped table cloths & pipping hot beignets. I can’t even remember its name anymore - but I remember cool June gloom mornings and what it felt like to bite into that lightly powdered dough.

Women only want one thing and it’s this bowl of perfect homemade noodles

“Joy is not meant to be a crumb”

I feel like one of the problems with telling people to “believe women” is that it assumes the folks in need of telling already possess a baseline belief that women are people

New York knows how to do Halloween!

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This is Dumbo, Mela, Peaches, and Chiquis. They are a championship napping team. Their built-in sleep masks give them that competitive edge. 13/10 for all (TT: brokeboilopez)

One Battle After Another has ruined my life (nonderogatory)

this, to me, is art

My painting COASTAL POPPIES

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

I need people to understand the Supreme Court is not the be-all and end-all of everything, even legal things. Abolitionist lawyers went into court and won freedom suits under the Fugitive Slave Act, after the Court upheld its constitutionality. They helped build a movement that dismantled the FSA.

Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.

Somehow, evergreen:

This lives rent free in my head.

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.

Female friendship is magic. 🫶

A couple of next-morning thoughts on this. First, to say the Trump admin picked a Palestinian activist because he would split the opposition isn't crediting them with seven-dimensional chess. It's just "use unpopular tactics against unpopular people before you use them against popular people."

💉🧵The trend to ban mRNA vaccines is extremely concerning. Montana recently voted down a ban and Idaho is introducing a bill to criminalize their use. mRNA vaccines have been studied since 1990 and are a critical scientific advancement. An mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer is in clinical trials

This was v good: annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

✅ First slip + full body splat in black ice since moving back to the east coast.