Elizabeth Pickard

@UTAustin grad working in Social Media in Dallas. Lover of cats and politics. Tweets are my own.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

it's so cool how anyone can decide to questmaxx their life simply by flying American Airlines and thus turning every mundane trip into an Odyssey-style epic journey of taking 10 years and infinite diversions to get home

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[ESPN @espn]

BACK-TO-BACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONS‼️

Texas takes the #WCWS Finals sweep 🔥💪

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

Sent an email, Checked it off my to-do list and they responded in less than 5 minutes now I gotta add this to the list again

[espnW @espnW]

This IS Texas 🔥🤩

[tern @1goodtern]

I hope no one has forgotten that six weeks ago Trump's gestapo were shooting innocent people dead on the street.

[Pastrami Mommy @ewelannawhite]

i think everyone should be allowed to take a workout or dance class without fear of being recorded for social media

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

If you don’t like cats you should keep that shit to yourself, how embarrassing

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

I really hope we have a whole cultural revolution against AI that centers art and literature. I want stuff from human hands, made using human imagination, honed skill, and care of craft.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: They are looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we enter an age of authoritarians who can carve it up — where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle across Europe and try to bully our allies there, and where authoritarians essentially control their own geographic domains.

It is our global alliances that can serve as a hard stop against authoritarian consolidation of power, particularly in the installation of regional puppet governments.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

[ash b. pebble @sentientGirlx]

hey girl. i noticed you’ve never posted a political infographic on your instagram story. are you a nazi?

[Lyric ✨ @LyricWrestling]

I think one of the most life changing things you can do is expose yourself to art & culture that isn’t made with Western and English-speaking audiences at front of mind. The world is so much bigger than our personal bubbles and you can learn something from anyone & anywhere.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

People have many fundamental misunderstandings of depression and believe that alleviating the person of responsibilities will be helpful - being "gentle" with them, saying it's okay to use baby wipes instead of taking a shower, or that it's fine to Doordash spaghetti or lay in bed and avoid social engagements. This would make sense if depression was a bodily disease like cancer, and the symptoms could be alleviated with rest. But it's not. Depression is a disease of the mind. It's a disease of fundamental misattribution. It usually worsens under conditions of rest. Everytime you tell yourself that you're too tired or sick to make yourself spaghetti and need to Doordash, the depression grows stronger. The depression wants to survive even if it kills you (in fact, the ultimate goal is to kill you) and will encourage you to give up. That you will find relief in giving up. But you never will. You will only continue to feel worse and worse. Relief can only be found in doing the hard thing, in giving yourself tasks to accomplish that make you proud to be alive, in boiling the water and chopping the tomatoes for the sauce, in turning toward the light even when your mind is screaming for you to hide under the covers. A lot of people won't tell you this, because they've never been to the darkness and had to crawl back. They don't understand it. They don't realize their sympathy is permission to drown.

[madison @madison_tayt]

i’m tired of the learned helplessness in general!
no one can do anything anymore. you can’t cook, can’t read, can’t go out, can’t make friends… stop making excuses and start trying!
“but capitalism!” ok sure but fight back. reclaim even the tiniest portion of your life, my god!

[Colleen DeGuzman @acolleendg]

After the El Paso ME ruled a migrant's death a homicide, ICE sent the next body to an Army hospital, where autopsies aren't public.

ICE says both deaths were suicide attempts. Victor Diaz's family doesn't believe he tried to take his life.

https://t.co/kPInkNOrRU

[˖ ࣪⟡𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍⟡ ࣪˖ @Blazingoth]

every baddie i know loves cats and hates ICE

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

ICE has kidnapped Native Americans and put them in an actual concentration camp.

Three members of the Oglala Sioux tribe are being held at Fort Snelling.

ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.

This should be much bigger news.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

My approach for 2026