Bart
bartholomewk.bsky.social
Bart
@bartholomewk.bsky.social
Brain smooth like polished glass.

Pharmacy Tech, Writer, Sci-Fi Fantasy Nerd, and chronic DM. Happily married. He/him or they/them.

If I followed you, it's because I thought you said something smart, funny, or otherwise cool. Thanks for sharing!
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TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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it's tiamat! finished a 5-headed dragon plush using the sew desu ne hydra/dragon pattern.

the heads took me a while lol, maybe not the most technically difficult plush i've done but definitely one with the most pieces.
April 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I made 38K my first year teaching in Arkansas. I held a BA.

I made 41K in Missouri after 16 years of teaching. I held an MA.

See the problem?
May 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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💙🤍🩷
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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finally, proof that posting through it works
Oft remarked that two wrongs don't make a right, but never seen anytime establish in general that if you've done n wrongs then n+1 won't fix it. Keep going, dig deeper, there's still hope.
May 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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anytime a dork tells you the usps needs to be profitable ask them how profitable sewers are
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I will vote for any Democrat who promises to prosecute any ice agent who detains or arrests anyone illegally.
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Don't cheat on people. Have the uncomfortable conversation you need to repair or end a relationship. No one wants to be betrayed.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Members of the press love to marvel at the ineptitude of their own industry. Like an FDA inspector idly musing about how wild it is that there are so many salmonella outbreaks and asking if EPA inspectors would get fired if water pollution closed the beaches in Florida
May 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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So. When I say that arresting Mayor Ras Baraka, who is currently running for governor of New Jersey, is an insult to every person in New Jersey, every person in Newark, and every Black person, every poet, and every leftist in America, I stand by those words.
May 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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To think the other possibility was prison.
“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”
You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
newrepublic.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This is a concentration camp.

A non-legal system of indeterminate detention & denial of due process that operates in (at best) a legally liminal space & refuses legally required oversight…

…& disappears elected officials legally doing their job.

Fascism.
Not just a protest. Newark is suing the Delaney Hall Ice Detention Center, which never got legally required permits to house immigrants & refuses legally required inspections. Today is one of several times they have barred entrance to Mayor Baraka and other officials.
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Please watch THIS particular interview, shared by @prisonculture.bsky.social to get the play by play on what happened. Getting arrested for protesting is a king move, but that's not what happened here. This was a goddamned grab and sack.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjf...
'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This is a big win, but we will keep fighting until Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, and all people who are being detained by the Trump administration for their protected speech are free permanently.

Tell Congress: Dissent is not grounds for deportation.
Dissent Is Not Grounds For Deportation
The unconscionable, illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Badar Khan Suri, and other international scholars should alarm every one of us. Tell Congress to defend our right to free speech ...
action.aclu.org
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Not "protesting" but trying to execute the laws of his city against a lawless fed. www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This isn’t hard. bsky.app/profile/rami...
It is unlawful, unacceptable, and chilling.

They must free Mayor Baraska and respect cities' jurisdictions and sovereignty.
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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arresting the mayor but not the members of congress, too cute by half "well the judge's order doesn't SAY we can't put an ankle monitor on rumeysa ozturk in those exact words," etc.
May 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Trump is a moron.
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM