Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
@cybrarerin.bsky.social
Hikes and crochet.
She/they 🏳️🌈
STEM Librarian
Feral Appalachian witch and general menace with Crohn’s disease living on DMB, coffee, rage, Cleveland baseball and trashy books
She/they 🏳️🌈
STEM Librarian
Feral Appalachian witch and general menace with Crohn’s disease living on DMB, coffee, rage, Cleveland baseball and trashy books
Pinned
How many pride flags can I make this weekend?
I’m still selling them for $10 a piece + $10 shipping. Dm me if’n you want one or a few!
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
You know, having the energy and will to investigate Ilhan Omar while capitulating to reactionary elements at every level of government and political discourse is part of why we are currently embroiled in fascist times!
All the talk of 'liberal complicity' isn't just us being assholes!
All the talk of 'liberal complicity' isn't just us being assholes!
January 28, 2026 at 9:21 AM
You know, having the energy and will to investigate Ilhan Omar while capitulating to reactionary elements at every level of government and political discourse is part of why we are currently embroiled in fascist times!
All the talk of 'liberal complicity' isn't just us being assholes!
All the talk of 'liberal complicity' isn't just us being assholes!
"There is this real sense of 'we the people," standing up for each other..." Community and mutual aid networks.
Heather Cox Richardson is someone y'all should be watching/listening to if you aren't already.
Heather Cox Richardson is someone y'all should be watching/listening to if you aren't already.
Politics Chat, January 27, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
"There is this real sense of 'we the people," standing up for each other..." Community and mutual aid networks.
Heather Cox Richardson is someone y'all should be watching/listening to if you aren't already.
Heather Cox Richardson is someone y'all should be watching/listening to if you aren't already.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
Cleaner version of Hayes & Rodman with no graphics
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Cleaner version of Hayes & Rodman with no graphics
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
President Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar, and his dangerous rhetoric could encourage people to act violently, just as this individual did tonight at Rep. Omar’s town hall.
January 28, 2026 at 1:51 PM
President Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar, and his dangerous rhetoric could encourage people to act violently, just as this individual did tonight at Rep. Omar’s town hall.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
After Ilhan Omar was accosted, it would’ve been incredibly easy for Trump to say, “No elected official should ever face violence, assaults, or threats.”
But since he is who he appears to be, Trump refused to denounce the incident — and instead peddled conspiratorial nonsense.
But since he is who he appears to be, Trump refused to denounce the incident — and instead peddled conspiratorial nonsense.
Asked about Ilhan Omar being accosted, Trump’s ugly response spoke volumes
It would’ve been easy for the president to say, “No elected official should ever face violence, assaults or threats.” But Trump is who he appears to be.
www.ms.now
January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
After Ilhan Omar was accosted, it would’ve been incredibly easy for Trump to say, “No elected official should ever face violence, assaults, or threats.”
But since he is who he appears to be, Trump refused to denounce the incident — and instead peddled conspiratorial nonsense.
But since he is who he appears to be, Trump refused to denounce the incident — and instead peddled conspiratorial nonsense.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
A mutual aid organizer in Minneapolis told us that Ilhan Omar pops in to help with the foodbank.
No press, no photos, she just shows up and asks the organizers where she should pitch in.
No press, no photos, she just shows up and asks the organizers where she should pitch in.
January 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
A mutual aid organizer in Minneapolis told us that Ilhan Omar pops in to help with the foodbank.
No press, no photos, she just shows up and asks the organizers where she should pitch in.
No press, no photos, she just shows up and asks the organizers where she should pitch in.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
“One of the primary driving factors for this project had been reflecting about the level of discursive drift that had occurred in a short period of time [...] drift occurs when the understanding of a word is altered by its contextual use, such as when a word or phrase comes to denote its opposite.”
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
“One of the primary driving factors for this project had been reflecting about the level of discursive drift that had occurred in a short period of time [...] drift occurs when the understanding of a word is altered by its contextual use, such as when a word or phrase comes to denote its opposite.”
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
This was followed by part two, which specifically tracked inflammatory keywords, noting a dramatic change in which outlets used what words even over the course of a single year. Later it would emerge that a concerted campaign existed to alter outlet style guides to manipulate public perception.
Hate in a post-information age — Jessica Kant
A week ago, I posted a dataset that had been compiling over the course of a year based on a series of RSS feeds I’d set up and mostly forgotten about. After merging the data and sifting through them, ...
jessk.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
This was followed by part two, which specifically tracked inflammatory keywords, noting a dramatic change in which outlets used what words even over the course of a single year. Later it would emerge that a concerted campaign existed to alter outlet style guides to manipulate public perception.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
“Allowing for variance , a query for “transgender” before:2017-01-01 returns around 300-400 results. The same query, restricted to after that time returns 51,200, 48,400 of which are after New Year’s day 2023. 44,800 of which appear to be tagged in the index as being from just this year?”
January 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
“Allowing for variance , a query for “transgender” before:2017-01-01 returns around 300-400 results. The same query, restricted to after that time returns 51,200, 48,400 of which are after New Year’s day 2023. 44,800 of which appear to be tagged in the index as being from just this year?”
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
What @prisonculture.bsky.social always says is: find the thing you can do and do it. You can’t do all the things. (Or something like that but more eloquent). I remind myself when I feel I should be writing marching observing delivering organizing meeting reporting shopping
I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 AM
What @prisonculture.bsky.social always says is: find the thing you can do and do it. You can’t do all the things. (Or something like that but more eloquent). I remind myself when I feel I should be writing marching observing delivering organizing meeting reporting shopping
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
"The risk of Tim Cook’s strategy for navigating Washington came into clear focus Saturday night. As the world’s attention turned to Minneapolis following the death of Alex Pretti ... the chief executive was at the White House feting President Trump and the first lady."
Being a White House VIP Thrusts Tim Cook Into the Political Fray
The furor over Minneapolis has tested the Apple CEO’s strategy for navigating Washington.
www.wsj.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:23 AM
"The risk of Tim Cook’s strategy for navigating Washington came into clear focus Saturday night. As the world’s attention turned to Minneapolis following the death of Alex Pretti ... the chief executive was at the White House feting President Trump and the first lady."
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
Do we really have to go through some mandatory period where we all pretend that Homan is ANY better than Bovino? The man’s a scumbag, literally the architect of the family separation policy that abducted 5 year old Liam Ramos from his community in MN and put him in a concentration camp in TX.
January 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Do we really have to go through some mandatory period where we all pretend that Homan is ANY better than Bovino? The man’s a scumbag, literally the architect of the family separation policy that abducted 5 year old Liam Ramos from his community in MN and put him in a concentration camp in TX.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country.
They didn't think we would. We do.
They didn't think we would. We do.
January 28, 2026 at 3:32 AM
What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country.
They didn't think we would. We do.
They didn't think we would. We do.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
Apple is renewing certificates for iOS versions dating back to 2013 to keep the lights on a little longer. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Apple Patches Old Versions of iOS to Keep iMessage and FaceTime Running
Apple is renewing certificates for iOS versions dating back to 2013 to keep the lights on a little longer.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Apple is renewing certificates for iOS versions dating back to 2013 to keep the lights on a little longer. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
"We must punish the people who have been right for decades and coddle the people who chose to be wrong the whole time for a lot of money" is domestic abuser logic.
January 28, 2026 at 11:31 AM
"We must punish the people who have been right for decades and coddle the people who chose to be wrong the whole time for a lot of money" is domestic abuser logic.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career.
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career.
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
I'm still upset about the "Microsoft Director of Journalism" title I heard at a conference last year. Microsoft doesn't do journalism; that position is not to figure out how best to support journalists; that position is to figure out how best to hook journalists to the tech, with loss leaders if nec
After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I'm still upset about the "Microsoft Director of Journalism" title I heard at a conference last year. Microsoft doesn't do journalism; that position is not to figure out how best to support journalists; that position is to figure out how best to hook journalists to the tech, with loss leaders if nec
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
ICE watch volunteer: "We have shown up day after day for 8 weeks to protect each other and to protect our neighbors."
Chris Hayes "Can you outlast them?"
"I don't see any signs of slowing. What I see is more and more people stepping into their courage and moving together with one voice."
Chris Hayes "Can you outlast them?"
"I don't see any signs of slowing. What I see is more and more people stepping into their courage and moving together with one voice."
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 AM
ICE watch volunteer: "We have shown up day after day for 8 weeks to protect each other and to protect our neighbors."
Chris Hayes "Can you outlast them?"
"I don't see any signs of slowing. What I see is more and more people stepping into their courage and moving together with one voice."
Chris Hayes "Can you outlast them?"
"I don't see any signs of slowing. What I see is more and more people stepping into their courage and moving together with one voice."
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports live from the site of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
"History is being made here in Minnesota. It is being made by the people who live here who refuse to give in or to give up."
"History is being made here in Minnesota. It is being made by the people who live here who refuse to give in or to give up."
January 28, 2026 at 1:20 AM
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports live from the site of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
"History is being made here in Minnesota. It is being made by the people who live here who refuse to give in or to give up."
"History is being made here in Minnesota. It is being made by the people who live here who refuse to give in or to give up."
Reposted by Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️🌈
WATCH: Chris Hayes joins Minneapolis ICE Watch volunteers on patrol to hear what they’ve witnessed over the past three months.
'Caring is political right now': Hayes rides along with Minneapolis ICE Watch
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:35 AM
WATCH: Chris Hayes joins Minneapolis ICE Watch volunteers on patrol to hear what they’ve witnessed over the past three months.