@ironydelight.bsky.social
Archivist and writer living in Western New York. Appreciates history, architecture, art, museums, and nature.
She should have gotten the reparations she fought so hard for. may her memory be a blessing to the many lives she touched.
Oldest living survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 111 years old | CNN
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
She should have gotten the reparations she fought so hard for. may her memory be a blessing to the many lives she touched.
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Roses and Beetle - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14987
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14987
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Roses and Beetle - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14987
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14987
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Have you or a loved one been impacted by the SNAP and HEAP freezes from the federal government's shutdown? If so, please check out the below linked page which provides a listing of other assistance available.
www3.erie.gov/socialservic...
www3.erie.gov/socialservic...
Federal Shutdown 2025: Alternative Assistance Programs | Social Services
www3.erie.gov
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Have you or a loved one been impacted by the SNAP and HEAP freezes from the federal government's shutdown? If so, please check out the below linked page which provides a listing of other assistance available.
www3.erie.gov/socialservic...
www3.erie.gov/socialservic...
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Some critics say that America's rapid decent into fascism is unfortunate.
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Some critics say that America's rapid decent into fascism is unfortunate.
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Still hanging around from Turtle Tuesday
July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Still hanging around from Turtle Tuesday
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#SpinItForward invites you to shop a local independent record store, purchase any new or gently-used record after 1989 & drop off your donation at any one of our libraries in Erie County. Like a book donation, donating a new record puts inspiration in the hands of our neighbors!
July 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#SpinItForward invites you to shop a local independent record store, purchase any new or gently-used record after 1989 & drop off your donation at any one of our libraries in Erie County. Like a book donation, donating a new record puts inspiration in the hands of our neighbors!
This is a Buffalonian trying to help family members in Gaza, if you can help.
Donate to UPDATE: URGENT NEED FOR BASIC SURVIVAL IN GAZA, organized by My family in Gaza needs to escape ASAP aldirawi
My name is ahmed Aldirawi and I work as a towing driver in bu… My family in Gaza needs to escape ASAP aldirawi needs your support for UPDATE: URGENT NEED FOR BASIC SURVIVAL IN GAZA
www.gofundme.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is a Buffalonian trying to help family members in Gaza, if you can help.
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Sotomayor’s dissent in the DOE decision is worth reading. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The majority’s written opinion attempting to rationalize its utterly indefensible ruling would be worth reading too, except it doesn’t exist.
The majority’s written opinion attempting to rationalize its utterly indefensible ruling would be worth reading too, except it doesn’t exist.
July 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sotomayor’s dissent in the DOE decision is worth reading. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The majority’s written opinion attempting to rationalize its utterly indefensible ruling would be worth reading too, except it doesn’t exist.
The majority’s written opinion attempting to rationalize its utterly indefensible ruling would be worth reading too, except it doesn’t exist.
This sounds really cool.
📣 CALLING ALL LOCAL ARTISTS!
The Erie County Arts in Public Places Committee is seeking artwork for installation in the
@BFLOconvention
Center.
Deadline: TOMORROW, July 15, 2025, at 12PM.
Details and application: erie.gov/publicart
The Erie County Arts in Public Places Committee is seeking artwork for installation in the
@BFLOconvention
Center.
Deadline: TOMORROW, July 15, 2025, at 12PM.
Details and application: erie.gov/publicart
July 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This sounds really cool.
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If you had a nickel for every use of “well he’s never acted that way around ME” that I’ve heard in the last 20 years, you could stand next to a pop machine and force it to spit out Diet Cokes for a year and a half.
July 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you had a nickel for every use of “well he’s never acted that way around ME” that I’ve heard in the last 20 years, you could stand next to a pop machine and force it to spit out Diet Cokes for a year and a half.
I love the circular plazas that the Caral designed in their cities.
Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.
www.bbc.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I love the circular plazas that the Caral designed in their cities.
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I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
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I keep seeing people using "luddite" with little understanding of its violent history, and I really want people to do more reading.
I did not know much about it myself until I read this post by @swordsjew.bsky.social but damn, do I sympathise with the Luddites now. Their cause is ours.
I did not know much about it myself until I read this post by @swordsjew.bsky.social but damn, do I sympathise with the Luddites now. Their cause is ours.
Fuck You and Your Word-Stealing Machine
The Luddites: Man vs Machine This week, The New Yorker, an august magazine from which I resigned in national disgrace five years ago, dedicated its entire...
buttondown.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I keep seeing people using "luddite" with little understanding of its violent history, and I really want people to do more reading.
I did not know much about it myself until I read this post by @swordsjew.bsky.social but damn, do I sympathise with the Luddites now. Their cause is ours.
I did not know much about it myself until I read this post by @swordsjew.bsky.social but damn, do I sympathise with the Luddites now. Their cause is ours.
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This is Monty and Charlie. Monty's back legs are paralyzed. But that doesn't mean he can't race his brother on walks. 14/10 for both (TT: amqzak)
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is Monty and Charlie. Monty's back legs are paralyzed. But that doesn't mean he can't race his brother on walks. 14/10 for both (TT: amqzak)
I’ll never forgive Congress for its role in robbing the backs of the working and middle classes to enrich themselves and corporate America. That is all I have to say about the “big beautiful bill.”
July 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I’ll never forgive Congress for its role in robbing the backs of the working and middle classes to enrich themselves and corporate America. That is all I have to say about the “big beautiful bill.”
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![Me, after following a stranger's medical advice.
[a guy holding his palms out "I am no longer chronically ill"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreig2zmdxyqtj6sgnccgwxklb4k2xnrtmvlyqgwq47qmskv4mvr2yva@jpeg)
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You have been visited by the smiling Stock Dove.
It grants you great wisdom and fortune.
📷 Justin Sneddon
It grants you great wisdom and fortune.
📷 Justin Sneddon
June 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
You have been visited by the smiling Stock Dove.
It grants you great wisdom and fortune.
📷 Justin Sneddon
It grants you great wisdom and fortune.
📷 Justin Sneddon
Wow.
Horrors of hell on the Orvieto Cathedral facade by sculptor Lorenzo Maitani, early 14th century
#MedievalArt #ArtHistory #Demons
#Umbria
#MedievalArt #ArtHistory #Demons
#Umbria
June 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Wow.
Sheldon Silver and Joe Bruno had a conversation with me and a friend in an elevator in Empire State plaza after doing research in the NYS archives.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Sheldon Silver and Joe Bruno had a conversation with me and a friend in an elevator in Empire State plaza after doing research in the NYS archives.
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Happy Monday!
June 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Happy Monday!
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
Mountain columbine gives me joy today.
June 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mountain columbine gives me joy today.
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On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.
theintercept.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
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If you haven’t been to Mount Hope Cemetery in a while, now is a great time to visit! Thanks to the Daffodil Project, tens of thousands of daffodils are currently in bloom.
Learn more: daffodilprojectroc.org
Learn more: daffodilprojectroc.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you haven’t been to Mount Hope Cemetery in a while, now is a great time to visit! Thanks to the Daffodil Project, tens of thousands of daffodils are currently in bloom.
Learn more: daffodilprojectroc.org
Learn more: daffodilprojectroc.org
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.