Ocean Lani 🇲🇵🇬🇺
@oceanlani.bsky.social
She/her ginen Marianas, caretaker of coral reefs & communities | Loud #Chamorro, proud #Micronesian | Connect, protect, respect #Pasifika people 🌊🇲🇵🇬🇺🌴 don't follow if you're not for decolonization skeets
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Ocean Lani 🇲🇵🇬🇺
@oceanlani.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Seeing Pasifika people's projects get taken further and further along to wider audiences (or the right audience(s) it was meant for) makes me tear up inside (in a good way) 🥺☺️
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I want connection not just attachment
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I want connection not just attachment
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No corner of a metal bed frame formed against me shall prosper.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
No corner of a metal bed frame formed against me shall prosper.
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The world’s poorest people want the opportunity to work in order to break out of poverty — but capitalism requires capital. As you’ll see in this clip from my travels in Ethiopia, providing new ways for the poor to access banking & small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.
The Extremely Poor Need Capital to Develop
Capitalism requires capital. Providing new ways for the poor to access banking and to get small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.
classroom.ricksteves.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
You don't get rewarded, recognized, acknowledged in the ways that matter for your strength esp in situations you can't talk about, sometimes even with friends/family closest to you..
What is the saddest part of being strong?
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You don't get rewarded, recognized, acknowledged in the ways that matter for your strength esp in situations you can't talk about, sometimes even with friends/family closest to you..
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Being praised for your patience in unsavory situations
What is the saddest part of being strong?
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Being praised for your patience in unsavory situations
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Gorgeous
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Gorgeous
With these wild beef prices in this economy, now is the time to consider this lifestyle change 👍🏽
Starting to think I kinda wanna stop eating meat. I’m unsure why but it’s been making me feel nauseous after.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
With these wild beef prices in this economy, now is the time to consider this lifestyle change 👍🏽
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Me the first 13 years of my life every time someone put beef in front of me.
I just started really even liking beef at all like 6 years ago
I just started really even liking beef at all like 6 years ago
Starting to think I kinda wanna stop eating meat. I’m unsure why but it’s been making me feel nauseous after.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Me the first 13 years of my life every time someone put beef in front of me.
I just started really even liking beef at all like 6 years ago
I just started really even liking beef at all like 6 years ago
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I used to hate having small titties, but I don’t gotta worry about wearing bras and my back don’t hurt so guess that’s a plus 😭
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I used to hate having small titties, but I don’t gotta worry about wearing bras and my back don’t hurt so guess that’s a plus 😭
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Taking your new love to new spots you like knowing they probably taking you to spots their old love put them on>>>>>
Taking your new love to the spots your old love put you on to >>>
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Taking your new love to new spots you like knowing they probably taking you to spots their old love put them on>>>>>
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Fundraising has kept me fed, housed, and on the dean's list through one high-stakes crisis after another.
I NEVER would have made it without y'all and I truly believe anyone willing to put their body and life on the line for midwifery training (for YEARS of no pay) deserves the same. #Blacksky
I NEVER would have made it without y'all and I truly believe anyone willing to put their body and life on the line for midwifery training (for YEARS of no pay) deserves the same. #Blacksky
ALL of my Midwife Sibs been through the wringer but Susannah has had that plus tax and she's kept going. Being single in this process with no partner to help economically makes it so much harder.
She created a fundraiser in July to assist her through the process, can you be her first supporter?
She created a fundraiser in July to assist her through the process, can you be her first supporter?
Donate to It Takes a Village to Birth a Midwife, organized by Susanna Susie
Hey there, I’m Susie, currently on the journey to becoming a Community Midwife . I… Susanna Susie needs your support for It Takes a Village to Birth a Midwife
gofund.me
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fundraising has kept me fed, housed, and on the dean's list through one high-stakes crisis after another.
I NEVER would have made it without y'all and I truly believe anyone willing to put their body and life on the line for midwifery training (for YEARS of no pay) deserves the same. #Blacksky
I NEVER would have made it without y'all and I truly believe anyone willing to put their body and life on the line for midwifery training (for YEARS of no pay) deserves the same. #Blacksky
Can't beliebe these folks say these things abt themselves unprompted 😩 (also "ex-Morm0n" which says a lot)
When I was 37 I was dating a woman who was 19. The thing that inspired me to break things off was hearing Pearl Jam's "Alive" on the radio - a song released 9 years before her birth she had never heard . In that moment I realized things would never work.
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Can't beliebe these folks say these things abt themselves unprompted 😩 (also "ex-Morm0n" which says a lot)
WoW this coffee is kicking my azz 🤪
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WoW this coffee is kicking my azz 🤪
Exciting! Definitely bookmarking and ready, just waiting for a free moment agh!
The new intro recalls what the world was like when I first wrote the book (before iPhones or Twitter) who I was then (a scrappy mid-20yo into street art and culture jamming) and how weird it is to read a "near-future dystopia" NOW IN THE NEAR-FUTURE!
raemariz.com/the-unidenti...
raemariz.com/the-unidenti...
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Exciting! Definitely bookmarking and ready, just waiting for a free moment agh!
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Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit
A relatively unknown species is producing a notorious neurotoxin, devastating sea life
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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My first time being catcalled was at 10. I was with my grandma. Both her and the man catcalling me laughed when I got uncomfortable and moved to the other side of her to be away from him.
That left fundamental scares on my psyche that I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
That left fundamental scares on my psyche that I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
Listen! First time I was followed by a man I was ten. TEN.
10.
10.
Ages 12-17 are the absolute worst. Grown men would see me with my backpack on and still try to talk to me 🤢
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My first time being catcalled was at 10. I was with my grandma. Both her and the man catcalling me laughed when I got uncomfortable and moved to the other side of her to be away from him.
That left fundamental scares on my psyche that I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
That left fundamental scares on my psyche that I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
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That said you do have a point the US an imperial power built on settler colonialism. American education does a good job in miseducating Americans to hide the fact they live in an empire.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That said you do have a point the US an imperial power built on settler colonialism. American education does a good job in miseducating Americans to hide the fact they live in an empire.
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The American military complex is a terrorist organisation. The fact that Americans can't see their own colonial imperialist history makes them delulu. I tune out folks who think their military is civilian governed, when it's being mobalised by wannabe dictators against it's own civilians.
I automatically tune out people who are anti-military that never served in the military because they conveniently forget the US military is controlled by the CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT. The same people that they vote for. So their opinions about the military & those that served carry no weight.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The American military complex is a terrorist organisation. The fact that Americans can't see their own colonial imperialist history makes them delulu. I tune out folks who think their military is civilian governed, when it's being mobalised by wannabe dictators against it's own civilians.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Read with a pinch of salt
You are not human if you don't feel the grief over the death of eco systems. It's not defeatism. It's compassion, and a little fear.
You are not human if you don't feel the grief over the death of eco systems. It's not defeatism. It's compassion, and a little fear.
“Pessimism won’t help… change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, compassionate defiance of the prevailing rules. This is the key to guaranteeing the future”
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Democracy thrives on high expectations, great piece by Bob Brown #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Successful defiance is a front-foot thing. It is active, not passive.
Optimism in the face of overwhelming odds may seem misguided – but the course of human history remains in our collective hands, and change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, c...
thepoint.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Read with a pinch of salt
You are not human if you don't feel the grief over the death of eco systems. It's not defeatism. It's compassion, and a little fear.
You are not human if you don't feel the grief over the death of eco systems. It's not defeatism. It's compassion, and a little fear.
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But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
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Thats cause its tied to every politican in the western empire. Across parties classes and against all our moral objections.
That list removes the redemption arch the rich like to write for themselves into their long histories of dehumanizing and oppressing us.
That list removes the redemption arch the rich like to write for themselves into their long histories of dehumanizing and oppressing us.
The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Thats cause its tied to every politican in the western empire. Across parties classes and against all our moral objections.
That list removes the redemption arch the rich like to write for themselves into their long histories of dehumanizing and oppressing us.
That list removes the redemption arch the rich like to write for themselves into their long histories of dehumanizing and oppressing us.
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Being a teacher is not a hustle, comeup, gig, or a startup. You signed up to be a community member and inspirational figure for young growing minds. This field isn't a playground either. Go find another job if you don't care if these babies live or die. Literally or figuratively.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Being a teacher is not a hustle, comeup, gig, or a startup. You signed up to be a community member and inspirational figure for young growing minds. This field isn't a playground either. Go find another job if you don't care if these babies live or die. Literally or figuratively.
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Reading essential. I taught myself botany, I don't have an academic degree in botany, but I had a long career working as a botanist in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Hawai'i. All from reading. Imagine what you would like to do and keep reading!
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Reading essential. I taught myself botany, I don't have an academic degree in botany, but I had a long career working as a botanist in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Hawai'i. All from reading. Imagine what you would like to do and keep reading!
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4 MORE DAYS! Applications open for The Perry Second Chances Scholarship to women nationwide on 11.15. A few reminders:
- all criteria is on the website at thurmanperryfoundation.org
- we don’t respond to direct inquiries nor will it affect your chances of winning. Read the website.
- all criteria is on the website at thurmanperryfoundation.org
- we don’t respond to direct inquiries nor will it affect your chances of winning. Read the website.
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
4 MORE DAYS! Applications open for The Perry Second Chances Scholarship to women nationwide on 11.15. A few reminders:
- all criteria is on the website at thurmanperryfoundation.org
- we don’t respond to direct inquiries nor will it affect your chances of winning. Read the website.
- all criteria is on the website at thurmanperryfoundation.org
- we don’t respond to direct inquiries nor will it affect your chances of winning. Read the website.