Alison loves stories
@ohdiglib.bsky.social
An eclectic reader looking for new perspectives & unusual reads. Real life librarian and general word nerd who enjoys frolicing in the linguistic playground.
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The Universe is trying to make this as easy and dumbed down as possible. Her last name was GOOD! She was the good guy! How obvious does the simulation have to be?
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
The Universe is trying to make this as easy and dumbed down as possible. Her last name was GOOD! She was the good guy! How obvious does the simulation have to be?
I have reached the end of the internet. Truth is stranger than fiction.
The Surinam toad has one of the strangest birth methods in the animal kingdom. Babies erupt from a cluster of tiny holes in their mother’s back.
January 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I have reached the end of the internet. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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It's a cheap magic trick they're pulling on you. They want you to accept the illusion that they're an army that will mow you down and commit violence on you and you're helpless. That they are all powerful. In society, workforce, police.
The reality is You outnumber them hundreds to one. In all ways
The reality is You outnumber them hundreds to one. In all ways
January 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
It's a cheap magic trick they're pulling on you. They want you to accept the illusion that they're an army that will mow you down and commit violence on you and you're helpless. That they are all powerful. In society, workforce, police.
The reality is You outnumber them hundreds to one. In all ways
The reality is You outnumber them hundreds to one. In all ways
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DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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The apps on your phone are tracking you and ICE isn’t relying on warrants to access and use that data to follow you to work, school drop off, home, etc.
Start getting rid of apps and use non-Google browsers like Brave to visit the companies you rely on. They do not need to live on your phone.
Start getting rid of apps and use non-Google browsers like Brave to visit the companies you rely on. They do not need to live on your phone.
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The apps on your phone are tracking you and ICE isn’t relying on warrants to access and use that data to follow you to work, school drop off, home, etc.
Start getting rid of apps and use non-Google browsers like Brave to visit the companies you rely on. They do not need to live on your phone.
Start getting rid of apps and use non-Google browsers like Brave to visit the companies you rely on. They do not need to live on your phone.
If you don’t know about Liuzzo & Jackson, today is a good day to learn. Just a quick google will get you there.
If Renee Nicole Good is Viola Liuzzo, then Keith Porter Jr is Jimmie Lee Jackson
January 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
If you don’t know about Liuzzo & Jackson, today is a good day to learn. Just a quick google will get you there.
If you too are feeling heartsick and need a moment of rest, a balm for your soul, I recommend this. Like a hug felt directly in your heart, it’s offering me a warm place to rest for just a moment today.
January 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
If you too are feeling heartsick and need a moment of rest, a balm for your soul, I recommend this. Like a hug felt directly in your heart, it’s offering me a warm place to rest for just a moment today.
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#CurrentlyReading
How To Stand Up To a Dictator
By Maria Ressa
Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
#booksky
How To Stand Up To a Dictator
By Maria Ressa
Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
#booksky
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
#CurrentlyReading
How To Stand Up To a Dictator
By Maria Ressa
Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
#booksky
How To Stand Up To a Dictator
By Maria Ressa
Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
#booksky
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Exactly.. go have a chat with your meemaw and get her to understand.. bring her in the fold
January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Exactly.. go have a chat with your meemaw and get her to understand.. bring her in the fold
Today’s #HopeQuestingTreasure
Unfortunately Wroclaw Zoo isn’t posting on here, so I’m going to share this video with you in hopes it makes you smile too.
Someone has forgotten to look in the mirror to check their size. 😉
Someone has forgotten to look in the mirror to check their size. 😉
January 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Today’s #HopeQuestingTreasure
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If Democratic voters want a Democratic Party that fights, some are going to have to vote against their current representatives during the primaries.
Don’t expect a leopard to change its spots.
Look at who their funders are and act accordingly.
Don’t expect a leopard to change its spots.
Look at who their funders are and act accordingly.
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
If Democratic voters want a Democratic Party that fights, some are going to have to vote against their current representatives during the primaries.
Don’t expect a leopard to change its spots.
Look at who their funders are and act accordingly.
Don’t expect a leopard to change its spots.
Look at who their funders are and act accordingly.
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I've been sitting with this for a bit.
I'm sad and disgusted that so many people haven't been mad about the cops killing people until they did it to someone white.
Yes, Renee Good's dog was in her back seat.
Philando Castile's kids were in his back seat.
I'm sad and disgusted that so many people haven't been mad about the cops killing people until they did it to someone white.
Yes, Renee Good's dog was in her back seat.
Philando Castile's kids were in his back seat.
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I've been sitting with this for a bit.
I'm sad and disgusted that so many people haven't been mad about the cops killing people until they did it to someone white.
Yes, Renee Good's dog was in her back seat.
Philando Castile's kids were in his back seat.
I'm sad and disgusted that so many people haven't been mad about the cops killing people until they did it to someone white.
Yes, Renee Good's dog was in her back seat.
Philando Castile's kids were in his back seat.
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A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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So. We need to fill our feed out a little. Tell us who we should be following for the good genre and genre adjacent stuff. Authors, reviewers, commentators, all the good people.
Fun, serious, wry, excitable - bring them all.
Fun, serious, wry, excitable - bring them all.
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
So. We need to fill our feed out a little. Tell us who we should be following for the good genre and genre adjacent stuff. Authors, reviewers, commentators, all the good people.
Fun, serious, wry, excitable - bring them all.
Fun, serious, wry, excitable - bring them all.
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“If white people as a collective body were truly willing to rupture their relationship with the state, things would change.
But the truth is that the vast majority of them do not hold this willingness.”
-Toi Smith
But the truth is that the vast majority of them do not hold this willingness.”
-Toi Smith
January 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
“If white people as a collective body were truly willing to rupture their relationship with the state, things would change.
But the truth is that the vast majority of them do not hold this willingness.”
-Toi Smith
But the truth is that the vast majority of them do not hold this willingness.”
-Toi Smith
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So what does the white world, the fool racists in our own country & Europe, really except from Black folk in this moment. You're infantilizing us to the point you think we have to accept orders barked at us, but it's incumbent on us alone to do all the work against fascism white people won't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
So what does the white world, the fool racists in our own country & Europe, really except from Black folk in this moment. You're infantilizing us to the point you think we have to accept orders barked at us, but it's incumbent on us alone to do all the work against fascism white people won't.
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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
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This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
January 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
A little #WalkUpMusic to lift tired feet today. youtu.be/ZRMa6eas93g?...
Hope
YouTube video by Shaggy - Topic
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January 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM
A little #WalkUpMusic to lift tired feet today. youtu.be/ZRMa6eas93g?...
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Alright… pull your chairs a little closer.
This one’s about remembering we’re not built to do any of this alone.
🎵 Lean on Me — Bill Withers
🎵 People Get Ready — The Impressions
🎵 Stand by Me — Ben E. King
If this set belongs somewhere beyond this moment, let it travel…
…in a repost.
This one’s about remembering we’re not built to do any of this alone.
🎵 Lean on Me — Bill Withers
🎵 People Get Ready — The Impressions
🎵 Stand by Me — Ben E. King
If this set belongs somewhere beyond this moment, let it travel…
…in a repost.
January 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Alright… pull your chairs a little closer.
This one’s about remembering we’re not built to do any of this alone.
🎵 Lean on Me — Bill Withers
🎵 People Get Ready — The Impressions
🎵 Stand by Me — Ben E. King
If this set belongs somewhere beyond this moment, let it travel…
…in a repost.
This one’s about remembering we’re not built to do any of this alone.
🎵 Lean on Me — Bill Withers
🎵 People Get Ready — The Impressions
🎵 Stand by Me — Ben E. King
If this set belongs somewhere beyond this moment, let it travel…
…in a repost.
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We would be cognizant of elected officials who say one thing, but vote the opposite way.
January 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
We would be cognizant of elected officials who say one thing, but vote the opposite way.
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Also, they're going to need to buy firewood this weekend for the woodstove; the propane heater's their back-up.
I think they can get a loose truck-bed load for around $250. [We can give them some in the meantime.]. A full cord is like $500.
Venmo here: account.venmo.com/u/Steven-Rom....
I think they can get a loose truck-bed load for around $250. [We can give them some in the meantime.]. A full cord is like $500.
Venmo here: account.venmo.com/u/Steven-Rom....
Venmo | Steven Romero
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
account.venmo.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Also, they're going to need to buy firewood this weekend for the woodstove; the propane heater's their back-up.
I think they can get a loose truck-bed load for around $250. [We can give them some in the meantime.]. A full cord is like $500.
Venmo here: account.venmo.com/u/Steven-Rom....
I think they can get a loose truck-bed load for around $250. [We can give them some in the meantime.]. A full cord is like $500.
Venmo here: account.venmo.com/u/Steven-Rom....
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Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.