Cici (they/she)
@polychromic.bsky.social
🗽🏳️🌈Socialist. Environmental ecology nerd: soil science & limnology lover. Aloof spouse, dog parent- READ BANNED BOOKS. Public comment on project proposals, protect the environment.
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Today and every day, remember that trans rights are human rights.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today and every day, remember that trans rights are human rights.
Went to our local red cup rally to support our favorite barista, there were other unions (mfe, SEIU) there in solidarity and to speak. I overheard a person from DSA biked to St Anthony from Uptown to picket/march. Lots of folks honking in agreement as they drove by too 💚
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Went to our local red cup rally to support our favorite barista, there were other unions (mfe, SEIU) there in solidarity and to speak. I overheard a person from DSA biked to St Anthony from Uptown to picket/march. Lots of folks honking in agreement as they drove by too 💚
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I don’t know, I feel like making the one thing illegal that’s keeping millions of people from snapping right now might not be the wisest move
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I don’t know, I feel like making the one thing illegal that’s keeping millions of people from snapping right now might not be the wisest move
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Also, due process is about how you're treated by the government, it's not about whether or not you deserve to be given a platform or leadership position. People use "due process" as a shield for everything and that is not what it is.
richard carlbom was asked about cyndy martin remaining on the CRBC and basically said “due process exists in this country.”
i don’t think there is any dispute cyndy martin hit and killed that teenager with her car and didn’t call 911 until the next morning, regardless of the criminal trial
i don’t think there is any dispute cyndy martin hit and killed that teenager with her car and didn’t call 911 until the next morning, regardless of the criminal trial
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Also, due process is about how you're treated by the government, it's not about whether or not you deserve to be given a platform or leadership position. People use "due process" as a shield for everything and that is not what it is.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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ALSO: Cannabis should be legalized federally too.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ALSO: Cannabis should be legalized federally too.
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Here is a time-lapse of the November 11, 2025 aurora from Bloomington, MN.
#astrophotography #aurora
#astrophotography #aurora
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Here is a time-lapse of the November 11, 2025 aurora from Bloomington, MN.
#astrophotography #aurora
#astrophotography #aurora
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪
www.tmt.org/news/708
www.tmt.org/news/708
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is pretty significant and that it’s been 11 years since they tried to build on Maunakea and Kanaka Maoli protectors have successfully impeded them is a major victory for traditional knowledge keepers and people fighting for Kanaka sovereignty. 🔭🧪
www.tmt.org/news/708
www.tmt.org/news/708
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
I REALLY needed the sky to show me something pretty. 🌌 Wow!
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I REALLY needed the sky to show me something pretty. 🌌 Wow!
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my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
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I reached out to federal delegation to get some answers on this project. It’s a surprise and a very unwelcome one.
No home for ICE and CBP in Saint Paul.
No home for ICE and CBP in Saint Paul.
From a St Paul Dept of Safety and Inspections email: construction permit for a new $11m CBP building construction permit at 670 Bayfield Street next to the downtown StP airport. Note location right near the runways. "Great" place to deport from! @mollycoleman.bsky.social @melvincarter.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I reached out to federal delegation to get some answers on this project. It’s a surprise and a very unwelcome one.
No home for ICE and CBP in Saint Paul.
No home for ICE and CBP in Saint Paul.
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Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
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In this moment, we need Democrats to fight for more than a return to the status quo. We need to build a country where all families can thrive - not just billionaires.
So today, I'm laying out my priorities - I hope you'll visit my website and learn more: peggyflanagan.com/priorities/
So today, I'm laying out my priorities - I hope you'll visit my website and learn more: peggyflanagan.com/priorities/
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In this moment, we need Democrats to fight for more than a return to the status quo. We need to build a country where all families can thrive - not just billionaires.
So today, I'm laying out my priorities - I hope you'll visit my website and learn more: peggyflanagan.com/priorities/
So today, I'm laying out my priorities - I hope you'll visit my website and learn more: peggyflanagan.com/priorities/
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
🧵
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
🧵
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
🧵
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
🧵
The sirens of mourning begin their wail.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The sirens of mourning begin their wail.
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If you haven’t yet, and want to join the thousands of twin citians who have signed up for the defense of our immigrant neighbors, there’s several more trainings this month:
11/11 Chaska
11/20 Plymouth
11/23 Longfellow Mpls
11/25 Kingfield Mpls
12/4 Bancroft Mpls
More info here
monarcamn.org
11/11 Chaska
11/20 Plymouth
11/23 Longfellow Mpls
11/25 Kingfield Mpls
12/4 Bancroft Mpls
More info here
monarcamn.org
Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you haven’t yet, and want to join the thousands of twin citians who have signed up for the defense of our immigrant neighbors, there’s several more trainings this month:
11/11 Chaska
11/20 Plymouth
11/23 Longfellow Mpls
11/25 Kingfield Mpls
12/4 Bancroft Mpls
More info here
monarcamn.org
11/11 Chaska
11/20 Plymouth
11/23 Longfellow Mpls
11/25 Kingfield Mpls
12/4 Bancroft Mpls
More info here
monarcamn.org
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so proud of Senator Omar Fateh, his campaign team, and everything they did to put up a good fight against the entire bullshit status quo of both the DFL and the right wing
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
so proud of Senator Omar Fateh, his campaign team, and everything they did to put up a good fight against the entire bullshit status quo of both the DFL and the right wing
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The siren at 1pm is to warn you of four more years of this bullshit.
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The siren at 1pm is to warn you of four more years of this bullshit.
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Thank you, Minneapolis!
While this wasn’t the outcome we wanted, I am incredibly grateful to every single person who supported our grassroots campaign.
I’ll keep fighting alongside you to build the city we deserve. Onward.
While this wasn’t the outcome we wanted, I am incredibly grateful to every single person who supported our grassroots campaign.
I’ll keep fighting alongside you to build the city we deserve. Onward.
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank you, Minneapolis!
While this wasn’t the outcome we wanted, I am incredibly grateful to every single person who supported our grassroots campaign.
I’ll keep fighting alongside you to build the city we deserve. Onward.
While this wasn’t the outcome we wanted, I am incredibly grateful to every single person who supported our grassroots campaign.
I’ll keep fighting alongside you to build the city we deserve. Onward.
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With this election over, my next organizing projects are 1) coalition building for the DFL, to build our bench to win in 2026 and 2) resisting the Minneapolis Charter Commission's efforts to weaken the separation of powers.🧵
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
With this election over, my next organizing projects are 1) coalition building for the DFL, to build our bench to win in 2026 and 2) resisting the Minneapolis Charter Commission's efforts to weaken the separation of powers.🧵
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Today I am tired, but I think I'm also ready for four years of being extremely annoying and making his job his problem.
Remember, we aren't trapped in here with him, he is trapped in here with *us*.
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today I am tired, but I think I'm also ready for four years of being extremely annoying and making his job his problem.