R. Francis Williford ❤️🔥
@rfwilliford.bsky.social
Indy. Writer. Educator. PhD student. Planting what I can and seeing what blooms. Flint made me. All we have is each other. He/Him.
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My name is Rob. I'm from Flint, MI but living in Indy, an educator, PhD student in Global Leadership, & curious tinkerer/wonderer. Looking for the things that will help improve people's material conditions. Everything for everyone.
Here's a picture of me touching a tree.
My name is Rob. I'm from Flint, MI but living in Indy, an educator, PhD student in Global Leadership, & curious tinkerer/wonderer. Looking for the things that will help improve people's material conditions. Everything for everyone.
Here's a picture of me touching a tree.
financializing everything and creating tradable assets out of any difference in opinion will not be the great equalizer that folks think it will be. those you make the most will dictate directions. not indifferent to what we have right now.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
financializing everything and creating tradable assets out of any difference in opinion will not be the great equalizer that folks think it will be. those you make the most will dictate directions. not indifferent to what we have right now.
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A culture that tolerates and elevates pseudoscience will be at odds with the health of its citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A culture that tolerates and elevates pseudoscience will be at odds with the health of its citizens.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
Fear, discomfort, animosity, internal struggles for understanding the self and those around you who are different from you, unwillingness to learn, unwillingness to explore emotional attachments, uncertainty--all of these (and more) are things that can keep us inside of harmful belief systems.
August 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Fear, discomfort, animosity, internal struggles for understanding the self and those around you who are different from you, unwillingness to learn, unwillingness to explore emotional attachments, uncertainty--all of these (and more) are things that can keep us inside of harmful belief systems.
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I’m not engaging with art on an output level. I don’t care how fast the machine does a thing or how many paintings or books the machine can produce. I’m looking at art as the creative evidence of human creativity and depth. If a machine does it instead, it says nothing to me. It means nothing.
August 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m not engaging with art on an output level. I don’t care how fast the machine does a thing or how many paintings or books the machine can produce. I’m looking at art as the creative evidence of human creativity and depth. If a machine does it instead, it says nothing to me. It means nothing.
I am at least 87% romantically attracted to anything Dijon is on.
Yes, the mustard.
Yes, the singer.
*shrugs*
Yes, the mustard.
Yes, the singer.
*shrugs*
July 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am at least 87% romantically attracted to anything Dijon is on.
Yes, the mustard.
Yes, the singer.
*shrugs*
Yes, the mustard.
Yes, the singer.
*shrugs*
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A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
Easy to scroll past atrocity. If you’re comfy in your bubble, imagine being hungry, going to find food, and meeting your end instead. You would think it to be unfathomable.
Begging you to face humanity, to care about folks being slaughtered all over the world.
Begging you to face humanity, to care about folks being slaughtered all over the world.
“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
June 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Easy to scroll past atrocity. If you’re comfy in your bubble, imagine being hungry, going to find food, and meeting your end instead. You would think it to be unfathomable.
Begging you to face humanity, to care about folks being slaughtered all over the world.
Begging you to face humanity, to care about folks being slaughtered all over the world.
Late to the game but the movie “Sing, Sing” is incredible. Colman Domingo and the entire cast (inmates playing as themselves) are stunning. Such emotional depth. Makes the case that art despite circumstance can heal. We need it.
June 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Late to the game but the movie “Sing, Sing” is incredible. Colman Domingo and the entire cast (inmates playing as themselves) are stunning. Such emotional depth. Makes the case that art despite circumstance can heal. We need it.
The line that stirs me in quiet moments and in loud: “it is not a measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The line that stirs me in quiet moments and in loud: “it is not a measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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I hear calls for “civility”
I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility
I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility
June 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I hear calls for “civility”
I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility
I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility
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This is the definition of “it doesn’t have to be this way.” Because what do you even mean people are locked in a hot shipping container and facing a threat of deadly diseases or bombs?
Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday.
ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is the definition of “it doesn’t have to be this way.” Because what do you even mean people are locked in a hot shipping container and facing a threat of deadly diseases or bombs?
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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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"The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said"
More than 5 million student loan borrowers are in default. Education Department says they will be referred to debt collection
The Trump administration's announcement marks an end to a period of leniency that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. No federal student loans have been referred for collection since March 2020, inclu...
www.pbs.org
April 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said"
You ever hear a new (to you) song and think to yourself, “this would be a great first song on a playlist created to help a friend get through a tough time?”
I’m trying to compile worthy first-song-on-the-curated-playlist jams. What are yours?
(Mine today: Got To Be Mine by Vulfmon and Evangeline)
I’m trying to compile worthy first-song-on-the-curated-playlist jams. What are yours?
(Mine today: Got To Be Mine by Vulfmon and Evangeline)
April 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
You ever hear a new (to you) song and think to yourself, “this would be a great first song on a playlist created to help a friend get through a tough time?”
I’m trying to compile worthy first-song-on-the-curated-playlist jams. What are yours?
(Mine today: Got To Be Mine by Vulfmon and Evangeline)
I’m trying to compile worthy first-song-on-the-curated-playlist jams. What are yours?
(Mine today: Got To Be Mine by Vulfmon and Evangeline)
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I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom.
I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others
I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom.
I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others
I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others
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Libraries are vital, providing access to information, technology, and learning. Cutting IMLS funding threatens these services, especially in underserved areas. Library funding isn’t political—it’s an investment in education, opportunity, and civic engagement. #LibraryLove #ForOurLibraries ala.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Libraries are vital, providing access to information, technology, and learning. Cutting IMLS funding threatens these services, especially in underserved areas. Library funding isn’t political—it’s an investment in education, opportunity, and civic engagement. #LibraryLove #ForOurLibraries ala.org
I’ll never get over Irving and Burt.
March 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’ll never get over Irving and Burt.