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@shinyobjects3.bsky.social
PNW Inhabitant

Easily distracted by shiny objects.

Strive against the odds to make a model of balancing people, prosperity, and the planet. Gaia warrior.
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Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.
Government Officials Once Stopped False Accusations After Violence. Now, Some Join In.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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After Jan 6, the U.S. far right had to find a frame that could distract and shift blame from their election fraud lies. They settled on “censorship” — which made their lying villains into “free speech” heroes, and allowed them to target all of the people and orgs that tried to hold them to account.
Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”
December 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Huge list of naughty anti environmental actions👇

Looking Back at a Historic Year of Dismantling Climate Policies www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
Looking Back at a Historic Year of Dismantling Climate Policies
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
any ole rhyme or reason will do

Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Audre Lorde writes,there is

"A grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe."
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
December 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
arbor poetry💚
A skeleton held inside
Stiffened by what
It used to be
The centre dies
So the crown can live
Green upon grey

#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#writing
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters
#writingcommunity
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
all that
and
we dance
Celebrate the solstice the old fashioned way.
Gather moss from forgotten tombs, wear a garland of ancient goblin bones to ward off fairy mischief, and enter into a drinking contest with the old gods of the wood.
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I’ll be thinking about the last two paragraphs of this article. Has the American pressure on Venezuela for regime change been peaceful?

How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
Opinion | How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In his book Man’s Search for Meaning (1946), Frankl wrote of his wartime experiences: ‘Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.’
December 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable.

Feminism has not failed women.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
e. con .omy
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Slop: “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.”

www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
www.merriam-webster.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
…”What has come with Trump, I’ve never experienced anything like it,” said one aid worker who has been in Kakuma for decades. “It’s huge and brutal and traumatizing.”…

www.propublica.org/article/keny...
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
December 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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