Shannon
@storiteller.bsky.social
Parenting snark, social and climate justice, scicomm, and nerd stuff. She/her
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Shannon
@storiteller.bsky.social
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“Look up there, Mr. Frodo. There is light no shadow can touch.” - Samwise Gamgee, describing the beautiful clouds in the sky in Return of the King. May we all remember this light.
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
“Look up there, Mr. Frodo. There is light no shadow can touch.” - Samwise Gamgee, describing the beautiful clouds in the sky in Return of the King. May we all remember this light.
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Two kids in the deadly cold, and you *have helped.* A little while ago, you enabled this family to get shelter before another rainstorm hit. Nothing but transformative.
Let’s keep it going for rent, nutrition, education costs. Give/find their link here:
Let’s keep it going for rent, nutrition, education costs. Give/find their link here:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Two kids in the deadly cold, and you *have helped.* A little while ago, you enabled this family to get shelter before another rainstorm hit. Nothing but transformative.
Let’s keep it going for rent, nutrition, education costs. Give/find their link here:
Let’s keep it going for rent, nutrition, education costs. Give/find their link here:
Great example of journalism highlighting the effects of climate change in a place that doesn’t get a lot of attention but has deep effects on the people there:
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Where the sky keeps bursting
A Washington Post investigation shows why much of the eastern U.S. is increasingly vulnerable to extreme rain and floods.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Great example of journalism highlighting the effects of climate change in a place that doesn’t get a lot of attention but has deep effects on the people there:
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Everyone has a role to play in making change (including resisting ICE’s violence). How can you fit in? welleatyouupweloveyouso.substack.com/p/what-part-...
What Part of the Tree Are You?
We all have a role to play, even when it's less front-and-center...
welleatyouupweloveyouso.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Everyone has a role to play in making change (including resisting ICE’s violence). How can you fit in? welleatyouupweloveyouso.substack.com/p/what-part-...
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people are always like “what link do i give to?!”
one giant pile of money is actually not a great way to help people. people choosing a variety of places to give helps keep the money moving. no one org gets flooded to the point of breaking.
a PTA, the mutual aid venmo, can move $ even faster.
one giant pile of money is actually not a great way to help people. people choosing a variety of places to give helps keep the money moving. no one org gets flooded to the point of breaking.
a PTA, the mutual aid venmo, can move $ even faster.
January 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
people are always like “what link do i give to?!”
one giant pile of money is actually not a great way to help people. people choosing a variety of places to give helps keep the money moving. no one org gets flooded to the point of breaking.
a PTA, the mutual aid venmo, can move $ even faster.
one giant pile of money is actually not a great way to help people. people choosing a variety of places to give helps keep the money moving. no one org gets flooded to the point of breaking.
a PTA, the mutual aid venmo, can move $ even faster.
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I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
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LTRY is also currently available at 20% off - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
January 26, 2026 at 6:51 PM
LTRY is also currently available at 20% off - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
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If you work for ICE, most people actually do despise you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 PM
If you work for ICE, most people actually do despise you.
“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.” Gandalf. We are all the Fellowship, whether Frodo, Sam or Gimli or anyone.
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.” Gandalf. We are all the Fellowship, whether Frodo, Sam or Gimli or anyone.
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I think my favorite part of this tweet is the idea that an ENTIRE STATE of OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE should elect its leaders solely to satisfy the approximately FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE who work for GOP Congressional offices.
Tell me a more on-brand message than making 99.94% of the people cater to 0.06%.
Tell me a more on-brand message than making 99.94% of the people cater to 0.06%.
January 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I think my favorite part of this tweet is the idea that an ENTIRE STATE of OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE should elect its leaders solely to satisfy the approximately FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE who work for GOP Congressional offices.
Tell me a more on-brand message than making 99.94% of the people cater to 0.06%.
Tell me a more on-brand message than making 99.94% of the people cater to 0.06%.
When I get spun up in my own head, I can’t function. And that’s not good for anyone, including me. Here’s how I try to ground myself (with varying success) when I get overwhelmed: open.substack.com/pub/welleaty...
Gaining Perspective in Troubled Times
On how I try to get a handle on things when there is *so* much happening...
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:04 PM
When I get spun up in my own head, I can’t function. And that’s not good for anyone, including me. Here’s how I try to ground myself (with varying success) when I get overwhelmed: open.substack.com/pub/welleaty...
Heartbreaking story about the children who are truly hurt by laws and attitudes condemning trans people in sports. I hope she can find a home and a way to run: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
For young transgender runner, racing wasn’t the hardest thing
Verónica García overcame poverty to become a high school track champion — twice. It made her famous for all the wrong reasons.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Heartbreaking story about the children who are truly hurt by laws and attitudes condemning trans people in sports. I hope she can find a home and a way to run: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
I think I have achieved middle-aged person nirvana - I had a teenager randomly approach me and tell me I was very cool. My husband said I should have said, "My children disagree" but I just thanked her.
December 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I think I have achieved middle-aged person nirvana - I had a teenager randomly approach me and tell me I was very cool. My husband said I should have said, "My children disagree" but I just thanked her.
I have loved the Smithsonian museums since I first visited them when I was 10. I hate reading exhibits now and wondering if they will be gone soon because they mention certain subjects that the administration wants to eliminate any mention of.
December 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I have loved the Smithsonian museums since I first visited them when I was 10. I hate reading exhibits now and wondering if they will be gone soon because they mention certain subjects that the administration wants to eliminate any mention of.
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"Andrea" sent us this video for McFarland CA where she is harvesting Mandarin oranges. "It is very tough work going up the ladder all day and moving the ladder in place, but this work feeds my family. We get paid $60 for each 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Andrea" sent us this video for McFarland CA where she is harvesting Mandarin oranges. "It is very tough work going up the ladder all day and moving the ladder in place, but this work feeds my family. We get paid $60 for each 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou
Kid: <talking about video games>
Me: Honey, I need to go get ready.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: I really need to go.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: <leaves room>
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: Honey, I need to go get ready.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: I really need to go.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: <leaves room>
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
December 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Kid: <talking about video games>
Me: Honey, I need to go get ready.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: I really need to go.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: <leaves room>
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: Honey, I need to go get ready.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: I really need to go.
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Me: <leaves room>
Kid: <keeps talking about video games>
Beautiful article chronicling an amazing way of healing the land and people together: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Beautiful article chronicling an amazing way of healing the land and people together: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
Love this philosophy. It’s similar to mine - just organic but purposeful conversations combined with money they can choose where to put it. For our kids, it’s part of their weekly allowance. My older son has put it towards the rabbit rescue he volunteers for in the past few years.
Don’t remember? When they were old enough to be able to engage w/ the concept? But we’ve *always* talked about our giving with them, had a tzedekah box for loose coins that we’d turn into bills when it was full & decide together where to donate that – v concrete for littles— so it’s organic. AND+
This is excellent. What age did you start doing this with them?
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Love this philosophy. It’s similar to mine - just organic but purposeful conversations combined with money they can choose where to put it. For our kids, it’s part of their weekly allowance. My older son has put it towards the rabbit rescue he volunteers for in the past few years.
It is deeply fulfilling as an author to go to your local library's website and see that someone has your book checked out.
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It is deeply fulfilling as an author to go to your local library's website and see that someone has your book checked out.
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The qualified immunity pleadings and ultimate denial of Bivens claims are going to be rage-inducing and I am 100% here for it.
This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The qualified immunity pleadings and ultimate denial of Bivens claims are going to be rage-inducing and I am 100% here for it.
This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
Celebrating wins is so important for boosting people’s perceptions that progress is possible. That makes it more likely that they will engage. Hurray for progress on the Chesapeake Bay: www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
As governors gather in Baltimore, the Chesapeake Bay shows gains worth cheering
Even if you’ve followed this stuff for years, even if you know the difference between a Taylor float and a Secchi disk, it can be hard to have hope about the future of the Chesapeake Bay. I’m here to ...
www.thebanner.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Celebrating wins is so important for boosting people’s perceptions that progress is possible. That makes it more likely that they will engage. Hurray for progress on the Chesapeake Bay: www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...