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@tumblesweed.bsky.social
ex-professor. current indie contract grant manager for rural and small Black-led and Native-led nonprofits. Sovereigntist. Abolitionist. White-privileged Yo'eme diaspora. masked. novavaxxed. land back. water back.
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@tumblesweed.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Okay. This is going to be my baking thread. Follow along with me on my journey if you want.
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Holding Apache Stronghold in my heart tonight. Will tune in to the hearing tomorrow at 9:30 AZ.
Apache Leader Walks 60 Miles to Court Hearing That Will Decide Fate of Sacred Oak Flat. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...
Apache Leader Walks 60 Miles to Court Hearing That Will Decide Fate of Sacred Oak Flat
The leader of an organization that has been facing off against a foreign mining company with designs on destroying a sacred Indigenous site is walking more than 60 miles across Arizona to attend a cou...
nativenewsonline.net
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Holding Apache Stronghold in my heart tonight. Will tune in to the hearing tomorrow at 9:30 AZ.
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One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc
Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows.
gizmodo.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc
Just gonna go ahead and recommend the bacterial meningitis vaccine. My mother got meningitis in 2006. I was working at the ER at the time and heard the emergency response send paramedics to her address. I had known she was sick with "a cold," so I panicked and left work to meet them there.
January 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Just gonna go ahead and recommend the bacterial meningitis vaccine. My mother got meningitis in 2006. I was working at the ER at the time and heard the emergency response send paramedics to her address. I had known she was sick with "a cold," so I panicked and left work to meet them there.
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This is for Musk, right?
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
This is for Musk, right?
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it's 2026. Transphobia needs to be ruthlessly shut down. No excuses.
January 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
it's 2026. Transphobia needs to be ruthlessly shut down. No excuses.
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Wow an article that erases me as the only living survivor of the #YourSlipIsShowingHashtag, probably because if you include me then you're not just talking about Black women, you're talking about a Black transmasculine person. 🫠🫠🫠
Another great piece from one of my co-fellows in the OpEd Project Technology in the Public Interest program.
Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming - www.essence.com/news/money-c...
Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming - www.essence.com/news/money-c...
Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming | Essence
For years, Black women have sounded the alarm about digital manipulation. X’s new policies prove how right they were.
www.essence.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Wow an article that erases me as the only living survivor of the #YourSlipIsShowingHashtag, probably because if you include me then you're not just talking about Black women, you're talking about a Black transmasculine person. 🫠🫠🫠
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“Make sure you run the next imperialist coup by congress first,” is not actually a good response to this
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
“Make sure you run the next imperialist coup by congress first,” is not actually a good response to this
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Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?
Have you tried and failed?
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The near record high tide/storm surge on Monterey Bay took out decent chunk of west cliff.
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The near record high tide/storm surge on Monterey Bay took out decent chunk of west cliff.
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We will continue to follow evidence-based science to protect the health of children here in Washington state. Questions about #vaccines? Please talk to your health care provider and visit doh.wa.gov/vaccines.
January 6, 2026 at 1:54 AM
We will continue to follow evidence-based science to protect the health of children here in Washington state. Questions about #vaccines? Please talk to your health care provider and visit doh.wa.gov/vaccines.
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My personal guiding question remains this:
What have I done to alleviate suffering today?
Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.
What have I done to alleviate suffering today?
Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.
As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
My personal guiding question remains this:
What have I done to alleviate suffering today?
Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.
What have I done to alleviate suffering today?
Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.
The US needs to be stopped
Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen is blunt:
If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀
If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The US needs to be stopped
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According to the government in Iceland: USA will not be allowed to use our island as a staging ground for invasion of Greenland. Personal thought: I don’t know how we could stop them since we have no military and thought being in NATO would protect us from something like that.
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
According to the government in Iceland: USA will not be allowed to use our island as a staging ground for invasion of Greenland. Personal thought: I don’t know how we could stop them since we have no military and thought being in NATO would protect us from something like that.
Sometimes you're just a gen xennial who needs to cry it out to The Cranberries song "Empty"
January 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Sometimes you're just a gen xennial who needs to cry it out to The Cranberries song "Empty"
everything since 2020 has removed my desire to shitpost.
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
everything since 2020 has removed my desire to shitpost.
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This cutie is always looking for new friends✨
January 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This cutie is always looking for new friends✨
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
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fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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We must all hang together or we will all hang separately. Recent years have disabused me of a lot of my longest-held beliefs but not that one. Solidarity or death; those are the choices
January 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
We must all hang together or we will all hang separately. Recent years have disabused me of a lot of my longest-held beliefs but not that one. Solidarity or death; those are the choices
Apropos of nothing but I was thinking about how The Revolutionary War was only "successful" because rich white man landowners decided to do something about taxation without representation. It was us poors who had to fight the war they started...
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Apropos of nothing but I was thinking about how The Revolutionary War was only "successful" because rich white man landowners decided to do something about taxation without representation. It was us poors who had to fight the war they started...
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Oh baby. Sit down and let me tell you about Grand Rapids, MI. This is precisely on brand. They are brazen.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Oh baby. Sit down and let me tell you about Grand Rapids, MI. This is precisely on brand. They are brazen.
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Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
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I'm still so mad they banned Ruaa :(( Please PLEASE share her campaign. She has been trying to get shelter while Gaza has been having strong rains and winds and a drop in temperature. Palestinians are freezing to death :(((
32 hours left to get Ruaa shelter ⚠️ Her survival fund is down to dollars a day, but Ruaa's family urgently needs to secure shelter before more rain arrives at the end of the week. So we answer the call, right?
274/500. Click "weekly" or "monthly" if you can! #FreeRuaa chuffed.org/project/help...
274/500. Click "weekly" or "monthly" if you can! #FreeRuaa chuffed.org/project/help...
Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from Gaza, raise funds to help her family survive.
chuffed.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I'm still so mad they banned Ruaa :(( Please PLEASE share her campaign. She has been trying to get shelter while Gaza has been having strong rains and winds and a drop in temperature. Palestinians are freezing to death :(((
THEY BANNED RUAA?!
This site is no better than the other ones.
This site is no better than the other ones.
January 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
THEY BANNED RUAA?!
This site is no better than the other ones.
This site is no better than the other ones.