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v. ashley
@vashetc.bsky.social
doktora | research+policy | perpetually horizontal †

ID’s: Brown skin woman wearing white knitted vest smiles. Banner - Sepia picture of a couple getting married with family around them.

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.
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This study is so well done and I can't wait to see the results.

Highly encourage people with ME and those who provide health care for them to participat:
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February 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I have watched the halftime show too many times. Help.
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Been talking to my friends lately (who are also Christian) about how funny God is. Recently he positioned me to support a project that is somewhat of a dream to me. But it’s also affiliated with people that even two years ago I likely wouldn’t have shared a room with. He is doing a work in me.
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Hi everyone, I have a last minute doctors appointment in LA and transport costs $450 plus the medical hotel $400. If you have any spare change would appreciate help ❤️

I know you always see me posting about work but it is all essentially for the free.99. 😞 Praying one day that’ll change.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I actually get into it a little during this interview with Our Data Bodies (whom I love)!
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This is wild to say but in high school the police on campus would routinely gas us with pepper spray if a fight broke out, I’m talking pepper spray the entire cafeteria. they had these massive canisters. I thought this was normal until graduate school.
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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🚨 Update: Hate attack on Amaranth Alley Pantry.

Pride Was A Riot, Sac will be coordinating outreach activities from the @amaranthalleypantry this week in order to further alarm local businesses and residents about the whitepower group that attacked the Amaranth Alley Pantry.
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 AM
color guard ppl and marching band folks know how much work goes into setting up a field for performance, can you imagine a Super Bowl???? Sometimes I get goosebumps thinking about it
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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Me: literally not a trace of puerto rican ancestry

Me tonight: 🇵🇷
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Also, that was indeed LA’s own Villas Tacos making a cameo with Bad Bunny www.instagram.com/reel/DUhNhxb...
February 9, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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great performances! (folks who didn't watch the [sadly separate] signed stream may not know that the halftime show was signed in Puerto Rican Sign Language by a Puerto Rican deaf interpreter who tours with Bad Bunny!)
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
My brothers first job is IT at a big Las Vegas casino and he’s just in the group chat talking about how badly he wants the Super Bowl to be over 😂😂😂😂
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
i think the the sugarcane plantation scene really hit me not only bc it’s black history month but also bc I’m ilokano and so many of my people were brought to Hawaii to work on the sugar cane plantations. My family migrated a similar route ilocos > Hawaii > california and it just hit me deep
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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So many Latinos both in their homelands and in the US have relationship w nature through worker exploitation. I don’t know bad bunny well, so honestly when the opening shots came and I see workers in fields? I was about to get pissed. oh are we about to get happy farm labor songs at the superbowl?
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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As a former migrant worker (not even a teenager at the time)- it’s important to notice what they’re all doing as he’s being people together thru song. They’re emerging from the fields, in solidarity. And the fields are no longer a place of exploitation/violence but *nature* supporting her people.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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I think the ‘less obvious’ politics here is that the entire thing started off with workers in the fields and ended with community dancing and emerging in solidarity from the fields. I think it’s beautiful that he named every country and all the peoples voices rising up- AND-
Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"
February 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Please stop. I can’t cry any more that I already have. when I was watching it felt like a real wedding
OMG it's true 😍💍❣️
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
I dare say this SuperBowl may have ranked higher than Kendrick’s for me which is blasphemy (Kendrick’s number one fan over here). But I can’t get over it. and yes we shouldn’t compare but as a consumer of art… im comparing haha
February 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
This is what started the waterworks lol
Remarkable to see sugarcane plantation work depicted in the Superbowl halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Puerto Ricans dancing on electrical poles is about as big a political statement you could make at a Super Bowl halftime show. The only way that could have been more explicit is if Bad Bunny started tossing rolls of paper towels to the dancers
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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it was the lil sapo concho toad on the jumbotron that started the tears over here.

wearemitu.com/wearemitu/en...
Meet Sapo Concho: The Endangered Toad Getting a Glow-Up in Bad Bunny’s Album
Bad Bunny’s new album and film spotlight Puerto Rico’s culture, history, and the endangered sapo concho toad in the most iconic way.
wearemitu.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...
During his Administration, Hurricane Maria knocked out power to 1.5 million people in Puerto Rico and it didn’t get restored for ABOUT A YEAR! It was the largest blackout in U.S. history. This should be line one of any hurricane recovery political coverage. www.vox.com/identities/2...
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM