Velocirapturtle
@velocirapturtle.bsky.social
Worker. Non-practicing writer.
Political junkie & fan of nuance.
Political junkie & fan of nuance.
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…All of these are techniques that schools actively teach students to identify & use in good writing…
“Set of three”=an ascending tricolon
“Overtly parallel structure”=ring composition & chiasmus
“Impersonal writing”=3rd person perspective, not using “I” in formal non-fiction writing
“Set of three”=an ascending tricolon
“Overtly parallel structure”=ring composition & chiasmus
“Impersonal writing”=3rd person perspective, not using “I” in formal non-fiction writing
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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And if you add in protests from Friday/Saturday, the entire weekend would look like this.
June 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
And if you add in protests from Friday/Saturday, the entire weekend would look like this.
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Today, we are releasing our Freedom Budget for All Americans, a 9-pillar outline to eradicate poverty.
The original Freedom Budget for All Americans was created by A. Philip Randolph, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & Bayard Rustin.
Full Freedom Budget 🧵
Today, we are releasing our Freedom Budget for All Americans, a 9-pillar outline to eradicate poverty.
The original Freedom Budget for All Americans was created by A. Philip Randolph, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & Bayard Rustin.
Full Freedom Budget 🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Today, we are releasing our Freedom Budget for All Americans, a 9-pillar outline to eradicate poverty.
The original Freedom Budget for All Americans was created by A. Philip Randolph, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & Bayard Rustin.
Full Freedom Budget 🧵
Today, we are releasing our Freedom Budget for All Americans, a 9-pillar outline to eradicate poverty.
The original Freedom Budget for All Americans was created by A. Philip Randolph, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & Bayard Rustin.
Full Freedom Budget 🧵
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PRIMARY
10 Democrats voted with all Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
House censures Democrat Al Green over his outburst at Trump's speech
The House voted on Thursday to censure Democrat Al Green over his outburst at President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
abcnews.go.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
PRIMARY
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Colorado last year *required* jails to set up voting stations so people behind bars could vote — a first for any state ever.
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups - Bolts
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but Colorado's first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Colorado last year *required* jails to set up voting stations so people behind bars could vote — a first for any state ever.
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
And how'd it go? Fantastic.
In 2022, 231 people in CO jails voted. But in 2024, 2,300+ in CO jails voted.
That's a nearly tenfold jump.
boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...
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In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.
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They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded
What annoys me most about the anti-DEI attacks: We already rolled back, then ended affirmative action. Ask yourself: Where is this going? What more do they want?
If we roll back & then end DEI, what's next? Remember, theirs is a political movement that wants to position empathy itself as a vice...
If we roll back & then end DEI, what's next? Remember, theirs is a political movement that wants to position empathy itself as a vice...
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded
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The minute it became obvious that white women were approaching a socioeconomic position en masse where they might never choose to play second fiddle to white men, the slow-moving machine of misogyny got a jump start.
February 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The minute it became obvious that white women were approaching a socioeconomic position en masse where they might never choose to play second fiddle to white men, the slow-moving machine of misogyny got a jump start.
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If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.
January 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.
Current Mood: Bernard Sanders
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Current Mood: Bernard Sanders
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I am proud to endorse Faiz Shakir (@faiz.bsky.social) as Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Faiz not only has the right working class credibility, vision, and insight for this moment, but he also has the vast experience needed to operate and rebuild the DNC. 1/2
January 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I am proud to endorse Faiz Shakir (@faiz.bsky.social) as Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Faiz not only has the right working class credibility, vision, and insight for this moment, but he also has the vast experience needed to operate and rebuild the DNC. 1/2
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A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it.
January 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it.
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How goddamn depressing and disappointing and frustrating. So all that talk about fighting fascism was just another campaign strategy. I mean it was easy to be cynical and I suspected as much but this is just a breathtaking abdication of their duty to the American people
January 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How goddamn depressing and disappointing and frustrating. So all that talk about fighting fascism was just another campaign strategy. I mean it was easy to be cynical and I suspected as much but this is just a breathtaking abdication of their duty to the American people
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BREAKING: No more free water at Starbucks, no more free restroom use, and no more hanging out in the lobby unless you're buying something.
Workers and customers are getting nickeled and dimed by company that pays its celebrity CEO $57,000 AN HOUR. 🧵
Workers and customers are getting nickeled and dimed by company that pays its celebrity CEO $57,000 AN HOUR. 🧵
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: No more free water at Starbucks, no more free restroom use, and no more hanging out in the lobby unless you're buying something.
Workers and customers are getting nickeled and dimed by company that pays its celebrity CEO $57,000 AN HOUR. 🧵
Workers and customers are getting nickeled and dimed by company that pays its celebrity CEO $57,000 AN HOUR. 🧵
This place is already starting to feel shittier 😔
January 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This place is already starting to feel shittier 😔
At what point does one have the ability to file legitimate elder abuse cases against individuals complicit in this kind of thing? For real y’all.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/miss...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/miss...
'Missing' GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew
A Republican Congresswoman from Texas who has been "missing" for the past six months has finally been found.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:00 PM
At what point does one have the ability to file legitimate elder abuse cases against individuals complicit in this kind of thing? For real y’all.
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/miss...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/miss...
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“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine
December 17, 2024 at 7:49 PM
“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine
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A stunning 34 members of the U.S. Congress - including @aoc.bsky.social, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Jim McGovern - have sent a letter to Biden calling on him to pardon me after I was targeted by Chevron with the nation’s first corporate prosecution. Grateful.
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December 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
A stunning 34 members of the U.S. Congress - including @aoc.bsky.social, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Jim McGovern - have sent a letter to Biden calling on him to pardon me after I was targeted by Chevron with the nation’s first corporate prosecution. Grateful.
mcgovern.house.gov/uploadedfile...
mcgovern.house.gov/uploadedfile...
Seeking advice for dealing with pressure/weather related attacks. It’s the only trigger that is 100% out of my control and it happens to pretty reliably be my worst one.
Any success stories with WeatherX earplugs or something similar? or are they just more snake oil?
#migrainechat
Any success stories with WeatherX earplugs or something similar? or are they just more snake oil?
#migrainechat
a woman is holding a microphone and saying hi this is karen smith ..
Alt: GIF of Karen Smith in the movie Mean Girld reporting the weather saying, “Hi, this is Karen Smith. It’s 68 degrees and there’s a 30% chance that it’s already raining”
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Seeking advice for dealing with pressure/weather related attacks. It’s the only trigger that is 100% out of my control and it happens to pretty reliably be my worst one.
Any success stories with WeatherX earplugs or something similar? or are they just more snake oil?
#migrainechat
Any success stories with WeatherX earplugs or something similar? or are they just more snake oil?
#migrainechat