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Patti Poblete
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PhD, feminist, social justice warrior, rhetoric & writing program admin scholar, composition teacher, pop culture enthusiast, wanderer, using she/her pronouns. Mostly Filipina and an ex-pat Canadian.
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voleuseck.bsky.social
Blog post! Could You Repeat That? CCX: All the books I read in December.

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Could You Repeat That? CCX
Heartless Hunter , Kristen Ciccarelli "Where exactly are you going to hide this tracing while you dance and flirt all night?" She smirked ...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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accentedcinema.bsky.social
Philippine Airlines has the best Inflight Safety Video, and I just have to share it with you all. I know what that sounds like, but please watch it. This is absolute cinema.
youtu.be/2UkTBuEx-ek

Thank to you our Patreon supporter for sharing this with us. Wow.
Philippine Airlines Inflight Safety Video #PALSafetynovela | Care That Comes From The Heart
YouTube video by Philippine Airlines
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January 4, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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da7e.com
“Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army You know what I mean?.” - D&D NPC from five years ago probably lives in my head more than any other live play moment.
January 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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themultiplemom.bsky.social
People can’t afford childcare the way previous generations could. Babysitting culture is pretty much gone. Everyone is burnt out, overstimulated, and stretched thin…and that’s exactly why folks end up bringing their kids into places that were never meant for kids in the first place.
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
I am perversely nostalgic for a vanished era when news of this sort would keep me up all night with anxiety and anger because it didn't happen all the time
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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purlgurly.bsky.social
"Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception..."
cristianfarias.com Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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rebekahtromble.bsky.social
My first big prediction of 2026: Sports and culture (see Kennedy Center) will do more to right authoritarian wrongs in the US than will politics (either domestic or international).
graymattersrep.bsky.social The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 1d
at this point it's especially hard to see how the world cup can take place in the US - there are bound to be large numbers of players who refuse to travel here, let alone the fiasco of trying to sell tickets to fans from other countries

and if that collapses the olympics probably will as well
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.

It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
voleuseck.bsky.social
Anyone ever get a paper handout of something that includes embedded links and then, like, helplessly poked the links with your finger? Just me?
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
voleuseck.bsky.social
Just got the loveliest catcall: "Hey girl, my friend likes you--he thinks you elegant!"
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
voleuseck.bsky.social
Guys, I just shotgunned an entire Turkish coffee and everything feels diamond bright now
December 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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spooloflies.bsky.social
URGENT LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS WARNING:

Your best friend would not want you to trade your rubber duckie or your paper clip collection for a cigar box or a soap dish.
December 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
voleuseck.bsky.social
My aunt decided Cocaine Bear was going to be the family holiday movie this year, lol.
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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pwnallthethings.bsky.social
Hamlet: and I, Hamlet, vow to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and ...
Ghost: wait ... did you say Hamlet?
Hamlet: yes?
Ghost: not Scrooge?
Hamlet: ... no?
Ghost (scrolling increasingly desperately through Google calendar) oh shiii..
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Government services aren't businesses. Delivering mail to citizens is something we pay for.

But if these are businesses, you won't believe how much money the military loses.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 11d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
voleuseck.bsky.social
I'm 45 years old and my father still doesn't understand I hate olives on pizza.
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
thinking of the introverted woman who said she's never felt FOMO. she's only felt ROMO (Relief Of Missing Out)
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
You ever think how Star-nosed moles are just out there existing without permission, all the time, even while you’re sleeping.
A photo of a horrifying star-nosed mole with giant claws an a nose that suggests two bright red anemones
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
voleuseck.bsky.social
Just saw #Hamnet and I may never recover BUT ALSO that actor who played Hamlet would have been telling stories about that performance for the rest of his goddamn life.
December 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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andiwrites.bsky.social
Entering my Luddite era.

Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3166 confronts his two greatest fears
Bunnies on a plane encounter snakes on a plane!The main snake is going down the aisle, nonchalantly . They are on an evening flight on an airbus
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
voleuseck.bsky.social
Finally watching the original #InterviewWithTheVampire film, and Cruise's delivery of, "Shut up, Louis!" when the house burns is possibly my favorite acting of his I've seen.
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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scalzi.com
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
POND RULES: No swimming, jumping or gallivanting. Do not disturb the pond witch. No fishing with dynamite. Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS! Taunt the crows at your own risk. If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away. Do not feed the weretrout. Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger! They’re not ducks. Run. Have fun!
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM