Willy Lee (they/them)
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Enby 🏳️⚧️ learning to free themselves from the patriarchy and getting to know anarchy
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We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Instead of my usual Friday shift with @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social , I got my 2nd shingles shot and went to the dentist. Then sat on the porch working on hygiene kits and listening to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social . Just what I needed. organizingmythoughts.org/burnout-is-n...
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Instead of my usual Friday shift with @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social , I got my 2nd shingles shot and went to the dentist. Then sat on the porch working on hygiene kits and listening to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social . Just what I needed. organizingmythoughts.org/burnout-is-n...
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Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know
To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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HOME Line has requested folks contact state representatives Mike Howard and Spencer Igo and ask them to include funding for services like theirs in the omnibus bill. It's a little thing you can do to help support an organization that helps 20,000 households a yr
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
![Has HOME Line’s statewide tenant hotline helped you and/or other Minnesotans? If so, we urge you to call or email the House of Representatives Housing Finance and Policy Committee Co-Chairs telling them to include Representative Kozlowski’s House File 1385, which allocates $1 million annually for statewide tenant hotline and education services, in their omnibus spending and policy bill.
The following is a sample email or call script:
“Representative ______:
I urge you to include House File 1385’s funding for statewide tenant education and hotline services in the Omnibus Housing Finance and Policy Committee bill.
[In a few sentences, note how HOME Line’s service has helped you and/or other Minnesotans.]
Thank you for your consideration.
[Provide your name and/or your city/town.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreifvb73nqugp3czvnk5bbji7c2qvygwmy3jaa5pls4spjxb32asg24@jpeg)
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
HOME Line has requested folks contact state representatives Mike Howard and Spencer Igo and ask them to include funding for services like theirs in the omnibus bill. It's a little thing you can do to help support an organization that helps 20,000 households a yr
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
I didn't get the X on my passport because I was afraid other countries might not accept it. Sadly, we are those other countries
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I didn't get the X on my passport because I was afraid other countries might not accept it. Sadly, we are those other countries
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🧵#HarmReduction saves lives, prevents the spread of blood-borne viruses including #HepatitisC, & connects people w/ health care options to manage & treat hepatitis C — among other health needs. #HealthCareIsAHumanRight, & life-saving information & resources are crucial to...
bit.ly/HepCResources
bit.ly/HepCResources
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🧵#HarmReduction saves lives, prevents the spread of blood-borne viruses including #HepatitisC, & connects people w/ health care options to manage & treat hepatitis C — among other health needs. #HealthCareIsAHumanRight, & life-saving information & resources are crucial to...
bit.ly/HepCResources
bit.ly/HepCResources
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Anyone local have extra YA books? They seem to go fastest at the @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social, and reading is harm reduction
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Anyone local have extra YA books? They seem to go fastest at the @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social, and reading is harm reduction
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I have a ~weird~ ask… if you like making friendship bracelets, or your kids like making friendship bracelets, would you consider making some for the unhoused people the Supply Depot serves? We want to bring joy
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have a ~weird~ ask… if you like making friendship bracelets, or your kids like making friendship bracelets, would you consider making some for the unhoused people the Supply Depot serves? We want to bring joy
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Coats, hand warmers, waterproof gloves, ski masks, emergency blankets (annoying as blankets but ideal taped inside the walls of a tent reflecting the heat back in), dollars for other heat-related items! We can use it all!
i am alternating between unmitgated wordless wrath and furious emotional displacement purchasing for @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social
gotta do something with this, but the only meaningful thing i've come up with is that it's freezing out now, and a lot of people need a coat.
gotta do something with this, but the only meaningful thing i've come up with is that it's freezing out now, and a lot of people need a coat.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Coats, hand warmers, waterproof gloves, ski masks, emergency blankets (annoying as blankets but ideal taped inside the walls of a tent reflecting the heat back in), dollars for other heat-related items! We can use it all!
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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Like what is the point of going out of your way to sacrifice people like Sarah and Link if it doesn’t even enable you to get at people like Singal? Don’t can’t pretend you care about inciting violence and then utterly fail to actually protect against the worst perpetrators.
It doesn’t really change anything about my view. We need to stop whining about hard it is and look at the outcomes. If these outcomes are the best we can do, then we haven’t actually solved a problem. We’re just pissing people off for no reason.
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The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Like what is the point of going out of your way to sacrifice people like Sarah and Link if it doesn’t even enable you to get at people like Singal? Don’t can’t pretend you care about inciting violence and then utterly fail to actually protect against the worst perpetrators.
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and give your favorite trans person money! /half joking
it's 🏳️⚧️ transgender awareness week 🏳️⚧️, so : donate to trans support organizations if you can, hire trans people, defend them in public & private spaces when necessary, & just don't be an asshole in general
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
and give your favorite trans person money! /half joking
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At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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The work we do at @avalonhousing.bsky.social is a housing first, permanent supportive housing model; organizations like ours are being targeted for actually implementing the evidence-based practices known to help our neighbors survive. This punitive desire has already been tried and fails miserably
Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!
I'm a mad person who's lived on the streets & knows a lot of mad people & I know that people like me are disproportionately inclined to homelessness & I don't like when that gets taken out of the conversation. But our reality is that late stage American capitalism can push anyone to the streets.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The work we do at @avalonhousing.bsky.social is a housing first, permanent supportive housing model; organizations like ours are being targeted for actually implementing the evidence-based practices known to help our neighbors survive. This punitive desire has already been tried and fails miserably
See also: Why are most of my friends lesbians? Ope.
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
See also: Why are most of my friends lesbians? Ope.
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in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
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For Give to the Max, please consider supporting @bikemn.bsky.social so we can sustainably grow the @mplscargobikelibrary.com in 2026!
Our pilot program has been massively successful this year and we want to expand to better meet demand.
We plan to add 2-3 more locations in 2026...
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Our pilot program has been massively successful this year and we want to expand to better meet demand.
We plan to add 2-3 more locations in 2026...
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Support the Mpls Cargo Bike Library on GiveMN
Park Tool is matching all donations up to $5,000! Help BikeMN reach our $15,000 goal.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
For Give to the Max, please consider supporting @bikemn.bsky.social so we can sustainably grow the @mplscargobikelibrary.com in 2026!
Our pilot program has been massively successful this year and we want to expand to better meet demand.
We plan to add 2-3 more locations in 2026...
1/2
Our pilot program has been massively successful this year and we want to expand to better meet demand.
We plan to add 2-3 more locations in 2026...
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Many people were driven into military service because impoverished communities had so few choices for escaping a cycle of poverty, it was the only path by design. This Veteran's Day I think of them, and others who laid down their lives for a country betraying its own principles of "freedom."
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Many people were driven into military service because impoverished communities had so few choices for escaping a cycle of poverty, it was the only path by design. This Veteran's Day I think of them, and others who laid down their lives for a country betraying its own principles of "freedom."
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Bright halo CME heading directly for Earth. Impact will be likely early on November 13th (UTC). Strong (G3) to Severe (G4) geomagnetic storm watch will likely be added. SolarHam.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bright halo CME heading directly for Earth. Impact will be likely early on November 13th (UTC). Strong (G3) to Severe (G4) geomagnetic storm watch will likely be added. SolarHam.com
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Lifetime maximums pre ACA were deadly.
Before the ACA, I met a young woman, maybe in her early thirties, and she told me that she had no insurance because she had maxed out her insurance at the age of 17 with a bone marrow transplant!
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Lifetime maximums pre ACA were deadly.
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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A “promise” of an ACA subsidy vote by the 2nd week of December means jack shit when open enrollment is RIGHT NOW & the deadline to secure coverage by January 1st is… the 2nd week of December.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A “promise” of an ACA subsidy vote by the 2nd week of December means jack shit when open enrollment is RIGHT NOW & the deadline to secure coverage by January 1st is… the 2nd week of December.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.