Aida Aponte Rivera
@aidaaponte.bsky.social
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♫ But I would walk 500 miles ♫
♫ And I would walk 500 more ♫
♫ And I would walk 500 more ♫
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
♫ But I would walk 500 miles ♫
♫ And I would walk 500 more ♫
♫ And I would walk 500 more ♫
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Day 1257 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and asking for a friend
How many is too many, when sharing photos of robins? 🤗❤️🤔 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
How many is too many, when sharing photos of robins? 🤗❤️🤔 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Day 1257 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and asking for a friend
How many is too many, when sharing photos of robins? 🤗❤️🤔 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
How many is too many, when sharing photos of robins? 🤗❤️🤔 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
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Black-capped Chickadee #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotograpy #Point’nShootNature
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Black-capped Chickadee #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotograpy #Point’nShootNature
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Thou shalt stop attacking Ms. Rachel for caring about the lives of children.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Thou shalt stop attacking Ms. Rachel for caring about the lives of children.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died.
Puerto Rico salsa giant Rafael Ithier, who led El Gran Combo for more than half a century, dies
Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died.
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genuinely a pet peeve of mine is ADHD being CALLED ADHD... attention deficit hyperactivity disorder like.... way to name it after how it inconveniences others and not how i do not in fact have no attention, but instead can't fucking control that shit among other things.
December 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
genuinely a pet peeve of mine is ADHD being CALLED ADHD... attention deficit hyperactivity disorder like.... way to name it after how it inconveniences others and not how i do not in fact have no attention, but instead can't fucking control that shit among other things.
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Ian McEwan talked recently about the statistic that the number of people reading for pleasure has dropped by 40% over the last decade. But let's not focus on the negative side and instead try to remember that over the same period the number of people reading for displeasure has almost quadrupled.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Ian McEwan talked recently about the statistic that the number of people reading for pleasure has dropped by 40% over the last decade. But let's not focus on the negative side and instead try to remember that over the same period the number of people reading for displeasure has almost quadrupled.
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Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
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The Miami mayoral election is on Tuesday (12/9) don’t forget to vote. 💙
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Miami mayoral election is on Tuesday (12/9) don’t forget to vote. 💙
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Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
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I understand those sharing that their grandparents migrated here with very little & the children and grandchildren ended up doing highly valued jobs. I also hope we don't just value one another according to income or job. There are so many other ways people contribute to society and communities.
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I understand those sharing that their grandparents migrated here with very little & the children and grandchildren ended up doing highly valued jobs. I also hope we don't just value one another according to income or job. There are so many other ways people contribute to society and communities.
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The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
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THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right.
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right.
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
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Reporters spoke with 61 young field workers, some 12 years old, about working in California’s farm fields, exposed to chemical fertilizers, paid below minimum wage, provided no water, shade or bathrooms. Most work to support parents who toil under the same conditions.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
www.latimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reporters spoke with 61 young field workers, some 12 years old, about working in California’s farm fields, exposed to chemical fertilizers, paid below minimum wage, provided no water, shade or bathrooms. Most work to support parents who toil under the same conditions.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Hot Chocolate, the band that never really saw themselves as disco (even though they made quite a few excellent disco records), hit #1 on the UK dance chart on this day exactly 50 years ago with this absolute gem.
What’s your favourite Hot Chocolate “disco” track?
#disco #music #musicsky
What’s your favourite Hot Chocolate “disco” track?
#disco #music #musicsky
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing (ZDF Disco, 24.04.1976)
YouTube video by Hot Chocolate
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
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That assault on children, using the resources we citizens provided to that government, is what prompted me to activate this account.
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
That assault on children, using the resources we citizens provided to that government, is what prompted me to activate this account.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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To all of you who romanticize @governor.ca.gov . Yes, I’d vote for him if he were the only blue choice but he isn’t the best blue choice and is avidly allowing ICE to kidnap because he’d sacrifice all Californians before he sacrifices wealthy who he ties to our economic power.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
To all of you who romanticize @governor.ca.gov . Yes, I’d vote for him if he were the only blue choice but he isn’t the best blue choice and is avidly allowing ICE to kidnap because he’d sacrifice all Californians before he sacrifices wealthy who he ties to our economic power.
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"Lola" is harvesting apples in Washington State. "We need to buy our own scissors and bag to do the job. The scissors cost $35 and the bag costs $90. Right now it's peak season and the trees are full of apples. If we work fast we can make around $140 in 8 hours. " #WeFeedYou
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Lola" is harvesting apples in Washington State. "We need to buy our own scissors and bag to do the job. The scissors cost $35 and the bag costs $90. Right now it's peak season and the trees are full of apples. If we work fast we can make around $140 in 8 hours. " #WeFeedYou
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In my posh neighbourhood, filled with wealthy capitalist hotshot types, there's a bus stop where a bunch of kids go to hang out in the evenings. Sometimes, they'd smash stuff (while riding around in their e-bikes) and just be a nuisance. And each time, the neighbours would call the cops on them.
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In my posh neighbourhood, filled with wealthy capitalist hotshot types, there's a bus stop where a bunch of kids go to hang out in the evenings. Sometimes, they'd smash stuff (while riding around in their e-bikes) and just be a nuisance. And each time, the neighbours would call the cops on them.