Archer
@archiepdx.bsky.social
I know you are but what am I?
Jaded academic. Professional feminist. Old and trans.
Jaded academic. Professional feminist. Old and trans.
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Oregonians, we need your help.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Oregonians, we need your help.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
My dad worked at the ABC affiliate in Portland from its inception until his retirement. He was a registered republican, and would be absolutely horrified by ABC’s capitulation to this administration’s shakedown.
September 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My dad worked at the ABC affiliate in Portland from its inception until his retirement. He was a registered republican, and would be absolutely horrified by ABC’s capitulation to this administration’s shakedown.
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This is the real ninja version of Zora Neale Hurston's "If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
For the people who never took took the "low" road let me help you out with some things. You don't feel worse. In fact, getting it off your chest feels much better than holding it in. And THEY don't treat you worse. They hate you the same amount as if you took the "high" road. Cuss em out. Fuck em.
September 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is the real ninja version of Zora Neale Hurston's "If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Something something reaping, something something sowing...
September 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Something something reaping, something something sowing...
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While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
Democrats are amplifying pressure on the Trump administration to produce evidence that last week’s military strike in the Caribbean Sea killed 11 drug smugglers, as lawmakers from both parties question the legal basis for the surprise use of force.
Democrats pressure Trump to show proof deadly boat strike was legal
The incident has frustrated lawmakers from both parties who’ve questioned why the administration has not publicly disclosed evidence to back up its claims.
wapo.st
September 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
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Well like I always say, no one is more firmly in the grips of ideology than the person convinced they don't have one; no one is more easily manipulated than the person convinced they're a free-thinking iconoclast; no one is more driven by anger & resentment than the person proclaiming "rationality."
June 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Well like I always say, no one is more firmly in the grips of ideology than the person convinced they don't have one; no one is more easily manipulated than the person convinced they're a free-thinking iconoclast; no one is more driven by anger & resentment than the person proclaiming "rationality."
Had a quick chat with my neighbor a couple of hours ago...
Me: I bet you $10 he invokes the Insurrection Act within the next 2 days.
Neighbor: I bet he nationalizes StarLink and SpaceX.
Me: Why not both?
Me: I bet you $10 he invokes the Insurrection Act within the next 2 days.
Neighbor: I bet he nationalizes StarLink and SpaceX.
Me: Why not both?
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Had a quick chat with my neighbor a couple of hours ago...
Me: I bet you $10 he invokes the Insurrection Act within the next 2 days.
Neighbor: I bet he nationalizes StarLink and SpaceX.
Me: Why not both?
Me: I bet you $10 he invokes the Insurrection Act within the next 2 days.
Neighbor: I bet he nationalizes StarLink and SpaceX.
Me: Why not both?
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Should I have left the US 2 weeks ago?
March 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Should I have left the US 2 weeks ago?
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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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The important difference between a committed nazi and someone who just likes to troll people by acting like a Nazi is that there is none.
This is my theory of what happened: Elon is an overgrown adolescent who thinks Nazi trolling is just hilarious www.vox.com/politics/396...
January 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The important difference between a committed nazi and someone who just likes to troll people by acting like a Nazi is that there is none.
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There’s something to be said about how Americans can only conceptualize of bad things as Nazi/Soviet and how that’s just made them completely incapable of placing them into a true historical and political context
“One administration employee who received the email urging employees to report their colleagues said it made them feel as though they were being recruited into the Gestapo. Another employee told The Times that the directive to report colleagues made him feel as if he was living in the Soviet Union.”
Trump Administration Live Updates: Latest News on the President's Executive Orders
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There’s something to be said about how Americans can only conceptualize of bad things as Nazi/Soviet and how that’s just made them completely incapable of placing them into a true historical and political context
I read this every year in honor of Dr King letterfromjail.com
Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
letterfromjail.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I read this every year in honor of Dr King letterfromjail.com
Had a dream last night in which i was successfully breaking queer teens out of detention.
January 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Had a dream last night in which i was successfully breaking queer teens out of detention.
Anita Bryant, pitchwoman who crusaded against gay rights, dies at 84
Ding dong the witch is dead!
Ding dong the witch is dead!
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Anita Bryant, pitchwoman who crusaded against gay rights, dies at 84
Ding dong the witch is dead!
Ding dong the witch is dead!
Some just asked if my dog is a pug. The dog in question:
December 17, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Some just asked if my dog is a pug. The dog in question:
Every fucking time.
Disney is not your friend. Disney has never been your friend. Disney will never be your friend. The Moon Girl thing was not a one-off, nor was Gravity Falls, nor was Owl House, nor was the disaster that was Strange World
Every year at & around Pride, Disney wants LGBTQ money but yearly they do this
Every year at & around Pride, Disney wants LGBTQ money but yearly they do this
Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Streaming Series (Exclusive)
The original animated show about a co-ed high school team debuts on Disney+ in February.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 17, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Every fucking time.
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It’s true that medieval people were very ignorant compared to us today. For instance, they would panic over mysterious apparitions in the sky, or believe that a strongman leader was blessed by God.
December 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM
It’s true that medieval people were very ignorant compared to us today. For instance, they would panic over mysterious apparitions in the sky, or believe that a strongman leader was blessed by God.
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I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
December 14, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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“Scientists don’t know everything and have sometimes been wrong before”
Does not mean
“random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”
Does not mean
“random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”
December 8, 2024 at 7:12 PM
“Scientists don’t know everything and have sometimes been wrong before”
Does not mean
“random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”
Does not mean
“random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”