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Caroline (she/her) 🌈
@cerinaldy.bsky.social
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Twin mom & multimedia nerd. Works with books, graphics, audio. Speaks diaspora & fannish, Indonesian, some Japanese, 🤏Chinese, learning ASL. This is my “block me, full depressing dystopian politics” account. This timeline sucks.
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I hated him before I learned about the defecation video, I’ll have you know.
Some social commentators have criticized Blippi. Writing for the magazine Current Affairs, Nathan Robinson criticized the videos for their lack of depth, calling his universe "thin and dull". He contrasted the show's themes and lessons to Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, preferring the latter two shows. Meanwhile, Stuart Heritage of Esquire wrote that the character fascinates him, writing "He has no children. He doesn't seem to like children". Heritage also brought up John's infamous defecation video.
February 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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My (mixed) kids’ full Asian classmate went home with the red envelope I gave out in class last week for Chinese new year. Kid reported to her (Chinese) mom that she has no Asian classmates and the mom who came to talk about CNY (me) also wasn’t Asian because she doesn’t have black hair. 🤷🏻‍♀️
February 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This part. Pride is a skill set.
The Nation: Everybody wants to raise Barack Obama. I've got to start trying to raise Harriet Tubman. In a worst case scenario, I have to be raising Oskar Schindler. I need my kids to be able to chloroform a baby they're hiding in their attic when ICE comes around, then walk downstairs and pay Musk's troops in Bitcoin to make them go away. Black Pride Ever since white people invented Blackness and whiteness, their goal has been to make people assigned as Black feel bad about themselves, and undeserving of equal and fair treatment, while making people assigned as white feel good about themselves, giving them somebody else to look down on. The challenge for Black people in the Americas has always been to maintain a sense of pride in themselves and belief in their own humanity, even as whites try to rip that pride and sense of self away from them. So it is again, with our current white supremacist regime. Pride is a skill set. Pride is a survival Continued: mechanism. Pride is how an enslaved person never becomes a slave. Pride is why my people are still here, despite the best attempts of a global superpower to break us. Trump and MAGA are just the latest group of white folks trying to strip us of our pride. They want my kids to feel like they are lesser than the white kids, and I simply won't let that happen. I won't let that happen, even though I know that teaching my kids to have pride in themselves **increases their chances of being killed by the white regime**. Black self worth can be a capital offense in a white supremacist regime. But that is just the risk they are going to have to take. I can do a lot of this teaching by example. And if that makes me more of a target, so be it. Indeed, one of the only reasons I haven't diminished myself or hid or tried to play nice with the incoming totalitarian regime or find "common ground" with Scott Jennings is that I cannot afford to let my kids see me do it. I want my kids to grow up with their father, but I will not allow them to grow up with a punk for a dad.
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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As a kid of immigrants, a onetime lawyer, and a parent to young kids, I felt this like an old bruise being pressed into.
When you were younger and learning about the world they looked you in the eye and told you lie after lie after lie. “America is the greatest nation in the world.” “God is great and Jesus loves you.” “If you do the right thing good things will happen for you.” “There will always be good people, the helpers. Look to the helpers.” Hell, even Mr. Rogers lied to you. So what? They lied not because they were malicious or evil, but because they wanted to believe in something better than the truth. They wanted you to grow up believing in right and wrong, in justice and fairness and mutual respect. Or at least the version they believed in. They wanted you to believe in America. Not an America that has ever existed, but one that could exist. The promise of a government that the Founding Fathers could only imagine, their hypocritical natures getting the better of even them.
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Across the park, they’re still rallying though
February 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Video refuses to attach, sorry!
February 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Abby Stein talking now. “We have a moral responsibility to stand up and fight for life.Saving a life comes before anything.” I’m sorry the alt captions are shit here. Queen Jean talking now and I LOVE her. The energy
“I started at NYU Langone on 2023 IT SAVED ME. TRANS KIDS' LIVES > FASCISM” protest signs. SOLIDARITY AGAINST ANTI-TRANS DEPORTIONS Various protest signs in the crowd. DEMOCRATS FiGHT Anti - TRANS BIGOTRY!
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Things are just starting up here at St. Vartan park. Bunch of us are now walking to the other corner where someone’s finally speaking
February 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I’m brushing up on what to do when attending protests. www.hrc.org/resources/ti...
Preparation is Key Stay hydrated and dress for the expected weather. Bring any needed supplies including water, meds, and cash. Fully charge your cell phone and bring a battery extender if possible. Take supplies to protect from and safely remove chemical irritants (face covering, milk of magnesia, towelettes). Let at least one emergency contact know your plan and make arrangements to keep them posted on your status during and after the event. Where will you be? How will you get there? Where do you intend to go in an emergency? What time do you intend to get back? Know the Environment Have an offline map of the venue and surrounding areas available as cell service may be limited in some cases. Plan multiple routes into and out of the protest area. Set a rally point with others for where you will meet in the event of an emergency. Stay Aware and Secure Maintain “360 situational awareness” – know what is going on all around you at all times. Be alert to anything that seems suspicious, this could be a person’s behavior, unclaimed packages, unusual activity, and vehicles. If you see something, say something. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act The “OODA Loop” (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) is a useful framework to stay calm and make decisions during high-stress situations: Observe: Identify the source of danger and your surroundings Orient: Determine where you are and where you need to go Decide: Choose a course of action that minimizes risk Act: Implement your decision and stay aware of changes in the environment Be Prepared to De-Escalate. If you find yourself in a tense situation, practice de-escalation techniques: Stay calm and keep your voice steady Avoid provocative behavior If necessary, walk away and remove yourself from the situation
February 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The rumors were that they were taking #CDC data offline where it concerned minorities and queer research but this is everything. All the data sets. ALL. 3pm is in just alittle oer a hour. www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...
Screen cap fro data hoarders subreddit: CDC Site About to Go Offline Indefinitely. News. 3pm Eastern they're going to be offline, content and data scrubbed of politically inconvenient material. Some things already taken down, so this could be last chance to get some datasets. Source: friend of friend at CDC
January 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM