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Teacher of tiny humans
Parent of large humans
Former prop tart
Glitchen
She/her
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If you feel like doing a small good thing today, you could do worse than getting something off a teacher's list. Like mine! #clearthelist
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A little good 🧪 news
“Controls on ozone-depleting chemical compounds…are driving the gradual recovery of the ozone layer, which remains on track to recover fully later this century as countries around the world replace ozone-depleting substances with less-harmful alternatives.”
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.

🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!

🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Defrosting my turkey and it immediately starts asking me what year it is, if the Robot Uprising has occurred, if my home includes an underground bunker. Man, I hate cooking
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be buried with baffling grave goods
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Star Trek has some really dumb shit, but it's outweighed by how consistently *good* it can be in contrast

meanwhile, Star Wars feels like it's a coin toss on whether you're getting a fun space adventure or the dumbest thing you've ever seen
You ever think about just how handily Star Trek has won the Star Wars/Star Trek war? Turns out making a lot of good content is really hard!
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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It's a combination of a bunch of things, I think -- history is just moving faster in general -- but if you had to single out a culprit, it's got to be the internet & social media. It's never been more visible to everyone that the social order *could be otherwise*, that's it's essentially arbitrary.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Love it, love everything about it.
Players are roleplaying in Fortnite to teach each other their rights when encountering ICE officials

“I would slip [the warrant] under the door, but there’s no space under the door,” the agent says.

The civilian pauses. “Well. Sounds like a personal problem.”
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This is your take.

My take is that in the US, we often don't realize how horrific something that happens to Black men all the time is, until it starts happening to non-Black people.

Pointing out that 50K people are in ICE detention, but 200,000 Black people are in pretrial detention, works.
And one reason it is counterproductive in my opinion to make it is that there is a definite effort to ask us to ignore immigrants‘ situation because “Americans have it so bad and we don’t have capacity” and we need to reject that conservative rhetorical frame
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Dried hydrangea catching dawn light this morning… 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Excellent thread. Always happy to see people engage with Lewis
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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My friend and fellow menswear writer Bruce Boyer is fond of saying that clothes are more important than most people think, but less important than fashion people think. I'm of the same mind. I'm of the same mind. I think it's perfectly fine to use clothing to communicate something about yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.

It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much).

If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water

Lots of options!
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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🌱One of my favorite perennials, Baptisia, in May💜💚
#gardening #flowerfeed
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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U.S.S. BUCK transferring four-inch ammunition to HMCS HAIDA during her patrol off the east coast of Korea, 9 June 1953. (LAC a138197.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM