TC Yecats 🫘
LightNews LightNews
banner
colinsconstant.bsky.social
TC Yecats 🫘
@colinsconstant.bsky.social
900 followers 2.3K following 660 posts
Professional nerd, loves coffee, her garden, sci-fi, LOTR, liberal arts education, and the Oxford comma. Reliably awkward. Proud member of the #Leguminati. Protect trans kids! 💙🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 And STFU about Chicago
Posts Replies Media Videos
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Let’s go Arlington Heights!! #nokings #50501 #indivisibleillinois
Portland frog drawn in Shepard Fairey style Protest sign that reads “Three Branches, No Kings, Protect Democracy”
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
And kitties
Black cat stretching upside down
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Nice night for some baseball
Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL
September 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Fully boarded flight to DC is more than half empty. Gee, wonder why no one wants to go to DC?
Picture of the inside of a plane, with many empty seats
September 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Hey Trump, you crazy asshole
Illustration of the famous The Weiners Circle hot dog stand in Chicago, with its outdoor sign that says “Shut the Fuck up About Chicago”
September 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Blues Traveler never disappoints. Phenomenal show.
The band Blues Traveler performing at Ravinia outside Chicago
July 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
@thechrisbarron.bsky.social is one of the good ones. Absolutely honored to rock out with the Spin Doctors at Ravinia!
The band Spin Doctors on stage at Ravinia outside Chicago
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Dr. Seuss inspired fake book cover with a character wearing a red MAGA hat, titled “I Have Loud Opinions About Things I Don’t Understand”
July 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Just rewatched V for Vendetta. Eerily prescient.
A picture of the character “V”, a man with a Guy Fawkes mask, black hair, and a black hat, holding up two knives in the shape of a V to either side of his mask
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Poster says No Kings Yaaaaas Queens! Poster says We have to be the home of the brave because we are not the land of the free
June 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Ready for the crowds tomorrow!! #NoKingsDay
No Kings protest sign. Two quotes, side by side. “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are being torn apart.” - Anne Frank, 1944 “I witnessed how they put my father in handcuffs…My family and I haven’t had communication with my dad. We don’t know anything.” - Yurian Contreras, 2025 No Kings protest sign that says, We have to be the home of the brave because we are not the land of the free. No Kings protest sign that says, No Kings, Yaaaaas Queens!
June 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Word art that says “What (and I can’t stress this enough) the Fuck”
June 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
I hate this. Every damn Friday.
Screenshot of the Friday update email from NIH showing no new funding announcements
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Sold out venue in Chicago to see @hcrichardson.bsky.social talk about Democracy Awakening!
Heather Cox Richardson being interviewed in Chicago
April 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect represent!! #NoKings
Protesters in Arlington Heights, IL on April 19, 2025 Protesters in Arlington Heights, IL on April 19, 2025 Protesters in Mount Prospect, IL on April 19, 2025 Protesters in Mount Prospect, IL on April 19, 2025
April 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Cute bunny holding a walkie talkie, saying “WTF, over”
April 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Protest sign referencing Ferris Beuller’s Day Off and the tariffs lesson
April 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Two more signs from #handsoff Chicago
Protest sign designed based on the film They Live, with a zombie wearing a MAGA hat surrounded by instructions, like “obey” and “do not think” Protest sign showing the Trump administration members wearing clown noses and the phrase “the gang that couldn’t administrate”
April 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Chicago #handsoff
Protest sign with a quote from the film Ferris Bueller’s day off, referring to the lesson on tariffs “Did it work? Anyone? Anyone?”
April 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
#Handsoff science! Hands off research! On the train to Chicago. #solidarity
The author in a white lab coat with pro-science and pro-voting buttons on the train to the Hands Off! Protest
April 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Never. Never in 22 years as a grant writer and editor has the weekly NIH email hit me this hard. I honestly, deeply hate anyone who voted for this shit
Screenshot of a weekly email announcement from the National Institutes of Health, showing that there are no funding opportunities
April 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Cartoon character Olive Oyl screaming the word “Fuck!”
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
This. Unelected oligarch is trying to control the country’s money that’s already been allocated by CONGRESS 🚨🚨🚨
Picture of Elon Musk with the news headline “National Search Underway for Even One Person who Voted for Elon Musk”
February 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Good night
Page from the book Moments to Hold Close, with a short prose titled Types of People You Need to Hang On To, Part I by Molly Burford. The piece invites the reader to hold on to and love the friends who bring you genuine connection and joy.
January 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
colinsconstant.bsky.social
Quote
January 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM