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Dakota Cora Rose
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Aspiring creative: writing, illustration, gardening
Someday I hope to work in environmental sciences
Trying to be a better human every day
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62 Years Ago Today:
62 Years Ago Today:
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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characterdesign.bsky.social
The Secret of NIMH (1982)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Solid reporting by Texas Observer:
Small lakes in East Texas are being filled in with petrochemical-laced drilling mud, classified in Texas as "non-toxic" meaning mitigation to prevent spill-off is minimal.

What they can't say is that the elected Texas Railroad Commissioners are probably profiting.
texasobserver.org Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · Nov 22
Our top story, from @liseolsen.bsky.social and @psskow.bsky.social: East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near Louisiana—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.
East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations
In bucolic areas near the Louisiana line, residents ask, "Why are Texas taxpayers liable for other states’ toxic waste?"
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November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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rosebdraws.bsky.social
"--what recourse do you have... but to live?"

#frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
dip pen and ink drawing of frankenstein's monster from GDT's new film, colored digitally. he looks forlornly down at a bright autumn leaf
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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effies.bsky.social
Two things you can do to help remove RFK Jr:

1) Call your electeds and tell them he needs to go. There's already drafts of impeachment/removal work in both House and Senate. Tell electeds to support them.

2) Sign the petition that'll go to the HELP Committee in the Senate at firerfk.wordpress.com
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Oct 19
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
jlynch13.bsky.social Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · Oct 19
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
October 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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justmayemoramx.bsky.social
James Jean’s art for Guillermo del Toro’s @realgdt.bsky.social @netflix.com #Frankenstein feels like beauty stitched with sorrow — just breathtaking.
©James Jean || @JamesJeanArt No copyright infringement is intended. This content is shared solely for purposes of appreciation, commentary, education, archival, and other non-commercial uses, under the protection of fair use. All moral and patrimonial rights remain with the original creator mentioned above.
October 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
I have somehow found myself slowly in the middle of my... [counts the stars] tenth or eleventh rewatch of Elementary, I think? And in commemoration of that, a reminder that I have a newsletter, and some *eighteen months ago* I wrote an issue about *just one* of the things I love about Elementary:
Lapsang Souchong: Two People Who 'Love' Each Other
Above all else, Watson has always been Holmes’ strong second—one of the richest platonic relationships in fiction.
brandonobrien.xyz
October 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
dakota-cora-rose.bsky.social
First 5K is on Saturday, I will certainly not be anywhere near the front of the pack but I’m excited to try it
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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oh-that-amy.bsky.social
This is the study that Jesse Singal and The Economist chose to deliberately distort in his latest attack on the trans community. Even if Jesse's bigotry overwhelmed his professional ethics, surely some editor at The Economist could/should have intervened to block publication. And yet none did.
September 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
dakota-cora-rose.bsky.social
Slowly making it to my favorite season, although it is also the season that work is the busiest. Hopefully I’ll have the willpower to actually work on my hobbies and not doomscroll for hours
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”
September 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
No seriously media outlets: Get gaming desks, your internet culture desks, & your extremism desks linked up YESTERDAY or you're going to find yourselves missing so much context it'll be fundamentally embarrassing.

Already seen things from NYT, BBC, & AP all failing to elucidate CRUCIAL information.
September 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
She seems to have been fired for quoting Kirk without comment and for reminding people about Melissa Hortman's murder. I had already cancelled my WaPo sub but I'd considered resubscribing. NOPE.
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,
September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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banalplay.bsky.social
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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bennettelder.net
Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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passionpeachy.bsky.social
self-love, self-transformation 🧵
A drawing of a ghost that is embroidering pink flowers on itself. A pumpkin-shaped pin cushion and two spools of thread next to it.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
dakota-cora-rose.bsky.social
Super swell way to start the day is to come downstairs and realize that yellow jackets and eaten through your drywall and are trying to exit through the back door. I just love that for me
August 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
At the height of a meningitis outbreak last year among gay and bisexual men in New York City, Demetre Daskalakis, a wiry AIDS doctor and gay health activist, spent late nights and early mornings in the city’s sex clubs and bathhouses. There, he would strip off his leather jacket and, in his muscle T-shirt, talk the men around him into letting him inject them with meningitis vaccines. Dr. Daskalakis was given the go-ahead and free vaccine by the city, after city officials found that their own efforts to infiltrate the clubs and house parties, where the meningitis was believed to be spreading, were mostly met with suspicion and hostility. The vaccination campaign ultimately reached at least 16,000 people and was credited with curbing an outbreak that some feared would become the next AIDS epidemic.
August 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
dakota-cora-rose.bsky.social
The only pro a terrible commute is I have more time for audiobooks
August 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
dakota-cora-rose.bsky.social
Cold take but Superman was such a fun time, had a smile on my face for most of the movie
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NPR has reported an estimated 46 million gamers with disabilities in the US. “They’re living in the communities we serve, whether we’re aware of them or not.” Vicki Karlovsky, inclusion coordinator at Deerfield (Ill.) Public Library
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Adaptive Arcade | American Libraries Magazine
Spohn, the former COO of AbleGamers and current director of the Mount Sinai Back to Life Center, and Vicki Karlovsky, inclusion coordinator at Deerfield (Ill.) Public Library (DPL), discussed how libr...
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
July 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM