DesertRose/Nora/Lady Katherine
@desertrose-nora.bsky.social
Writer, artist, crafter, mom to a delightful human and a Velcro cat. Anarchocommunist. Everyone deserves clean water, safe food, safe shelter, clothing, medical care, education, and community, just by existing on the earth. ACAB, BLM, Tax the Rich!
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Read this thread. Short version: the only people who don't work on UBI are people who CAN'T (disabled/aged) or SHOULDN'T (children/students/new parents/caregivers for disabled or elder family members). Loads of research linked within.
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This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
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Merry Christmas message ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Merry Christmas message ❤️
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One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm
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The Angel Belly of Cleansing is here to heal your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Angel Belly of Cleansing is here to heal your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
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Tinkerbell has been committing crimes! She has been hole punching papers she shouldn't!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Tinkerbell has been committing crimes! She has been hole punching papers she shouldn't!!
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Bright blessings on the solstice! May the returning light shine brightly into every dark corner, burning away the festering evils there. From my lips to the ears of the Gods, hear my prayer. #WinterSolstice #Yule
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Bright blessings on the solstice! May the returning light shine brightly into every dark corner, burning away the festering evils there. From my lips to the ears of the Gods, hear my prayer. #WinterSolstice #Yule
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I have formed the council
December 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I have formed the council
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Happy Caturday!
December 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Happy Caturday!
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Advent calendar but it’s pictures of my mom’s cats.
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Advent calendar but it’s pictures of my mom’s cats.
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One of the things I love about my boyfriend is that if I hear one of the cats sneeze in another room with him I always hear him quietly say "bless you" a moment later.
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
One of the things I love about my boyfriend is that if I hear one of the cats sneeze in another room with him I always hear him quietly say "bless you" a moment later.
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Marcel regularly launches himself at the Christmas tree to make sure it isn't considering any form of disrespect. Don't forget I'm running a fundraiser for our local shelter to help brave kitties like Marcel! givebutter.com/n5l31M
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Marcel regularly launches himself at the Christmas tree to make sure it isn't considering any form of disrespect. Don't forget I'm running a fundraiser for our local shelter to help brave kitties like Marcel! givebutter.com/n5l31M
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Beautiful remembrance by @stephenking.bsky.social.
Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Beautiful remembrance by @stephenking.bsky.social.
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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Luminous angel baby needs an ETA on lunch. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Luminous angel baby needs an ETA on lunch. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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My buddy Laura brought over her sighthound puppy! He is four months old and made of legs and snoot.
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My buddy Laura brought over her sighthound puppy! He is four months old and made of legs and snoot.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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My late mother-in-law made us Christmas ornaments for years, I think we can agree that this is some of her best work. Miss her.
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My late mother-in-law made us Christmas ornaments for years, I think we can agree that this is some of her best work. Miss her.
So Real ID isn't good enough, Tribal ID isn't good enough (see here: bsky.app/profile/geor... ), who's to say a passport won't be the next thing that isn't good enough to prove your citizenship?
Also, the Constitution applies to everyone, citizen or not. This is clown-shoes fascisti bullshit.
Also, the Constitution applies to everyone, citizen or not. This is clown-shoes fascisti bullshit.
The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
bsky.app/profile/jare...
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Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
So Real ID isn't good enough, Tribal ID isn't good enough (see here: bsky.app/profile/geor... ), who's to say a passport won't be the next thing that isn't good enough to prove your citizenship?
Also, the Constitution applies to everyone, citizen or not. This is clown-shoes fascisti bullshit.
Also, the Constitution applies to everyone, citizen or not. This is clown-shoes fascisti bullshit.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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🚨🚨🚨I’ve talked before about how our records are NOT the most up to date and should NOT be used in this way. It WILL result in citizens being denied their constitutional right to vote. You can submit public comments until 12/12 and I urge you to please do so!! Spread the word!! #AltCitizen alert🚨🚨🚨
In May, the Trump Admin secretly--and probably illegally--began using SSA data to verify voters' citizenship.
One big problem: Social Security data don’t have complete or up-to-date citizenship info, so this could disenfranchise U.S. citizens ahead of the midterms.
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
One big problem: Social Security data don’t have complete or up-to-date citizenship info, so this could disenfranchise U.S. citizens ahead of the midterms.
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration’s Legally Dubious Misuse of Social Security Data Risks Disenfranchising Eligible Voters
Friday, December 12 is the deadline for public comments on a policy the Trump Administration secretly adopted in May, giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to personal data from the....
www.cbpp.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨🚨🚨I’ve talked before about how our records are NOT the most up to date and should NOT be used in this way. It WILL result in citizens being denied their constitutional right to vote. You can submit public comments until 12/12 and I urge you to please do so!! Spread the word!! #AltCitizen alert🚨🚨🚨