ellie swensson
@elliephantshoes.bsky.social
Another Sound Studies reading happening TOMORROW, Thursday 5/1 at Buvez. Don’t miss it!
April 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another Sound Studies reading happening TOMORROW, Thursday 5/1 at Buvez. Don’t miss it!
THIS 👏 THIS 👏 THIS 👏
WORDS MEAN THINGS
say it again with your chest for the folks in the back
WORDS MEAN THINGS
say it again with your chest for the folks in the back
"words mean things" has an anti-fascist inflection
April 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
THIS 👏 THIS 👏 THIS 👏
WORDS MEAN THINGS
say it again with your chest for the folks in the back
WORDS MEAN THINGS
say it again with your chest for the folks in the back
Another BEAUTIFUL Tattered Writers gathering in the books! Thank you to everyone who joined us — we had a full house 🥰 I’m so continually grateful for how this community keeps growing and changing. Such an inspiration each and every month ✨💜🙌
April 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Another BEAUTIFUL Tattered Writers gathering in the books! Thank you to everyone who joined us — we had a full house 🥰 I’m so continually grateful for how this community keeps growing and changing. Such an inspiration each and every month ✨💜🙌
Calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, poets, and more! 🪶🩵☁️Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, April 12th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library.
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
April 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, poets, and more! 🪶🩵☁️Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, April 12th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library.
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
does anyone else have ideas for community events and public space activation endlessly scrolling through their mind? and I mean ALL DAY EVERY. DAY. i can’t pass a vacant building or empty lot or read an interview or article without dreaming and scheming its communal good. where the dreamers at?
March 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
does anyone else have ideas for community events and public space activation endlessly scrolling through their mind? and I mean ALL DAY EVERY. DAY. i can’t pass a vacant building or empty lot or read an interview or article without dreaming and scheming its communal good. where the dreamers at?
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"More than 300 constituents represented by U.S. Rep. Mike Collins met at the Athens Clarke County Library for a town hall — without the lawmaker in attendance."
www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...
www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...
In Athens, concerned constituents hold a town hall without their congressman
More than 300 constituents represented by U.S. Rep. Mike Collins met at the Athens Clarke County Library for a town hall — without the lawmaker in attendance.
www.gpb.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"More than 300 constituents represented by U.S. Rep. Mike Collins met at the Athens Clarke County Library for a town hall — without the lawmaker in attendance."
www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...
www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...
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Great turnout last night for our Georgia District 10 Town Hall with(out) Rep. Mike Collins, who is proudly MAGA. So many came (almost 400) that we had 2 overflow rooms. Others caught the livestream at home. We have 163 written pages of questions to pass along to Mike the Missing.
Democratic constituents host town hall for District 10 U.S. House Rep. Mike Collins
Constituents of the 10th congressional district met for a town hall on Tuesday, March 18, at the Appleton Auditorium in the Athens-Clarke County Library. The town hall was organized by
www.redandblack.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Great turnout last night for our Georgia District 10 Town Hall with(out) Rep. Mike Collins, who is proudly MAGA. So many came (almost 400) that we had 2 overflow rooms. Others caught the livestream at home. We have 163 written pages of questions to pass along to Mike the Missing.
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Dear Congress,
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
March 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Dear Congress,
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
go outside today. go soak up the sun by the window. go find out. go find out.
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
go outside today. go soak up the sun by the window. go find out. go find out.
Once again calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, and more. 💚☀️ Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, March 15th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library.
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Once again calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, and more. 💚☀️ Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, March 15th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library.
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘
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The local gov is seeking community input on its plan to designate part of inner east Athens as a "Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area."
Give your comments about east Athens here:
forms.gle/3vu4FAxm8WkL...
Or you can go to an upcoming forum:
-March 20, 12:30-2:30 pm
-March 27, 5:30-8:30 pm
Give your comments about east Athens here:
forms.gle/3vu4FAxm8WkL...
Or you can go to an upcoming forum:
-March 20, 12:30-2:30 pm
-March 27, 5:30-8:30 pm
Community Survey on Athens East Side
The ACCGov Housing and Community Development Department is preparing an application to re-designate sections of Athens’ east side as a Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA). Through this de...
forms.gle
March 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The local gov is seeking community input on its plan to designate part of inner east Athens as a "Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area."
Give your comments about east Athens here:
forms.gle/3vu4FAxm8WkL...
Or you can go to an upcoming forum:
-March 20, 12:30-2:30 pm
-March 27, 5:30-8:30 pm
Give your comments about east Athens here:
forms.gle/3vu4FAxm8WkL...
Or you can go to an upcoming forum:
-March 20, 12:30-2:30 pm
-March 27, 5:30-8:30 pm
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We've invited Rep. Mike Collins, GA-10, to attend a Town Hall. We'll show up and record your questions and stories, even if he doesn't. Tuesday, 3/18, 5:30PM, Piedmont Oconee Health Campus community space, off Jennings Mill Rd., Watkinsville.
March 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We've invited Rep. Mike Collins, GA-10, to attend a Town Hall. We'll show up and record your questions and stories, even if he doesn't. Tuesday, 3/18, 5:30PM, Piedmont Oconee Health Campus community space, off Jennings Mill Rd., Watkinsville.
tell me again it’s impossible. this is about choices, not impossibility. the amount of times I’ve heard local govs talk themselves into apathy by hiding behind complexity is maddening. it’s imperative to keep our humanity, our tenderness and clarity, at the forefront of policy and program design.
March 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
tell me again it’s impossible. this is about choices, not impossibility. the amount of times I’ve heard local govs talk themselves into apathy by hiding behind complexity is maddening. it’s imperative to keep our humanity, our tenderness and clarity, at the forefront of policy and program design.
do not forget this. also, please read the list of Dems (in comments) who voted to censure Green for legitimately the only act of courage a politician showed in that hall.
March 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
do not forget this. also, please read the list of Dems (in comments) who voted to censure Green for legitimately the only act of courage a politician showed in that hall.
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This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
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“America First” has always been a cover to keep white supremacism in official policy
March 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“America First” has always been a cover to keep white supremacism in official policy
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
how this is is me almost every day of my life 😂 Toad is the blueprint
February 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
how this is is me almost every day of my life 😂 Toad is the blueprint
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remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!
I think about this every day at work right now. We have to hold the line, we have to. We cannot depend on any federal systems to have our back and every internal and external language shift matters. Language builds reality.
Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit
February 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I think about this every day at work right now. We have to hold the line, we have to. We cannot depend on any federal systems to have our back and every internal and external language shift matters. Language builds reality.
please please help my dear friend Blake as they fight like hell to take care of their health in a system that denies all of us such basic care and dignity. as always, every single dollar counts 🙏 gofund.me/fb9826bb
Donate to Help Blake avoid another medical crisis, organized by Blake Richmond
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February 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
please please help my dear friend Blake as they fight like hell to take care of their health in a system that denies all of us such basic care and dignity. as always, every single dollar counts 🙏 gofund.me/fb9826bb
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“Filtering urban design through algorithms and interfaces tends to bracket out those messy and disorderly concerns that simply ‘do not compute.’ We're left with the sense that everything knowable and worth knowing about a city can fit on a screen—which simply isn't true.” @shannonmattern.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Filtering urban design through algorithms and interfaces tends to bracket out those messy and disorderly concerns that simply ‘do not compute.’ We're left with the sense that everything knowable and worth knowing about a city can fit on a screen—which simply isn't true.” @shannonmattern.bsky.social
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
it’s difficult to keep an eye on the international stage with everything happening domestically. it’s intentional. the cruelty, the overwhelm, and the misdirection is all the point. grateful for this post that keeps the plot of Trump’s relentless and strengthening alignment with Russia. (3 of 3)
February 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
it’s difficult to keep an eye on the international stage with everything happening domestically. it’s intentional. the cruelty, the overwhelm, and the misdirection is all the point. grateful for this post that keeps the plot of Trump’s relentless and strengthening alignment with Russia. (3 of 3)