Emily Ellet would love to narrate your YA sci-fi
@emilyellet.bsky.social
Audiobook narrator, singer, & Colorado cat mom. Former foster mom of teen girls.❤️s: hiking, rollerblading, baking, gardening, & dancing to k-pop.
This entire thread is utterly delightful.
Sue Does an Accidental Diplomacy on Canada Day
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The Story of How This Bonkers Picture Came To Be
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The Story of How This Bonkers Picture Came To Be
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July 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This entire thread is utterly delightful.
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The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.
Elon Musk says that as long as you aren't "committing genocide and starting wars" you are "not a Nazi"
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
March 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The relevant fact about Nazis is that they rather famously did not *start out* committing genocide and starting wars, but it *was* the natural endpoint of their stated goals.
I have decided to pair every angry post I make with a concrete action. Join me?
Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...
Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
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March 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I have decided to pair every angry post I make with a concrete action. Join me?
Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...
Yesterday after watching the despicable behavior of our elected officials towards Zelenskyy, I donated to Ukraine's military effort directly: u24.gov.ua?utm_source=s...
A worthwhile thread of fact checking
Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A worthwhile thread of fact checking
It will take every single one.
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It will take every single one.
I can only imagine what Carrie Fisher would let rip in her beautifully, brutally direct way.
After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I can only imagine what Carrie Fisher would let rip in her beautifully, brutally direct way.
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Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress have the power to impeach, convict, and remove the President AT ANY TIME and every day they wake up and choose to be cowards and traitors instead.
February 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress have the power to impeach, convict, and remove the President AT ANY TIME and every day they wake up and choose to be cowards and traitors instead.
Beautiful and succinct
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Beautiful and succinct
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In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...
And these are the billionaires you want running our government?! Billions in wasted money, over and over again. (Making a bad bet in business is not of itself a bad thing. Making repeated bad bets year after year is. It's bad leadership and foolish behavior.)
February 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
And these are the billionaires you want running our government?! Billions in wasted money, over and over again. (Making a bad bet in business is not of itself a bad thing. Making repeated bad bets year after year is. It's bad leadership and foolish behavior.)
My nervous system would just like a moment to scream into the void.
Thank you.
Thank you.
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
My nervous system would just like a moment to scream into the void.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking.
Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...
Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...
Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - emptywheel
The lawsuit by eight of the Inspectors General Trump fired on his fourth day on the job -- who claim they've identified $183.5 billion in potential waste, fraud, and abuse during their tenure as IGs -...
www.emptywheel.net
February 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking.
Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...
Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...
"may the forest be with us all" I am dead in the best way. Thank you all for your service!
Together, we are the spark that will ignite the fire to end tyranny. Stand tall, speak out, and may the forest be with us all! The fate of the galaxy—our USA—depends on those who dare to rise. We are the resistance! #nationalparknerd
February 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"may the forest be with us all" I am dead in the best way. Thank you all for your service!
How many times have I read or narrated this?! Never once did I want to experience it live.
I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How many times have I read or narrated this?! Never once did I want to experience it live.
A perennially important reminder
In choirs we use stagger breathing to keep the sound seamless while allowing everyone to breathe. The same thing applies here - if at any point you just need to rest a bit, rely on your fellow activists, but make sure you come back so others have a chance to rest too ❤️
February 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A perennially important reminder
Even if I can't read them all, worth it to check out books like I did in childhood: the max at any given time 😁
PRO TIP: check out books from the library — their funding is often tied to circulation, you can literally keep them in operation by just shamelessly borrowing as many books as you can carry.
PRO TIP2: bring a book bag
PRO TIP2: bring a book bag
February 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Even if I can't read them all, worth it to check out books like I did in childhood: the max at any given time 😁
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At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
edition.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
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"American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents"
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents"
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
It was absolutely meant to be all. This is why raising your voice matters.
the order said “all.” not “limited.” they’re backpedaling now because people are furious. if they walk this whole thing back because the reporting caused a shitstorm they weren’t prepared for, you can thank marisakabas.bsky.social - who broke the story first - by subscribing here. I just did.
January 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It was absolutely meant to be all. This is why raising your voice matters.
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To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
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Good morning #booksky
Just a friendly reminder that Audible, owned by Amazon/Bezos, supports the tech giant. Libro.fm offers an alternative, letting you buy audiobooks while supporting independent bookstores. Choose where your dollars go and align your listening with your values.
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January 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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In the years ahead, there will be so much pressure to be casually cruel. To value cruelty, celebrate it, normalize it, excuse it.
Choose to be the opposite of that.
Compassion has always been radical, but even more so when cruelty soaks into the bones of the culture and corrupts it.
Choose to be the opposite of that.
Compassion has always been radical, but even more so when cruelty soaks into the bones of the culture and corrupts it.
December 10, 2024 at 3:22 PM
In the years ahead, there will be so much pressure to be casually cruel. To value cruelty, celebrate it, normalize it, excuse it.
Choose to be the opposite of that.
Compassion has always been radical, but even more so when cruelty soaks into the bones of the culture and corrupts it.
Choose to be the opposite of that.
Compassion has always been radical, but even more so when cruelty soaks into the bones of the culture and corrupts it.
This is horrifying. Especially because what THEY decide is the "appropriate" length of time for your surgery has nothing to do with what your doctor understands it should be.
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...
It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures
In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or pro...
www.asahq.org
December 4, 2024 at 11:15 PM
This is horrifying. Especially because what THEY decide is the "appropriate" length of time for your surgery has nothing to do with what your doctor understands it should be.
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No local shops is the oligarchs' plan.
Resist. Buy local.
Resist. Buy local.
December 2, 2024 at 11:22 PM
No local shops is the oligarchs' plan.
Resist. Buy local.
Resist. Buy local.