gyrlcentric (she/her)
@gyrlcentric.bsky.social
mostly i read. i play video games. sometimes i knit or take photos with my phone, haven't been doing enough of these.
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poverty will only increase so long as wealth continues to be concentrated with ~1% of the population. We can only combat poverty, and economic collapse, with policies taxing that concentrated wealth and putting it back into the economy.
Legal does not mean right or moral by default.
For those who say “Illegal is illegal.”
On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice.
Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.
On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice.
Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.
June 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Legal does not mean right or moral by default.
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Erica Chenoweth explains the 3.5% rule — the finding that nonviolent protest movements have never failed when at least 3.5% of a country's population is engaged.
June 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Erica Chenoweth explains the 3.5% rule — the finding that nonviolent protest movements have never failed when at least 3.5% of a country's population is engaged.
There are horrors in the world and being committed by the cheeto regime and their fawners here.
A good thing I'm thankful for right now is that sleeping in and not having a caffeine headache is totally worth the work of giving up coffee/tea every day.
A good thing I'm thankful for right now is that sleeping in and not having a caffeine headache is totally worth the work of giving up coffee/tea every day.
June 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
There are horrors in the world and being committed by the cheeto regime and their fawners here.
A good thing I'm thankful for right now is that sleeping in and not having a caffeine headache is totally worth the work of giving up coffee/tea every day.
A good thing I'm thankful for right now is that sleeping in and not having a caffeine headache is totally worth the work of giving up coffee/tea every day.
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When will these atrocities end?!!!
When will we stand up?
When will we stand up?
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When will these atrocities end?!!!
When will we stand up?
When will we stand up?
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Dancing Water Sausage!!!
Fun Fact: I wrote/recorded the music for this one! It’s not amazing or anything, but hey… I did it all by myself!
Fun Fact: I wrote/recorded the music for this one! It’s not amazing or anything, but hey… I did it all by myself!
April 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Dancing Water Sausage!!!
Fun Fact: I wrote/recorded the music for this one! It’s not amazing or anything, but hey… I did it all by myself!
Fun Fact: I wrote/recorded the music for this one! It’s not amazing or anything, but hey… I did it all by myself!
This.
The success of humans comes from working together. We work together, live together, stand together and fight together.
April 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This.
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The Trump tax scam in a nutshell:
1) Facilitate a huge giveaway to corporations and the rich
2) Send the national debt soaring in the process
3) Use this as an excuse to cut spending on government programs the rest of us rely on
Trump's tax scam 2.0 will be more of the same.
1) Facilitate a huge giveaway to corporations and the rich
2) Send the national debt soaring in the process
3) Use this as an excuse to cut spending on government programs the rest of us rely on
Trump's tax scam 2.0 will be more of the same.
April 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Trump tax scam in a nutshell:
1) Facilitate a huge giveaway to corporations and the rich
2) Send the national debt soaring in the process
3) Use this as an excuse to cut spending on government programs the rest of us rely on
Trump's tax scam 2.0 will be more of the same.
1) Facilitate a huge giveaway to corporations and the rich
2) Send the national debt soaring in the process
3) Use this as an excuse to cut spending on government programs the rest of us rely on
Trump's tax scam 2.0 will be more of the same.
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fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people.
the. same. thing.
the. same. thing.
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people.
the. same. thing.
the. same. thing.
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Systemic classism and racism should be understood in many ways, including the part where we spend huge resources protecting the wealthy from any potential threat and basically nothing on protecting the marginalized from being preyed upon by scammers operating right in front of our faces.
April 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Systemic classism and racism should be understood in many ways, including the part where we spend huge resources protecting the wealthy from any potential threat and basically nothing on protecting the marginalized from being preyed upon by scammers operating right in front of our faces.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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Everyone has their own priorities and no one can possibly attend to or care about every fire this regime sets.
But ppl being disappeared without due process and sent to a foreign prison should fully panic everyone body and soul and I need more folks with bigger voices to start screaming about it
But ppl being disappeared without due process and sent to a foreign prison should fully panic everyone body and soul and I need more folks with bigger voices to start screaming about it
April 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Everyone has their own priorities and no one can possibly attend to or care about every fire this regime sets.
But ppl being disappeared without due process and sent to a foreign prison should fully panic everyone body and soul and I need more folks with bigger voices to start screaming about it
But ppl being disappeared without due process and sent to a foreign prison should fully panic everyone body and soul and I need more folks with bigger voices to start screaming about it
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"Our circulation software is entirely IMLS funded. Many of our digital databases are funded through IMLS. We are not allowed to discuss the bills and shutdowns in our library or on the library's social media for fear of being perceived as 'political.'"
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
April 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Our circulation software is entirely IMLS funded. Many of our digital databases are funded through IMLS. We are not allowed to discuss the bills and shutdowns in our library or on the library's social media for fear of being perceived as 'political.'"
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
#IMLS #booksky
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
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I think it's a mistake to focus on stock prices in this moment. As we've seen, stock prices can be manipulated, and don't represent the real economy. If the stock market were to reverse course are we going to start singing this administration praises?
April 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I think it's a mistake to focus on stock prices in this moment. As we've seen, stock prices can be manipulated, and don't represent the real economy. If the stock market were to reverse course are we going to start singing this administration praises?
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🦊 Happy FriYAY 🦊
Meet and Greet
Democracy is not a spectator sport
FIGHT for it
PROTECT it
I hope that many of you are participating tomorrow in the
National Day of Action
Saturday April 5th
I’ve provided a link so that you can find a location near you
We WILL be Ok
🦊🇺🇸🦊
handsoff2025.com
Meet and Greet
Democracy is not a spectator sport
FIGHT for it
PROTECT it
I hope that many of you are participating tomorrow in the
National Day of Action
Saturday April 5th
I’ve provided a link so that you can find a location near you
We WILL be Ok
🦊🇺🇸🦊
handsoff2025.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality.
DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS!
Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa
DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS!
Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality.
DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS!
Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa
DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS!
Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa
I have done this and changing will be difficult for me but I am going to do (like Yoda said) my best.
youtu.be/5CNK5WRDUA8?...
youtu.be/5CNK5WRDUA8?...
You’re probably complying in advance (but here’s how to stop)
YouTube video by Ohh that's RICH
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April 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I have done this and changing will be difficult for me but I am going to do (like Yoda said) my best.
youtu.be/5CNK5WRDUA8?...
youtu.be/5CNK5WRDUA8?...
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IMHO, Cory Booker has been disappointing in a lot of ways (AIPAC money, cough cough), but I do worry that writing off his actions now as merely “performative BS” feels like the same kind of nihilism that helped get this administration in power.
It’s something. Hopefully it’s just the start.
It’s something. Hopefully it’s just the start.
April 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
IMHO, Cory Booker has been disappointing in a lot of ways (AIPAC money, cough cough), but I do worry that writing off his actions now as merely “performative BS” feels like the same kind of nihilism that helped get this administration in power.
It’s something. Hopefully it’s just the start.
It’s something. Hopefully it’s just the start.
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Cory Booker ending his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor:
“Let's get in good trouble."
What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Let's get in good trouble."
What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Cory Booker ending his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor:
“Let's get in good trouble."
What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Let's get in good trouble."
What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
When we build a new inclusive democratic republic with social safety nets, foundations of science, climate and environmental care, education and medical care for all, could we have these please?
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A safe nuclear battery that could last a lifetime
Sometimes cell phones die sooner than expected or electric vehicles don't have enough charge to reach their destination. The rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in these and other devices typi...
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March 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When we build a new inclusive democratic republic with social safety nets, foundations of science, climate and environmental care, education and medical care for all, could we have these please?
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On this day in 1911,146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze.
Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze.
Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
March 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
On this day in 1911,146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze.
Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze.
Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.