Justyna
@justyna-w.bsky.social
Curious, inquisitive, open-minded. Passionate about human rights. Reader. Volunteer. Wife, mama, dog owner.
Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park has died. She was 91.
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park has died. She was 91.
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If you'd like to write something for Mom in time for Mother's Day, just email my team and we'll send you a free poetry prompt. I do this because I believe there are few gifts quite like saying the right words, and I love to help that happen. Email: thefasanoacademy@gmail.com.
May 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you'd like to write something for Mom in time for Mother's Day, just email my team and we'll send you a free poetry prompt. I do this because I believe there are few gifts quite like saying the right words, and I love to help that happen. Email: thefasanoacademy@gmail.com.
“And then I grew up and I read books.”
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“And then I grew up and I read books.”
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#Harvard University has made it possible to virtually explore the Great #Pyramid of Giza in stunning 3D and 360º! Now you can take a digital tour and uncover the mysteries of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Tour here: giza.fas.harvard.edu/giza3d/
Tour here: giza.fas.harvard.edu/giza3d/
April 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#Harvard University has made it possible to virtually explore the Great #Pyramid of Giza in stunning 3D and 360º! Now you can take a digital tour and uncover the mysteries of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Tour here: giza.fas.harvard.edu/giza3d/
Tour here: giza.fas.harvard.edu/giza3d/
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Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording.
(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)
(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)
April 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording.
(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)
(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)
Life's better with a library ❤️
Lovely to see the poem I wrote for Devon libraries turned into this starting librarians and library users @librariesunlimited.bsky.social @hulllibraries.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social @thefnl.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @librarian.bsky.social @librarianjones.com #libraries
April 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Life's better with a library ❤️
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I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
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A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
Happy Black History Month!
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Happy Black History Month!
I kept going not because I wanted to…
Trust me, all of me wanted to stop.
I kept going because I deserved to know
what not giving up on myself felt like.
by Renaada Williams
Trust me, all of me wanted to stop.
I kept going because I deserved to know
what not giving up on myself felt like.
by Renaada Williams
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I kept going not because I wanted to…
Trust me, all of me wanted to stop.
I kept going because I deserved to know
what not giving up on myself felt like.
by Renaada Williams
Trust me, all of me wanted to stop.
I kept going because I deserved to know
what not giving up on myself felt like.
by Renaada Williams
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"If you get tired
Learn to rest
Not to quit"
Credit Banksy
Fox Friday
Learn to rest
Not to quit"
Credit Banksy
Fox Friday
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"If you get tired
Learn to rest
Not to quit"
Credit Banksy
Fox Friday
Learn to rest
Not to quit"
Credit Banksy
Fox Friday
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
"There is good news: Regular citizens are the ones best suited to strengthen our democracy."
Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
How *you* can protect democracy
29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"There is good news: Regular citizens are the ones best suited to strengthen our democracy."
"If the U.S. withdraws from the World Health Organization, it will lose yet another battle in an ideological war most Americans don’t even know they are fighting."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration
While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.
www.theatlantic.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"If the U.S. withdraws from the World Health Organization, it will lose yet another battle in an ideological war most Americans don’t even know they are fighting."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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You can argue that Elon Musk isn't a neo-Nazi, though all the evidence points in the opposite direction, including his open embrace of the German neo-Nazi party AfD and the antisemitic Great Replacement Theory.
What you cannot claim is that he didn't know exactly what he was doing with this salute.
What you cannot claim is that he didn't know exactly what he was doing with this salute.
January 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
You can argue that Elon Musk isn't a neo-Nazi, though all the evidence points in the opposite direction, including his open embrace of the German neo-Nazi party AfD and the antisemitic Great Replacement Theory.
What you cannot claim is that he didn't know exactly what he was doing with this salute.
What you cannot claim is that he didn't know exactly what he was doing with this salute.
This makes me so sad. He was a unique filmmaker.
January 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This makes me so sad. He was a unique filmmaker.
The Neil Gaiman thing is utterly appalling and deeply disturbing.
January 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Neil Gaiman thing is utterly appalling and deeply disturbing.
Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Sold Tesla Stake Over Musk’s Pay
Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.