Aimee
@ladyblanchester.bsky.social
Teacher, theater-lover, queer
Last five books read:
Fang Fiction, Kate Stayman-London
John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower
I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman
Women’s Hotel, Daniel M. Lavery
A Physical Education, Casey Johnston
Last five books read:
Fang Fiction, Kate Stayman-London
John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower
I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman
Women’s Hotel, Daniel M. Lavery
A Physical Education, Casey Johnston
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
Mankind was my business, Charlie Brown
There is no spoon, Charlie Brown
They're made of meat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Mankind was my business, Charlie Brown
If you see this, QTP with a GIF of one of your favorite wild animals
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If you see this, QTP with a GIF of one of your favorite wild animals
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
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Come join the public meeting at the Westerly Library to express your support for better rail service in Rhode Island!
#RhodeIsland #Westerly #trains #publictransportation
#RhodeIsland #Westerly #trains #publictransportation
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just called @magaziner.house.gov who voted for the resolution - so disappointing, if not surprising. Read a book about the New Deal, Rep. Magaziner.
The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Just called @magaziner.house.gov who voted for the resolution - so disappointing, if not surprising. Read a book about the New Deal, Rep. Magaziner.
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
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If they're making it harder for nurses to afford graduate degrees and have already made it harder for nursing professionals to come to the US to work under visas, then who do they think will work the hospitals, the nursing homes, the outpatient clinics, the community health programs, etc?
Who?
Who?
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If they're making it harder for nurses to afford graduate degrees and have already made it harder for nursing professionals to come to the US to work under visas, then who do they think will work the hospitals, the nursing homes, the outpatient clinics, the community health programs, etc?
Who?
Who?
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My Jewish Dad.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My Jewish Dad.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
change one letter and ruin a candy
Wounds
Wounds
change one letter and ruin a candy
Hershey’s Pisses
Hershey’s Pisses
change one letter and ruin a candy
Pilk Duds
Pilk Duds
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
change one letter and ruin a candy
Wounds
Wounds
Your tarot deck only has 74 cards?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Your tarot deck only has 74 cards?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
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In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once (if you feel like it)
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once (if you feel like it)
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When I was 12 & walking to my violin lesson, a man in his 20s pulled his car over to ask what was in the case. I looked at him & said "A gun" but inside I was preparing to run 1/2 a block as fast as I could to the nearest house whose owners I knew. I have now spent 3/4 of my life thinking like this.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
When I was 12 & walking to my violin lesson, a man in his 20s pulled his car over to ask what was in the case. I looked at him & said "A gun" but inside I was preparing to run 1/2 a block as fast as I could to the nearest house whose owners I knew. I have now spent 3/4 of my life thinking like this.
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
Can personally attest that this is true.
It's a miracle that schools function at all day-to-day, given the demands we make of school workers across the entire system relative to the resources we provide them to make good on our demands. It's a thing held together through a collective effort that puts the moon landing to shame.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Can personally attest that this is true.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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During the Civil War, more than 20% of Union soldiers were also foreign-born, mostly from Germany and Ireland. During World War I, approximately half a million immigrants were serving in the US military. “Foreigners have continued to serve in significant numbers since World War II.” #VeteransDay
In fact, immigrant service members fought in major conflicts since our country’s founding. “Hundreds of thousands of immigrants pledged to defend the United States with their lives in the Civil War, both World Wars, and conflicts like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.” #VeteransDay
new from @tusk81.bsky.social:
Veteran’s Day can’t be properly observed without also noting the vast, heroic contributions of immigrant service members to the United States military.
Unfortunately, our nation has not always given its service members the respect they deserve.
Veteran’s Day can’t be properly observed without also noting the vast, heroic contributions of immigrant service members to the United States military.
Unfortunately, our nation has not always given its service members the respect they deserve.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
During the Civil War, more than 20% of Union soldiers were also foreign-born, mostly from Germany and Ireland. During World War I, approximately half a million immigrants were serving in the US military. “Foreigners have continued to serve in significant numbers since World War II.” #VeteransDay
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
