Lynn
@lynnwilk42.bsky.social
Theatre nerd, chaos gardener, Bird Queen. Probably hiding in a book... or the woods....maybe try the river...
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Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.
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A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.
The frog is sweating.
The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.
“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.
All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
The frog is sweating.
The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.
“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.
All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...
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June 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.
The frog is sweating.
The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.
“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.
All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
The frog is sweating.
The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.
“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.
All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
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Parachute Day II, this time with a circular composition. Acrylic on 14” wrapped canvas. #bskyartist #artshare #painting #nostalgia #creative #colorful #illustration #originalartwork
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Parachute Day II, this time with a circular composition. Acrylic on 14” wrapped canvas. #bskyartist #artshare #painting #nostalgia #creative #colorful #illustration #originalartwork
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Moskowitz: He tariffed the penguins. He tariffed Vietnam. Madagascar. I don’t know what the plan is. Is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows.
April 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Moskowitz: He tariffed the penguins. He tariffed Vietnam. Madagascar. I don’t know what the plan is. Is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows.
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If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.
thegriffinlist.com
thegriffinlist.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.
thegriffinlist.com
thegriffinlist.com
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Not that we need a reminder of what's happening, but this is (unfortunately) an excellent read. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Not that we need a reminder of what's happening, but this is (unfortunately) an excellent read. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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It is important to the right wing and the radical center that evidence of people from marginalized groups achieving things be hidden, so that their work is invisible, their inability assumed, and the perception that their presence is "DEI" or "CRT" or "wokeness" reinforced with race science trash.
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It is important to the right wing and the radical center that evidence of people from marginalized groups achieving things be hidden, so that their work is invisible, their inability assumed, and the perception that their presence is "DEI" or "CRT" or "wokeness" reinforced with race science trash.
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If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.
If they won't put it in writing yourself. Send an email (bcc yourself?): "Following our conversation on x date at x time regarding x, I am writing to clarify your directives. According to my notes, you instructed me to A, B, and C. If any of this is incorrect, please advise. I have some concerns."
February 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.
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These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Feb. 7
Dictionary lookups from the trade wars, the Grammy Awards, and the high seas
www.merriam-webster.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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you spoke with my frantic inner child at bedtime but another me answered, "i'm okay," which was to say i will tuck the rest of this howling accompaniment to lyrics in while the walls get closer tonight and i can let this next yawn be a hug with the light on
January 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
you spoke with my frantic inner child at bedtime but another me answered, "i'm okay," which was to say i will tuck the rest of this howling accompaniment to lyrics in while the walls get closer tonight and i can let this next yawn be a hug with the light on
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If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now. PlanCPill.org will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through AidAccess.org. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.
PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
PlanCPill.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now. PlanCPill.org will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through AidAccess.org. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.
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"I believe Hegseth is the perfect person to address the most pressing issues in the military, because they’re all issues he’s been accused of perpetrating himself."
Who Better to Address Sexual Assault in the Military Than a Man Who Has Been Accused of Sexual Assault?
“Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, faced senators at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, where he ...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"I believe Hegseth is the perfect person to address the most pressing issues in the military, because they’re all issues he’s been accused of perpetrating himself."
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"The whole general crisis of 1914-1945 can be understood as a series of Great Powers trying to improve their political position by forcibly imposing an obsolete framework on a complicated modern world they didn’t understand, with increasingly catastrophic results."
The Second Time as Farce: Imperialism in the 21st Century
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. – Karl Marx, R…
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January 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"The whole general crisis of 1914-1945 can be understood as a series of Great Powers trying to improve their political position by forcibly imposing an obsolete framework on a complicated modern world they didn’t understand, with increasingly catastrophic results."
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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JUDGE: do you swear to tell the truth?
ME: I do
JUDGE: the whole truth, even if it’s scary?
ME: I do
JUDGE: and to always say you love me?
ME: I do
JUDGE: for as long as we both may live?
ME *whispering*: I do
ME: I do
JUDGE: the whole truth, even if it’s scary?
ME: I do
JUDGE: and to always say you love me?
ME: I do
JUDGE: for as long as we both may live?
ME *whispering*: I do
May 19, 2024 at 1:17 PM
JUDGE: do you swear to tell the truth?
ME: I do
JUDGE: the whole truth, even if it’s scary?
ME: I do
JUDGE: and to always say you love me?
ME: I do
JUDGE: for as long as we both may live?
ME *whispering*: I do
ME: I do
JUDGE: the whole truth, even if it’s scary?
ME: I do
JUDGE: and to always say you love me?
ME: I do
JUDGE: for as long as we both may live?
ME *whispering*: I do
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"Most of our life should actually just be an odd appreciation at what is, and then the desire to maintain and protect it. Because it is so unlikely and so much work went into bringing this about."
— Daniel Schmachtenberger, from www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...
— Daniel Schmachtenberger, from www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...
![[01:43:07] Daniel Schmachtenberger: what already is, that is so profoundly unlikely,
that took billions of years to make, and so much activity. Like, there should be,
most of our life should actually just be an odd appreciation at what is, and then
the desire to maintain and protect it. Because it is so unlikely and so much work
went into bringing this about.
But nobody makes the history books for maintaining things. They make the history
books for making new stuff or destroying stuff. Or you put the two together,
creative destruction, which is the creed of society right now. But like 99 percent of
life should actually be maintenance. 99 percent of life is you feed the kids and the
meal that you made then is gone.
And then you make another meal and you wash the plates and then they're dirty
again. But you're actually maintaining the sacred thing. And then true progress is
where I can actually Add a new thing that really is factoring everything good for
the whole, then yes, I'll add those things and that's progress.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hc6gom5nkgjict3usfd3axkj/bafkreif3a7mfm776zkgu3267x22yoxrnq4z4hsyssbpzu3ps5i4ngm6bei@jpeg)
November 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
"Most of our life should actually just be an odd appreciation at what is, and then the desire to maintain and protect it. Because it is so unlikely and so much work went into bringing this about."
— Daniel Schmachtenberger, from www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...
— Daniel Schmachtenberger, from www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...
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If you're bookshopping, here are many wonderful recs, including @harkaway.bsky.social very kindly recommending THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS @solarisbooks.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
The best books to give as gifts this Christmas
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in t...
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December 9, 2024 at 6:33 AM
If you're bookshopping, here are many wonderful recs, including @harkaway.bsky.social very kindly recommending THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS @solarisbooks.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...