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Nic Bennett (they/them)
@nicbennett.bsky.social
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Scientists in Solidarity co-founder | Organizing scientists & allies to block authoritarian power and build a science that works for everyone | newsletter: https://buttondown.com/solidarityscience#subscribe-form
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​Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities
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November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Justice League paints a picture of reparations and healing in Lansing, where everyone gets their needs met.

Can't wait to see you at their Fall Celebration & Fundraiser next Friday: www.justiceleagueglm.org/event-detail...
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Nic (a genderqueer person) stands confidently on a city sidewalk wearing a brown and black leather jacket, rust-colored pants with a brown holster strap, and black lace-up boots. They have short hair, a trimmed beard, and a septum ring, looking slightly upward with a composed expression. The background shows urban buildings, a Domino’s storefront, bare trees, and a cloudy sky.
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I have friends everywhere
Nic (a genderqueer white person) is standing on a city sidewalk wearing a brown and black leather jacket with quilted detailing (dressed as Cassian Andor from Star Wars). They have short, styled mullet brown hair, a neatly trimmed fake beard and mustache, and a septum ring. They look slightly upward and to the side with a thoughtful expression. The background shows an urban street with buildings, cars, and cloudy sky.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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✨I have friends everywhere✨
September 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Join us July 1, 3pm PST/6pm EST for Mobilizing White People for the Anti-Fascist Fight!

Register here: shorturl.at/gpxcw

This webinar will help equip us to build the broad, multiracial front necessary to defeat fascism. See you for session 3 of the 2025 Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizing Series.
June 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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@majcher.bsky.social found me in a tangled grumpy pile this week, plopped me into the forest and set me to foraging for dryad saddles and turkey tails and let my crankiness untangle🍄‍🟫🌳

it's amazing how they always know just the thing that will work 💕

here they are showing off our haul
May 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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tarot cards read me this morning

"Should I take the leap?"
The Fool tarot card from The Spacious Tarot deck. The card is propped up against a bleached cow femur bone and surrounded by amethyst, smoky quartz, tourmaline, and string lights on a white table. Behind the card is a small houseplant in a gray planter.
April 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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today's haul from the Lansing Independent Comics and Zine Fest!
Zines from Lansing zine fest including: a yellow zine titled "Against the MSU War Machine," an orange zine titled "Michigan Cryptids," and a white small zine titled "Gender Ecology." There is also a a zine business card from the (trans)scribe and two stickers: a sparkly one that says "Make Lansing Weirder" and a round white circle one with pictures of seeds on it that says "Spread Seeds".
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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me: I am so different from my family, it's wild.

20 seconds later: My dad texts me his latest "scarecrows." Never mind, it's clear we are related.
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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@nepologia.bsky.social and I got to meet in person and it was magical
on the left is a Mexican woman (Ana) with shoulder-length hair. She is wearing a black puffer coat and red glasses and has an inviting smile. Her left arm is out because she's taking the selfie of us. I am on the right. I'm a nonbinary white person wearing glasses with gold rim and a silver septum piercing. I have a purple-red mullet. I am wearing a grey wool coat, my great-grandmother's red scarf, and a blue coverall. I'm looking so thrilled with squinting eyes because I finally got to meet Ana in person. In the background is the beautiful ripple texture of the MSU Broad Art Museum. The photo is to a diagonal angle.
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Upcoming webinar with @pcstnetwork.bsky.social

Inclusive event facilitation: Challenges, best practices, and opportunities

28 April 2025 | 01:00 AM-02:00 CET (20:00-21:00 EST)

moderater: @nepologia.bsky.social
panelists: @riedlinm.bsky.social,Juliana Restrepo CadavidThilina Heenatigala, & me
April 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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April Fools rabbit butt skeleton

Ampersand the bunny got into a tussle with his former roommate and tore a muscle. Ampersand has a little limp for a while and is on bed rest but should recover.
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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@majcher.bsky.social got me the best hat
Nic is wearing a brown baseball hat that says "I heart Uranus. Uranus, Indiana." Nic is a nonbinary white person with a reddish purple mullet, silver septum ring, and black plaid shirt. The baseball hat is hiding their eyes and they are holding the brim with a couple of fingers and an Evercrisp apple in that same hand. In the background are their friend's lemon tree and a cross stitch of checkerspot butterflies made by their friend.
March 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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THE VIBES

in @willjobst.bsky.social's Big Grave Fashion Fantasy, we used our fashion and style to battle rivals

Holographic butterfly wings, rocket boots, and stomping the baddies' egos? SIGN ME UP

#ttrpg

www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...
a character sheet for Big Grave Fantasy that says "look loadout" with a large blank space where I drew (in ink pen) my holographic butterfly suit complete with rocket boots, wispy smoke trails, glitchy wings, and compound eye + proboscis mask. The character sheet explains that Belladonna (she/her) is the Creator essence. She solves things with tech (and STYLE).
March 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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we get our dopamine hits however we can

on a mission to find all of the small delights around me

#bunnies #figs
March 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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my supervisor is getting sleepy...time for naps for everyone
#bunnies
a black and white Dutch rabbit flopped on his side watching someone work but his eyes are shutting slightly and one ear is starting to droop. It's almost bunny naptime
March 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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It's been such a lovely scholar visit to St. Thomas University. We've used Theatre of the Oppressed to explore how journalists might find their way into solidarity with communities. I've met amazing, caring people and eaten delicious, yummy pizza.

#theatreOfTheOppressed
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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In our first Protect & Resist webinar on Wednesday, February 19 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT we get to learn from racial capitalism scholar Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley! 🔥

✒️ Register at SURJ.ORG/NICETHINGS
On a background that looks like slightly crumpled notebook paper large text reads "RACISM: Why we can't have Nice* Things *Healthcare, Better Schools, Affordable Housing. A conversation about MAGA's agenda to defund public infrastructure is rooted in racism." To the right is a photo of Dr. Robin G. Kelly, a black masculine person wearing black glasses and a white and black checkered shirt and small hoop earrings.
February 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Last weekend, across the country, in small towns and big cities, we held over 60 rallies calling on local leaders and our community to pledge to protect and resist Trump's antidemocratic and immoral agenda.

#ShowingUpForRacialJustice
a rally of white people holding protest signs on the steps of a government building. the large banner reads "Protect People Resist Hate Western Washington"
February 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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today's delight-- @majcher.bsky.social caught a squirrel sitting on the front porch seat. I missed snapping a picture, but look at the squirrel's little snack stash on the chair arm 🌰🐿️🥹
a wooden slotted chair on a concrete porch. visible is one white square column of the porch and a bit of the snow-covered yard. on the chair arm of the chair are three acorns
January 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Rally for Resisters 1:45PM Sat Feb 1 Ingham County Courthouse.

Ingham County Board of Commissioners reaffirmed our county as a safe and welcoming community to immigrants!

Hope to see you there!
On the left the text reads in bold red and black font: "This Saturday! Feb 1 1:45 Ingham County Courthouse. A Celebration of Solidarity! Rally for Resisters. "Welcoming to Immigrants" County Resolution Passed! On the right, a picture of Ingham County Courthouse with a blue sky with clouds.
January 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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bunny bunny spinach party (we are working to bond these two)

not shown: Ampersand (the black and white one) leaving the party and going home as soon as the food ran out
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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appreciating a lovely day of playing board games, eating muffins, and drinking tea with friends. Here is a great screenshot about our Daybreak game from my friend.
screenshot of my friend's Instagram story that has a picture of the board game Daybreak. Text in the front says: "We lost!!! Global temps rose by 1.7 and every community except Europe globally went into crisis. The US did manage to establish a circular economy so... small wins? Our take away was that we did not invest enough resources into social, ecological or infrastructure resilience. Too much attention to R&D that yeilded NOTHING.
January 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Grateful for the connections to amazing people and work from so many disciplines addressing the climate crisis with the Full Circle Climate Communication Workshop. But for now, a nap. #climateChange #scicomm #umbc
Poster that says “Full Circle Climate Communication” taped to the inside of a glass conference room window Slide from Courtney Starret’s lightning talk titled “Making Meaning: Connecting Data with Concept” The background of the slide has worry beads made of ice on a cyanotype
January 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM