oldsloanie
@oldsloanie.bsky.social
Writer/editor/writing coach. Language nerd. Aspiring translator. Estranged puppeteer and performer.
she/her.
she/her.
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We can’t fix this world but we can put more books in it. To a lot of people that doesn’t matter but often it’s the things that people think don’t matter that are the most meaningful. I don’t know.
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We can’t fix this world but we can put more books in it. To a lot of people that doesn’t matter but often it’s the things that people think don’t matter that are the most meaningful. I don’t know.
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Motto
In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
September 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Motto
In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
I was told today that as a grant writer I’m “basically a professional overthinker” and now I feel both seen and attacked. Thanks, anxiety, for the career boost!
May 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I was told today that as a grant writer I’m “basically a professional overthinker” and now I feel both seen and attacked. Thanks, anxiety, for the career boost!
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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
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📱Congressional switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
We have a number of comments we’d like to share. HHS works for you! It’s funded by you!
We have a number of comments we’d like to share. HHS works for you! It’s funded by you!
Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...
RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.
www.statnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📱Congressional switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
We have a number of comments we’d like to share. HHS works for you! It’s funded by you!
We have a number of comments we’d like to share. HHS works for you! It’s funded by you!
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Eyes on the Prize is one of the best pieces of American public history ever produced. It's so frustrating that it isnt more available, given the era we live in. Eyes I streams on PBS and is on DVD. As far as I know Eyes II isn't available for streaming or on DVD. And now Eyes III will stream on Max.
I'm genuinely disheartened by the lack of reviews/coverage for "Eyes on the Prize III," which premieres on HBO tonight.
Sigh. This is, I guess, a "me" problem. But nothing you could watch this week is better.
Anyway... ICYMI, my review:
Sigh. This is, I guess, a "me" problem. But nothing you could watch this week is better.
Anyway... ICYMI, my review:
‘Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015’ Review: Landmark Docuseries Remains Essential Viewing in New HBO Chapter
The Million Man March, the birth of Black Lives Matter, urban renewal projects in the Bronx and the aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising get spotlights in the six-parter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Eyes on the Prize is one of the best pieces of American public history ever produced. It's so frustrating that it isnt more available, given the era we live in. Eyes I streams on PBS and is on DVD. As far as I know Eyes II isn't available for streaming or on DVD. And now Eyes III will stream on Max.
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Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well.
His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel.
Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.
His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel.
Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.
February 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well.
His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel.
Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.
His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel.
Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.
Checked out a book about ‘why we’re so distracted and how to think deeply again’ but it’s been a big month. I had to return it to the library this week despite being only halfway through so now I’m super angry at the internet but I didn’t yet relearn how to think. 🤦♀️ #babysteps
February 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Checked out a book about ‘why we’re so distracted and how to think deeply again’ but it’s been a big month. I had to return it to the library this week despite being only halfway through so now I’m super angry at the internet but I didn’t yet relearn how to think. 🤦♀️ #babysteps
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Hey! If you have access to a printer, a thing you could do is print up some of these Know Your Rights flyers and cards (in languages spoken in your area) and post them around your neighborhood. miracoalition.org/news/know-yo...
Know your rights - MIRA Coalition
Whether you’re a U.S. citizen, a green card holder, a student on a visa, or undocumented, you have legal rights. … More
miracoalition.org
February 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hey! If you have access to a printer, a thing you could do is print up some of these Know Your Rights flyers and cards (in languages spoken in your area) and post them around your neighborhood. miracoalition.org/news/know-yo...
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And this is why archives (including the Internet Archive) matter. When records are erased, useful info is lost AND it's harder to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...
January 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
And this is why archives (including the Internet Archive) matter. When records are erased, useful info is lost AND it's harder to avoid the mistakes of the past.
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Okay. Time to get to work. Print Run will now be doing a Query Critique Drive. 100% of the money received will be going to an org or fund that directly helps trans kids. Here are the rules:
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Okay. Time to get to work. Print Run will now be doing a Query Critique Drive. 100% of the money received will be going to an org or fund that directly helps trans kids. Here are the rules:
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We are doing a week of calls to @schumer.senate.gov about Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors! Day One is about Bondi & Patel. Make a call, tell a friend to call, join us again tmw - easy. And even if you aren’t in NY you can still call bc as minority leader, he still works for YOU.
Cc: @indivisible.org
Cc: @indivisible.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We are doing a week of calls to @schumer.senate.gov about Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors! Day One is about Bondi & Patel. Make a call, tell a friend to call, join us again tmw - easy. And even if you aren’t in NY you can still call bc as minority leader, he still works for YOU.
Cc: @indivisible.org
Cc: @indivisible.org
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Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
![A white square with black text reading, “I remember in a recent interview you spoke about your support of the trans community, because you said: "I see that transgender youngsters are the ones who are helping to take planet Earth into the galaxy because we're going to run into other life forms that our gender does not matter." Can you speak about that a bit?
I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down
—I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wh3pv4fvnxycxhglk6x4ief5/bafkreieq7oulanbcr6xlcc2erzqplov5g7n2wpsk5pnw6i2sth7q5jyrwa@jpeg)
![A white square with black text reading, “But when we go into the galaxy, a life-form may say,
"Who are you?" Well, there's no point in talking to another life-form and [saying] "I'm a boy or a girl," because it may have no meaning. That may mean nothing to them. So what you're going to say is, "I am a life form from the third planet, from the yellow sun," therefore giving yourself an identity. You don't have an identity because you say, "I'm a boy, I'm a girl, I'm a Jew or Gentile, I'm a Catholic or Baptist." That doesn't mean anything once you get beyond the prejudices of Earth.
So yeah, I think the transgender students are really brave because they're taking a lot of flack for just wanting to be themselves and to have the right to have their own name. I think that's incredibly brave, and I
think that they're absolutely right to want to do that.
To want to own themselves.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wh3pv4fvnxycxhglk6x4ief5/bafkreifkk2cersgiekwhqwonhhn62py7ddayi4rlmtxtwxth3eagmqkfri@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
I needed some Janice to break up my doomscrolling this morning. Maybe you do too.
JANICE!!! How can it be that I have been drawing you ROCKING for 45 years and I have gotten so much OLDER and you have NOT aged a day?!! FER SHER. RILLLLY. The ultimate female rocker! Pics: Janice 2017, Janice and the Band from our 1981 #themuppets70 #comicstrip brochure… and other sketches
January 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I needed some Janice to break up my doomscrolling this morning. Maybe you do too.
I tend to read a lot more fiction than non-fiction, but I’m making a commitment to read some books from this list in the coming months. I hope sharing it helps others who want to read their way into finding their own best ways to resist and survive in the times ahead.
Those words, diverse and creative? Not an accident.
This isn’t about mass street protests, necessarily. Those aren’t safe now, not when they’ve got the army on their side. No pink hats, kids.
Time to level up and get smarter.
Here’s a reading list for you:
This isn’t about mass street protests, necessarily. Those aren’t safe now, not when they’ve got the army on their side. No pink hats, kids.
Time to level up and get smarter.
Here’s a reading list for you:
Political Education
Time to Level Up.
bookshop.org
January 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I tend to read a lot more fiction than non-fiction, but I’m making a commitment to read some books from this list in the coming months. I hope sharing it helps others who want to read their way into finding their own best ways to resist and survive in the times ahead.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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ASL is a whole actual fucking language, friends. With nuance and depth and a whole cultural community. Don't tolerate this attack.
🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ASL is a whole actual fucking language, friends. With nuance and depth and a whole cultural community. Don't tolerate this attack.
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Interested in becoming a submissions editor at SmokeLong? Volunteering to read for a literary journal is one of the best ways to improve one’s own writing. Read more here: www.smokelong.com/work-with-us/
January 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Interested in becoming a submissions editor at SmokeLong? Volunteering to read for a literary journal is one of the best ways to improve one’s own writing. Read more here: www.smokelong.com/work-with-us/
I keep going to put this book on my TBR, realizing it’s already there, and wondering why i haven’t gotten to it.
I think I like the title so much I subconsciously put off reading it because part of me is worried it won’t live up to my own internal hype. Does anyone else do this silly thing?
I think I like the title so much I subconsciously put off reading it because part of me is worried it won’t live up to my own internal hype. Does anyone else do this silly thing?
First book of the year ✅
Finished This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. It’s about two rival agents in a war who begin to communicate and it quickly escalates to more. Super fresh and conceptual, but a little too abstract and left me confused at times 3.75/5 💙📚
Finished This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. It’s about two rival agents in a war who begin to communicate and it quickly escalates to more. Super fresh and conceptual, but a little too abstract and left me confused at times 3.75/5 💙📚
January 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I keep going to put this book on my TBR, realizing it’s already there, and wondering why i haven’t gotten to it.
I think I like the title so much I subconsciously put off reading it because part of me is worried it won’t live up to my own internal hype. Does anyone else do this silly thing?
I think I like the title so much I subconsciously put off reading it because part of me is worried it won’t live up to my own internal hype. Does anyone else do this silly thing?
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#Thread 1/5 : It is 47-years to the date Vietnamese troops rode into Cambodia and uprooted the #PolPot regime, perpetrator of the worst atrocities since #Hitler. I decided to visit the #GenocideMuseum in #PhnomPenh to mark the occasion. This used to be a school before it became a place of horrors.
January 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#Thread 1/5 : It is 47-years to the date Vietnamese troops rode into Cambodia and uprooted the #PolPot regime, perpetrator of the worst atrocities since #Hitler. I decided to visit the #GenocideMuseum in #PhnomPenh to mark the occasion. This used to be a school before it became a place of horrors.
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hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below.
45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...
45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...
January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below.
45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...
45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...
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"The French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SFEDP) recently commissioned its own version of the Cass Review, and this study reached almost the exact opposite conclusions of Cass."
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Cass vs France — Assigned
The French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology commissioned its own version of the Cass Review, unsurprisingly it almost completely contradicts Cass.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 24, 2024 at 11:25 AM
"The French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SFEDP) recently commissioned its own version of the Cass Review, and this study reached almost the exact opposite conclusions of Cass."
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...