Rachel Ernst
@rachelernst.myatproto.social
Teacher and librarian
Tea lover
she/her
Tea lover
she/her
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
So GOP phone banking for our state election is going great /s
The GOP called my mom, misgendered her because they couldn't read her name, were rude about being corrected, said they were calling about Trump (not the actual candidate). My mom hung up in disgust.
They're not sending their best.
The GOP called my mom, misgendered her because they couldn't read her name, were rude about being corrected, said they were calling about Trump (not the actual candidate). My mom hung up in disgust.
They're not sending their best.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So GOP phone banking for our state election is going great /s
The GOP called my mom, misgendered her because they couldn't read her name, were rude about being corrected, said they were calling about Trump (not the actual candidate). My mom hung up in disgust.
They're not sending their best.
The GOP called my mom, misgendered her because they couldn't read her name, were rude about being corrected, said they were calling about Trump (not the actual candidate). My mom hung up in disgust.
They're not sending their best.
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People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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To process those applications again is going to cost so much time and money. They are spending money to starve people. And given the level of corruption, I have no doubt that applications with names indicating certain backgrounds will be conveniently "misplaced" for weeks if not months or years.
These incredible fucking assholes.
These application processes are already so deeply burdensome and frustrating.
They are trying to starve people.
These application processes are already so deeply burdensome and frustrating.
They are trying to starve people.
SNAP benefits update: Trump admin says ‘everyone’ will have to reapply
Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax on Thursday the plan is to “have everyone reapply for their benefits."
www.newsweek.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To process those applications again is going to cost so much time and money. They are spending money to starve people. And given the level of corruption, I have no doubt that applications with names indicating certain backgrounds will be conveniently "misplaced" for weeks if not months or years.
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I think there’s a preference difference here in which no one’s necessarily wrong.
If you’re doing something bad to me, and I tell you to stop, I don’t want to hear why you did it. I want you to tell me that you won’t do it any more.
Explanations suggest you’re going to keep doing it.
If you’re doing something bad to me, and I tell you to stop, I don’t want to hear why you did it. I want you to tell me that you won’t do it any more.
Explanations suggest you’re going to keep doing it.
"Autism isn't an excuse."
No it's not. It's an explanation.
"No. You're using it as an excuse. You should have known the thing you did was unacceptable."
Except I didn't. And I'm explaining why.
No it's not. It's an explanation.
"No. You're using it as an excuse. You should have known the thing you did was unacceptable."
Except I didn't. And I'm explaining why.
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I think there’s a preference difference here in which no one’s necessarily wrong.
If you’re doing something bad to me, and I tell you to stop, I don’t want to hear why you did it. I want you to tell me that you won’t do it any more.
Explanations suggest you’re going to keep doing it.
If you’re doing something bad to me, and I tell you to stop, I don’t want to hear why you did it. I want you to tell me that you won’t do it any more.
Explanations suggest you’re going to keep doing it.
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Someone asked me why I cover Ukraine’s success hitting Russian infrastructure but rarely mention Russian strikes on Ukraine. Russia targets residential areas, hospitals, orphanages, weddings. No strategic value. The aim is to cause terror. Terror is effective when it’s amplified. I’m not helping Rus
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Someone asked me why I cover Ukraine’s success hitting Russian infrastructure but rarely mention Russian strikes on Ukraine. Russia targets residential areas, hospitals, orphanages, weddings. No strategic value. The aim is to cause terror. Terror is effective when it’s amplified. I’m not helping Rus
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
I feel like my generation experienced this with our elders. So many important people in our lives completely abandoned their values or were exposed as hypocrites.
The amount of people I know who are no contact with their parents, taken internships off their CVs, left their faith entirely...
The amount of people I know who are no contact with their parents, taken internships off their CVs, left their faith entirely...
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I feel like my generation experienced this with our elders. So many important people in our lives completely abandoned their values or were exposed as hypocrites.
The amount of people I know who are no contact with their parents, taken internships off their CVs, left their faith entirely...
The amount of people I know who are no contact with their parents, taken internships off their CVs, left their faith entirely...
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the problem is that shitty people keep thinking the cataclysmic social divide happening right now is between educated/uneducated or pastoral/cosmopolitan when in fact it is between cruel/kind, abuser/decent - and being surprised by which side of that line they fall on
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
the problem is that shitty people keep thinking the cataclysmic social divide happening right now is between educated/uneducated or pastoral/cosmopolitan when in fact it is between cruel/kind, abuser/decent - and being surprised by which side of that line they fall on
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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This is such a massive loss. Alice Wong’s work is outstanding. We are all worse off without her. If you haven’t I would highly recommend you read her work. She’s my go to mention when discussing impactful people who studied Sociology. I’m gutted by this news 💔
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is such a massive loss. Alice Wong’s work is outstanding. We are all worse off without her. If you haven’t I would highly recommend you read her work. She’s my go to mention when discussing impactful people who studied Sociology. I’m gutted by this news 💔
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From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
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Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
Multiple drafts of emails even! Reading them out loud for clarity and emphasis!
Turns out this is exceptional.
Reminder to myself and other friends: our 60% is someone else's 100% 😬
Turns out this is exceptional.
Reminder to myself and other friends: our 60% is someone else's 100% 😬
I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Multiple drafts of emails even! Reading them out loud for clarity and emphasis!
Turns out this is exceptional.
Reminder to myself and other friends: our 60% is someone else's 100% 😬
Turns out this is exceptional.
Reminder to myself and other friends: our 60% is someone else's 100% 😬
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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This reply was my favorite
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This reply was my favorite
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.