Rachel 🍉
@rachelsike.bsky.social
she/they | chronically ill creative, human rights activist, & geek
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One of our brothers, Phil Tottenham, is suspected to be kidnapped (communications blackout) from international waters by Israel as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Please contact your reps and demand the safe return of him and all US Americans on board!
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October 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
One of our brothers, Phil Tottenham, is suspected to be kidnapped (communications blackout) from international waters by Israel as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Please contact your reps and demand the safe return of him and all US Americans on board!
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covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
May 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
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I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
May 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
I’m gonna go to the gulag for not meeting my quota of Sabra hummus in the fridge 😔
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so simultaneously absurd and disturbing: the House will vote
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.
May 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’m gonna go to the gulag for not meeting my quota of Sabra hummus in the fridge 😔
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We could all use a sweet treat right now 🍦👀
Pop by the North Market Jeni’s around lunch on Wednesday, April 16th, and 25% of all sales will benefit AFO!
Plus, you can try our very own pairing—Gimme the Dough, Honey!—featuring Double Dough and Honey Vanilla Bean.
Pop by the North Market Jeni’s around lunch on Wednesday, April 16th, and 25% of all sales will benefit AFO!
Plus, you can try our very own pairing—Gimme the Dough, Honey!—featuring Double Dough and Honey Vanilla Bean.
April 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We could all use a sweet treat right now 🍦👀
Pop by the North Market Jeni’s around lunch on Wednesday, April 16th, and 25% of all sales will benefit AFO!
Plus, you can try our very own pairing—Gimme the Dough, Honey!—featuring Double Dough and Honey Vanilla Bean.
Pop by the North Market Jeni’s around lunch on Wednesday, April 16th, and 25% of all sales will benefit AFO!
Plus, you can try our very own pairing—Gimme the Dough, Honey!—featuring Double Dough and Honey Vanilla Bean.
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A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
March 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
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society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room
March 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room
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me: "everything is going to shit. Ecological collapse continues across the planet, in your country there is no opposition party. weeping and gnashing of teeth to intensify."
also me: "bro you ever softboiled an egg? put that on some toast? it's magnificent"
also me: "bro you ever softboiled an egg? put that on some toast? it's magnificent"
March 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
me: "everything is going to shit. Ecological collapse continues across the planet, in your country there is no opposition party. weeping and gnashing of teeth to intensify."
also me: "bro you ever softboiled an egg? put that on some toast? it's magnificent"
also me: "bro you ever softboiled an egg? put that on some toast? it's magnificent"
Happy Saint Gertrude’s Day, the patron saint of cats, poor people, and gardeners!
March 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy Saint Gertrude’s Day, the patron saint of cats, poor people, and gardeners!
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Dear Congress,
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
March 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Dear Congress,
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹
Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
We can do better
Tesla's massive stock market gains since the election have now been entirely wiped out.
Its market capitalization is down close to $700 billion from its December peak.
www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...
Its market capitalization is down close to $700 billion from its December peak.
www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...
Tesla Stock’s Election Rally Is All Gone—Erasing 91% Gain
The latest Tesla stock dive came as tech stocks broadly sold off and UBS analysts called for another year of declining deliveries of Tesla’s electric vehicles.
www.forbes.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
We can do better
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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wear. sunscreen.
What's a piece of advice you wish you'd heard when you were younger?
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
wear. sunscreen.
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I'm supposed to fly across the country in May I'm pooping my pants
A Delta flight appeared to have flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport
(photo via KellieMeyerNews)
simpleflying.com/breaking/del...
(photo via KellieMeyerNews)
simpleflying.com/breaking/del...
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm supposed to fly across the country in May I'm pooping my pants
I thought my body could handle a double serving of protein oatmeal this morning. It could not.
February 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I thought my body could handle a double serving of protein oatmeal this morning. It could not.
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the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.
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Read this story from @sfgate.com national parks bureau chief @ashleyharrell.bsky.social, who's covering what's happening in Yosemite with the type of depth you mostly won't find anywhere else on the internet: www.sfgate.com/california-p...
'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.
www.sfgate.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Read this story from @sfgate.com national parks bureau chief @ashleyharrell.bsky.social, who's covering what's happening in Yosemite with the type of depth you mostly won't find anywhere else on the internet: www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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⚠️Senate Bill 1 THREAD. 🧵
Today at 2pm, the Senate Higher Ed Committee will hear opponent testimony on SB 1. A committee vote is expected tomorrow morning, followed by a full Senate vote in the afternoon.
📢Tell Ohio lawmakers to REJECT this bill: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Today at 2pm, the Senate Higher Ed Committee will hear opponent testimony on SB 1. A committee vote is expected tomorrow morning, followed by a full Senate vote in the afternoon.
📢Tell Ohio lawmakers to REJECT this bill: action.aclu.org/send-message...
February 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
⚠️Senate Bill 1 THREAD. 🧵
Today at 2pm, the Senate Higher Ed Committee will hear opponent testimony on SB 1. A committee vote is expected tomorrow morning, followed by a full Senate vote in the afternoon.
📢Tell Ohio lawmakers to REJECT this bill: action.aclu.org/send-message...
Today at 2pm, the Senate Higher Ed Committee will hear opponent testimony on SB 1. A committee vote is expected tomorrow morning, followed by a full Senate vote in the afternoon.
📢Tell Ohio lawmakers to REJECT this bill: action.aclu.org/send-message...