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Rae (with the ducks) she/her
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Raising plants, ducks, and good humans.
Always reading.
Granny hobbies.
Kind, but not nice.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 rights are human rights.
Be kind, or kindly piss .
Pinned
Okay, BlueSky...
Send me people with old fashioned hobbies, not old fashioned beliefs.
Readers who love a diverse set of genres.
People passionate about things they love.
Lefty homesteaders.
People with a sense of humor that punches up, not down.
People who are kind, but not always nice.
Today, I ruined a restaurant worker's"whole day" by saying "I'm so sorry, it seems like your machine is out of this syrup, so there is no flavor, could I please have a Dr. Pepper instead."

To be honest, I feel incredibly powerful if I can do that, when I begin with an apology and end with please.
April 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Seeing a MAGA hat in Mexican restaurant this week made me want to throw my salsa in his face.

You get the seasoning you voted for, a$$h0le.
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I am asking my representatives, @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @emilyrandallwa.bsky.social, please boycott the state of the union, and consider a government shutdown. You need to use every tool available to you. They've fucked around, it's time for the finding out. #boycottstateoftheunion
February 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks." Marjorie Taylor Greene, pick me queen and federal employee.
February 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The city of Tacoma WA is now both a trans sanctuary city and a sanctuary city for immigrants!

cityoftacoma.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...
City of Tacoma - Meeting of City Council on 2/25/2025 at 5:00 PM
cityoftacoma.legistar.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If you see this, post a gif from one of your comfort shows.
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Book 16 - Gone Wolf by Amber McBride.

This book was intense, unique, and timely. I recommend it if you are in a good place emotionally. Lots of potential triggers here, though.

However, I am really happy with this square for this book. 📚💙 #booksky #bookblanket2025
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
And on Mondays, we dress like Miss Frizzle.
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The same kind of people who supported separate drinking fountains are angry there is a "separate" Black national anthem.
February 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
While the felon in chief has been attempting to erase anyone that's not a cishetwhiteman, seeing the American flag made from dancers that look like the ones who really built our nation took my breath away. Hell yes, more please.
February 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Liz Cheney to JD Vance:

"You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny."

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
February 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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⚕️ Link to AMA YouTube channel youtube.com/@americanmed... ⚕️ 〰️AdminJenn 🩺
February 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This week, I resisted by:

Focusing on my health and recovery.

Providing testimony for a state lawsuit against harmful EO's.

Distributing food for the weekend to low-income/ homeless students at work.

Facing my dental fears and asking for help advocating when panic set in.

#todayiresistedby
February 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Book 15: Sorcery and Small Magics.

This one was a good place for my mind to rest. It has been a long couple of weeks. The characters were well rounded, and I liked the world the author built.

#booksky 💙📚 #bookblanket2025 #sorceryandsmallmagics
February 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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The story of the manna rotting when you hoard it is an anticapitalist allegory, in this essay I will…
February 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Surely I can't be the only one whose usage of the phrase "get fucked" has increased exponentially in the last two weeks.
February 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
February 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Democrats, if you are not speaking out like this, if you are not showing up with this energy, if you are not going after them like Kendrick Lamar went after Drake, do not ask me for money.
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
February 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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1. Specialize in a Chosen Role
2. Guard Your Time and Attention
3. Join or Build an Organization
Bonus Tip: Resistance from Within
Lessons from Military Service: Three Tips to Improve Your Everyday Anti-Fascism
In the face of authoritarian tactics, these strategies will help you stay focused, effective, and organized.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If I hadn't read the line "then let us be menaces" hadn't when I really needed it today, @rebeccayarros.bsky.social and I would be in a fight.

Cliffhanger so steep I thought pages were missing.

Anyway, book 14: Onyx Storm.

📚💙 #booksky #bookblanket2025
February 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have been having terrible dreams for weeks, but last night I had a dream that someone abandoned a male runner duck and we named him "Peep Buttegeig" and that was a really nice change.
February 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card
February 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Insomnia thought:

Stellan Skarsgård has achieved the same Disney Trifecta (Disney, Star Wars, Marvel) as Ming-na Wen. Are there others? Help me, #disneyadults !

It occurs to me that if this hand an EGOT-like nickname, it could be the DSM, which is not as funny as I currently think it is.
February 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
February 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM