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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~
@riotousmuse.bsky.social
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she/her; diasporic, urban-dwelling Inuk Indigiqueer woman seeking reconnection;
💍 @phoenix-rights.bsky.social

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Community questions & answers
smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social • 21s I'm worried about so many things, but not lost in there is how on earth are we going to afford all the police brutality settlements. Robert Moffitt @justplainbob.... • 34m Wishing best for MPR journalist Kerem Yücel, injured at an anti-ICE protest today, and robust state charges against the masked thugs who hurt him today. phoenix@phoenix-rights.bsky.social • 33s Abolish the police.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
riotousmuse.bsky.social
I'm going to say mild trigger warning
for trypophobia in this image

I've been thinking at least one of our cats might be into this toy for ages, but it's >$30 & I can never justify it.

Tried putting toys in an egg carton a few times & it never had quite enough appeal.

1/3
Cat toy: A plastic box with 16 circular holes in top & 3 circular holes on each side, with a couple foam balls inside.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Local Angle for Minnesota
#MNLeg

The next front line battle is at the library.

Make sure you've got the library's back.
From Archive > MPRNEWS Beltrami County is proposing slashing library budgets by 40%, reducing hours. Residents say the cuts will hurt community members. The next front line battle is at the library. Feeling stuck? Paralyzed? Overwhelmed? Exhausted? In need of rest? Turn to the library. Use it. Use Libby. Get audiobooks. Get ebooks. Get tangible books/movies/music maybe as a weekly goal to get out of the house even if it's cold/dark. If all you can do is utilize the library--DO IT NOW. In Hennepin County/ Minneapolis JOIN @librarypatronsunion & figure out who your county commissioner is & get in conversation with them about how they're protecting libraries & full library access, particularly in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal administration at their backs. Make sure you've got the library's back.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This is us **after** WICKED For Good
@phoenix-rights.bsky.social
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Selfie taken after the film. We've both cried & are looking emotional.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This is us **before** WICKED For Good
@phoenix-rights.bsky.social
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Selfie in the theater before the movie begins
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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We're well underway on this WICKED Day!

@phoenix-rights.bsky.social
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Green vanilla cupcakes in pink, green, & blue liners in front of a turquoise bowl full of pink whipped frosting & a packet of Penzey's Transgender Remember vanilla sugar Two farmhouse breakfasts plus cupcakes—one in a pink liner & one green liner, complete with Elphaba sprinkles. A hot pink coffee mug in the foreground & a black coffee mug adorned with lily of the valley in the background. Pink and green layered smoothies with a pink/orange ombre candle & a green I Put A Spell On You candle.
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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So I went to St Louis last week & one of the first local places I went told me to tell Bluesky hello 👀
and our bookshelf with a library of books on the bottom, five shelves, some special collections on the top most shelf along with some eclectic trinkets on the top shelf A close-up of one of the top shelves from the previous photo, highlighting an antique Alf landline phone.
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Here's Phillips as well thanks to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social
WE PROTECT US PHILLIPS COMMUNITY PROTECTION AGAINST ICE ABUSES As ICE activity increases, gather with Phillips neighbors to connect, to prepare, and to keep each other safe in our community A community conversation with Council Member Jason Chavez St. Paul's - San Pablo Lutheran Church 2742 15th Ave South 11/23 SUNDAY 2PM - 3:30 ST. PAUL'S • Free Food • Whistle + Training • Spanish / Somali Interpretation • Safety Planning • Know Your Rights • Solidarity @jchavezmpls NOSOTROS NOS PROTEGEMOS PROTECCIÓN COMUNITARIA DE PHILLIPS CONTRA LOS ABUSOS DE ICE La actividad de ICE esta aumentando. Reúnase con vecinos de Phillips para conectarse, para prepararse y para mantener a cada uno seguro en nuestra comunidad. 11/23 DOMINGO 2 PM-3:30 IGLESIA SAN PABLO Una conversación comunitaria con el Concejal Jason Chavez Iglesia Luterana San Pablo-St. Paul's 2742 15th Ave South • Comida Gratis • Silbato + Entrenamiento • Interpretación de Español, Inglés y Somalí • Conozca Sus Derechos • Planificación de Seguridad • Solidaridad @jchavezmpls
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Here's some aftercare info
Chemical Weapons Aftercare: Over-exposure to "incapacitating agents" such as tear gas and/or pepper spray may potentially lead to lingering health problems. These agents may be able to damage the protective lining of the lungs, which can make us more susceptible to lung infections and diseases. Additionally, the toxins from the chemical weapons can stick around in our bodies, taxing our liver and our general immune system. There are many steps you can take to help decrease your risks from exposure to these toxins. Some of these steps need to be taken as soon as possible following exposure. Others should be done regularly over the weeks after exposure. Try not to bring contaminated clothing indoors unless it is wrapped up in a plastic bag. As soon as you can, wash your hair and all contaminated clothing in a strong detergent. It is important to help your body to eliminate the toxins as quickly and effectively as possible, in order to minimize long term effects. The following is a list of things you can do to help detoxify and support your immune system following chemical weapons exposure: • Water: Try to drink at least 2 liters a day. Squeeze some lemon in the water for added benefit. • Liver support: Use bitter, liver tonic herbs such as Milk Thistle seeds (Silybum mariannum), Burdock root (Arctium lappa), and Dandelion root (Taraxacum officinale) for about two weeks following exposure. They can be used as tea, 1- 4 cups a day, or as a tincture 2-4 dropperfuls 2-3 times a day, or powder the herbs in a coffee grinder, place them in capsules and use 4 capsules 1-3 times a day. Milk Thistle can often be purchased pre-encapsulated. Your liver must work overtime to filter out the toxins. Avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, fried or high fat foods will make its job easier. Getting regular sleep is also important- your liver continues to work while you sleep. • Lung support: A tincture of Mullein leaf (Verbascum thapsus) is excellent lung support. This should especially be used if you are asthmatic or have a cough. You can take two to four dropperfuls, every four hours or so, immediately following exposure. After a day, decrease this to two dropperfuls four times a day. Chewing on the root of a licorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is also very helpful for your lungs, as are Slippery Elm tablets or capsules of Marshmallow root powder (Althea officinalis). These mucilaginous herbs all soothe and coat mucous membranes. These are especially important if you have a dry cough. • High fiber diet: Whole grains or psyllium husk can help clean you out your colon. Always take psyllium with at least two cups of water. Discontinue if irritation or gas occurs. • Epsom salt rub: A hot shower, followed by a thorough scrubbing with epsom salts which are then left on the skin for 10-15 minutes before a thorough follow-up wash can help draw toxins from the body. Be sure to accompany this with much water consumption. • Nettle tea: Nettles are the perfect all around support plants. Their high mineral content and mild cleansing action supports many body functions. Drinking lots of nettle tea will boost your immune system, calm you down and support your body in returning to its regular, strong self.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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@mplsmoen.bsky.social I even highlighted where she explicitly states this. You'll need to click on the pictures in the above post to see the full pictures, but here's the highlighted portion because I want to make this VERY easy to see, understand, & share, like @aurinmpls.bsky.social already has.
My long-time partner and best friend, Aaron, popped the question in July, at the scene of our first date at the Lake of the Isles. It was the easiest yes of my life. In the face of a world in turmoil and tragedy, we have found joy and support in one another, and I am grateful to be building a life with someone who believes so deeply in the power of solidarity, love, and community. I couldn't imagine my life without him.. We have been quietly enjoying our engagement, and wedding planning will commence after the election. We both ask that you don't forget to vote. We are in the process of bringing our lives together here, in South Minneapolis. We couldn't be more excited. I grew up here, and the prospect of building a family here one day is a blessing I've only dreamed about. Minneapolis is my full-time home, it is the City where I fell in love, and it is the City where Aaron and I get to start our next chapter.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I'm sure @aurinmpls.bsky.social shared this elsewhere but here's an email from my council member.
She grew up IN Minneapolis
& has been expressing intent to further build her life here.
In Minneapolis.
Publicly.
Xenophobic racists created/stoked doubt here as bait for others willing to join them.
Aurin Chowdh... Sep 26 to me Dear Ward 12 Neighbors, The rumors are true - I'm engaged Someone call Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine and tell them, they can officially take me off their list of most eligible bachelorettes! My long-time partner and best friend, Aaron, popped the question in July, at the scene of our first date at the Lake of the Isles. It was the easiest yes of my life. In the face of a world in turmoil and tragedy, we have found joy and support in one another, and I am grateful to be building a life with someone who believes so deeply in the power of solidarity, love, and community. I couldn't imagine my life without him.. We have been quietly enjoying our engagement, and wedding planning will commence after the election. We both ask that you don't forget to vote. We are in the process of bringing our lives together here, in South Minneapolis. We couldn't be more excited. I grew up here, and the prospect of building a family here one day is a blessing I've only dreamed about. Minneapolis is my full-time home, it is the City where I fell in love, and it is the City where Aaron and I get to start our next chapter. While much of my life is public and I am generally happy to share it with my neighbors, in a partnership, there are two people, and with respect to my partner, there are things that are only his story to tell. I kindly request that you give us some privacy and understanding at this moment. Thank you to our family, friends, neighbors, and supporters for your unwavering love and encouragement. Sincerely, Aurin Chowdhury Ward 12 City Council Member AURIN: CHOWDHURY FOR MINNEAPOLIS WARD 12
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Noon estimate for voter turnout:

Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services
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We estimate that more than 69,600 Minneapolis voters have cast a ballot as of 12 p.m., including early/ absentee votes and in person Election Day votes.

Polls are open until 8 p.m.
Minneapolis Elections and Voter... o ••• 13m • Midday voter turnout update! We estimate that more than 69,600 Minneapolis voters have cast a ballot as of 12 p.m., including early/ absentee votes and in person Election Day votes. Polls are open until 8 p.m. Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services YourCity. YourVote. Minneapolis Municipal Election Turnout 2013, 2017, 2021, 2025 160,000 120,000 69,651 Estimate as of 12 p.m. 80,000 40,000 • Election Day Early/Absentee 2013 75,145 4,954 2017 93,953 11,975 2021 115,765 29,572 2025 43,567 26,084
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Do you see the yellow piece that is basically the size of a couple states combined? That is the decimated area from which thousands of people, mostly Alaska natives, have been completely and utterly displaced.
A map of Western Alaska, upon which, in the lower right corner is imposed, a map of the lower 48 states, with the whole of Alaska imposed on it, which takes up the entire upper Midwest. Within Alaska, a yellow chunk, the size of a state or two is highlighted.
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Please keep Alaska on your mind
WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF WAYS YOU CAN HELP: ONLINE FUNDRAISER - DONATE TO SUPPORT Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate online. All funds raised will go directly to assisting communities. PURCHASE ITEMS - AMAZON WISHLIST Purchase items of immediate need to go directly to the Bethel Community Services Foundation to be distributed to villages most affected. A map illustrating the vastness of the region decimated by Halong by imposing Alaska on the lower 48 & highlighting the impacted region, which is about the same size as or larger than the entire state of Wyoming or Oregon.
November 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
riotousmuse.bsky.social
Here's the 2004 cartoon, the 2013 version from when DOMA was stricken, & this other one from the 2019 Muslim ban.

I can't currently find the context/origin for the dumpster fire one.
Lady Liberty dipping Lady Justice in a kiss in a pose like the famous image of a post-war sailor kissing a girl on V-J Day in 1945 Lady Justice dropping her sword & scales to run & jump into the embrace of Lady Liberty with a paper in Lady Justice's hands visible behind Lady Liberty's back, reading "DOMA RULING" Lady Justice holding a flailing D J T back nonchalantly & saying to Lady Liberty, "I've got this" Lady Liberty & Lady Justice modernized in almost Disney princess fashion walking away from a dumpster fire containing Justice's scales with Liberty's tablet in pieces on the ground. The dumpster contains a sign that reads "CLOSED DUE TO LACK OF LIBERTY" on a sign & "& JUSTICE" is scrawled in red graffiti. Liberty is giving a middle finger back behind her toward the dumpster as she walks angrily away. Justice wears a look of disgust as she adjusts her sunglasses.
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Happy Queer Holidays with Liberty & Justice for all!

Fiat justicia ruat cælum!
🗽⚖️

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C dressed as Lady Justice & Ash dressed as Lady Liberty
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Last one for me today
Ruth Wilson Gilmore has a saying, that we have to change everything, which is very much true because I think that the societies that have colonized us, or that are holding us in the forms that we're in right now, have not knit themselves into the ecosystems that they re a part of. They've extracted resources out of those relatives and out of those ecosystems for the benefit of a very few rich white men. And so it seemed like, again, an invitation to bring diverse experiences, diverse thinking, diverse knowledge systems to together towards this enormous task of making worlds that don't destroy the planet. KH: I love this idea of trying to weave or knit ourselves into the world that is, rather than trying to invent something altogether separate - as though our reality is wholly defined by us or exists in a vacuum. This mentality of separateness, as you're saying, is the mentality of billionaires and fascists, which is really tied to the billionaire drive to colonize space - the way Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos imagine that we can just transplant the experience of being human anywhere, rather than reckoning with the countless relationships between ourselves and the creatures and elements of the natural world that make our existence possible. They only understand that webwork of relationships as a site of extraction. I think the wisdom you're sharing here is especially important for organizers who want to exist in opposition to that extractive mentality of separateness — because we always need to consider how life is already happening, what relationships make it possible, and how we can weave ourselves and our visions into that fabric, rather than trying to project our vision over those realities.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In Theory of Water, you write: "The land and the waters, the universe, hold all the knowledge we need to make other worlds. World building is difficult global work. It is sacrifice, both collective and individual. It requires difference and diversity. There is no centre or centring in the creation and maintenance of a network." Can you elaborate on this? LBS: So I think that I started to think within Nishnaabeg thought about how we make worlds. And I think the first thing that I realized is that we don't have to make a world, the world, the planet already exists. Our job is to fit into the ecosystems in a way that doesn't destroy the planet. And that's very tricky for capitalists and fascists. They're not very good at that, but I think lots of different cultures were and are good at that. So the first part of it is recognizing that we are not building a planet, we're just figuring out how to live with the cycles and the ecosystems that already exist. And I think that the way that the planet functions ecologically has a lot of knowledge for how to live. And so sintering would be an example of that. It's also within Nishnaabeg thought, if I think of my homeland, I don't think of my homeland as this state or country that has a fence around it that I guard It's a series of relationships with plants, with animals, with humans, with water, with air, with the land, with beings that are very, very different from myself. I'm very different than beavers or than bears or than moose or than wild rice. But I have to foster and nurture and maintain a relationship across that difference because we're sharing time and space. I started to think of the planet in a deeply relational way that is a network. Nishnaabeg homelands are not the center of the network. We're just a part of the network. Leanne isn't the center of the network. My body is just a hub made up of different relationships. And because the planet is very diverse, people in all different kinds of geographies & cultures hold particular kinds of knowledge that I think benefit us all in terms of figuring out diverse ways that we can knit or weave ourselves into the planet in a way that brings forth more life. & so this is, I think, similar to what abolitionists, Black feminists... there's lots of different ways into this same sort of thinking.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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So sintering became a way of thinking about how we belong to the places that we find ourselves in. And I think there's lots of organizers and lots of communities, lots of people that are very good at sintering already. But it was interesting to me to be thinking about snow as this relative and as this kind of provocateur that I live with that's endangered a little bit right now because of climate change, wondering what I could learn about the embodied practice of this part of the water cycle that's going on around me all the time that I may not be attentive to. Because in contemporary modern life, it's easy to not spend time at the shore. It's easy to not think about snowflakes. It's easy just to turn on the faucet and hope that you're drinking clean water for many of us. So I wanted to think about sintering as a practice that is coming from the land that I'm a part of, think of it as a teaching, think of it as a practice thinking of how I take care of the ones that are around me in a way that doesn't destroy them and in a way that doesn't destroy me so that we can build stronger networks. And so I see what you're doing, what you've done today, this morning before you came as a practice of sintering as well, the ICE patrol, the mutual aid networks that have become so important. These are all kinds of systems of care. And I think ultimately that's what Indigenous governance and indigenous politics is about. That's the big difference. These are just systems of taking care of people and land and plants and animals and water. KH: I love what you're saying about ICE patrol as a kind of sintering, because what you said about how snow is so much harder to move once the snowflakes have had time to bond themselves together - that really connects with what we are experiencing here in Chicago. The more time we spend with our neighbors, the more we learn from each other, the more we see each other showing up in the streets, and trust each other — when we gesture toward the whistles around our necks — the stronger we become, and the harder we are to move. ICE agents have terrorized our communities. They have tear gassed neighborhood after neighborhood, but people are becoming more bonded to each other in the face of that threat, and showing collective courage in the streets. We are learning how to resist ICE, while also trying to protect the privacy and dignity of our neighbors, and to keep everyone as safe as possible, while also taking the risks that we sometimes feel called to take, out of love and solidarity. And when people do take those risks, and experience harm, our connections facilitate care in that context. I'm also thinking about our connection to snow, as it gets colder in Chicago, because I think the reality of what this moment demands of us might feel a little intimidating to some of us, in terms of patrolling and holding our ground in the cold. And I hope it helps folks to think about sintering, and how we can be like snowflakes, during this Chicago winter - bonded to each other, and much harder to move.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
riotousmuse.bsky.social
This is dazzlingly timely & blessedly grounding.
LBS: Sintering is something that snowflakes do. So snowflakes start out as a piece of dust in the sky world. They fall through the atmosphere and attract water droplets that freeze and accrete and build these sort of crystallized forms of snowflakes. So snowflakes are travelers, they're moving through different worlds. They start in the sky world, they attract a water world, and then eventually they land on the earth. So they're sort of like a falling shore. And I became really interested in these areas of overlap in the book because Anishinabe homelands weren't demarcated by borders, but by these zones of overlap where we would have to put more presence and more energy, more ceremony, more diplomacy into these sorts of areas that we were sharing with the Haudenosaunee or the Wendat. And so that sort of sets out a really different way of organizing life. When you think of sitting on the shore of the lake in Chicago, you become very aware that you're sharing space with birds and fish and insects and humans and all different kinds of life in that moment. And it's important to figure out how to weave ourselves into the ecosystems that we are a part of in a way that doesn't destroy ourselves and in a way that doesn't destroy the other living things that we are in network with. So I think when that snowflake created in the sky world becomes the shore with the water world and then falls to the land, the first thing that it does is it physically sinters or rounds the edges to bond with its neighboring snowflakes. It finds a way of knitting or weaving itself into its new environment. It finds a way of belonging. And when snow sinters, as people who live in places where you have to shovel snow, it lands from the sky and it's often fluffy. And if you wait and don't shovel your sidewalk right away the next day you've got a harder job because the snow has sintered, it's become saggier, it's bonded to each other, it's heavier, and it has a staying power on trails and pathways in the spring much longer than the unpacked Snow.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Not unrelated:
Those layoffs at the big evil online shipping place.
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM