Shannon
@storiteller.bsky.social
Parenting snark, social and climate justice, scicomm, and nerd stuff. She/her
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Shannon
@storiteller.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Growing Sustainable Together: Practical Resources for Raising Kind, Engaged, Resilient Children: Shea, Shannon Brescher: 9781623174712: Amazon.com: Books
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" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project
Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.
www.darknessrisingproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
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Alice Wong fought tirelessly against institutionalizing disabled people.
She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care.
That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities.
Fight for universal healthcare now!
She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care.
That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities.
Fight for universal healthcare now!
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Alice Wong fought tirelessly against institutionalizing disabled people.
She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care.
That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities.
Fight for universal healthcare now!
She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care.
That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities.
Fight for universal healthcare now!
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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Brand new data:
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Brand new data:
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
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A lot of people talk about how the NYC subway “feels dangerous” but please allow me to present the Dinosaur Bodega that was installed in my local stop
June 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A lot of people talk about how the NYC subway “feels dangerous” but please allow me to present the Dinosaur Bodega that was installed in my local stop
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If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it.
He responded. The people have the upper hand.
He responded. The people have the upper hand.
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it.
He responded. The people have the upper hand.
He responded. The people have the upper hand.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today
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People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible
October 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible
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When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
October 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
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If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.
“The struggle isn’t going anywhere. But we must be fortified in joy, in laughs, even the weary and ironic ones.” Love this from @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
The unbearable heaviness of being funny at the end of the world
Leslie Gray Streeter is having a hard time writing about joy because of the turmoil being caused by the federal government.
www.thebanner.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The struggle isn’t going anywhere. But we must be fortified in joy, in laughs, even the weary and ironic ones.” Love this from @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)
Honestly bless any educator doing battle with modern-day attention spans
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
October 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)
This was definitely one of the "Oh God, that story is now burned into my brain" ones. Bradbury is the master of those. And yikes….
“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This was definitely one of the "Oh God, that story is now burned into my brain" ones. Bradbury is the master of those. And yikes….
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Attention students: Apply for Fall 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science paid SULI and CCI internship programs by May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. Gain paid research experience and work with us on #ParticleAccelerators.
@Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS
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@Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS
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April 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Attention students: Apply for Fall 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science paid SULI and CCI internship programs by May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. Gain paid research experience and work with us on #ParticleAccelerators.
@Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS
atap.lbl.gov/news/suli-in...
@Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS
atap.lbl.gov/news/suli-in...
Saying that Tylenol causes autism is about as accurate as saying ice cream causes polio - and yes, people did believe that before the polio vaccine was introduced. They are both conflating correlation and causation.
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saying that Tylenol causes autism is about as accurate as saying ice cream causes polio - and yes, people did believe that before the polio vaccine was introduced. They are both conflating correlation and causation.
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
Being intentional in how we address people’s intersecting needs can be a source of joy, as these Black sign-language interpreters in Baltimore clearly are: www.thebanner.com/culture/blac...
ASL isn’t the same as English. Black Baltimorean ASL is a language unto itself.
American Sign Language is distinct and separate from English. In Baltimore, Black ASL has its own vernacular.
www.thebanner.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Being intentional in how we address people’s intersecting needs can be a source of joy, as these Black sign-language interpreters in Baltimore clearly are: www.thebanner.com/culture/blac...
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SR: It makes me furious because it takes us back 20 years to where we were after the Wakefield announcement. That's the kind of narrative we were getting then. And whether or not you can hold a job—my son, he might never hold a job—but he is still a worthy human being who deserves rights. 10/
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
SR: It makes me furious because it takes us back 20 years to where we were after the Wakefield announcement. That's the kind of narrative we were getting then. And whether or not you can hold a job—my son, he might never hold a job—but he is still a worthy human being who deserves rights. 10/
We need to tell a better story than the opposition, together! Absolutely agree with @dannychivers.bsky.social, whose work and my working with him as an activist has influenced so much of my own thinking: newint.org/climate/2025...
In the face of fascism, climate activists tell a better story
Climate activists are taking a direct stand against the far right, writes Danny Chivers.
newint.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
We need to tell a better story than the opposition, together! Absolutely agree with @dannychivers.bsky.social, whose work and my working with him as an activist has influenced so much of my own thinking: newint.org/climate/2025...
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
This is how you do mutual aid in a way that also changes systems (in terms of changing attitudes /stigma and normalizing offering products for free): www.thebanner.com/community/pu...
Period stigma meets its match in Howard County teens
Teen period clubs like the one at Mount Hebron High School have successfully expanded access to menstrual products in Howard County.
www.thebanner.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is how you do mutual aid in a way that also changes systems (in terms of changing attitudes /stigma and normalizing offering products for free): www.thebanner.com/community/pu...
“earth that is all at once a grave
a resting place a bed of new beginnings
avalanche of splendor”
Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...
a resting place a bed of new beginnings
avalanche of splendor”
Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...
www.poetryfoundation.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“earth that is all at once a grave
a resting place a bed of new beginnings
avalanche of splendor”
Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...
a resting place a bed of new beginnings
avalanche of splendor”
Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...