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Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

current university lecturer, former friendly neighborhood barista, lifelong feminist. ♈️, INTP, 5w6. night owl, dog person, 90s kid. 🩷💜💙

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Jackie @sugarandspicer.bsky.social · Nov 18

my truly radical opinion is that higher education should not be career oriented full stop

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Hans Schattle

@hansschattle.bsky.social

For all of us who love our national parks and want to save them from destruction or privatization at the hands of Trump, the National Parks Conservation Association @protectparks.bsky.social has posted this online petition that will be forwarded to Congress. Please sign!

May 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

university sent me a survey about AI and when I tell y’all I gave them *several* pieces of my mind

May 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM

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Mina Kimes

@minakimes.bsky.social

Find your patch of sun today ✨

March 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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Candice Dailey

@thedaileydoodle.bsky.social

So excited my piece of Qimir from the Acolyte was picked for this year’s Celebration art show in Japan! #starwars #theacolyte #mannyjacinto #qimir #thestranger

February 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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Laura McGarrity

@a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Hand embroidery of a tiger swimming amongst green weeds represented with French knots

February 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM

Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

I might be an action figure person now because I love him 😍

a Roman Reigns action figure in black tactical vest, black cargo pants, and black boots. he is sitting on a floral pillowcase against a beige tufted headboard

February 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM

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Britt Rankin Art

@brittrankinart.bsky.social

Chibi Osha, Qimir and the Skura.

#osha #oshaaniseya #qimir #oshamir #thestranger #theacolyte #skura #starwars #starwarsart

Chibi Osha, Qimir and the Skura walking in a line.

February 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM

Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

I need to get back on here more because I miss @flythesail.bsky.social 💜

February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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ash

@flythesail.bsky.social

Happy Valentine's Day! 💕

#TheAcolyte #BeMyAcolyte

A purple Valentine's Day card. It features Qimir/the Stranger from The Acolyte. The text reads: I want... a Valentine.

A pink Valentine's Day card. It features Osha Aniseya from The Acolyte in her mechanic's outfit. The text reads: I'd fix nothing about you.

A pink Valentine's Day card. It features Jecki from The Acolyte. The text reads: You're my jam.

A purple Valentine's Day card. It features Yord from The Acolyte. The text reads: It's no mind trick. Be mine?

February 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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zay 🍃Kyoshi Thee Stallion🍃🪨

@indigofro.bsky.social

It's not too late!! #BeMyAcolyte

ren valentines card made by cee (@c0ffeematcha), that has qimir the stranger on it, from the Acolyte. Text reads: "I have no name. But you might call me... Your valentine. To:, From:"

February 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM

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mish 🍂 in her Quiet Leaves era

@pocketsofdaisy.bsky.social

powerful stuff from our beloved Ali Hazelwood!!! 🥹🫶🏻 #romance

interview extract shared by yourromancedestinee (IG) from author Ali Hazelwood's interview with Pen America

Question: What value does romance bring to literature writ large?

Answer: I think we should turn this question around: Why should romance, a genre that clearly resonates with millions of readers, have to explicitly fight for its right to exist? I’d love for everyone who wonders whether romance has value to ask themselves: What biases drive this question? Why, out of many types of genre fiction, is it romance that constantly has to justify its existence? What does this say about the way they view the people who read and write romance? Do they see any pattern with the way they view romance now, in 2025, and historical events that took place before any of us were even born?

February 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.

Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · Feb 12

Ted Cruz released a spreadsheet of NSF grants found to be "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."

There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here?

www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

www.commerce.senate.gov

February 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Thomas Zimmer

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

turned on The Last Jedi for the first time in so long and god it really is that bitch huh. Rian Johnson I love you dearly

January 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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Johanna Winant

@johannawinant.bsky.social

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges

(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

December 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM

Jackie

@sugarandspicer.bsky.social

Judith Butler always gets it

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

$an excerpt from an interview with Judith Butler. it begins with their answer to a previous question regarding the role of gender in the US presidential election: A. It’s part of the picture. But the important thing is how we think about the gender division in relation to increasingly virulent forms of racism. Who is to say that gender and race in the person of Harris was not a fundamental issue in a country that is becoming increasingly misogynist and racist. Q. Did it prove once again that the United States is not ready to elect a woman, or was it that particular woman? A. I don’t agree with a lot of what she stands for — fracking, migration, Palestine — and I did not actively support her candidacy. But I did vote for her. We have a pernicious history of misogyny, which is being celebrated in the person of Trump. Guilty of sexual crimes, he has done more than any other American person to demean and degrade women as a class. The people who say, “Oh, I don’t like that part of his behavior, but I’m going to vote for him anyway because of the economy,”$

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they’re admitting that they are willing to live with that misogyny and look away from his sexual violence. The more people who say that they can “live with” racism and misogyny in a candidate, even if they’re not enthusiastic racists, the more the enthusiastic racists and the fascists become stronger. I see a kind of restoration fantasy at play in many right-wing movements in the U.S. People want to go back to the idea of being a white country or the idea of the patriarchal family, the principle that marriages are for heterosexuals. I call it a nostalgic fury for an impossible past. Those in the grip of that fury are effectively saying: “I don’t like the complexity of this world, and all these people speaking all these languages. I’m fearful that my family will become destroyed by gender ideology.” As a consequence of that, they’re furiously turning against some of the most vulnerable people in this country, stripping of them of rights as they fear that the same will be done to them.

December 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑

@strictlychristo.bsky.social

"The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told HuffPost in an interview on Tuesday.