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T Bird (she/they/ma’am)
@tbirdtko.bsky.social
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Southern leftist disabled Jewish queer person w/ #ME. Houston public policy + urbanism but came up country AF. Everything begins small in the bayou. Dayenu. ♿️🌈🐊✊🏽 Host of @commvalues.bsky.social
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My 10yo sent me a screenshot of these lyrics w/ a link to this song and said, “America partly crushed my dreams of being an astronaut. This song helped and now it went from three quarters to half crushed.”

open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...
Screenshot of song lyrics that say, “But I don’t want to see the stars If they’re just one more piece of land for us to colonize”
March 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Moving along in my #stainedglass journey. It’s such a privilege to be able to learn new skills (esp as a person with #MECFS), and I will never, ever take it for granted! Floral design is up next 🌸🌺🌹
Photo of cut stained glass depicting a crescent moon with a lotus and star inside of it to form a complete circle
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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It’s not perfect, but it’s my first piece.
Photograph of a small stained glass heart made from two half moon- shaped, beveled pieces of clear glass and one square coral striated piece of glass turned so that the point of the square is the base of the heart and the two bevels form the rounded top curves. There are visible errors in the soldering.
February 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Walked into my stained glass class and there is a box labeled “grief” on it, so. I am in the right place.
Photo of a stained glass workshop with miscellaneous pieces of stained glass art and tools lying around. In the background is another table with a box on it labeled “grief” in red marker
February 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Click the link in the original post, scroll down to where it asks, “Is this page helpful?” and click “No” to get a prompt for what to improve. Takes two seconds, might become a vital part of the public record used to fight this stuff eventually. Never know!
Screenshot of a feedback form that asks how the webpage could be improved. The answer I submitted in the text box provided was: “INCLUDE TRANS PEOPLE. Transgender people are essential to the LGBTQIA+ community and to our nation. Stop trying to erase trans people from public consciousness!”
February 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Happy Valentine’s Day from me to me. Nobody knows me like I do!
Photo of a group of little gifts in front of a bouquet of white roses, lavender hyacinths, and eucalyptus.
February 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Okay, yeah dating can be tough as a disabled person who masks, but on my good days? Ain’t got shit on me!
Photo of a middle-aged woman from the nose down, standing in front of a window with the blinds closed but sunlight pouring through anyhow. She has olive skin, red nails, large gold hoop earrings, and is wearing red lipstick on her lips, which are curved in a slight smile. She’s wearing a white linen halter top cropped at the waist and a matching white linen skirt, showing her midriff and décolletage. Behind her on the floor are two blush pink dog beds and the cord to a heating pad she uses to help manage chronic pain.
February 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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If music is therapy, who is your therapist
Photograph of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner. It’s the cover of her album entitled, “Jubilee,” and she’s sitting down in a yellow chiffon dress, one eye covered by a small orange fruit. There are strings of the same fruit in the foreground, blurred while she is in focus.
February 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Which muppet best reflects how you’re feeling about [gestures at entire world]? (be sure to copy/paste the excellent alt text!)
Beaker, wide eyed and possibly mid-scream, moves across a stage in a blur of motion… wielding a chainsaw.
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
Black and white photo of Donna Summers wearing statement sunglasses, a leopard-print bodysuit with shiny tights, and gold heels. She looks like an absolute diva!
January 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Trump just paused ALL Federal grant and loan funding indefinitely. For folks who may not realize just how deeply local govt is subsidized by State & Federal grants, the Harris County Housing & Community Development Dept alone is around 95% grant-funded..
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 THE DIRECTOR January 27, 2025 M-25-13 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Muse SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024, of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending "wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve. This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance' programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements? For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J. Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025), Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan. 20, 2025), Puttin… 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Enforcing the Hyde Amendment (Jan. 24, 2025). These executive orders ensure that Federal funds are used to support hardworking American families. To implement these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their Federal financial assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by any of the President's executive orders. In the interim, to the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal. This temporary pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the President's priorities. The temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Even before completing their comprehensive analysis, Federal agencies must immediately identify any legally mandated actions or deadlines for assistance programs arising while the pause remains in effect. Federal agencies must report this information to OMB along with an analysis of the requirement. OMB also directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated with open NOFOs, such as conducting merit review panels. No later than February 10, 2025, agencies shall submit to OMB detailed information on any programs, projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause: (i) issuance of new awards; (ii) disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards; and (iii) other relevant agency actions that may be implicated by the executive orders…
January 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Spotted in my son’s comic book blanks. All power to the people! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
A page of blank panels made for creating comics. In the first panel, a stick figure is ‘dabbing’ by leaning over with both arms at a 45° angle in the same direction above his head. In the second panel, two stick figures are talking but no dialogue is written. Across the bottom three panels is a large text caption that says “All power to the people” above a drawing of a black panther (the jungle cat) and a stick figure with one fist raised in the air.
January 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I would love to meet all the pets of Bluesky, please! Give me your cutest, coziest pet photos with alt text. This is Ava Simone!
Photo of a pitbull who is silver with white markings on her face, one green eye and one blue, and a pink nose. She’s looking up directly into the camera with an attentive expression, and the focus is sharp on her face and slightly blurred around her.
January 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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She’s the absolute goodest girl! Minus crowding my yoga mat. But perhaps even then!
Photo of a pitbull who is silver with white markings on her face, one green eye and one blue, and a pink nose. She’s looking up directly into the camera with an attentive expression, and the focus is sharp on her face and slightly blurred around her.
January 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Boop!
Illustration of a cute bunny in a field of daffodils with the caption “I hope our names are touching on the watch list”
January 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Please donate what you can. Our homeless community members in #Houston need all the help we can give them ahead of the freeze, and Alexia is distributing mutual aid in the form of blankets and care packages! Venmo is iamalexia, CashApp is 13alexia13
Screenshot of a Venmo transaction of $50 to iamalexia, Alexia Hernandez, for mutual aid for homeless comrades
January 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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🫡🫡🫡
Photograph of a medley of snack foods and a highball glass of oat milk on a mother of pearl coffee table. There are baby carrots next to a pint of garden spinach dip and a red pear.
January 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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I made good on his investment fr. Happy new year, y’all. Feeling mighty grateful for abundance and good food. Peach cobbler forthcoming.
Close-up photo of a serving platter with scalloped potatoes, sliced steak served medium rare, and broccolini with bacon and onions Close-up photo of a baby romaine and kale mixed-green salad with shaved honeycrisp apples, goat cheese, dried cranberries, homemade pickled red onions, toffee-coated pecans, and a homemade dijon vinaigrette Photo of a package of beef tenderloin steaks weighing 2.115 pounds
January 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Me slowly trying to convince my bf to unionize their trade bc there are only like 4k tankermen in the entire U.S. and they handle 100% of the liquid cargo for… everything manufactured in the U.S. Thanks for the inspo, @kimkelly.bsky.social!
Screenshot of a text quoting an article. Quote: "Every job would benefit from a union and any job can become a union job if you're willing to put in the work to organize your co-workers." Article: “How Undercover Organizers Are Energizing the Labor Movement” by Kim Kelly for teenvogue.com Text Exchange: 1. Hell yeah! The author of that article is one of my fave reporters on the U.S. labor beat, and she's writing a young adult version of her book on U.S. labor movement history right now that I can't wait to get for Russ when it comes out 2. Need to do some research myself. Most of the people l've talked to are all for it.
December 30, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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If you’re wondering whether my dad brought a giant tumbler of whisky for… the doctor’s office… the answer is yes lol
Southern coonass dads really are a different breed, man.
Photo of a yeti cup with a sticker on it that says Yukon Outfitters
December 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Do yourself the holiday favor of making mezcal apple cider cocktails. Just… trust me. Equal parts Topo Chico, mezcal, soda water, & cider w/ muddled orange/cranberries/sugared rim. Rosemary syrup if you fancy.
Photo of ingredients listed in the post.
December 22, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Words for us all to live by
A proposal for Shmita in the age of collapse: Quit your job. Cut holes in fences. Forgive everyone everything—except the agents of “progress,” who squeeze the world into a grid and don’t care who or what they crush. Befriend your neighbors: human, plant, and animal. Trade the mechanical time of clocks for the living time of the sun, the moon, the seasons. Sabotage all that sabotages your life. Block the roads. Destroy work, by flood or by fire. Steal everything that should be free, which is to say: everything. Don’t get caught. Learn what you desire and seize it, even if at first the pleasure frightens you. Breathe deeply, love frontally, attack anything that tries to deny you that power. Start now.
December 10, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Did you know that if you have the luxury of access to a grocer with fresh produce and also the funds to purchase that you can PICKLE IT ALL & make a salad of pickled things w/ chickpea pasta & lemon & olive oil & fresh herbs? There are cathedrals everywhere for those who have eyes to see.
Photo of a stainless steel mixing bowl on a bamboo cutting board. The bowl is filled with a mixture of diced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, sweet peppers, and fresh herbs. Next to it is a jar of olives, a jar of sweet peppers, and a jar of bright magenta colored, homemade pickled purple onions and a chef’s knife. Close-up of a stainless steel mixing bowl filled with a mixture of diced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, sweet peppers, pickled onions, olive oil, lemon juice, and fresh herbs.
December 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Feeling’ pretty proud of myself for hand tying these dang bows for our Hannumas tree this year. Enjoying all the things I can do with my hands before the rheumatoid arthritis takes over. Holidays are so full of feelings. All of them.
Close-up of ivory ribbon with gold glitter, floral wire, and scissors on a coffee table inlaid with mother of pearl. Close-up photo of a fake flocked and lit Xmas tree decorated with navy velvet bulbs, navy glass bulbs, gold glass bulbs, and small ivory bows with gold glitter. There is a wall-mounted TV above an upright/electric piano in the background showing a fireplace graphic on the TV.
December 7, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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It’s rare that I take any time for lunch at work bc when I am working I get in the flow and don’t care to stop. But today I did. Please enjoy this video of pork chops and cream gravy, courtesy of my PMS cravings. Had no clue that gluten-free flour would make such a good roux, but it did!!
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM