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An everyday chronicle of life during such a time as this. 43/f/South Dakota. Writer, Mother, Relative, Friend, Business owner, Volunteer, Worker. Lakota (enrolled OST), born in Pine Ridge and a 6th gen settler descendant.
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· May 21
Why yes, you could pronounce @tblive.bsky.social 'to be alive.' No, it isn't an accident.
Well shit.
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Well shit.
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I read a thing about how Betty Crocker reduced their cake mix and now none of the cake mix based recipes work. www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-m...
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
"It's just so upsetting."
www.cubbyathome.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I read a thing about how Betty Crocker reduced their cake mix and now none of the cake mix based recipes work. www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-m...
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Good news, family! The USDA has confirmed that SNAP benefits will be fully funded for November. This came after a federal judge rejected the Trump admin’s plan to offer partial funds for food aid. Food should never be a negotiating tool, and I am glad to see the USDA work to comply with court order.
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Good news, family! The USDA has confirmed that SNAP benefits will be fully funded for November. This came after a federal judge rejected the Trump admin’s plan to offer partial funds for food aid. Food should never be a negotiating tool, and I am glad to see the USDA work to comply with court order.
Very tight budget before my seasonal day job starts again. Some of this week's 'use what I have and don't try to be a domestic diva' budget meals. It's been real but really tasty. I think returning to how I grew up cooking and eating relieved so much stress I'm even losing weight. Who knew? 🤷♀️😅
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Very tight budget before my seasonal day job starts again. Some of this week's 'use what I have and don't try to be a domestic diva' budget meals. It's been real but really tasty. I think returning to how I grew up cooking and eating relieved so much stress I'm even losing weight. Who knew? 🤷♀️😅
As it so happens, a story idea might start coming to a person long before it actually becomes written.
Or told, in this case. This post is for paid subscribers or for purchase as a one-off. #writing #oralstorytelling #indigenousfuturism
bit.ly/47qSiYH
Or told, in this case. This post is for paid subscribers or for purchase as a one-off. #writing #oralstorytelling #indigenousfuturism
bit.ly/47qSiYH
A modern oral storytelling: the novel that pushed through as a voice note on my phone | Harbinger House Press
Get more from Harbinger House Press on Patreon
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November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As it so happens, a story idea might start coming to a person long before it actually becomes written.
Or told, in this case. This post is for paid subscribers or for purchase as a one-off. #writing #oralstorytelling #indigenousfuturism
bit.ly/47qSiYH
Or told, in this case. This post is for paid subscribers or for purchase as a one-off. #writing #oralstorytelling #indigenousfuturism
bit.ly/47qSiYH
In a world of #MMIW, "The Real Fight" begins as a carchase and fistfight in the badlands dust between a spine-tingling stranger and a local iyeska woman. Each chapter of this indigenous futurism novel is published monthly as a Zine with Oceti Sakowin Oyate mixed-media arts & crafts.
bit.ly/3JMzWbx
bit.ly/3JMzWbx
Indigenous Futurism meets Literal Creative Writing: Novel and Chapter Zine project is live! | Harbinger House Press
Get more from Harbinger House Press on Patreon
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November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In a world of #MMIW, "The Real Fight" begins as a carchase and fistfight in the badlands dust between a spine-tingling stranger and a local iyeska woman. Each chapter of this indigenous futurism novel is published monthly as a Zine with Oceti Sakowin Oyate mixed-media arts & crafts.
bit.ly/3JMzWbx
bit.ly/3JMzWbx
My God, it feels so good to have writing deadlines to hit again. Every time I feel like those calf ropers: swoop, knot, hands up in the air! DONE! This is for a private group project, so I know when I hit send, people are gonna read it. 😅
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My God, it feels so good to have writing deadlines to hit again. Every time I feel like those calf ropers: swoop, knot, hands up in the air! DONE! This is for a private group project, so I know when I hit send, people are gonna read it. 😅
I love how society is so terrified of intuition that it's immediately associated with not just witches but now serial killers. The latter is the more PC scapegoat apparently.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I love how society is so terrified of intuition that it's immediately associated with not just witches but now serial killers. The latter is the more PC scapegoat apparently.
Aww, the wasicu are starting to get a clue. Just cute. 🥺😏
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Aww, the wasicu are starting to get a clue. Just cute. 🥺😏
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So many want an individual hero or savior. In religion. In politics. In celebrity. Is this universal or more pronounced in this individualist society?
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So many want an individual hero or savior. In religion. In politics. In celebrity. Is this universal or more pronounced in this individualist society?
Between this and the other post about Halloween, yes, it was a busy weekend full of family, fun, treats & ancestors. I even went back to church for the first time in over a year. More importantly, I finally articulated why the fuck I bother with it all anyway.
tblive.substack.com/p/why-the-fu...
tblive.substack.com/p/why-the-fu...
Why the fuck I bother going to church
And why I don't understand why others bother to go at all
tblive.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Between this and the other post about Halloween, yes, it was a busy weekend full of family, fun, treats & ancestors. I even went back to church for the first time in over a year. More importantly, I finally articulated why the fuck I bother with it all anyway.
tblive.substack.com/p/why-the-fu...
tblive.substack.com/p/why-the-fu...
Community Organizer Obama is the been-there-done-that presidential troll we didn't know we needed. #newjersey #itsabouttime #hope
Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Community Organizer Obama is the been-there-done-that presidential troll we didn't know we needed. #newjersey #itsabouttime #hope
Dieting induced insomnia is no joke.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Dieting induced insomnia is no joke.
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Good morning, America. This is you:
"Indian Wars were the original ‘forever wars’. They set the precedent for preemptive, unilateral, and so-called ‘defensive’ wars against peoples and nations the US deemed outside the bounds of ‘civilization’.
Full article: US Imperialism Is an Indian War.
"Indian Wars were the original ‘forever wars’. They set the precedent for preemptive, unilateral, and so-called ‘defensive’ wars against peoples and nations the US deemed outside the bounds of ‘civilization’.
Full article: US Imperialism Is an Indian War.
Shibboleth Authentication Request
www-tandfonline-com.ezp2.lib.umn.edu
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good morning, America. This is you:
"Indian Wars were the original ‘forever wars’. They set the precedent for preemptive, unilateral, and so-called ‘defensive’ wars against peoples and nations the US deemed outside the bounds of ‘civilization’.
Full article: US Imperialism Is an Indian War.
"Indian Wars were the original ‘forever wars’. They set the precedent for preemptive, unilateral, and so-called ‘defensive’ wars against peoples and nations the US deemed outside the bounds of ‘civilization’.
Full article: US Imperialism Is an Indian War.
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If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
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While launching my writing and literal creative writing business based in my journaling practices, there are important things I would like to share with more than just my journal and that may someday become their own zines, but first, a Substack. substack.com/@tblive
TBLive | Substack
An everyday chronicle of life during such a time as this. 43/f/South Dakota. Writer, Mother, Relative, Friend, Business owner, Volunteer, Worker. Lakota (enrolled OST), born in Pine Ridge and a 6th ge...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
While launching my writing and literal creative writing business based in my journaling practices, there are important things I would like to share with more than just my journal and that may someday become their own zines, but first, a Substack. substack.com/@tblive
Thune's freak-out last night pisses me off, but not just him and the Cult of Orange Caesar. Hey, Democrats, occur to you that when you demonized populism in any form, you didn't just keep Progressives out of power, but handed the keys to the Orange Caesar and Cult?
open.substack.com/pub/tblive/p...
open.substack.com/pub/tblive/p...
Thune's faux outrage courtesy of Democrats
Halloween festivities in Brookings, SD, showed us what prairie populism really looks like and why we need it
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November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thune's freak-out last night pisses me off, but not just him and the Cult of Orange Caesar. Hey, Democrats, occur to you that when you demonized populism in any form, you didn't just keep Progressives out of power, but handed the keys to the Orange Caesar and Cult?
open.substack.com/pub/tblive/p...
open.substack.com/pub/tblive/p...
Open enrollment for Marketplace should be now. This SNAP thing is no accident. I'm not mad, but y'all are maddening. Seen Thune freak out last night pisses me off, but not just him and the Orange Capitalist Crony Cult. (A thread)
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Open enrollment for Marketplace should be now. This SNAP thing is no accident. I'm not mad, but y'all are maddening. Seen Thune freak out last night pisses me off, but not just him and the Orange Capitalist Crony Cult. (A thread)
Fitting that today is for remembering those who've gone beyond the veil, albeit informed by my Euro-American side, I launch my latest offering as a writer. As a rule, I don't talk or write about my spiritual experiences, but today is a day for breaking the rules.
www.patreon.com/posts/142530...
www.patreon.com/posts/142530...
Indigenous Futurism meets Literal Creative Writing: Novel and Chapter Zine project is live! | Harbinger House Press
Get more from Harbinger House Press on Patreon
www.patreon.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fitting that today is for remembering those who've gone beyond the veil, albeit informed by my Euro-American side, I launch my latest offering as a writer. As a rule, I don't talk or write about my spiritual experiences, but today is a day for breaking the rules.
www.patreon.com/posts/142530...
www.patreon.com/posts/142530...
Novlr helping me keep it real for over a month! Working on something pretty huge right, and I can't wait to share. But, here's the receipts, so to speak. #writingsky #creativewriting #indigenousfuturism
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Novlr helping me keep it real for over a month! Working on something pretty huge right, and I can't wait to share. But, here's the receipts, so to speak. #writingsky #creativewriting #indigenousfuturism
I try to use Bluesky for the booksky etc., but I think a little healthy trolling from my other socials keeps us humble. Inspo by @trevinobp.bsky.social and @kimtallbear.bsky.social .
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I try to use Bluesky for the booksky etc., but I think a little healthy trolling from my other socials keeps us humble. Inspo by @trevinobp.bsky.social and @kimtallbear.bsky.social .
Oh, of course, today's #wipsnip word, care, is in one of the messiest sections yet one of the first pieces I actually dictated to notes while driving in the very first blitz of creativity for my budding novel.
@wipsnips.bsky.social
@wipsnips.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Oh, of course, today's #wipsnip word, care, is in one of the messiest sections yet one of the first pieces I actually dictated to notes while driving in the very first blitz of creativity for my budding novel.
@wipsnips.bsky.social
@wipsnips.bsky.social
I've hit many a #writing deadline but few have felt as satisfying as the Oyate-focused 100s piece I did today for a new project. I'm not saying it was great writing even, but I put the work into it and came up with something solid hours before my deadline.
October 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I've hit many a #writing deadline but few have felt as satisfying as the Oyate-focused 100s piece I did today for a new project. I'm not saying it was great writing even, but I put the work into it and came up with something solid hours before my deadline.