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🇳🇿🇺🇸 Forever straddling continents. Accent is the bastard child of five countries.
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Facts.

Everyone I know and care about is deeply scared and deeply unhappy with where we're at.

A friend sent this.
A Venn diagram with the caption "Somehow we ended up here". There's an orange bubble on the left labeled "apocalypse", and a very small overlap with a blue bubble on the right, labeled "having to go to work". There's an arrow pointing at the small overlap.
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Regular Americans do all the work, generating all the business success, and yet the very few in power - the rich and the corrupt - take it and leave most people struggling.

It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants".

(Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)
A page from Timothy Snyder's book On Tyranny that says: 5. Remember Professional Ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Show me any issue in society and I guarantee billionaires caused it, or are benefiting from it, or both.

Tax the ultra wealthy into oblivion, then fund healthcare and education and programs that lift us all up as a society.
A screenshot from the linked ProPublica article about Utah farmers. The quote says "they die by suicide at the third highest rate by vocation in the state, according to State data, behind miners and construction workers." Another screenshot from the linked ProPublica article about Utah farmers. The snippet is a partial quote from a legislator saying "...whether they're a mechanic or whether they're a school teacher or a doctor or someone in agriculture, I just think it would be a little hard to start separating out and creating mental health programs for individual industries".
April 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Love this small act of (I hope) resistance in Google Fonts, replacing "the quick brown fox..." with text from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Maybe it's not new but I appreciated it for this time in history...
April 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM