Viridian Grey
@viridian-entropy.bsky.social
They/She. Audhd. Nanny, larper, green witch, camp counselor
Specializing in care for neurodivergent kids & teens
You may know me as Vicky
Struggling to switch socials
Specializing in care for neurodivergent kids & teens
You may know me as Vicky
Struggling to switch socials
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"On Kids, Crime, and Summer"
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3 Things We Get Wrong About Kids, Crime, and Summer
Email from FWD.us July 17, 2025 Just a Minute on Kids, Crime, and Summer Bad premises beget worse policies. Spend just a minute with us so that we can do better. Busà Photography via Getty Images
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July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"On Kids, Crime, and Summer"
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If you are subbing to a patreon, make sure you do so through their desktop site!
Also, money received through the app is witheld from the creator for 75 DAYS. So not only are you as a member being charged extra, the creator has to wait 2.5 months to get it. It's bad for everyone. Sub through the mobile site or desktop!
If you want to support someone on Patreon, make sure Apple doesn't steal your money! Subscribe on the website, not on the app.
March 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you are subbing to a patreon, make sure you do so through their desktop site!
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Reminder: economic blackout today.
🦬 We are also participating in today's #EconomicBlackout.
Beyond today — we should all keep the energy and wean ourselves off the corporations such as Amazon and Walmart that are hellbent on destroying our planet.
For now, we suggest some #ForestBathing instead.
Beyond today — we should all keep the energy and wean ourselves off the corporations such as Amazon and Walmart that are hellbent on destroying our planet.
For now, we suggest some #ForestBathing instead.
We've agreed to avoid shopping today. Instead we could spend some time among trees. Perhaps we can use today to begin a long-term movement against our consumer culture. It would be beginning for the Earth and for our souls. What are you doing today?
February 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder: economic blackout today.
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Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start.
On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.
February 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start.
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I had to see this, and if you haven't already (or even if you have), you do too.
There is NOTHING NORMAL about this.
There is NOTHING SANE about this.
There is EVERYTHING to be worried about with this.
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#NotAKing
#CallACoupACoup
There is NOTHING NORMAL about this.
There is NOTHING SANE about this.
There is EVERYTHING to be worried about with this.
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#NotAKing
#CallACoupACoup
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I had to see this, and if you haven't already (or even if you have), you do too.
There is NOTHING NORMAL about this.
There is NOTHING SANE about this.
There is EVERYTHING to be worried about with this.
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#NotAKing
#CallACoupACoup
There is NOTHING NORMAL about this.
There is NOTHING SANE about this.
There is EVERYTHING to be worried about with this.
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#NotAKing
#CallACoupACoup
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The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.
February 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.
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I wrote in @theguardian.com this expansion on an earlier Substack post, on the powerful role of public shaming of health insurers, and how the more fragmented social media landscape makes it harder for patients (and physicians) to hold health insurers accountable. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
My $30,000 health insurance claim was denied. Then I tweeted about it
Public shaming works – but it’s also a sign of how broken the appeals process is in the US health insurance industry
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February 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I wrote in @theguardian.com this expansion on an earlier Substack post, on the powerful role of public shaming of health insurers, and how the more fragmented social media landscape makes it harder for patients (and physicians) to hold health insurers accountable. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
February 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
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One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.
I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs Gets Well and Truly Fucked — The Haunt*
Sometime in the late 1980s when I was a teenager, I accompanied my dad to the mall. Dad had gotten a pair of un-torn, un-used tickets to Woodstock as a gift and he wanted to have them framed for displ...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.
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TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can.
#fedstrong #holdtheline
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#fedstrong #holdtheline
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Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide | Virginia Heffernan
As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy
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February 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can.
#fedstrong #holdtheline
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#fedstrong #holdtheline
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Difficult to overstate how thinly stretched everyone opposing these fascists is
NEW: Judge Chutkan sets a two-month briefing schedule on a proposed preliminary injunction against Elon Musk and DOGE for alleged violations of the appointments clause. This was the schedule that plaintiff states requested. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Difficult to overstate how thinly stretched everyone opposing these fascists is
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