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April 5 Mega Thread 🧵 : Post your photos in the comments!

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 15 days ago • 1029 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

My cats are fed 730 times each year, and they have the audacity to act like each feeding is both the first and last they’ll ever get.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I update this every couple of months to add new resources or remove ones that don’t exist anymore (or have changed what they offer). The latest update is up! www.gwenmontoya.com/blog/grants-...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 39 days ago • 1207 comments

Last month, I quietly ran an experiment on my Instagram account. What would happen if I only posted Reels for 30 days? Would my reach improve? Would I gain followers? Would I see any difference at all? Read it here - Read it here - gwenmontoya.substack.com/p/what-happe...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I love fat cats and I cannot lie. This guy is 20 pounds and photos do NOT capture his magnificence.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

submitted 51 days ago • 1652 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 62 days ago • 2604 comments

The Black Rock barista was giving so much Dutch Bros energy that I double checked the signage on the building.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Pete's here

submitted 69 days ago • 448 comments

Monday snuggles.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 70 days ago • 3177 comments

A tale of two kitties (Jekyll and Hyde style). Sure, he knows how to turn on the “I’m just a cute & fuzzy ‘lil guy” bit. But underneath? Chaos demon plotting his next escapade of destruction.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 71 days ago • 852 comments

They suck equally hard.

submitted 71 days ago • 1253 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 72 days ago • 2127 comments

I was talking to a client about using the SBA and SCORE as resources today. And in the middle of saying it I realized they are going to gut those, too. There are resources veterans, women, and minority-owned businesses, plus support around getting federal contracts.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This was excellent!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Typical anxiety: Everyone is mad at me and things might be terrible. 2025 anxiety: Everyone is mad at me, but they are temporarily distracted because everything is actually terrible.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

I got to snuggle this guy AND meet two new dogs today. Pretty good Monday.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

My kids are gaming with friends, I’m updating my “Marketing Beyond Social Media” training after writing my reps & governor. I also cleaned the toilets, did the dishes, watched Heather Cox Richardson’s live, & am hoping for the best, I guess? And we might get snow. This is the weirdest timeline.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Please, please, please! SEO can have such a big impact on local businesses. If you want to learn to do it yourself MOZ, SEMRush, and AHrefs put out good content and even have some free trainings. Maybe YT or a course, but make sure it is up to date and has current best practices.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 80 days ago • 3741 comments

Toasted croissant on outside. Chaos demon on the inside.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Is there organized action around boycotting and messaging these companies? I feel like that is something the right always nails while the left wanders around in circles (for 20+ years at this point 🙄🙃).

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, the changes that are happening (or will be) on Meta platforms are an issue. And, from a small business standpoint, there’s not other viable options (yet). New Substack post: gwenmontoya.substack.com/p/meta-chang...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

submitted 88 days ago • 1402 comments

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 89 days ago • 2199 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 90 days ago • 534 comments

I will definitely be yelling WTF several times a day for the next four years. This is the legacy media we’re supposed to respect and revere?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t rearrange my furniture, so I’m redoing my branding and renaming my podcast and membership instead. It is overdue (and what I’m using now was never meant to be permanent…so 6+ years was a good run!)

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

submitted 91 days ago • 3564 comments

I promised my kid Sonic (her love language) as a distraction from not having TikTok today (plus a little nature walk & adventure). TikTok was back by the time she woke up. 😂😂 She’s winning today.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I thought it might take until Thursday to bring TikTok back, because he has the inauguration on Monday, lots of EOs to sign, ICE raids starting on Tuesday…

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

It seems like TikTok is coming back online. I’m disgusted at the amount of stress and misery this caused so many people…all so one guy (the same one who started the whole thing in the first place) could look good.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

submitted 91 days ago • 5329 comments

My screen time report is going to plummet this week. #tiktokban

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Feel free to share…it started in 2020.

submitted 91 days ago • 140 comments

I’m going to repeat this here: there were 508 mass shootings last year. 12 this year….and they banned an app.

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

This is what watching the TikTok ban happen has felt like as someone who works with small businesses. This is how people pay their bills, support their families, and find customers (plus other ways to generate income). In addition to the community and connection.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

But some people are just too old and frail to handle cold weather.

submitted 93 days ago • 1282 comments

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

submitted 94 days ago • 1140 comments