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šŸŖ© the disco skull from spooky island šŸ¦­ takes pictures of wild animals & volunteers w invertebrates & marine mammals in the PNW šŸ“š reads a lot & attempts to write too šŸ«  longtime nonprofit & ingo dweller
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Idiocracy was a documentary

Thanks to @theverge.com for writing about the effectiveness of protests and #TeslaTakedown!

Really glad I got MAs in international development and peacebuilding right now just for every INGO based in the USA to get brutally gutted without USAID funds. Super good use of my student loan debt.

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

70,000 people in a stadium yelling "a minor." Christ

trump & co watching kendrickā€™s halftime show

Pete Hegseth would have loved that Liquid Death ad about drinking on the job

Itā€™s amazing how Super Bowl commercials take some of the most talented actors America has to offer and make them painfully unfunny and uninteresting. Truly astounding.

They are who we think they are

@ seattle art museum today

Another reminder of the power of rightwing propaganda and the failure of mainstream media coverage: more people probably have heard about USAID ā€˜fundingā€™ Politico (it isnā€™t) than about USAID funding anti-malaria programs which were just cut off and frozen by Musk and Trump.

What Iā€™m reading on the plane. We all need to do what we can, when we can. If all you can do today to contribute is learn something about authoritarianism that you didnā€™t know before, thatā€™s good enough. A little is better than none. Keep going.

at the hirshhorn museum in washington dc #booksky

I feel like our toilet paper hoarding in 2020 really primed us for 2025 coffee hoarding

Foreign Service Institute (government office that trains U.S. diplomats) just removed 2,100 courses and suspended others in order to conduct "a comprehensive review of all courses to ensure they align with the Executive Orders" issued by President Trump, per State Department memo leaked to me.

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The State Department issued a broad freeze on U.S. foreign assistance funding Friday, halting support for most global projects while exempting emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. ground.news/article/stat...

I forgot how the whiplash of breaking news featuring horrifying headlines really makes one fatigued over and over again. Itā€™s so much chaos when it comes to Trump that it feels messily strategic. Tire us out so we lose motivation to be angry, so we have no energy to push back.

Seen this work to connect others. Algorithm, hereā€™s my deal. šŸ¦©wildlife photography šŸ›œsocial media weaponization & offline social impacts (for work) šŸ‰tabletop RPGs, D&D šŸ“šreading ā€” about every genre āœļøwriting ā€” essays, poetry, romance, fantasy šŸ‘¾cozy games & interactive fiction šŸ’¬pop culture discourse

Take back your attention.

How many Roman salutes does Elon Musk have to do before people decide to divest from X? Like I miss the cesspool I used to love called Twitter but I had to cut the cord at one point.

Do you think e*on got a salute coach or do you think he practiced it on his own

Heā€™s doing the meme

Early birthday gift to myself and attempt at distraction from Inauguration Day existential dread #BookSky

Cedar Waxwing on Pender Island, British Columbia #birder #birdsky

Iā€™ve never met a Great Blue Heron I didnā€™t love to photograph

Ok #booksky, letā€™s talk. šŸ‘ŽšŸ¼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. šŸ‘šŸ¼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

This is exactly what progressives said would happen and yet Biden/the Democrats chose to champion this ban and make themselves the face of it bc they care more about passing authoritarian policies like a TikTok ban than listening to their own constituents (none of whom wanted this ban)

Golden hour in Seattle

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but heā€™s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

ALL POWER TO THE WORKING CLASS #birds

Letā€™s not lose sight of why the govt actually banned tiktok and what the inciting incident was for Democrats to take up the charge. It was speech on the app related to Gaza. Drop Site News has been doing great reporting on this x.com/dropsitenews...

Red Note is crashing for me within the first ten min of TikTok leaving my phone šŸ«£

Ew, Trump please stop ruining my goodbye with my favorite app

Spent my last hour on my #TikTok FYP like Atreyu watching Artax sink into the Swamp of Sadness in the Neverending Story

January 2025 as a meme

I am fully on class consciousness TikTok as the ship is going down over there and I was expecting to organically get there on blue sky but Iā€™ve barely had anything in the realm of billionaires-and-oligarchs-own-our-politicians-who-donā€™t-actually-care-about-us realm

Feeling a lot of dread this morning with the whole deal with being a citizen of the United States right now but proud of these pics of roseate spoonbills I took a couple weeks ago and thought Iā€™d share since birds make me happy Is #BirdSky a thing yet?