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Insistence on perfection is a tool of oppression used by the white supremacist patriarchy. Philly inside, Indy outside. Quilter. Scientist. (she/her, cis) 🌩️👀 2diVc_f8QB7S
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Today would've been my canine soul mate's (imagined) 22nd birthday. It's hard to believe that little asshole has been gone almost 8 years. I hope you're stealing someone's slice of pizza somewhere, Goochmonster.

“I approach end-of-life planning as a form of self-protection. It’s a way of defining who is family to me and who I trust to make decisions on my behalf. It sure as hell isn’t the state or the people I’m related to by blood.” xtramagazine.com/health/queer...

@sssemester.bsky.social

A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT. Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ? Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends. It's not a search engine.

To myself, Me: "The birds are making a racket. I wonder if there's..." <red-shouldered hawk flies out from tree> Me: "Yep."

Street art helps us break out of the silos of social media and meet people quite literally where they are - on the street! Don’t know where to start? No prob. Come to a free online session by ME taking you through sticker & wheatpasting techniques. We’ll cover messaging too! Rsvp: lu.ma/052bqav5

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Thought about 'The Americans' the whole time I was reading this.

"[I]nstitutions like the IQM are unique spaces that are capable of holding this anger, this energy, and preserving these feelings for future generations."

This is what happens because we didn’t string them up for storming the capitol.

Anyway. Part of my resistance work is helping Black women heal. I'm running a free workshop called LETTING GO OF STORIES THAT DON'T SERVE US and I need to get notebooks for participants to use. If you wanna take a break from watching democracy's continued collapse and chip in-- venmo @mckenzie-mia

Self-defense isn't violence. Vandalism isn't violence. Violence is what the *state* is doing. Violence is against PEOPLE. Not buildings. Not cars.

Another day spent inside, LOL. I did walk to and from @vrkd.bsky.social's house for Craft Club this evening and then exchanged messages with @sssemester.bsky.social from the screen porch. That counts as fresh air! ☀️

Does that treatment of non-senators sicken him as well? Because that shit is happening everywhere, every day, on video.

If you were on the fence about going to an event then heard there would be supplies to make friendship bracelets (optionally themed to the event), would you be more psyched about that, less psyched, or unaffected?

I was an indoor cat again today, venturing out of doors only to send @sssemester.bsky.social a video of our new concrete garage floor and front walkway. No good reason, just fucked around inside. One day I will experience fresh air again! ☀️

"The Palestine solidarity quilt took 14+ months to complete, and serves as a reminder of the still-ongoing terror Palestinians are subject to. The quilt also speaks to the cumulative power of small acts of collective action." 🇵🇸

Photo is of at least a dozen media photographers crouched around a single overturned trash can lit with a small fire, all taking pictures of it

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

Calling the protests self-defense demonstrations from here on out.

Happy Pride, gardeners!

Now I just need somewhere to carry something! I did go rogue for the exterior and handles but the rest of the pattern is Chubby Tote (small version) from Sotak Handmade. #craftsky #Quiltsky

VIDEO: ICE LEAVING Arcadia Hotel earlier today after protestors made noise for HOURS outside the hotel. No arrests were made, police likely inequipped due to DTLA curfew turmoil. IG: psl_losangeles

This thread has an important message.

just up the way, the federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts.

Abolish ICE.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

We can’t afford healthcare because we need that money to shoot rubber bullets into the stomachs of people who don’t want their neighbors to get kidnapped.

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.