🌈Dr. Frizzle

My uncle used to work for environmental nonprofits against mining and one day just said eff it, took a job at a mining company, tripled his pay, and actually got all the things done he’d been trying to do for a decade from the outside 😂

He’s retired now, but he was like shoulda tried that sooner!

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I mean, if the pay is good take it and then slowly sabotage the company from the inside

@surliertexan.bsky.social and I went there!

We aren't special because of our IQ, or our looks, or talent, or any of that shallow shit. What makes us special is the hells we have survived. The woods we have walked through alone, or maybe hand in hand with another orphan.

New most terrifying body-horror sentence just dropped!

"The pregnancy triggered my birth defect to start mutating into cancer."

Oooooooooooh.

You guys!

Read this! 💔💞 Doc weaves the empirical to ***gestures at the world*** and is inspiring.

Imbolc: Blood Moon — Kerry C. Òran Ending up in Maryland had been a strange whirlwind. A series of dominos set into motion because one day, in my professor’s office, I had a dream about how to find my children before they were born. ...

“I know, right.” My red-headed colleague grinned. “You’re gay and you can see it.”

[new blog post: CW cancer, death, suicidality]

www.kerrycoran.com/writing/litu...

“You’ve met Deric, right?” she said. “His boyfriend is really hot. Show Kerry a picture.”

He shook his head but pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of one of the most beautiful Latino men I’d ever seen in my life. “Damn,” I said.

“Are you yelling for me? Why are you yelling?” he said. He leaned against the doorframe, holding a plate of fries and shaking his head.

She shrugged, and threw back her head, her short read hair bouncing, giving him a flirtatious smile. “Sabes que te gusta cuando te grito.”

He bit a fry.

One night I was sitting in my colleague’s office after I’d finished teaching. I remember it being dark, the weather outside a very Baltimore mix of fog and icy rain. “Deric!” she yelled, out into the hallway. “Deric, get in here!”

My colleague Deric came over.

I am the fully sublimated, just fully made of gas

Oooo

“No Hamlet thin from eating flies, a fat
Dreamer of the Middle Ages. Empty eyeballs knew
That knowledge increases unreality, that
Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show.”

Beautifully stated

(hoping she does not delete)

This 🧵

Let the people who are GOOD at news aggregation and explanation share it. Boost it when you feel inspired to!

But don’t let yourself get sucked into the delusion that all you need to do is post from your bed and be absolved.

That is not how we win this.

We dismantle by not letting their violence dictate the way we build love and community

If you find a great way to contribute? PLEASE SHARE!

But shame is a tool of white supremacy

Making people feel like they are lacking, failing at invisible checklists of rules? That is a tool of white supremacy.

It ENTRENCHES power structures, it doesn’t dismantle them.

You will not make it if you don’t have a strong community built on love first.

Don’t assume silence is complacency

We are all being watched, monitored, etc, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY we are mammals with limited processing power

Do what you can. Always.

But find where it will matter the most

You do too!!

There are so many scary things!

If we scream about all of them constantly? We just shut everyone down.

So, sometimes, we call our lawmakers

We write them

Sometimes we march

Sometimes we do other things we don’t talk about online!

& online? We hold each other & love each other

I don’t post about every issue and it’s not because I don’t care.

It’s because I’m being strategic about how to best use my voice.

For my particular following? It honestly looks a lot like helping y’all calm tf down so you can do things

I exist in spheres outside of social media (shocking!!)

That doesn’t mean burying your head in the sand and ignoring things!!!

It means you identify

1) who needs to hear me
2) who is listening to me
3) what do the people listening need to hear?
4) how do I reach the people not listening?
5) what actual actions can I take?

And posting is not #1!

Online activism is not activism

You need to talk to people IRL

Some of you need to just get offline so you can calm down because you cannot do anything when the feed has made you hysterical!

That is the point of authoritarian overwhelm!

You fight it by NOT CONTRIBUTING TO THE OVERWHELM

Currently having a Brain Episode ™ and reserve the right to delete this post!!

But I find it very offensive when people on my feed are saying “how dare you not talk about this!!!”

The people who need to hear it are not following me!

The people who follow me need to hear this:

Listen, the puppy didn’t see it coming either

(this was from 2024! For the record!)

O ministério da defesa do Irã

THEY DON'T HAVE DEPTH PERCEPTION.

alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART