Very helpful reminder that there are many ways and many movements to help change the world right now.

Local food justice organizations are more important than ever! Rooted is a great one to support

Local food justice organizations are more important than ever! Rooted is a great one to support

🚨🚨ALERT🚨🚨: If you want Democrats to hold the line on Musk's illegal funding/firing spree, **RIGHT NOW** is time to make your voice heard. This update below is about just that. Not clear how hard a line they're taking. GOPS are abt to shutdown the govt. Their leadership wants Dem help outmaneuver...

Boosting for Madison folks!

I’m in Wisconsin donating monthly to this race. We’ve only had a liberal majority on our Supreme Court for the past year. Help us keep it and send a message of resistance to the country.

Administrative rules are the scar tissue of past abuses-at our house we say this when we run into complicated procedures or safety rules. Written with someone’s blood takes it up a notch -and is crucial to remember.

This isn’t even the best picture from the World Bollard Association. A great follow!

What’s your sign?

I’m using my birth name in a very long marriage but friends with their husband’s family make appear to be excluded. Will folks need to bring both birth AND marriage licenses? Plus-support VoteRiders!

Important to learn why despair and cynicism are giving in ahead of time to the oligarchy’s outrageous demands.

So far past the stage of sick young kids that I assumed this meant outdoor temperature thermometers which are often useful in Wisconsin-winter and summer.

For all your beloveds.

Public health has always been revolutionary-taking on existing power structures to help make the public healthier.

Why my socialist husband always puts out the American flag for 4th of July, Labor Day, Election Day …goes well with our liberal yard signs.

Helpful hints re: action. Senators from MA asking for stories from those on other states to those Senators as well.

I’m an epidemiologist to my bones and the thought of Musk’s boys marauding around in the federal data sources of all kinds is giving me fits. Off to leave similar message to my Senators.

When I was involved in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in 1980, Gene Sharp’s wisdom helped give me the courage to fight.

This long thread is exactly what I needed to read-effectiveness vs catharthis as a response to the current crisis. I’m seeing more calls for catharthis on Bsky but am personally oriented to effectiveness. You do you but understand the difference. .

Anyone of my followers close enough to join a protest in a few hours?

I’m getting out my emotional support novel. Think I better have its backup ready too.

Not much of a drinker, but this was great fun to read. Wow.

What a day. Time to read one of my emotional support novels.

Just another morning in Madison WI.

OMG, they’re real. I saw a picture of one!

We need lots of action!

Call now! A possible script. “ I am a constituent. Trump’s impoundment cuts Meals on Wheels for seniors, school lunch for kids, Medicaid for pregnant women, research on cancer, training for police and others. Please reverse this to restore these programs.” Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.

Answer to a question I hadn’t formulated well. One of the reasons I like social media.

Bingeing Thursday Next novels has been having an odd effect on my life-I just got followed by someone named Furniture Liftingcrane. (Novels by Jasper Fforde. Sorry for previous misspelling.)

How I arrived on BlueSky.

How many of us are reading novels where this scene fits right in? Currently immerse in the Thursday Next series by Jason Fforde.

My friend Everyjen has a way with words and an eye for foliage!

My father who studied tuberculosis his entire career died in 1987 when the disease had become unusual if not rare.

This move staggers me with its careless stupidity. For me with a lifelong interest in public health, it feels as if someone had outlawed chairs.

Call your senators about NIH being forced to disrupt the bulk of important medical research. Just google the senate switchboard phone number. Script below can be modified for your state.

A public act of defiance. By a woman, slight in appearance, draped in the robes of her spiritual office-speaking truth to power requires bravery and a kind of inner power that speaks loudly to us.

Anybody interested in Thursday Next? Just discovered Jason Fforde at an perfect point in time-currently finishing The Well of Lost Plots. I’m seeing that world everywhere.

I try not to use foul language because I am a grandma, but this writer summed up their article well.

I found this to be quite soothing. Hope you do too.

I’m playing! If you see this, post something orange.

Late to this but “Gemutlichkeit made flesh” is great word smithing . (Pardon the missing umlaut.)

Another gem from BlueSky.

I’m gobsmacked.

Meta cast iron skillet

One of my favorite things about social media -articles that open my mind to important issues in unexpected ways.

I love My Fair Lady. I also hate My Fair Lady. I wrote about that conflict and how the film undercuts what Eliza Doolittle is meant to represent for the film's 60th anniversary. impulsemagazine.com/symposium/60...

A long and very helpful thread on people pleasing, civility, and how and why to stand up against abuse.

Just shook black pepper into my coffee instead of my usual cinnamon. That should wake me up!

If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s shockingly frightening.