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@cathyw.bsky.social
Lover of cheese, knitting, books, tea. The adultiest adult in my house. Possibly actually Gromit. She/Her. (aka crwilley & afannishknitter over at the dead bird site.)
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I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.
Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
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"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."
Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.
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No one is Assigned Marine at Birth. Marines are made, and they get really mad if you tell them someone who is a Marine isn't a Marine.
The other thing here is heggles is an army guy and (it is my understanding) the marines generally do not like army people telling them what to do (and in particular saying who gets to be a marine)
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There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"
And we can certainly condemn his violence. But let’s step back and remember just how horrible slavery was. On December 20, 1858, Brown, who had briefly returned to Kansas, led a party into Missouri to free slaves.
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eternal scream of RAAAAGE those kids should not have to do this any more than the people waiting in line for 12 hours in Georgia should have to do that.
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Feels relevant to the Ann Arbor ballot proposal to establish a municipal utility...
Two neighbors live less than 2,000 feet apart. One pays up to $500/month for electricity. The other averages $130. One has investor-owned National Grid. The other by a municipal utility. @popovichn.bsky.social and I dug into America’s widening power bill divide: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Known for creating the first machine algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as the first programmer. Ada Lovelace at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #womeninstem