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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 11m

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 15m

rural America: not everyone has a car

they just treat you like a nonperson if you don’t have one

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 17m

sure would

my town board member who I work with on a lot of stuff picked up a hitchhiker once who had a 9 hour day getting to and from her cardiologist appointment at the hospital in my town

the Ulster County bus route she started on from home stops 10 minutes from that hospital

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 17m

sure would

my town board member who I work with on a lot of stuff picked up a hitchhiker once who had a 9 hour day getting to and from her cardiologist appointment at the hospital in my town

the Ulster County bus route she started on from home stops 10 minutes from that hospital

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 22m

everybody looks hot on the other side of em

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 23m

thank u✨

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 35m

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 33m

bathroom selfie with party swag

me in a bomber jacket and dumb pink heart lens sunglasses

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 53m

it’s also a matter of how hard will I have to fight people’s perceptions of reality to lend a boost to *any* sort of public transit

we have none in my county

we know it’s important

we have few resources and our local govt is basically volunteers

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2h

tbh as a rural town government botherer I would rather we buy a gas bus than invest in EV chargers

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2h

the virgin EV versus the chad fixed loop bus with a bike rack

Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 3h

@lissaharris.bsky.social Just talking about cars and not respecting the entire transport and mobility system change is like being too cishet in modern society

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2h

hahahahahahaha

verily

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 5h

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid.

#Sufficiency

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 7h

you love to see it

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

#ScansionSky

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 21h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

do it scared ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

ow ow ow

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

That fierce engineer problem-solving brain, after a career detached from societal concerns and ambiguity, without the humanities training... it's like a loose nuke of philosophy.

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 1d

MIT was MIT when Donald was a pup
And MIT will be MIT when Donald's time is up
And any fascist Son of a Bitch who thinks he's in our class
Can pucker up his rosy lips and kiss the beaver's ass

Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 2d

MIT declares it's not bowing down before the convicted felon in chief and his toadies
www.universalhub.com/2025/mit-dec...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

that’s right, you tell em to name that bridge after Harvard 🦾

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2d

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

this is the way

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