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Liz
@lizziemeg.bsky.social
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My partner, our mischief of ratties working to build with our local community. Profile picture and hex stickers of our rats + one I made myself are by me. Well art commissioned by Haley at https://smallscomms.carrd.co
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Hi! Introducing myself!

I'm AuDHD, an oss developer, player of boardgames and videogames. I also read lots!

Learning about disaster preparedness and getting more involved in local mutual aid. Also learning about homelab/self hosting.
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Do not miss an opportunity to ruin an ICE raid, or an officer's day.
In Middleton, NY.

This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.

This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
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Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain
So I had a walk around the very crowded exhibit hall at FanExpo Boston. There is, as expected, sooooo much cosplay. Star Wars, One Piece, Walking Dead, Disney, superheroes. You name it. Which makes it notable what is missing. Haven’t seen a single Harry Potter robe, tie, or wand.
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screenshotting to agree not dunk since her quotes are disabled but; if you're making payment processor calls and you hit this, I think bringing up Game Of Thrones is such a huge brain strategy to throw at a layperson. GoT was HUGE and has all the shit Collective Shout weaponized to start this.
This weekend I picked up #Grimshire, the dark cozy(?) game with consequences. Really enjoying it so far.

Last night while talking with my partner, I remembered @hbomberguy.bsky.social's pathalogic video from a few years ago and realized that in some ways, this game is pathalogic-cozy crossover!
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If you get this joke please remember to do your stretches today.
This was the Dashcon ball pit of military parades.
This was the Pepsi Clear of military parades.
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Street vendors are pillars of the community, as well as being braver than every single cop.
Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"
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So, since bad history is damaging: when the civil rights movement talked about "nonviolence" they meant a set of tactics. They planned actions for maximum disruption and intentionally defied police and laws.

This is very different from how "peaceful protest" is meant by many using it today.
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It’s the grift that keeps on grifting.
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When RFK Jr says that “only really sick kids should die from measles” if unvaccinated, this is eugenics. Not only is that completely untrue since we had eradicated the virus thanks to the vaccine, but he’s saying that sick and high risk kids are expendable. This is eugenics, plain and simple.
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Even if Duolingo is helping you as it once did me, deleting your account is the only correct move right now. The company posted record profits, but capitalist greed means they're killing jobs, lowering quality, and will be creating an increasingly inferior experience for increasingly higher prices.
I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI.

I urge everyone to delete their app.
Duolingo CEO says he's getting rid of contract employees and replacing them with AI
Duolingo employees can also expect their AI use to be graded in their performance reviews.
fortune.com
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Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason
Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
My garden: min of 2 separate wolf spider burrows with egg-sac carrying spiders (did you know they have blue egg sacs?)
They are fairly large and a little disconcerting to find while kneeling at the edge of the garden. It sounds like they're fairly good for the garden, so I'll tread carefully.
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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POLITICO: “The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.”

Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
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a liberal doing a boycott or a leftist doing a sit in or non violent occupation of a building all get called terrorists, a conservative shooting people or running them down with their car or blowing up a building is defined as let's not talk about that too much more of them might kill people
The fundamental issue here is that a pissed off Democrat will arrange a boycott or a sit in or a protest and a pissed off Republican will load a box truck full of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane and detonate it next to the Murrah building
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.
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Democrats "We don't have any leverage! What do you want us to do?"

Also Democrats: "well we can't use *this* leverage!"
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
I used sticker app and was pretty happy, but my work settled on stickerninja so I'm trying them next time I make stickers.