Alyssa
@lyssabyss.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 writer, theatre artist, reader, library worker Iowa-raised, currently living in the PNW Free Palestine in our lifetime! savesalemlibrary.carrd.co
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Palestinian families like Ruba's are being starved to death in Israel's genocide. They're exhausted & very desperate. Please help by sharing & donating:
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American peace activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi would've turned 27 today. But Israeli forces killed her 11 months ago.

Both Biden & Trump did nothing to seek accountability.

Instead the US sent Israel $12 billion in weapons & another $4 billion in aid.

And then Israeli settlers killed another American.
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Please donate if you can and at the very least repost 💔
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Please donate if you can and at the very least repost 💔
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The PBS local stations are at risk! PLEASE donate what you can to support them and keep them going ❤️‍🩹

My local public media station I’m supporting is KQED. Which is your local station? 💙🩵

#SupportPBSandNPR @pbs.org @npr.org
Mychal Threets PBS Kids library card with animated version of himself
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Querying stats update for the YA witch book:
📝 23 queries sent (including one direct to a publisher)
👀 12 outstanding
❌ 11 rejections (all form, though one was exceptionally kind)
✨ 1 full request
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Querying stats update for the YA witch book:
18 queries sent
10 outstanding
7 rejections (all form)
1 full request
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Querying stats for the witch book:
18 queries
2 rejections
1 full request
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For real! Now that it's been a couple of months, I'm feeling a lot more tame about it 😅
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Querying stats update for the YA witch book:
18 queries sent
10 outstanding
7 rejections (all form)
1 full request
lyssabyss.bsky.social
Querying stats for the witch book:
18 queries
2 rejections
1 full request
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This is so fucking scary and detrimental
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
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thetransfemininereview.com
In a year overshadowed by global protest and fascist threat, TFR is celebrating Pride Month by supporting transfemme authors in need 🩷

Please consider taking a moment to donate to a mutual aid campaign listed here or elsewhere. Our goal is to raise $5000, and we need your help!

Details within ⬇️
TFR’s 2025 Mutual Aid Pride Drive
This Pride Month, please consider donating $50 or more directly to a transfemme author in need. TFR will be matching the first $500 in donations.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
A United States Senator. For trying to ask a question.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. 🇺🇸
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SUBS OPEN: There's a new zine project I'm editing hosted by Summit for Action's Community of Practice! The zine is called Toolkit for Tough Conversations and will feature a mix of art, storytelling, and accessible resources to help folks navigate challenging climate, environmental, and...
Graphic has the Summit for Action logo at the top with text that says "invites you to submit to the Toolkit for Tough Conversations Zine. Personal stories of navigating tough conversations; Conversation guides, resource lists, and how-to’s; Art, poetry, illustrations, comics; Sci-fi pieces of what can be accomplished through these tough convos; Etc. Subs due Aug 1." There is an illustration of an artist painting on a canvas and an illustration of a writer with papers and a computer.
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self- regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself. Among those principles is ("do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it. The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others — especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed — believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them.

The “do not split” idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement.
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BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members

Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.
BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."