Aleen
@aleen.bsky.social
Aleen [uh-lean], noun: Podcaster, reader, writer, knitter, nerd. Queer. A work in progress.
🌲 Portland, Oregon
🌲 Portland, Oregon
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I'm sure this will go well for me.
February 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I'm sure this will go well for me.
Fell asleep with one Soot Sprite in my lap. Woke up with one Soot Sprite in my lap and one Soot Sprite draped across my torso.
A++ would recommend
#RavenBaby #SirSqueakertonTheFirst
A++ would recommend
#RavenBaby #SirSqueakertonTheFirst
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Fell asleep with one Soot Sprite in my lap. Woke up with one Soot Sprite in my lap and one Soot Sprite draped across my torso.
A++ would recommend
#RavenBaby #SirSqueakertonTheFirst
A++ would recommend
#RavenBaby #SirSqueakertonTheFirst
life with disability is constantly humbling
February 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
life with disability is constantly humbling
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Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.
Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.
Lets close out this season and make their day! :)
Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.
Lets close out this season and make their day! :)
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.
Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.
Lets close out this season and make their day! :)
Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.
Lets close out this season and make their day! :)
The Epstein files really make me hope hell is real.
February 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The Epstein files really make me hope hell is real.
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I'd read/watch it.
okay so the parents are couple friends for decades, right, and Boy Skater is super close with his dad and the dad dies, very sad, they miss the podium that first year because his head’s just not in the game, Girl Skater’s family is their emotional rock and that’s when the moms become besties
THEN!
THEN!
the cameras cut to the US pairs’ parents all lined up in the same row in their team USA gear and I finally realized the ACTUAL Olympics romance I was born to write is a Just Friends pairs skating team whose moms have a midlife gay awakening and fall in love
February 16, 2026 at 6:27 AM
I'd read/watch it.
oh no
I'm contemplating a 3D printer purchase
I'm contemplating a 3D printer purchase
February 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
oh no
I'm contemplating a 3D printer purchase
I'm contemplating a 3D printer purchase
Mamdani gives me hope. Hope is such a powerful resource in times like these.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Mamdani gives me hope. Hope is such a powerful resource in times like these.
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
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Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe@jpeg)
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku@jpeg)
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
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Hey folks! We have another wishlist from the Twin Cities. This one is focused on getting vital warm clothing to the unhoused during this super hard time.
(as always, if you don't like amazon, please visit standwithminnesota.com and donate to one of their featured GFMs!)
amzn.to/4qFo3np
(as always, if you don't like amazon, please visit standwithminnesota.com and donate to one of their featured GFMs!)
amzn.to/4qFo3np
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Hey folks! We have another wishlist from the Twin Cities. This one is focused on getting vital warm clothing to the unhoused during this super hard time.
(as always, if you don't like amazon, please visit standwithminnesota.com and donate to one of their featured GFMs!)
amzn.to/4qFo3np
(as always, if you don't like amazon, please visit standwithminnesota.com and donate to one of their featured GFMs!)
amzn.to/4qFo3np
Just saw someone post that the. British are the most polite people on the planet and
lol
(I think it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but maybe not?)
lol
(I think it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but maybe not?)
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Just saw someone post that the. British are the most polite people on the planet and
lol
(I think it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but maybe not?)
lol
(I think it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but maybe not?)
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Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out!
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
proto-pasta.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out!
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
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Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
We met at a mall, then drove (separately) to an Olive Garden where I mercilessly picked on him, then drove (separately) to a Barnes & Noble (naturally).
I went from being unwilling to get into a car with him to living with him in three weeks. Do not do as I did.
I went from being unwilling to get into a car with him to living with him in three weeks. Do not do as I did.
This is an unapologetically sappy feel-good subject (at least, I guess, for people in a happy relationship”). So, to prepare for Valentine’s Day, what did you and your partner do for a first date?
My wife and I went to tea at Huntington Gardens and walked around.
My wife and I went to tea at Huntington Gardens and walked around.
On our first date, my spouse and I spent like an hour talking about footnotes.
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
We met at a mall, then drove (separately) to an Olive Garden where I mercilessly picked on him, then drove (separately) to a Barnes & Noble (naturally).
I went from being unwilling to get into a car with him to living with him in three weeks. Do not do as I did.
I went from being unwilling to get into a car with him to living with him in three weeks. Do not do as I did.
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something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
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Our Italian whistle designer just dropped the whistle he designed just for us, and my heart is very full today.
If you are doing printing for local events, check this one out! Designed to slice fast, pack a lot on a plate, be quick to print, and be easy to use!
makerworld.com/en/models/23...
If you are doing printing for local events, check this one out! Designed to slice fast, pack a lot on a plate, be quick to print, and be easy to use!
makerworld.com/en/models/23...
February 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Our Italian whistle designer just dropped the whistle he designed just for us, and my heart is very full today.
If you are doing printing for local events, check this one out! Designed to slice fast, pack a lot on a plate, be quick to print, and be easy to use!
makerworld.com/en/models/23...
If you are doing printing for local events, check this one out! Designed to slice fast, pack a lot on a plate, be quick to print, and be easy to use!
makerworld.com/en/models/23...
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When your post gets in the discover feed
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
When your post gets in the discover feed
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when I come across a small action that MIGHT help make the world better, like "cancel Spotify" or "transfer my newsletter away from Substack," even though these things are small in the grand scheme and inconvenient to me, my main reaction is relief that there is something within my power TO DO
this happens 1-2 times a day. what are people still doing over there?
are you all not desperate to do every possible tiny action that could somehow get us out of this hell we have made!!
are you all not desperate to do every possible tiny action that could somehow get us out of this hell we have made!!
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
when I come across a small action that MIGHT help make the world better, like "cancel Spotify" or "transfer my newsletter away from Substack," even though these things are small in the grand scheme and inconvenient to me, my main reaction is relief that there is something within my power TO DO
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Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
I put the shoes I wore when we got married—a glittery gold pair of flats I got at Walmart for $5—in the giveaway box.
I had almost zero vision for my wedding; all I knew was that I wanted to wear sparkly gold shoes. A friend needed to go to Walmart and she & I just stumbled across them.
Destiny.
I had almost zero vision for my wedding; all I knew was that I wanted to wear sparkly gold shoes. A friend needed to go to Walmart and she & I just stumbled across them.
Destiny.
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I put the shoes I wore when we got married—a glittery gold pair of flats I got at Walmart for $5—in the giveaway box.
I had almost zero vision for my wedding; all I knew was that I wanted to wear sparkly gold shoes. A friend needed to go to Walmart and she & I just stumbled across them.
Destiny.
I had almost zero vision for my wedding; all I knew was that I wanted to wear sparkly gold shoes. A friend needed to go to Walmart and she & I just stumbled across them.
Destiny.
when your spouse is building their desk and asks you to hand them a screw but you hate touching metal
February 8, 2026 at 11:46 PM
when your spouse is building their desk and asks you to hand them a screw but you hate touching metal
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i kneeled to take a sweet pic of her with her eyes closed and facing the sun and instead i instantly got a whole serving of stanley kubrick shit from someone who’s afraid of shadows, plastic bags, shoes, and her own tail.
February 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
i kneeled to take a sweet pic of her with her eyes closed and facing the sun and instead i instantly got a whole serving of stanley kubrick shit from someone who’s afraid of shadows, plastic bags, shoes, and her own tail.