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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅

@poppytealeaf.bsky.social

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She/Her, Syrian-American Philadelphian 🇸🇾🦅, Architectural Specifications Writer, Author, D&D Barbarian. Wheel of Time, ATLA, high fantasy. Better Arab rep in media.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 3h

My cousin when I was growing up? She knew lots and lots about many things and made she we knew it.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, he was. I’m so glad you knew that. ❤️

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 1d

I cried reading this speech. Yes, I live in the shadows and pretend I’m the white Christian that I look like because people don’t expect to see and would be afraid of the Arab Muslim I am.

I’m Arab. I’m Muslim. I shine in the Light.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

Mamdani: "And while I appreciate all who have rushed to my defense over the past few days, I think of those Muslims in this city who do not have the luxury of being the Democratic nominee, who do not have the luxury of being deemed worthy of solidarity."

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Burns is just a bright ray of sunshine of a person. Blue’s Clues is for very young children, but Steve has his own cult following now as a result of that show.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I watched Blue’s Clues just as avidly as my sister despite being 11 years her senior and very much outside the target demographic.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, this is ironclad.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry. 🫂

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

ADHD story from my life to demonstrate empathy:

I was doing a punchlist (architecture jargon for final walk through of a site before it’s ready for occupancy) in a detention center on the same day they were testing the fire alarms and security system alarms. I was so happy to be out of there. 😅

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I thought spelled out NPS earlier. It’s the National Parks Service.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

Soldier Field in Chicago (although Wrigley Field still has its designation).

None of this means anything now because the federal government is shut down, so the Secretary of the Interior (and its subsidiary, the NPS) can’t do shit. Not like they had the power to stop this before, either. 😭

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

World Heritage Site. It’s so selective, that only around 50 buildings are on that list. The strongest thing the NPS can do is threaten to remove that label and hope it sways the project teams making changes to the building. It worked for the Academy of Music in Philly. It didn’t work for +

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 2d

Historic Preservation code in the US is weak, practically non-existent. On the federal level, the Secretary of the Interior is responsible for managing buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. The White House is also a National Historic Landmark - a designation similar to a UNESCO +

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned that Hades 2 is available on regular old normie Switch.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 3d

You know what? Thanks for validating my irritation. I deny myself the luxury because the people I’m irritated at are trying their best to manage an unwieldy workload that swamps them (just like me), and they don’t need the drama.

I’m learning it’s healthy to voice irritation in other arenas.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a question in the citizenship interview for crying out loud.

Apparently we don’t want new Nazis coming into the country, but we’re fine with the home grown ones.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. I’m being silly. Hope you enjoyed my whimsy.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 4d

I’d like to send this email:

“…and please remember that an unfortunate dipshit has to wait on your asses to get your shit saved in the folder so they can compile the main PDF and go home.”

Instead, I settled for:

“I’ll compile the main file, so please save your PDFs sooner rather than later.”

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 4d

Kebab, souvlaki…shawarma, gyro…potato, potahto 😊

We share a lot of the same foods in our corner of the Mediterranean.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, the Historic Preservationist in me is so upset right now.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

I didn’t get into hugs until recently myself. I’m naturally no touchy.

I’d hug you, too!

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

Why, thank you! Yes, it is.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed. I’ve experienced enough rejection sensitivity dysphoria to know that jealousy gets the best of us.

I’ve been the one wanting the job that someone else was hired to do. I didn’t lash out because it wasn’t their fault, but it sucked so bad. I was unhappy. I know now, for me, it was RSD.

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🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

Colleague: We need to do the thing this way!

Me: Shows colleague that we are, in fact, doing the thing that way.

Colleague: No, but we need to do the thing this way!

I’m still trying to rationalize what he wants, and it’s breaking my brain because this is literally a non-issue. We’re doing it.

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

How dare you be competent and likable? Such a personal affront to her! Personally!

🦅Poppy Tealeaf 🦅 @poppytealeaf.bsky.social · 5d

For example, people think I’m smart? Like brilliantly smart? What does that even mean?

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