Somewhat Sparkly (she/her)
@somewhatsparkly.bsky.social
Writer, cookbook enthusiast, science fiction fan, gardener, and collector of vintage clothing.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
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11 WTF Moments from the Facebook Memoir Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read, "Careless People"
11 WTF Moments from the Facebook Memoir Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Want You to Read
'Careless People': 11 wild moments from the tell-all Facebook memoir that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg don't want you to read.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
11 WTF Moments from the Facebook Memoir Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read, "Careless People"
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They’re reportedly doing the stupidest, most dangerous thing you can imagine with Elon Musk and the Pentagon today. They’re trying to deny it’s happening, but the reporting from independent sources says otherwise. My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
March 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They’re reportedly doing the stupidest, most dangerous thing you can imagine with Elon Musk and the Pentagon today. They’re trying to deny it’s happening, but the reporting from independent sources says otherwise. My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Another dwarf Iris bloomed today: this is Autumn Jester.
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Another dwarf Iris bloomed today: this is Autumn Jester.
Apropos of nothing but it sparks joy. My first dwarf Iris bloom of the year, Maglissa.
March 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apropos of nothing but it sparks joy. My first dwarf Iris bloom of the year, Maglissa.
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“In October of 2024, just before the election, … NPR …they looked it up and they said, ‘… over 100 times, [Trump] has threatened to prosecute his enemies.’ This is Donald Trump. We are at stage four megalomania. He is just doing what he has always told us he wants to do.”
‘Stage four megalomaniac’: Conservative George Conway warns Trump ‘declared war’ at DOJ
Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway warned Friday that inside President Donald Trump’s grievance-filled speech at the Department of Justice hours earlier was a declaration of war on the legal com...
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March 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“In October of 2024, just before the election, … NPR …they looked it up and they said, ‘… over 100 times, [Trump] has threatened to prosecute his enemies.’ This is Donald Trump. We are at stage four megalomania. He is just doing what he has always told us he wants to do.”
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Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.
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Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
www.rollingstone.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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15 short years after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and cops were *still* beating these workers for daring to ask for better working conditions
#OtD 8 Mar 1926 the largely female members of the Fur & Leather Workers' Union went on strike in New York City, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. Learn more about women's struggles throughout history: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
March 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
15 short years after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and cops were *still* beating these workers for daring to ask for better working conditions
Today's sign.
March 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today's sign.
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So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition
As DOGE continues it’s federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
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They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.
March 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.
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I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.
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ah, as always, elon has his eyes on the prize: making it impossible for the government to enforce civil rights law
Will be interesting to see how a state that shreds its own capacity to collect taxes can sustain global power status
February 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
ah, as always, elon has his eyes on the prize: making it impossible for the government to enforce civil rights law
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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
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The people in the room don’t even believe what Musk is saying.
Elon Musk at Trump's first Cabinet meeting: "I think this is the best Cabinet ever. Literally. So, uh, and I do not give false praise... I think it‘s literally the best Cabinet that the country has ever had."
February 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The people in the room don’t even believe what Musk is saying.
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America has no King.
February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
America has no King.
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"If you do not respond to this email you are now doge administrator"
February 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"If you do not respond to this email you are now doge administrator"
Today's protest sign. I got lots of support.
February 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Today's protest sign. I got lots of support.
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Best. Dacha. Ever.
February 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Best. Dacha. Ever.
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Just watched Sen King's speech on the Senate floor - thank you for that! Every American should hear this.
#CourageIsContagious
youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg
#CourageIsContagious
youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg
“Thoughtless and Dangerous” King says on Senate Floor in Response to Trump Administration Firings
YouTube video by Senator Angus S. King, Jr.
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Just watched Sen King's speech on the Senate floor - thank you for that! Every American should hear this.
#CourageIsContagious
youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg
#CourageIsContagious
youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg
Cultural interval: in case you think that Japanese people are well-behaved conformists... the culture has just enough crazy creative people to keep it weird.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...
The Man Who Skied Down Everest - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Cultural interval: in case you think that Japanese people are well-behaved conformists... the culture has just enough crazy creative people to keep it weird.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...
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"It is precisely because of my abiding love for my Indian American wife and my Indian American children that I bravely forge a world in which we can normalize Indian hate."
Normalizing Indian Hate Makes Me a Good Father and Husband
“Vice President JD Vance attempted to defend an employee of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency who made racist posts on s...
buff.ly
February 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"It is precisely because of my abiding love for my Indian American wife and my Indian American children that I bravely forge a world in which we can normalize Indian hate."