Brooke Sales-Lee
@brookesl.bsky.social
Recovering academic historian of the far right and Catholicism in the Cold War. Busy momming. Cat lady. Christian socialist. Disabled. Crafting and gardening and ADHDing.
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Disabled people have been warning for years that the pandemic response (or lack thereof) was going to lead to fascism
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
April 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Disabled people have been warning for years that the pandemic response (or lack thereof) was going to lead to fascism
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
Wishing the man who saw me putting on a mask and said “oh no just one mask? You might die!” As he scurried by on his phone all my chronic illnesses to descend upon his body and beset him with pain and fatigue! May his friends forget him in their plans, and his heart be changed ❤️
April 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wishing the man who saw me putting on a mask and said “oh no just one mask? You might die!” As he scurried by on his phone all my chronic illnesses to descend upon his body and beset him with pain and fatigue! May his friends forget him in their plans, and his heart be changed ❤️
I’ve decided my main purpose in being on this platform is keeping my husband, @instantdistractions.com humble as he gains followers for lefty Canadian political content.
Just now he sang a little jingle about having to go pee.
Just now he sang a little jingle about having to go pee.
February 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I’ve decided my main purpose in being on this platform is keeping my husband, @instantdistractions.com humble as he gains followers for lefty Canadian political content.
Just now he sang a little jingle about having to go pee.
Just now he sang a little jingle about having to go pee.
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Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now
February 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Do you know a senator you can call
History is littered with democracies that lost their freedoms without seeming to notice while it was happening.
Let’s not become one of them.
Let’s not become one of them.
February 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Do you know a senator you can call
Outrageous that @instantdistractions.com is watching Gilmore Girls for the first time and live skeeting none of it. We’re on s1e9 (the Chilton dance) and he just called Tristan “a little pissant”
February 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Outrageous that @instantdistractions.com is watching Gilmore Girls for the first time and live skeeting none of it. We’re on s1e9 (the Chilton dance) and he just called Tristan “a little pissant”
Lots of the world sucks and is awful and gives me a creeping sense of dread, but my baby now smacks her hands on either side of her face when I sing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and that’s pretty great.
January 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Lots of the world sucks and is awful and gives me a creeping sense of dread, but my baby now smacks her hands on either side of her face when I sing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and that’s pretty great.
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Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.
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A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.
We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room
September 2017
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.
We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
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This article reminded me of a thing I don't advocate loudly enough for: frozen vegetables! They're real good for you! They are as nutritious than fresh, always in season, and always ripe. If you're a "buy produce, get busy, throw it away" person, stock your freezer!
slate.com/life/2025/01...
slate.com/life/2025/01...
Everyone’s Favorite Grocery Store Is Bursting With Ultraprocessed Foods. That’s Exactly Why I Shop There.
I'm a dietitian, and these foods help me get through the week.
slate.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This article reminded me of a thing I don't advocate loudly enough for: frozen vegetables! They're real good for you! They are as nutritious than fresh, always in season, and always ripe. If you're a "buy produce, get busy, throw it away" person, stock your freezer!
slate.com/life/2025/01...
slate.com/life/2025/01...
LED headlights that light up the entire hemisphere are a pox and anyone using them should re-evaluate their entire lives
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
LED headlights that light up the entire hemisphere are a pox and anyone using them should re-evaluate their entire lives
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thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
January 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
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assuming displaced people in altadena will want to stay close-ish to home, start in places like glendale, la cañada-flintridge, montrose, sierra madre, monrovia, & duarte. and i’m sure our rep Judy Chu will care about this, too. because Judy Chu is one of the most left-leaning people in congress.
A fun thing you can do is pop onto Zillow, look at all rentals in a random chunk of the greater LA area, sort by recently changed, then check every price increase to see if it was more than 10%. If there's no obvious changes (didn't go from unfurnished to furnished) then report it for price gouging.
January 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
assuming displaced people in altadena will want to stay close-ish to home, start in places like glendale, la cañada-flintridge, montrose, sierra madre, monrovia, & duarte. and i’m sure our rep Judy Chu will care about this, too. because Judy Chu is one of the most left-leaning people in congress.
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If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...
Consumer Complaint Against A Business/Company
oag.ca.gov
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...
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and there’s an LA county-wide number/ email to report price gouging to, because many of the places mentioned are NOT in the *city* of Los Angeles
January 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
and there’s an LA county-wide number/ email to report price gouging to, because many of the places mentioned are NOT in the *city* of Los Angeles
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To add to this Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today prohibiting price gouging by more than 10% until Jan 7, 2027 so whenever u have time to kill this year go report some of these lizard people
A fun thing you can do is pop onto Zillow, look at all rentals in a random chunk of the greater LA area, sort by recently changed, then check every price increase to see if it was more than 10%. If there's no obvious changes (didn't go from unfurnished to furnished) then report it for price gouging.
January 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
To add to this Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today prohibiting price gouging by more than 10% until Jan 7, 2027 so whenever u have time to kill this year go report some of these lizard people
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he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party
December 22, 2024 at 5:26 AM
he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party
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Uh, does the author of the article not understand that PhD dissertations are written for other specialists in the field and not the general public??
Almost no one reads dissertations as-is apart from your PhD supervisor and committee.
Almost no one reads dissertations as-is apart from your PhD supervisor and committee.
No author so this could have been written by a bot, but…
judging the "readability" of 347K PhD abstracts written btw 1812 and 2023 based on Flesch test which measures word and sentence length & targets 4th grade is ridiculous and a collosal waste of time.
Free link: archive.ph/2024.12.21-0...
judging the "readability" of 347K PhD abstracts written btw 1812 and 2023 based on Flesch test which measures word and sentence length & targets 4th grade is ridiculous and a collosal waste of time.
Free link: archive.ph/2024.12.21-0...
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
www.economist.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Uh, does the author of the article not understand that PhD dissertations are written for other specialists in the field and not the general public??
Almost no one reads dissertations as-is apart from your PhD supervisor and committee.
Almost no one reads dissertations as-is apart from your PhD supervisor and committee.
Playing a fun game in grocery delivery where the image shows biscuit dough, the name listed of the item is “Country Cookie Dough.” Will I get biscuit or cookie dough? I am fine with either tbh
December 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Playing a fun game in grocery delivery where the image shows biscuit dough, the name listed of the item is “Country Cookie Dough.” Will I get biscuit or cookie dough? I am fine with either tbh
My mom group was sharing how somehow our smart watches have thrown up no red flags over 600+ day menstrual cycles (including one that said she was bleeding that whole time) but did warn when the baby cried that being around this decibel level can damage your hearing.
a cartoon character named spongebob is smiling with a blue eye
ALT: a cartoon character named spongebob is smiling with a blue eye
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:14 PM
My mom group was sharing how somehow our smart watches have thrown up no red flags over 600+ day menstrual cycles (including one that said she was bleeding that whole time) but did warn when the baby cried that being around this decibel level can damage your hearing.
We’ve had a lovely few days on the family farm. Baby met three aunts, an uncle, and so many animals. She loved all of them.
November 27, 2024 at 5:25 AM
We’ve had a lovely few days on the family farm. Baby met three aunts, an uncle, and so many animals. She loved all of them.
Waiting in line for breakfast at 5:41 AM and being able to smell hot fried potatoes is such a mix of excitement and agony. I need the potatoes. I want the potatoes. They are so close and so far away.
November 22, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Waiting in line for breakfast at 5:41 AM and being able to smell hot fried potatoes is such a mix of excitement and agony. I need the potatoes. I want the potatoes. They are so close and so far away.