alicia
@justliketheweather.bsky.social
resting sad face / grossly unremarkable
It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. - Claire North
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January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. - Claire North
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When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream-as the tyrants themselves are defining that mainstream at that particular moment. - Timothy Snyder
January 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream-as the tyrants themselves are defining that mainstream at that particular moment. - Timothy Snyder
While our justice system is predicated upon the notion of the presumption of innocence until the establishment of guilt, there should be limits to what a highly visible figure can do to establish that innocence outside of the court of law. There aren't, though, not really. - Roxane Gay
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October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
While our justice system is predicated upon the notion of the presumption of innocence until the establishment of guilt, there should be limits to what a highly visible figure can do to establish that innocence outside of the court of law. There aren't, though, not really. - Roxane Gay
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There is perhaps no force so strong in the public conventions of twentieth-century American courtship as nostalgia, the lure of an imagined past. - Beth Bailey
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October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There is perhaps no force so strong in the public conventions of twentieth-century American courtship as nostalgia, the lure of an imagined past. - Beth Bailey
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October 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's time we knew whether a durable democracy is possible-one whose laws are not just guidelines. One where individual rights cannot be ignored by the powerful. - Daniel Suarez
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October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's time we knew whether a durable democracy is possible-one whose laws are not just guidelines. One where individual rights cannot be ignored by the powerful. - Daniel Suarez
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One of the most frustrating parts about being human is that the person who is the worst will be universally lauded for being the best. - Marie-Helene Bertino
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October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One of the most frustrating parts about being human is that the person who is the worst will be universally lauded for being the best. - Marie-Helene Bertino
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Always the same blunt strategy, Paavo thought, to keep us so concerned with staying alive, we forget about living. - Anne Michaels
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October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Always the same blunt strategy, Paavo thought, to keep us so concerned with staying alive, we forget about living. - Anne Michaels
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almost all conservative regimes are so intent on its preservation (though few ask why something so natural, so inevitable, requires such laborious propping up). - Becca Rothfeld
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October 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
almost all conservative regimes are so intent on its preservation (though few ask why something so natural, so inevitable, requires such laborious propping up). - Becca Rothfeld
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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October 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
- W. S. Merwin
I miss you without end 💕
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
- W. S. Merwin
I miss you without end 💕
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
- W. S. Merwin
I miss you without end 💕
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
- W. S. Merwin
I miss you without end 💕
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Nobody talks about his hard it is to be both a people pleaser and a committed curmudgeon
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nobody talks about his hard it is to be both a people pleaser and a committed curmudgeon
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it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.
Speaks for itself.
Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
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You don’t need to send me a story about how it saved you an hour at work or helped you solve a math riddle or even self-diagnose a medical ailment. My thinking will be the same. That is nice and it is still not worth the societal costs.
August 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You don’t need to send me a story about how it saved you an hour at work or helped you solve a math riddle or even self-diagnose a medical ailment. My thinking will be the same. That is nice and it is still not worth the societal costs.
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"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?"
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
August 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?"
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?