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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 24d

Hi, hey, hello! New here? Thanks for showing up! A few things to know ⬇️

I curate my feed carefully. No Follow for Follow without vetting.

I post about:
* Books
* Blogging
* Cats
* DEI
* Dissent
* Farming
* Genealogy
* Justice
* Music
* Nature
* Politics
* Whatever else moves me

Cool? Cool!

I BELIEVE:
Love is Love
Black & Indigenous Lives & Rights Matter
Health Care is a Human Right
Water is Life
No Human is Illegal
Science & Climate Change are Real Intersectional Feminism is Essential
Truth & Justice Matter
Kindness is Everything

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Four ears of blue corn laying on a weathered wooden table

A black cat with golden eyes looking into the camera while laying on a stone step

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 3h

I am so sorry you experienced this. It is such a challenge.

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 7h

So cool! I’ll definitely check it out! Thanks!

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 7h

No doubt. Wild times we’re living through.

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 7h

Finished listening to Piranesi today and it was… interesting. I feel like this might be a better read in print but not sure about making the investment 🤔 Definitely took me out of my norm, tho, which is always a good thing!

💙📚 #booksky

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 7h

I wish you all the luck! It’s so hard leaving the big ones but it’s so important.

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you! Resister here 🙋🏻‍♀️ Let's do this!

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 8h

I feel this. I took a 6 month break from Insta (not on FB at all anymore) and popped back in over the summer to see how it felt. It felt awful. There was so much energy to leave in January but the majority just… stayed 😔

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 8h

Have you found an alternative or will you sell on your own site?

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 12h

I wish more people just cared but…Late diagnosed Lyme person here and I wouldn’t wish this disease on a single person. The way it has flipped my entire existence upside down has been downright devastating.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 3d

I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall.

(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)

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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · 2d

It's #BannedBooksWeek! Exercise your #RightToRead at your local #PublicLibrary.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 4d

name: Melissa
current read: The End of The World As We Know It
last show: Star Trek: The Next Generation (episode 13)
last film: Jurassic Park
fav book this year: Nettle & Bone
fav watch this year: The Last Kingdom

+ something spooky:

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 4d

I am that person! And I’m ok with it ❤️

Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · 4d

It’s me! I’m the weird relative 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 4d

Disability is the only marginalized group you can join at any time. One accident. One illness. One shift in your body. Growing older. That’s not fear... it’s perspective. Inclusion isn’t “for them.” It’s for all of us.
#NDEAM #DisabilityJustice #AccessForAll