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That One Girl
@ponderingpen.bsky.social
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I'm an artist, writer, dog mom to a Papillion. Art teacher in an ELA classroom (for now). I like pretty things, sad music and shiny rocks. Trying to figure things out, usually failing, but always learning things along the way. 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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Remember to find joy, be gentle with yourself, and take care of your body, mind and soul. We need you. You are important. You are loved. Never, ever, EVER forget that.
Illustration of an old woman in traditional east European garb with a large stew pot in front of her. She raises her arms to the moon and stars, smiling. To her left is a rabbit and a house, to her right is a bird in a simple tree. A garden grows in front of her. Above text reads: "Strega Nona knows that joy is a radical act."
August 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Black text on a yellow background reading: "Paid protesters?" Dude, half the country thinks you're a dick. Canada thinks you're a dick. Greenland thinks you're a dick. Panama thinks you're a dick. Most of the free world thinks you're a laughable, moronic dick. Nobody need to be paid to protest your corrupt, despotic dumbfuckery.
June 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Breathe. Relax your shoulders. Find your joy.
Text reading: In case no one told you today: You're beautiful. You're loved. You're needed. You're alive for a reason. You're stronger than you think. You're going to get through this. I'm glad you're alive. Don't give up. The text alternates between blue and orange to create emphasis on the words beautiful, loved, needed, stronger, get through this and don't give up. There is a colorful mandala in each corner. At the bottom, the image is attributed to tinybudda.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I'm just adding some alt-text for your image :)
Blue text on white background reads: All this so that Trump can pretend that world leaders are calling him, groveling and repeatedly calling him "sir". Red text on white background reads: What a fucking loser. Beside the red text, a distorted red smiley face icon.
April 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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A dear neighbor in my town, I don't know them, but I see their sign every day:
"Stop Pretending Your Fascism is Patriotism."
Yesterday was BEAUTIFUL, and I think that we are indeed lighting many fires in many hearts, and I know fire is catching. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
white background with multi-colored text reading: (in black) stop pretending your (in red) fascism (in black) is (in blue) patriotism. The whole sign reads, without color denoted: stop pretending your fascism is patriotism.
April 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Our Constitution applies to ALL within our country. Due process is a RIGHT. Know your rights, and do not let anyone take them away from ANYONE else.
There is black text on a white background, a post from a tumblr blog. There is a small icon in the top left beside the username theconcealedweapon. Beside that is the word Follow in blue. The text reads: "If you really care about preventing government tyranny, your #1 priority must be making sure criminals have rights. And that's not a joke or an exaggeration. If criminals don't have rights, then all the government has to do is find some excuse to label people as criminals, and those people will no longer have rights. It's what literally every tyrannical government in all of history has done. If you believe that people who break the law should forfeit their rights, you're literally as pro-tyranny as a person can get.
April 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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White text on a green background with a quote reading: When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live. -Sarah Kendzior.
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Remember, friends. He THRIVES on fear and chaos. This is very bad, yes, but please remember we have the courts and much power when it comes to education ALREADY is in the hands of the states.
We also have US. We must not let these go unanswered in the streets or with our wallets. DO what you CAN.
Blue headline on cream background reads: What does the Department of education do? And what does it not do? Two swirls surround text reading: Teaching is intellectual Cloud 1: It Does: Distribute federal funds, bulleted list: Title I- additional funding for schools with high percentages of low incomes families, IDEA- provides funding for students with disabilities 0-22 years of age, Pell and Perkins grants and loans for higher education Cloud 2: It does not determine curriculum. The common core standards were created by a group of volunteers coordinated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association for Best Practices. Cloud 3: It does collect data on enrollment, staffing, teaching shortages, student demographics, oversight and distribution of the federal student loan programs, investigations into civil rights violations in schools, and more. Cloud 4: It does not indoctrinate. There is nothing about the Department of Education that is mandating "wokeness". Title IX is a federal civil rights law that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs of activities that receive Federal financial assistance. It does not mandate Critical Race Theory or any other lightening rod of the right.
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Should the Department of Education be illegally terminated (as it MUST be done by Congress and cannot be done by the head of such an agency or executive order) it will largely impact the poorest students and those with disabilities the most. It will help no one, solve no real problems and hurt kids.
Blue headline on cream background reads: What does the Department of education do? And what does it not do? Two swirls surround text reading: Teaching is intellectual Cloud 1: It Does: Distribute federal funds, bulleted list: Title I- additional funding for schools with high percentages of low incomes families, IDEA- provides funding for students with disabilities 0-22 years of age, Pell and Perkins grants and loans for higher education Cloud 2: It does not determine curriculum. The common core standards were created by a group of volunteers coordinated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association for Best Practices. Cloud 3: It does collect data on enrollment, staffing, teaching shortages, student demographics, oversight and distribution of the federal student loan programs, investigations into civil rights violations in schools, and more. Cloud 4: It does not indoctrinate. There is nothing about the Department of Education that is mandating "wokeness". Title IX is a federal civil rights law that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs of activities that receive Federal financial assistance. It does not mandate Critical Race Theory or any other lightening rod of the right.
March 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We love to see art references. Just in case people want the visual:
Goya depicts a large figure feasting on a human form. The human head and part of the left arm have already been consumed. The right arm has probably been eaten too, though it could be folded in front of the body and held in place by the larger figure's thumbs. The larger figure is on the point of taking another bite from the left arm; as he looms from the darkness, his mouth gapes and his eyes bulge widely. The only other brightness in the picture comes from the white flesh, the red blood of the corpse, and the white knuckles of the larger figure as he digs his fingers into the back of the body. (From Wikipedia)
February 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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My fellow choir kids:
A screencap of a tweet from user silent nate, holy nate that says "composer of carol of the bells: i've written a haunting melody for the solpranos, altos: what about us?, composer: [spitting on them] pretend you're a bell, you fucking clowns." Below is a reply to the tweet from user arielle "merry" skywalker that reads "sopranos: hark how the bells (bell emoji, sparkle emoji, angel emoji) sweet silver bells (bell emoji, heart emoji, angel emoji) all seem to say (sparkle emoji, snowflake emoji, heart emoji) throw cares away (lovey face emoji, sparkle emoji, hearts emoji), altos: diNg! (red angry emoji) DOnG! (red cussing emoji) diNg! (red angry emoji) DOnG!)
February 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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An image of a road running through a dark forest with a gray sky. There are streetlights on the left side of the road stretching into the distance and reflections on the street allow the viewer to see the road is wet. White text on the right side of the image reads: "The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting."
January 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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🎶 Injunction Junction, what's your function? Tying up bullshit in courts and litigation. Injunction junction, how's that function? We got legal eagles ready to make things slow way down. 🎶
Screencap of a Breaking news alert from Politico with a red banner at the top and text below. The text reads: First lawsuits against Trump admin target DOGE. 01/20/2025, 01:14 PM EST. The legal resistance to President Donald Trump has already begun. Within minutes of Trump taking the oath of office, at least three lawsuits were filed in federal court in Washington, seeking to shut down Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" until it complies with transparency rules related to governmental advisory entities. The lawsuits allege that the project Trump announced to target government waste violates the Federal Advisory committee Act by giving private individuals roles in the government decision-making process without the public access the law requires.
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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An older man with glasses in a navy sweater sits in front of a desk piled with books. Below in white text on a black background is the following quote "I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it." Noam Chomsky
January 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Call out your bros. It shouldn't be left up to women to keep men accountable for their actions. They need to hear it from other men, too. Text written in black on a hot pink background
November 24, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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a cartoon of people holding up a domino labelled trans rights with the trans flag colors on it that leads to a line of dominos labelled gay rights, freedom of expression, women's rights, free love, free speech, democracy, freedom of religion, modernity. The dominos continue to fade into the background. People in the foreground are running from the back and carrying wooden support beams to protect trans rights from falling. The caption underneath reads united we stand, divided we fall.
November 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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The extreme, hateful and dangerous policies are already being talked about. It's absolutely and irrevocably unacceptable.
First, they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem. Have a gay day. Text is written on a trans flag background, first stripe, light blue, second stripe pink, third stripe white, fourth stripe pink, fifth stripe light blue.
November 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
Image with a page in a book which reads 1: Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
November 9, 2024 at 9:38 PM