@quaintandcurious.bsky.social
Public school teacher. Reader. Plant hoarder. ADHDer. My Twitter account is old enough to drive, but I guess we're here now.
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We are poorer as a nation for the loss of this man, and poorer still for the manner in which we lost him 😔
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 AM
We are poorer as a nation for the loss of this man, and poorer still for the manner in which we lost him 😔
Tear gas is an abortifacient??
You might think that would make them slightly less comfortable with slinging it around at women of a certain age. 🧐🤔🫠
You might think that would make them slightly less comfortable with slinging it around at women of a certain age. 🧐🤔🫠
My "What You Need To Know About Tear Gas" thread:
First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.
First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.
January 25, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Tear gas is an abortifacient??
You might think that would make them slightly less comfortable with slinging it around at women of a certain age. 🧐🤔🫠
You might think that would make them slightly less comfortable with slinging it around at women of a certain age. 🧐🤔🫠
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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down with tiktok, long live text based microblogging for aging millennials
January 23, 2026 at 11:26 PM
down with tiktok, long live text based microblogging for aging millennials
I want more local artists to have their prints on greeting cards (preferably blank ones), just for me, because I love them.
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Wouldn't it be nice though? Just an art print on cardstock, blank inside? I write whatever tf I want inside. Send nice things to a friend or yelling words to a senator.
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Wouldn't it be nice though? Just an art print on cardstock, blank inside? I write whatever tf I want inside. Send nice things to a friend or yelling words to a senator.
January 20, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I want more local artists to have their prints on greeting cards (preferably blank ones), just for me, because I love them.
🤷🏻♀️
Wouldn't it be nice though? Just an art print on cardstock, blank inside? I write whatever tf I want inside. Send nice things to a friend or yelling words to a senator.
🤷🏻♀️
Wouldn't it be nice though? Just an art print on cardstock, blank inside? I write whatever tf I want inside. Send nice things to a friend or yelling words to a senator.
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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To be left unaided in distress while in the Midwest is to exist completely outside of society on a level heretofore unheard of.
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
To be left unaided in distress while in the Midwest is to exist completely outside of society on a level heretofore unheard of.
Look. I'm just never going to leave Tumblr, ok?
Where else. Where else I ask you.
Where else. Where else I ask you.
January 13, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Look. I'm just never going to leave Tumblr, ok?
Where else. Where else I ask you.
Where else. Where else I ask you.
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Yes. Connect those dots!
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Yes. Connect those dots!
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Kidnapping a minor US citizen from a Target, physically assaulting him, and then dumping him in a parking lot miles away is not a training issue. "Better training" doesn't fix that. At a certain point, even the most moderate Dems need to understand that it is a policy of terrorizing minorities.
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Kidnapping a minor US citizen from a Target, physically assaulting him, and then dumping him in a parking lot miles away is not a training issue. "Better training" doesn't fix that. At a certain point, even the most moderate Dems need to understand that it is a policy of terrorizing minorities.
I will never not be angry.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 11, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I will never not be angry.
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The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
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What do you mean I have to go to work tomorrow
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
What do you mean I have to go to work tomorrow
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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It’s the United States that needs regime change.
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
It’s the United States that needs regime change.
I got a massage for the first time in a long time and the masseuse went into (the shell of) my ear (with my consent!) and who knew ears held so much tension?? It's all cartilage in there, innit?
Anyway. Amazing, 11/10, I look forward to going back.
Anyway. Amazing, 11/10, I look forward to going back.
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I got a massage for the first time in a long time and the masseuse went into (the shell of) my ear (with my consent!) and who knew ears held so much tension?? It's all cartilage in there, innit?
Anyway. Amazing, 11/10, I look forward to going back.
Anyway. Amazing, 11/10, I look forward to going back.
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This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
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Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
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Truly the epitome of the dog / cat hetero couple
January 2, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Truly the epitome of the dog / cat hetero couple
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2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong
I have nowhere near the emotional stability to be making anything that could be recognized as a resolution right now.
I am going into 2026 begging for nothing catastrophic to happen in my personal or professional life. Everything else is icing.
I am going into 2026 begging for nothing catastrophic to happen in my personal or professional life. Everything else is icing.
January 1, 2026 at 4:25 AM
I have nowhere near the emotional stability to be making anything that could be recognized as a resolution right now.
I am going into 2026 begging for nothing catastrophic to happen in my personal or professional life. Everything else is icing.
I am going into 2026 begging for nothing catastrophic to happen in my personal or professional life. Everything else is icing.
My ex texted me Happy New Year. I sobbed for like 20 minutes.
It's been almost half a year, when will my brain finally get its shit together.
(That's my 2026 plea.)
At the start of January 2025, life was looking up. Most of the rest of 2025 was shit. 2026: Be better. Please.
It's been almost half a year, when will my brain finally get its shit together.
(That's my 2026 plea.)
At the start of January 2025, life was looking up. Most of the rest of 2025 was shit. 2026: Be better. Please.
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
My ex texted me Happy New Year. I sobbed for like 20 minutes.
It's been almost half a year, when will my brain finally get its shit together.
(That's my 2026 plea.)
At the start of January 2025, life was looking up. Most of the rest of 2025 was shit. 2026: Be better. Please.
It's been almost half a year, when will my brain finally get its shit together.
(That's my 2026 plea.)
At the start of January 2025, life was looking up. Most of the rest of 2025 was shit. 2026: Be better. Please.