thanate
@thanate.bsky.social
writer(Ann Chatham)/crafter/naturalist, not always in that order. secondary world fantasy, tiny ruins, ancient clay, habitat gardening, sticks & string. Parent of chaos preteen. She/her
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DEC 15 2025: STOP BUYING STARBUCKS DAY
Starbucks Baristas are asking us to stop buying Starbucks on December 15th.
Remember, it's not customer vs. worker, it's the 99% vs. the 1%. Baristas are your labor family, let's all help them out!
mailchi.mp/d86e5090fce2...
Starbucks Baristas are asking us to stop buying Starbucks on December 15th.
Remember, it's not customer vs. worker, it's the 99% vs. the 1%. Baristas are your labor family, let's all help them out!
mailchi.mp/d86e5090fce2...
Chicago gave us 48 hours of power. Let’s build on it.
mailchi.mp
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
DEC 15 2025: STOP BUYING STARBUCKS DAY
Starbucks Baristas are asking us to stop buying Starbucks on December 15th.
Remember, it's not customer vs. worker, it's the 99% vs. the 1%. Baristas are your labor family, let's all help them out!
mailchi.mp/d86e5090fce2...
Starbucks Baristas are asking us to stop buying Starbucks on December 15th.
Remember, it's not customer vs. worker, it's the 99% vs. the 1%. Baristas are your labor family, let's all help them out!
mailchi.mp/d86e5090fce2...
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
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When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
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Repost if you're tired
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Repost if you're tired
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Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
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This.
Measles is incredibly infectious. If 1 kid in a kindergarten is infected, by the end of the day pretty much every un- or under-vaccinated classmate will be too.
Measles can be deadly & some complications can kill years later, but just an ordinary case is miserable. Why let your kid suffer?
Measles is incredibly infectious. If 1 kid in a kindergarten is infected, by the end of the day pretty much every un- or under-vaccinated classmate will be too.
Measles can be deadly & some complications can kill years later, but just an ordinary case is miserable. Why let your kid suffer?
Of 111 measles cases, 105 were in unvaccinated people. 6 were in partially vaccinated people.
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates
A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This.
Measles is incredibly infectious. If 1 kid in a kindergarten is infected, by the end of the day pretty much every un- or under-vaccinated classmate will be too.
Measles can be deadly & some complications can kill years later, but just an ordinary case is miserable. Why let your kid suffer?
Measles is incredibly infectious. If 1 kid in a kindergarten is infected, by the end of the day pretty much every un- or under-vaccinated classmate will be too.
Measles can be deadly & some complications can kill years later, but just an ordinary case is miserable. Why let your kid suffer?
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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we need an “ENERGY should be CHEAP and CLEAN” manifesto along the lines of Bread and Puppet’s Why Cheap Art manifesto
is it not so?
is it not so?
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
we need an “ENERGY should be CHEAP and CLEAN” manifesto along the lines of Bread and Puppet’s Why Cheap Art manifesto
is it not so?
is it not so?
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For everyone coping with BART’s continued issues today, remember, It Is ALWAYS Infrastructure Week.
I made a sign for you.
I made a sign for you.
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For everyone coping with BART’s continued issues today, remember, It Is ALWAYS Infrastructure Week.
I made a sign for you.
I made a sign for you.
Fair point.
I still don't get why people pay attention to literary awards. The Nobel Prize for Literature. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Man Booker Prize. Not one of these have ever honored a book with an illustrated cutaway that tells you what all the parts of a castle are.
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Fair point.
Hedgie w/ grapes, only holiday ornaments! Brilliant.
I keep seeing all these tutorials for felt ornaments and I am feeling the need to make one of the hedgehog from Verdun, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 107, fol. 8. I’m not even christian, I’m just in it for the love of the game
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Hedgie w/ grapes, only holiday ornaments! Brilliant.
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Not sure how I previously missed the existence of this account!
When they ask you
(and they will ask you)
If you are tired
of wearing a mask all the time,
you can tell them yes
or you can tell them no,
but be sure to tell them
that what you are really tired of
is everyone you know
getting sick all the time.
*
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(and they will ask you)
If you are tired
of wearing a mask all the time,
you can tell them yes
or you can tell them no,
but be sure to tell them
that what you are really tired of
is everyone you know
getting sick all the time.
*
298:
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/p...
Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Eighth Week
It is not my place to tell you, my friend, how to grieve for our departed friends, but it falls now to us to remember them, and it falls now to us to remember that they would want for us to remembe…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Not sure how I previously missed the existence of this account!
(something something that time when I was a kid that we got back from a camping trip & found out my father had missed the call to talk on NPR about the letter he wrote pointing out how many times (every promotion) Ollie North had sworn to uphold the constitution over illegal orders)
Everyone from Hegseth down to the fellow who hit the button to fire the missile committed at least a double-murder following a manifestly unlawful order that is used *as the example* of a manifestly unlawful order.
They should all go to jail, presumably for life (I don't support the death penalty).
They should all go to jail, presumably for life (I don't support the death penalty).
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
(something something that time when I was a kid that we got back from a camping trip & found out my father had missed the call to talk on NPR about the letter he wrote pointing out how many times (every promotion) Ollie North had sworn to uphold the constitution over illegal orders)
What the hell is wrong with them, & is there anywhere it would be useful to yell about it??
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What the hell is wrong with them, & is there anywhere it would be useful to yell about it??
As someone who has a bunch of unbleached fiber browns in her historical wardrobe, I would caveat that bright whites involve a lot of work sunning your fabric, also. But yeah, if you want dark colors, indigo is your cheap go-to, & remember your reds would fade *dramatically.*
One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
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December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As someone who has a bunch of unbleached fiber browns in her historical wardrobe, I would caveat that bright whites involve a lot of work sunning your fabric, also. But yeah, if you want dark colors, indigo is your cheap go-to, & remember your reds would fade *dramatically.*
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
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A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #chess
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #chess
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #chess
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #chess
Things we need more of in the world include:
So Jews see "put disobedient children to death" and say "well a reasonable human wouldn't do that so clearly G-d wouldn't either so what's up with that? What was meant by 'disobedient'?" And by the time the dust settles no children are getting killed.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Things we need more of in the world include:
I want to be able to put a stamp on a piece of paper and send it to any address in the country. I'm absolutely ok with my tax dollars paying for it.
(...& periodic reminder that a stupid gop congress is responsible for the ridiculous pension regulations that make them operate at a loss...)
(...& periodic reminder that a stupid gop congress is responsible for the ridiculous pension regulations that make them operate at a loss...)
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I want to be able to put a stamp on a piece of paper and send it to any address in the country. I'm absolutely ok with my tax dollars paying for it.
(...& periodic reminder that a stupid gop congress is responsible for the ridiculous pension regulations that make them operate at a loss...)
(...& periodic reminder that a stupid gop congress is responsible for the ridiculous pension regulations that make them operate at a loss...)
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since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying
Excellent use of giant googlie eye!!!
Here's a look at some of the pieces I made for the 21st annual Post It Show THIS SATURDAY at Giant Robot! ✨💖
1000s of originals from 100s of artists will be available for $30 a pop!
Peep their blog for more info:
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#art
1000s of originals from 100s of artists will be available for $30 a pop!
Peep their blog for more info:
www.giantrobot.com/blogs/giant-...
#art
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Excellent use of giant googlie eye!!!
I seem to remember gun safety 101 including "Never point a gun (loaded or otherwise) at anything you're not willing to shoot." 😬
Taken together with the ongoing conversation about the budget it feels very bad that We have to repeatedly nicely and administratively ask the Chicago Police department to stop pointing guns at civilians while also taking so very much of our money.
CPD's gun-pointing policy needs update
Gun-pointing by CPD officers should only be permitted in cases when deadly force is authorized. Also, Northwestern University's settlement with relation to its systemic inequities, Sun-Times columnist...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I seem to remember gun safety 101 including "Never point a gun (loaded or otherwise) at anything you're not willing to shoot." 😬