Tyra Penn
tyrapenn.bsky.social
Tyra Penn
@tyrapenn.bsky.social
Musician & municipal planner
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In the nascent field of mycoforestry, tree-growers are combining saplings with symbiotic fungi to grow timber and mushrooms on the same plots of land.
How Christmas Trees Could Become a Source of Low-Carbon Protein
In the nascent field of mycoforestry, tree-growers are combining saplings with symbiotic fungi to grow timber and mushrooms on the same plots of land.
wrd.cm
December 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
All the naughty children have been beaten, boiled and eaten. Only the good little children remain. Now Krampus can rest.

Merry Christmas.

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🔥 5.12.2016 - SEIDÄ PASS 🔥 Live @ Dun Aengus Rattenberg (Tirol / Austria) - Perchten Hexentanz
YouTube video by Seidä Pass
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December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Watch this video before you do any last minute holiday shopping on Amazon.
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Fundamentalist faiths make religion dangerous to others, but Christianity properly lived is dangerous to Christians. It’s dangerous to people who refuse to hate those they are told to hate, to people who refuse to oppress, to conquer, to exploit — even when they’re told to conquer in the name of God
Opinion | Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Why the heroes of Bondi Beach mattered so much:

"The presence of evil doesn’t break people. From a young age, we learn that there are wolves in our midst. It is the absence of courage that plunges us into crisis." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | The Righteousness of Ahmed el Amhed
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history.

#teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The tree is trimmed.
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps. n.pr/3XSG1Xy
It's Christmastime —– and if you live in the Alps, watch out! Krampus is coming
In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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If Santa Claus is the good cop of Christmas, then Krampus is the bad one: a creature from European folklore who scares children into behaving themselves, complete with goat horns and gnashing teeth. n.pr/4pqp6rp
When Christmas is a little too bright ... look to Krampus
If Santa Claus is the good cop of Christmas, then Krampus is the bad one: a creature from European folklore who scares children into behaving themselves, complete with goat horns and gnashing teeth.
n.pr
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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For 5 days we’re saying #WeAintBuyingIt to Target, Amazon and Home Depot. Instead we’re shopping local. Today redirect money you’ve saved from the boycott and give it to charity. Remember, when they go low, we go local! Invest in your communities by supporting local businesses.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In the kitchen sink, at R'lyeh, the dead Cthurkey thaws, dreaming.

May your Chtunksgiving be free of horrors.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies.

I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Reading comprehension is essential

Article Tenth:
The general assembly shall by general law delegate such legislative authority as from time to time it deems appropriate to towns, cities and boroughs relative to the powers, organization, and form of government of such political subdivisions.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Turns out, acting to solve the housing crisis is extremely popular. The discomfort of being yelled at by 7 people on a Tuesday night <> political liability

Tell your friends, tell your electeds

ctmirror.org/2025/11/12/h...
Opinion: In CT, housing advocacy is a political asset
Voters have spoken: ignoring the housing crisis and caving to the loudest voices in the room comes with significant political peril.
ctmirror.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I am gutted to see Ossof (GA) and King (ME) on the list of senators who might cave. Please, friends in Georgia and Maine, flood your Senators' office lines and inboxes, post-haste.

Angus King should not want to lose his Charlie Pierce sobriquet as "The Moustache of Justice."
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zohhhhraaaannn!
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Moonage Daydream on Netflix!
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Have a happy and non-violent No Kings Day!
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM