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CaseyL
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Seattleite, hiker, love all animals but currently live with just one cat, reading is my fave thing (history, mystery, historical mysteries, scifi, science, nonfiction generally), big fan of Deep Space and Deep Time. Liberal Democrat.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 11h
Change one letter, ruin a candy

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 14h
TOASTED. Bagels & Coffee says it has received nearly $25,000 in donations in the last 24 hours since announcing the "neighbor's tab" to provide breakfast to those impacted by the SNAP benefits cliff on Nov. 1, no questions asked, at its U-District, South Lake Union and Bellevue locations.
TOASTED. Bagels & Coffee on Instagram: "we are speechless. as of 3PM today, you’ve helped raise $25,000 in under 24 hours to keep people fed across our city. hundreds of you have stepped up without h...
1,224 likes, 21 comments - toasted.seattle on October 29, 2025: "we are speechless. as of 3PM today, you’ve helped raise $25,000 in under 24 hours to keep people fed across our city. hundreds of you ...
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 14h
Didn't know about this until now: have donated, will repost. Thank you, Bagels & Coffee!
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 3d
You can get a used computer on eBay.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 3d
GOP voters disagree/disapprove of him on issues that mean less to them than the ones they strongly approve of. E.g., they'll put up with the destruction of public health if they also get white men running everything; accept crashing the economy if that means no immigrants, etc.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 5d
"Quiet quitting" works for consumerism, too.

You want US corps to stop supporting fascism?

Stop supporting them. Stop buying their products, stop using their services. Buy used computers (and other stuff) on eBay, shop in person rather than online.

You can't do it all. But you can do some.
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Tim Wayne @thetimwayne.com · 6d
@governor.ca.gov we need this for our state, too.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 7d
Protectively covering them up with his magnificent tail.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 8d
A hapless vet tech, I'm thinking.

But you will get at least a cold shoulder upon returning home.
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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 12d
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18d
This Is Fascism
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 14d
Not just class distinctions and the value of worthless currency, stocks, and bonds, but: the first outbreak of sewage-borne illness, when the plumbing fails.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 22d
A perfect autumn day - and of course I'm at work. WFH but still: can't go gadding off to the hiking trails.
View from my porch: golden autumn day spills sunlight through conifer trees, making bright patches on the lawn. Trees in foreground are dark and green, some branches sun-dappled.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 23d
He's giving them what they want: the opportunity to be the Biggest Assholes in modern history, and (for his cronies and sponsors) to get filthy rich doing it.

Plus, of course, giving the racists and misogynists a chance to reverse 100 years of progress.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 23d
Please help Merrymac feed these critters!
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Hey! We need hay! Winter is almost here so we need your help to make sure all of our residents are warm and well fed through these harsh months. It is VERY EXPENSIVE but we know we can do it with your help! ❤️ donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 28d
Wonderful story. What an amazing week for your son, too!
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 29d
Thank you! There's no point in bipartisanship when the GOP and Trump lie every time they open their mouth and will simply ignore the law. Any deal with them is worthless.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · 29d
Pretty sure they're happy enough with their tax cuts and deregulation that some good old-fashioned bribery doesn't phase them.
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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
Based on these principles, the US Radical Right revolution will also fail since it fails every one of those four points.

The only question is how long it will take, and how much damage the Radical Right will do before it falls.

(Narrator: Quite a lot of damage, actually.)

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
These are not new or revelatory. They have always been true.

The revolutions of 1848 failed for the same reason similar revolutions fail 90% of the time.

But look at it from the other directions... from, say, the Trumpist side...

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
4. People prefer certainty, even oppressive certainty, over confusion and chaos

This should be self-evident to anyone who lives as an adult. Laws changing every day, $ not worth today what it was yesterday, supply of basic staples like food unpredictable, are intolerable.

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
3. Revolutions will fail if they can’t improve peoples’ lives right away

It's unfair but true. If you can't present fast results - even limited ones - the people who yelled themselves hoarse applauding you will turn on you fast. Most revolutions do fail bc instant results are near-impossible.

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
2. Cadres of the committed can win short-term but can’t build lasting change

Again: these people came together for one idealistic cause, one huge burst of excitement. Very few can plan what comes after; the culminating battle was all they thought about.

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 29
A multi-part comment on Chris Clark's "Revolutionary Spring," a detailed account of the wave of revolutions that shook Europe in 1848:

1. Insurrectionists rarely/never form stable coalitions

By their very nature, insurrectionists do not "play well with others."

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CaseyL @caseyl.bsky.social · Sep 28
To which Mo says, "I disagree: those are very obviously pigs-in-blankets."
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