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estarianne

@estarianne.bsky.social

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Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · Dec 7

Listen, a hill I'll die on.

If a group of people with a shared struggle are asking for freedom and acceptance, it's not more "objective" for people from outside the group to report on them. That's not how social hierarchies work, people outside the group have self interest in maintaining status quo

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 9h

If there's a space that isn't designed for children then you also have to accept children acting like children in those spaces. Children are humans with full human rights.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 9h

Are you a bot or a dunce? Pick one.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 9h

My son is a senior in university studying math and even he forgets how to do mental math stuff like that lol

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

3/ Anyway, a shout-out to Stuart Christie (1946--2020) & Albert Meltzer (1920--1996), who in 'The Floodgates of Anarchy' (1970) composed this still-useful I think political 'compass' in order to illustrate party lines & political positions.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 9h

Listen I have a whole ass engineering degree and I've forgotten how to do math, once you're over 30 nobody judges you

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

1 gram is 0.035 oz so 70 x.035

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

BUT 7000 mg gummies I can find online are 7000 for the whole bag about 350 mg each (still a lot to me, mine are 25 mg lol).

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

70 grams is about 2 and a half ounces

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

That's funny that she thinks the wine moms are the ones still showing up at the federal building.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

Oh that person lol yeah.

Anyway the frogs are edgelord leftists doing the most edgelording possible. They are lording the edge like it's never been lorded before.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone needs a home, not everyone can access one in the current system. Create a system where everyone has access to housing and homelessness is solved. Otherwise you will have homeless people.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

This isn't really a hard question to answer. You can't "crack down" to solve homelessness because punishment doesn't create housing. The people who keep imagining it does are not thinking clearly.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 11h

#birdtober day 10 is the Arctic Tern. These guys have such amazing lines they deserved an action pose!

#birds #SciArt #BirdArt #illustration #ArtChallenge #DailyArt

A digital painting of an arctic tern against a blue sky in gray and white with sweeping wing lines and a tail that sweeps outward in long arcs flies towards the viewer, red orange beak open. Further away and behind it another flies to the right and down towards the water, its feet tucked up under it and tail sweeping behind.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know what the post was but they didn't want it circulating on your side of the internet 😭

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 10h

He knows the answer to this question, he's hoping his base doesn't.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 13h

Mine is Dave Min, he hasn't been at a protest. Protests are still happening all the time all around the state.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 13h

He was literally at a press conference, not at a protest

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 6

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 15h

Why do clothing cos have a gap between sizes?

Like LOL

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 16h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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