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Marian Call

@mariancall.bsky.social

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Songwriter, writer writer, director of MusicAlaska / AKIMI, probably owes you an email. Still rockin on Bandcamp, Twitch, and Patreon.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · Nov 3

Used to hang out on Twitter. Used to travel the world and play concerts in your living rooms.

Still writing, still singing, starting to play live shows again. Stepping into advocacy and organizing for the Alaska music scene, which helped make me.

It's nice to hear y'all's voices again.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 46m

co-sign. they're doing great reporting right now, and a beautiful magazine is a great change from scrolling.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 1h

If you're not getting @wired.com in print, you're missing out

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afwido.bsky.social @afwido.bsky.social · 1h

Direct link to give alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1h

Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 57m

we manage it quite well! but then I have the right kind of mic for it

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3h

Resources for Whistle Warriors
Spanish and English flyers
Zines
Supplies– Metal and Plastic Whistles

link:
www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

or Google Drive via @tracyabell.bsky.social:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resources for
Whistle
Warriors

WHISTLE ZINES

WHISTLE FLIERS

DOWNLOAD HERE / This is a PDF with
both English & Spanish one page fliers
that do not need to be folded.

SUPPLY LINKS

graphic of whistle

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

Community Whistle flyer from Rogers Park area in Chicago.

@prisonculture.bsky.social says, "This is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone."

Why It Works
✪ Instant Alert System

✪ Faster Than Social Media

✪ Turns Silence Into Community Action

Analog device that's "Faster Than Social Media"? Lolol.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

Graphic:
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER

[I will share some pieces of this in a separate post]

ROGERS PARK
WHISTLE PROTOCOLS

WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS

• A SIMPLE TOOL
FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD. •
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO
IGNORE. •
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.

WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE
CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.

WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM

• FASTER THAN
SOCIAL MEDIA

• TURNS SILENCE
INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE
AROUND YOUR NECK
• TEACH FAMILY &
NEIGHBORS THE
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH
OTHER, ALWAYS

TOGETHER, WE
KEEP OUR
COMMUNITY
SAFE.
FORM A CROWD,
STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
@PROTECTRP_

ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
@ @PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE
INFO@PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE.ORG

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 2h

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 2h

🖤

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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 2h

Concert day. #sketches

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 2h

that is a WONDERFUL thought

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 5h

Living room is now a disaster, but I think we're ready.

Photo of the setup for Marian's livestreaming concert: a nest of crowded chairs, mics, stands, cables, and sound gear, with a typewriter and colorful noisemakers and shakers in the foreground.

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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 10h

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beautiful
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beautiful-4

Must be nice to be part of a religion that'd never go to war.

Must be nice to be part of a religion that'd never go to war.

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Fuss @semperfitrex.bsky.social · 10h

apnews.com/article/domi...

Gotta love the stabilizing, pro-democracy effects of private enterprise in a free market!

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

apnews.com

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 8h

who actually demanded this

because my assumption is "no one" leaving us with

who did they think was demanding this

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 10h

From Ada Limón's book, The Hurting Kind: bit.ly/hurtingkind

#poem #books #writing

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 9h

This is how you can tell organic demand for AI is real and we’re not in a bubble artificially propped up by the technology being forced into everything in pursuit of speculative investors with FOMO.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 9h

oh i am INTERESTED in this

D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 9h

a LOT of people have listened/downloaded the first episode in my two-part series where I infodump about all the horrible things James Dobson doesn't want you to know about him. Part 2 is dropping tomorrow, so catch up and get ready for even MORE: www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...

James Dobson’s Worst Nightmare Part 1 — Strongwilled

A history of James Dobson, his eugenic beginnings, his work on the Meese Commission, and how he ushered in religious authoritarianism in the US

www.strongwilledproject.com

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 9h

From what I've heard there are sections of the French Catacombs lost to time. They're so massive, so winding, there are likely many more places like this established down there.

I fucking love it.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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