Melissa Ryckman
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Melissa Ryckman
@missoularedhead.bsky.social
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Historian, medievalist, geek, feminist, mom, crocheter. Order changes depending on day. Associate professor. All my own thoughts (most of which lately are 'wtf'). Desperately trying to do research.
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CHEAP ASS FRIED RICE
leftover cold rice (usually 2-3 cups)
2 eggs, scrambled
1 bag frozen veg, nuked & drained

- sauce -
1/4 c water
2 T soy sauce
Siracha to taste
Splash o’ fish sauce
Ginger, garlic, other spices to taste
1 T Sesame oil

Mix rice, veg, & eggs. Heat, add sauce. Meat if you like
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
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This is insane, and now I know why a helicopter buzzing repeatedly woke me up at 4:30am that day. This time they wanted to be done before the traffic started, but the helicopter might've given it away? This cruelty needs to be widely publicized. @marisakabas.bsky.social @georgetownuni.bsky.social
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
Whoa. That’s BS. I had a HS teacher try this on my kid (quickly schooled and rectified), but never a college professor. Yikes, yikes, yikes. Also, BURN IT DOWN.
Huh. Funny, that. Oh wait. She’s also a right-wing MAGA type…
Winsome Earle-Sears on Obama: "Last year, he told everybody to vote for the Black woman. Well, here I am. Here I am and now he's singing a different tune. Hypocrisy all the way."
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And is anyone surprised?! When do they start touting repatriation as reparations?

Every day, I despair a little more.
Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said

He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”
Huh. Just trying to envision “soy-faced” et al., and it’s not happening.
What I’ve been up to in an attempt to not run screaming into the night.
Is there? Hmmm. Gauche? Utterly, unrepentantly gauche?
I honestly don’t even know what half these insults even MEAN. Also, it’s gotta be taxing to be that angry all the time.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
Yes. Definitely reading the book first helps!
Holy shit. Talk about a little too on the nose.
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
Honestly, I’m so burnt out. I love my job, but I’m wondering if our next governor will let me (and my colleagues) keep it. And whether we’ll have a country to keep it in.

Damn. I hate being a pessimist, but.
Thanks. It’s definitely not perfect, but I’m proud of it.
Because I really need to remember there is joy in the world, I give you my first ever fully finished pottery piece. The center is rough so I can use it as a garlic grater.
Oh ffs.
The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.