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Rachel Hands
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contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
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hiya new folks! this account is for weird art/books/music enthusiasm, hyping friendship and my friends, and good light.

also I write about work, power, and equity. obligatory “you can buy some of that writing here” link:
Leading in Times of Crisis: Holding & Sharing Power and Reducing Harm
In the face of big challenges, we don't have time to be stuck—so it's time to be brave! Whether you set out to be a leader or it just kind of happened to...
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okay okay I’ll do them
don’t forget to look up from your phone and do your little pre-shoveling stretches today, 38-45 year old pals of this website
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
good light update
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
in case I don’t get to tell y’all later, you should know that my friend’s toddler
thinks my name is Ahhhhchoo
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
anyway, I called my own senators, I’m making posole to share with my friends tomorrow, and when it’s done simmering I’m going downtown to stand with my neighbors in the zero degree wind chill to say ABOLISH ICE
January 24, 2026 at 8:50 PM
people whose only recourse is standing up to them in person get to say this.

you, Senator, need to take away their funding and make sure it can never be given back.
ICE out of Minnesota NOW.
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
January 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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You rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self.

So it's extremely important to get skilled up and to practice. That's what all of the people getting trained in ICE Watch are doing.
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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MAKE SURE U R DRESSED APPROPRIATELY

5 PM: 12 DEGREES WIND CHILL 0 DEGREES
7 PM: 9 DEGREES WIND CHILL -3 DEGREES
9 PM: 7 DEGREES WIND CHILL -5 DEGREES
11 PM: 5 DEGREES WIND CHILL -6 DEGGREES
/ STOP ICE TERROR
/ FROM BOSTON TO MINNEAPOLIS
/ EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!
/ TODAY
/ SATURDAY JANUARY 24TH
/ 5 PM
/ PARK STREET STATION
/ FROM www.instagram.com/p/DT50vtqD7zN/
January 24, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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🌨️Update from the Overnight Warming Center: “The warming center will have extended hours because of the anticipated snow and cold. The center will remain open on Saturday & Sunday until 9AM and then all day on Monday (guests from Sunday will remain during the day on Monday.)”
January 24, 2026 at 1:38 PM
don’t forget to look up from your phone and do your little pre-shoveling stretches today, 38-45 year old pals of this website
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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I am thrilled that BSO is going to be performing the Poor Hymnal next week. A piece of music I have listened to a lot, over the last few years.
poor hymnal, by David Lang, The Crossing, and Donald Nally
14 track album
davidlangmusic.bandcamp.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:09 AM
a real outrage how much my brain is fixed by a very short run and a trip to the bookstore
January 24, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Remember a true pre-storm French Toast run includes:
Milk
Eggs
Bread
A nice beverage as a treat from Page & Leaf cafe
A beefy book or two recommended by a libromancer
Candles
A journal to finally start your novel
Ingredients for the hex

Anything less is just screwin' around at Market Basket
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
sorry, I didn’t finish that task you are asking about due to feelings
January 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I think I defused at least two potentially fraught conversations today just saying this by way of an icebreaker
everybody has negative capacity to deal with unexpected nonsense today and unfortunately unexpected nonsense is all we have in stock
January 23, 2026 at 5:55 PM
everybody has negative capacity to deal with unexpected nonsense today and unfortunately unexpected nonsense is all we have in stock
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 PM
repping the Walker Center in Minneapolis today, coffee stains or no
January 23, 2026 at 1:32 PM
the old world is dying and the new one can’t fit all its little necessities in its pockets
Legit curious as to what Gramsci would have made of a "commemorative" bumbag with his name on it. bsky.app/profile/work...
#OtD 22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
January 23, 2026 at 12:23 PM
whatever happens, there will be posole this weekend
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 AM
on the topic of winter storms and building trust and meeting your neighbors, this weekend while I was shoveling, I cleared a path for a neighbor to park and she said she remembered me from helping her daughter dig her car out of some ice last winter. now I know another neighbor.
January 23, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I’m just a simple country music major but I think that means Democrats, who perhaps imagine themselves an opposition party, made the difference here
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207

7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez

One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
good light update
January 22, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I don’t know which of me needs to hear this, but clean your glasses
January 22, 2026 at 2:25 PM