Marianne Eileen Wardle
@mewardle.bsky.social
Growing things & making things. Curator, teacher, intellectually promiscuous. Non-practicing Mormon.
Life partner of a 10 lb chihuahua.
Life partner of a 10 lb chihuahua.
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
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one of the things I always loved about the best children’s & YA literature was it never shied away from saying love was not just important, it was central to defeating evil
in moments of adult cynicism and hopelessness I’ve thought that was too simple, too naive
But no
Love is how we defeat evil
in moments of adult cynicism and hopelessness I’ve thought that was too simple, too naive
But no
Love is how we defeat evil
Imagine saying “the sin of empathy”, the “wrongness of kindness”, the “mistake of love”, these dipshits are fucking Captain Planet villains. Demonic energy.
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
one of the things I always loved about the best children’s & YA literature was it never shied away from saying love was not just important, it was central to defeating evil
in moments of adult cynicism and hopelessness I’ve thought that was too simple, too naive
But no
Love is how we defeat evil
in moments of adult cynicism and hopelessness I’ve thought that was too simple, too naive
But no
Love is how we defeat evil
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🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up
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How can you be a music critic if you understand neither subtext nor text.
Kendrick Lamar, the first rapper to headline the NFL's biggest stage solo, made his Drake diss "Not Like Us" the centerpiece of his Super Bowl halftime set at the expense of a larger statement, our music critic writes.
Read more: nyti.ms/42NV3Bm
Read more: nyti.ms/42NV3Bm
February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
How can you be a music critic if you understand neither subtext nor text.
So this is why he's gotten a first-shift government job for himself now
His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.
may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence
February 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So this is why he's gotten a first-shift government job for himself now
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Create a rift with Trump. Make noise about Elon overshadowing & over-ruling Trump. We need a narcissistic cage match.
Contact your representatives again & again about giving up constitutional powers for congressional oversight to the executive branch.
Call them weak to their faces.
Contact your representatives again & again about giving up constitutional powers for congressional oversight to the executive branch.
Call them weak to their faces.
February 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Create a rift with Trump. Make noise about Elon overshadowing & over-ruling Trump. We need a narcissistic cage match.
Contact your representatives again & again about giving up constitutional powers for congressional oversight to the executive branch.
Call them weak to their faces.
Contact your representatives again & again about giving up constitutional powers for congressional oversight to the executive branch.
Call them weak to their faces.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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this. for the love of god, this. i’ve been begging folks to understand this for years.
every day, we make so many decisions that affect others. i’m not going to pretend i get it right even half the time, but i do understand why i should do the dishes if i want to save the world.
every day, we make so many decisions that affect others. i’m not going to pretend i get it right even half the time, but i do understand why i should do the dishes if i want to save the world.
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
this. for the love of god, this. i’ve been begging folks to understand this for years.
every day, we make so many decisions that affect others. i’m not going to pretend i get it right even half the time, but i do understand why i should do the dishes if i want to save the world.
every day, we make so many decisions that affect others. i’m not going to pretend i get it right even half the time, but i do understand why i should do the dishes if i want to save the world.
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Once again:
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
October 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Once again:
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.