Amy
@rivnil.bsky.social
Trying to find reliable info and see the good in the world.
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"Men must learn that in presiding over the Church, we are dealing with human hearts, that individual rights are sacred, and the human soul is tender. We cannot run the Church as we would a business."
— President David O. McKay
— President David O. McKay
November 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM
"Men must learn that in presiding over the Church, we are dealing with human hearts, that individual rights are sacred, and the human soul is tender. We cannot run the Church as we would a business."
— President David O. McKay
— President David O. McKay
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A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
January 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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Do not forget your humanity 🙏🏾👍🏾
January 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Do not forget your humanity 🙏🏾👍🏾
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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
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Every day the rhyme of history seems clearer and clearer.
January 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every day the rhyme of history seems clearer and clearer.
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Good advice, Batman.
December 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Good advice, Batman.
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
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Please make sure to read this from Jim Jones, #Idaho! I wish the outcome of Prop 1 would have been different…but there is still a lot of good that came from this grassroots campaign!
www.idahoednews.org/voices/givin...
www.idahoednews.org/voices/givin...
Giving thanks for those volunteers who took on the party bosses on Prop 1
Even though Prop 1 lost, there is much to be thankful for in this Thanksgiving season.
www.idahoednews.org
November 30, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Please make sure to read this from Jim Jones, #Idaho! I wish the outcome of Prop 1 would have been different…but there is still a lot of good that came from this grassroots campaign!
www.idahoednews.org/voices/givin...
www.idahoednews.org/voices/givin...
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These, collectively, have revolutionized health, reduced morbidity & mortality, increased life expectancy & quality of life for many countries globally. Developing nations need support too.
AND we need to STOP giving leeway to people & organizations who actively undermine scientific progress.
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AND we need to STOP giving leeway to people & organizations who actively undermine scientific progress.
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November 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
These, collectively, have revolutionized health, reduced morbidity & mortality, increased life expectancy & quality of life for many countries globally. Developing nations need support too.
AND we need to STOP giving leeway to people & organizations who actively undermine scientific progress.
3/
AND we need to STOP giving leeway to people & organizations who actively undermine scientific progress.
3/
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I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!
November 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!
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I know GBBO stopped doing country-themed episodes after that disastrous Mexican Week debacle but I think they should’ve gone the other direction. Really lean in and fuck up everyone’s culture. Just like they did for the entire 15th-21st centuries only this time we get to laugh at them for it
November 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I know GBBO stopped doing country-themed episodes after that disastrous Mexican Week debacle but I think they should’ve gone the other direction. Really lean in and fuck up everyone’s culture. Just like they did for the entire 15th-21st centuries only this time we get to laugh at them for it
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american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
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the two beautiful new jwst images of galaxies we got this week 🌌
November 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
the two beautiful new jwst images of galaxies we got this week 🌌
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When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?
November 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?
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Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.
I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.
I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.
November 27, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.
I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.
I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.
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The Trump ordeal has made one thing clear.
Too many of our checks and balances rely on norms, traditions and the honor code.
It works when those elected into power are people of honor and integrity who respect our norms and traditions.
Elect a lifelong criminal and it all goes sideways.
Too many of our checks and balances rely on norms, traditions and the honor code.
It works when those elected into power are people of honor and integrity who respect our norms and traditions.
Elect a lifelong criminal and it all goes sideways.
November 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM
The Trump ordeal has made one thing clear.
Too many of our checks and balances rely on norms, traditions and the honor code.
It works when those elected into power are people of honor and integrity who respect our norms and traditions.
Elect a lifelong criminal and it all goes sideways.
Too many of our checks and balances rely on norms, traditions and the honor code.
It works when those elected into power are people of honor and integrity who respect our norms and traditions.
Elect a lifelong criminal and it all goes sideways.
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Note: it's good to appreciate your partner for the things they do for you/your family. It's not good to make the things they do for you/your family the limit of their existence in your head.
November 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Note: it's good to appreciate your partner for the things they do for you/your family. It's not good to make the things they do for you/your family the limit of their existence in your head.
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I think we should be vehemently, ceaselessly arguing for a cruelty meter set at zero.
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 PM
I think we should be vehemently, ceaselessly arguing for a cruelty meter set at zero.
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I believe that asylum seekers should be able to find refuge and that allowing them in will help us be a better place. I believe that our immigration policy should provide paths to citizenship. I believe that everyone who works here should have legal status so that we can minimize their exploitation.
November 27, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I believe that asylum seekers should be able to find refuge and that allowing them in will help us be a better place. I believe that our immigration policy should provide paths to citizenship. I believe that everyone who works here should have legal status so that we can minimize their exploitation.
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I think one of the issues with chasing Trump voters is that doing so inevitably cedes important, sometimes basically factual, policy questions.
As an example, chasing the “border security” question meant that people by and large did not question the “our borders are overrun” narrative.
As an example, chasing the “border security” question meant that people by and large did not question the “our borders are overrun” narrative.
November 27, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I think one of the issues with chasing Trump voters is that doing so inevitably cedes important, sometimes basically factual, policy questions.
As an example, chasing the “border security” question meant that people by and large did not question the “our borders are overrun” narrative.
As an example, chasing the “border security” question meant that people by and large did not question the “our borders are overrun” narrative.
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Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.
November 24, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.