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Rachel Keating Rott
@turnsmith.bsky.social
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Unitarian Universalist by faith and profession / protect trans kids / 🍉 / crochet / Adirondacks / SoCal / New Mexico
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Not my home but I know my way around
An animated human girl sits next to a white squirrel. A red fox with sunglasses is near them. They’re in front of the city hall building in the Animal Crossing game.
March 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Word of the day is “spuddle” (17th century): To work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
February 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Oh hey, federal employees and anyone else whose work supports the Trump admin: spuddle your way out of helping fascists.
Word of the day is 'spuddle' (17th century): To work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Book title page, Dungeon Crawler Carl, signed by author Matt Dinniman. I reads: You will not break me!
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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I’ve got three books going—a sci-fi fantasy (Dungeon Crawler Carl is fucking fantastic!), a mystery, and the one I’m waiting to arrive, by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social.
Book cover: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman Book cover: Mercy Falls, by William Kent Krueger Book cover: Let this Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
January 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“Pay attention. Keep record. Do what you need in order to retain possession over your own imagination.”
And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. If you’re feeling a kind of bone-deep, soul-body exhaustion today, please remember that is by design. However futile resistance and goodness and beauty feel today, do not surrender your appetite for them. Pay attention. Keep record. Do what you need in order to retain possession over your own imagination. - Cole Arthur Riley One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake.” - Martin Luther King Jr We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.” - Martin Luther King Jr
January 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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I’m hearing that the Navajo Nation has sent their hotshot crew to LA.
Photo of the Navajo Nation hot shot crew, taken in 2021. Pictured: 18 people in yellow shirts, wearing hard hats, pose in front of a fire truck.
January 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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This is a touchstone for me for 2025. Cultivating joy and community.

Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales
Text on artwork reads: Laughter is the sound of hope. Hope is the seed of power. Power is the combined force of a multitude of voices joined together… that began as a mere whisper, lost in the immense darkness and the ferocious old and only kept alive by small, improbable notes of laughter. Artwork, by Ricardo Levins Morales, has earth-toned, stylized human faces with mouths open, and in the center is a blue human form, arms up and feet spread in a triumphant stance.
January 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025
Photo of a small dog sitting on a subway car. Text reads “she took the midnight train going anywhere.” Illustration of Moo Deng, text reads “I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds.”
December 28, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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“I never thought the leopards would eat my face…”

Look. I don’t want people to suffer. I also want to underline the fact that anyone with a fucking smidgen of common sense knows he will throw you all under the bus.

Solidarity or we all die, y’all. Whiteness and uniforms won’t save you.
Fox News headline reads: Firefighters union praised for ‘significant non-endorsement’ after backing Biden in 2020: ‘Huge win for Trump’ Headline reads “NYC firefighter unions demand Congress fully fund 9/11 health care, and ‘never forget’ sacrifices of those who worked during recovery” Screen cap from article reads “Tucked in a giant, year-end budget deal in Washington this week was a priority that New Yorkers in both parties had sought: permanent funding for a program that aids ailing 9/11 responders. But the agreement hatched by congressional leaders had collapsed by Thursday at the urging of President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk. And with it went the 9/11 health care funding that seemed a sure thing just a day earlier.” December 19 Newsweek screencap: “9/11 advocates cheer funding deal—until Trump, Musk step in” Photo shows a bunch of men in suits, including Jim Brosi, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association and other firefighters union people, and House Speaker Mike Johnson—Republican who does the bidding of Trump and Musk
December 27, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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This apple pie was a collaboration between my 20-year-old, who doesn’t mind peeling and cutting the apples, and me, who doesn’t want to peel and cut the apples.
A perfectly browned apple pie sits on top of a cooling rack in a messy kitchen.
December 16, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Here’s one you may want to block ahead of time.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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It’s truly wild that it’s controversial to state the obvious: Israel is an apartheid state.
Israeli soldiers arrest children in the West Bank
December 12, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A grey tabby cat sits with their elbow perched on a counter with a blue cocktail sitting to the side. The cat looks unimpressed.
December 11, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Is me up on the roof of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, hanging papel picado for our Emma’s Revolution concert to benefit UURISE.
Colorful paper flags hang from posts in an outdoor patio at UU congregation of phoenix. Two middle-aged white women, one with long dark hair and the other with long blonde hair, smile into the camera. Behind them, another middle-aged white woman smiles down from the roof of a building, showing a peace sign with her hand.
December 7, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Being the star of the farmer’s market is exhausting.
A small orange, green and blue parrot has her head tucked back in sleep position on a person’s knee.
December 7, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Heading to Phoenix for this fabulousness! You can join us in person or virtually. Tix at UURISE.org.

Unitarian Universalists, we’d love your support. ❤️
Tix: UURISE.org Emma’s Revolution A concert to be for UURISE Sunday, December 8 2 pm PT 5 pm ET Live in Phoenix and via livestream
December 5, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Attending a fabulous zoom workshop by @socialmovetech.bsky.social on using BlueSky for movement orgs.
A computer screen with the heading “the algorithm, feeds, lists and starter packs - what to use when, and smaller text that is hard to read
December 2, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Tell me five songs for this moment (which may mean a culmination of this year, or of this time, such as it is), for you. It might be your favorite five songs of all time, or the last five songs you happened to listen to. Maybe they’ll change tomorrow, or in five minutes. What are yours, right now?
Rachel’s five songs: Times like these by Lachuné In my life by Johnny Cash The storm is passing over by Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir My joy is heavy! By the Bengsons People get ready by the Blind Boys of Alabama
December 1, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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This movie is so good. Having raised a kid with a disability, and facing the shitshow of IEPs and public schools, this story was so real and also so satisfying.
Movie poster featuring a young woman with light skin and brown hair in a power wheelchair, smiling with her arms raised in the air. The text reads “Disney Original Movie” and “Out of My Mind”
November 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
A small brown and black, derpy-looking dog Tweet from tigersgoroooar: I refuse to ever teach my daughters the archaic concept of “losing one’s virginity” as if some baby-dicked boy who drives a Honda Civic is really taking something special from you lmaaaoo grow up and overthrow the government An array of glossy, shiny, colorful stickers that all read FUCK Photo of a “three-capybara moon” t-shirt, depicting three thoughtful capybaras gazing at a full moon
November 28, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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It was a glorious couple of days in the Anza-Borrego desert. Buying a travel trailer 10 years ago was one of the best things we ever did.
A rocky hillside frames a beautiful desert valley view. Blue skies with a thin band of clouds fill the top half of the image.
November 28, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Spectacular clouds in the desert when we arrived at our campsite last night.
Cotton candy clouds peek out from behind a small mountain in the So Cal desert, with a white SUV in the foreground.
November 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Buddy (center) is staying with his cousin Resa (left) and his new friend, Tito Burrito, for the weekend. The vibes are vibing in pup world.
Three small dogs look up at the photographer. One is a fluffy white dog, one is a fluffy brown dog, and one is a short-haired white and brown dog with a raccoon mask face. They are extremely cute and have the look of a trio that expects a treat soon.
November 23, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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This is a ridiculous animal. Her name is Tamarin, and she is a lovable menace.
A small orange and green parrot naps on her side in a bed 300 times her body size. A small orange and green parrot peeks out from behind the wooden foot of a human bed, ready for trouble. A small orange and green parrot yawns wide, as if she is tired from living a life of leisure.
November 22, 2024 at 3:33 AM