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Acallidryas

@acallidryas.bsky.social
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Activist, nerd, nature lover, Catholic, mom. Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist. All opinions are my own.

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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyway, the big thing is that this county has weird hang ups on sexuality. I have been an HPV booster in all the parent forums and I guarantee 90% of the hesitation, no matter what they say, is actually "I don't want to think about my teenager having sex, and especially not when they're 10!"
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This infuriates me. Pseudoscientists have been saying we can totally prevent or cure cancer but mainstream medicine doesn't want you to know. And then mainstream medicine is all, "Hey, we found this super easy way to prevent a bunch of cancers" and the same people convince everyone it's dangerous.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't know how FL will turn out. But I do know this this, from a *FL GOP candidate* is not good news for Trump in the midterms. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
miamiherald.com
Byron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website
The Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped emphasizing his endorsement from Donald Trump as the presidents’ approval ratings plummet.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whoever took and/or chose this picture for the headline should win an award.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who exactly is asking what Joe Manchin is doing right now?
thehill.com
Manchin endorses Collins in Maine Senate race
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), a prominent centrist who left the Democratic Party at the end of his Senate career, has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), praising her as the “soul of the Se…
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This seems fine. I'm sure this is normal and fine.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So, no oversight, no hearings, and nothing on ICE?
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is beyond understandable to me how parents are worried about #books in the library and #trans kids trying to live their lives but do not get incandescently angry every time there is an e-mail about the active shooter safety drill their kids have to do.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I had saw an ad online for Slavoj #Žižek's speaking tour in my area that described him as the "Rockstar Philosopher." It reminded me of this, one of the best things ever on the internet. RIP Toast and Hairpin. medium.com/the-hairpin/...
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is going to push me to completely make the switch to Waze and to never use @searchliaison.bsky.social Google search since now I know if Trump says something Google will put it in their information no matter how wrong it is. blog.google/products-and...
blog.google
How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well, I don't like the idea of biometrics requirements for a whole host of privacy reasons and I'm not convinced it wouldn't be used now to go after immigrants. But I also don't think that biometric IDs to have a job -- or Real ID to fly -- are requirements for a better immigration system.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And by promising to dramatically increase the number of immigration processing agents and judges to speed up review.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I hope all you people saying "wrong 80 yo" are happy now. 😭 www.vanityfair.com/story/tim-cu...
vanityfair.com
Tim Curry, Iconic Star of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' Dies at 80
The prolific actor had reportedly been suffering from serious health issues for over a decade.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And thus big tech has eaten all my data and all my network and I apparently have absolutely no way to get it back because they have made it impossible to contact them. And now I apparently have no work network to share anymore.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I would like to contact #LinkedIn customer support. But guess what, I can't! The only way to chat with their customer support is to *log in to your LinkedIn account*. Exactly the thing that I cannot do.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
However, every time I have tried to take a picture of my driver's license and upload it I am told that it is unable to verify me and asks me to take another picture. I have done this at least half a dozen times now.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In order to get back in to my account, they want me to verify my identity with a government ID. I do not want to do this, but a whole lot of my work and network going back over a decade is on #LinkedIn so fine, I will do this.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So, I have somehow gotten locked out of my LinkedIn account. they said there was a security breach and my account was locked for my safety.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In a recent tragedy a 9 yo child was hit by a minivan and killed in a nearby area. I don't think I would have noticed before I started listening to @thewaroncars.bsky.social but every. single. headline. talks about the scooter and not one say what he was struck or killed by.
A screen shot from a google news search that shows headlines: 9-year old boy riding e-scooter killed in Fairfax Co. crash; No charges filed against driver after child killed in Fairfax County scooter crash; Fairfax county mourns death of 9-year-old on e-scooter; Updated: Child riding e-scooter killed in Herndon-area crash; Police urge riders to wear helmets after 9-year-old dies following e-scooter crash in Fairfax County; 9-year-old boy riding electric scooter killed in Herndon collision; 9-year-old boy killed in crash in Northern Virginia while riding e-scooter.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Similar to other polls, 61% of Americans say extreme weather is getting worse. ... but 67% say climate change is making extreme heat worse, 64% say it's making wildfires worse, and 63% say it's making droughts worse. Okay, then.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More on polling, this time climate change. According to the Yale Climate survey, 77% of Americans think global warming is impacting extreme heat. And 73% say it's impacting wildfires. Only 73% of Americans think climate change is happening. 🤷‍♀️ climatecommunication.yale.edu/app/uploads/...
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Actual sub-head in one of the reports: "Unlike White Rural Youth, Rural Youth of Color Preferred Harris." YEAH, THAT'S A REAL HEAD SCRATCHIER THAT IS. Guess rural youth of color just don't care about the economy.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Like, really? This is just because white men were worried about the economy and Black and Asian women ranked other issues? That's *really* what we're all going with?
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Reading a bunch of 2024 polling information and really amazing seeing all these descriptions of how young white, male voters swung harder for Trump than other groups and amazing how none of them are willing to talk about the obvious.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My county brings a bounce house to a different park in the county two days a week during the summer. Sounds great, right? So far this summer, four days have been cancelled for heat. One for air quality. Welcome to summer in the #Anthropocene.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I don't want to dwell on Platner forever. But I will say that the fact that Platner and Swalwell had to drop out but Paxton is in the race and Trump is president says *everything* about who has the part of values.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Me, when we're out for ice cream: I love root beer floats so much. Husband: You know, we can get root beer and vanilla ice cream. You can have root beer floats whenever you want. Me: That's not the same. I don't want them at home. Husband: I'll buy them tonight. Me: *deep sigh*
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bubbles have always been good for everyone, with notably rare exceptions.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder again that jerks are rarely just jerks in one area, and the likelihood that a guy with a Nazi tattoo was just a stand up fella everywhere else was always pretty low.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The administration has been relentless about attacking or silencing science and research since Trump took office for the second time in 2025. It's obvious why - objective truth is anathema to authoritarians. You can use UCS' new tool to view the attacks now: blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
blog.ucs.org
A New Way to Uncover How Science Is Under Attack
We’ve built a new system to help us monitor and explain what’s happening.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I've had this fowl language from when I used to work for #Audubon and my kids are now old enough to get it. My middle schooler told me this morning my mug is *very inappropriate*.
Coffee mug with pictures and names for a blue-footed booby, southern screamer, dickcissel, and tufted titmouse.Coffee mug with pictures and names of a rough- faced shag, red- bellied oxpecker, and bearded tit.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I assume this will be as well planned and executed as all his other latest ventures and I for one cannot wait.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This. I don't think most people realize how may medical forms-and associated cost-already go in to school sports. This is an additional barrier and additional cost in time and money that all girls have to do and will harm sports more than any trans girl trying to have fun ever did.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I have two girls who play sports. I am far more concerned about the additional potential costs (in time and money) and how they verifying girls in sports than I ever have been about a passionate trans girl being good at one of their sports.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is legit fewer people than you'd usually see just hanging out on the Mall on a summer day.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The notion that the president has absolute power over creations of Congress is already nuts, with no basis in law, but it reaches utterly absurd when it includes an unwritten "but not when some Supreme Court Justices feel like he's messing with the money" exception.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My parents were among the faith groups, environmentalists, Tribal organizations, immigrant rights groups, and just overall good neighbors protesting this concentration camp on the regular. There is much work to do but let's take a moment to celebrate Alligator Alcatraz being shut down. <3
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The people Mamdani endorsed are on the rise and the people Jeffries' wanted are leaving Congress. Seems more like he's the one who has to patch things up?
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Versailles, huh? So you think anyone's gonna tell him?
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The monarchies seem to have more consequences for bad actors than the country that likes to hold itself up as the example of democracy. 🤷‍♀️
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I dunno, they might teach to the test but my AP history teacher was *excellent* and I can't imagine that a survey course (the way 101s were done at my state university) would have been better. APs don't test you out of higher level courses, and that's where the discussion and learning happen.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I will once again suggest that someone with a *Nazi tattoo* likely has some other skeletons in his closet.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Report shows that people who were told they were above the law continued committing crimes.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 27/05/2026
1/ As the EPA continues to fall short, a solution to curb freight pollution at the source could improve air quality for millions and help transition away from fossil fuels use.
ucs.org
Addressing Freight Pollution at the Source
Indirect Source Rules (ISRs) provide state and local governments a tool to address inequitable pollution impacts from the freight system.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
And lastly, while I think people should be forgiven for past mistakes and purity tests are usually unhelpful, a Nazi tattoo should be disqualifying and I would like more people to get behind that.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It is a problem that a woman, especially a woman of color, needs to be perfect and never to have misspoke or she will be torn to shreds (and if she's perfect she's too scripted) but white guys can have all sorts of scandals and skeletons.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We also need to figure out why there is this love affair with white guys and working class masculinity. I think the left likes to cosplay here. I have lots of working class white men in my family and they may not use the same lefty words I do but they do know how not to be a racist, sexist jerk.
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Acallidryas @acallidryas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
But for the purpose of candidate selection and how we got to here, I think we need to recognize that people are rarely a jerk in just one area. If there are some skeletons there are probably others and I think the hits are going to keep coming.
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