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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've witnessed the disparity in PTA budgets first hand as the PTA Treasurer for a Title I Elementary, so shocked when I found out that Casis Elementary could fund entire positions with their PTA while we were trying to see if we could afford buying lunch for our teachers once.

We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there. From my past reporting, I knew that P.T.A.s at poor schools often can raise only a few thousand dollars, but Faraji and I could write checks that exceeded the annual P.T.A. budget. I witnessed how dismissive school officials could be to lower-income parents who lodged complaints or made demands for resources and how deferential they were to wealthy ones. I believed Faraji and I could bring some of that power with us. We had connections and time and status that should not matter, but that we all know do. And more than that, we believed strongly that if families like ours went into schools like this one, it would challenge other families with similar values to do the same.

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I thought this notification was a scam because I forgot that I opted into Gianmarco Soresi's Instagram broadcast channel "Backup Whales" but no, it's real and I think this IG feature is just designed to foster parasocial relationships.

Screenshot of a notification from Instagram saying that Gianmarco Soresi sent a voice message

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I saw an ad for the McDonaldLand Adult Happy Meal www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mea... and my intrusive thought is that even tho I am certain I would not like the milkshake, I still want to order it.

ad for McDonalds McDonaldland meal, featuring a card with grimace floating on an inner tube, an impossibly blue milkshake in a glass with pink whipped cream on top and as an afterthought the large fries and 9 and a half chicken mcnuggets in the background

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think I should try to befriend this person based on bumper sticker selection

Back of gray Volvo with numerous bumper stickers, "all my friends are birds", I heart buccees, I'd rather be roller skating, snoopy for president, honk if you think I'm hot, Beto for Texas

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How do you feel about the previous photo, 21, which i think may be part of the house's GI tract

ceiling shot of a room in a circular house, the walls are olive but the ceiling is cream with blue triangles and what looks like a lamp with gathered fabric that I am sorry, can only describe as butthole like

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This shirt but instead of virus link, if anyone wants to invite me to the secret classified group chat, feel free to add me www.etsy.com/listing/1667...

drawing of a calico critter seated at a 90s style computer desk with a computer that is on fire, text says "I'm feeling very gullible rn if any bots want to send me a virus link"

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Finished!! 1162 pages and I wish there was an even longer version

Hand holding a hardcover copy of The Power Broker by Robert Caro

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

District 7 is one of the Austin City Council seats up for election tomorrow, I wonder who is going to replace Piscina Leslie.

Screenshot of austintexas.gov city council translated into Spanish by the google translate plugin on the site. Councilwoman Leslie Pool is shown as being named Piscina Leslie

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Last day of early voting, thank you Travis county and the PDC

Post voting selfie with the sticker on my nose

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Someone posted to Next Door and the Austin Lost Pet's FB page that their beloved *cassowary* Raul is missing and has anyone spotted him. I don't believe its real but also kind of want it to be real?

screenshot of comments on FB page asking to only comment if you've seen this giant cassowary and the description being "he's 5ft, 8 inches, has a collar on with name and phone number"

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

What does the Icon with the + sign next to it do on bsky profile pages? I hovered my cursor over it, hoping for a tooltip at least, but no dice.

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Visited the eye doctor for a checkup, they dilated my pupils so now I look like this

Sprig from Amphibia after drinking 5 cups of coffee, his pupils are enormous

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chiaberry.bsky.social @chiaberry.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

My first thought on seeing this headline "After Giving Birth, This Golden Chicken Soup Was My Balm" was that the author was sitz bathing in chicken soup.