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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick)

@eileen53.bsky.social
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Writer, avid reader and book hoarder, storyteller, baker, upcycle crafter, gardener. Exploring, hiking. POTSie/ bionic. - Rochester, NY AprilleRoelle.substack.com

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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Final querying hour (hour 17) ran over a bit bc dang computer. 13 queries sent on this sprint. Not too shabby. #24hrWritingSprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hour 15 of #24hrWritingSprint finally collected 5 more agents on my query list and got a query out to 1. Slow progress but progress nonetheless. There are over 600 people doing this, I think. Such a cool event. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social @scrivenerapp.bsky.social
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This query hour of the sprint was a slow slog working to find 5 more agents to query. This is why it's a task that needs a honking chunk of time. #24hrWritingSprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
8th hour done. More queries sent. At that stage where I start thinking I've messed up each one immediately after hitting send. Hmmm. #24hrwritingsprint @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Off to Singapore for the next hour - just completed #6. Queries going out, words getting written. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social #24hrWritingSprint
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
That is the 4th hour of the #24hrWritingSprint with @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social - heading to 8a in Melbourne next! Query work progressing - slow but nice to have time set aside to crank it out.
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Second hour of #24hrWritingSprint spent sending queries - will be toggling btwn that and new words. @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social
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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 09/04/2025
It's like the quaggas in South Africa - strikingly beautiful genetically modified zebra that look very similar to those extinct beasts, but are not in fact quagga.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
ICE is not accounting for the whereabouts of dozens of detainees from New Mexico
sourcenm.com
ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico
“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
Screenshot of a McConnell tweet declaring “this week in the Senate proved that clumsy partisan jams will not work” after he filibustered a Democratic spending bill and Democrats agreed to allow a McConnell-preferred clean bill to pass to avert a shutdown.
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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
They are tryna disappear us. Submit your work. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged for the work we do.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
axios.com
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you're a Gillibrand constituent, for the love of God, please call her office to demand she not bow to Republicans. Phone numbers below for each region she reps.
A list of phone numbers for Kirsten Gillibrand officesA list of phone numbers for Kirsten Gillibrand offices
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
attacking higher education is economic sabotage the largest employer in 10 states + 60 of the 100 top cities “The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs+over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
wsj.com
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/03/2025
All of us deserve accurate IDs so we can safely travel and go about our daily lives without fear of harassment or discrimination. The attacks on transgender people must stop.
usatoday.com
‘Passports taken by the government’: How new State Department rule blocks trans travelers
The passport ban by the State Department has left transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans without one of the most vital travel documents.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
My latest post compares managing overcommitment w POTS to seasonal hibernation.
A Substack thumbnail that reads Hibernation: Reflections on the winter season and life with POTS - a picture of layers of snow on a windowsill w a partly cloudy blue sky in the background and a red glass votive holder and a glass happy cat on the inner sill
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 28/02/2025
ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
TFW you read a line in writing group and they gasp. I posted about the flavor, the chew of words on my Substack (link in profile)
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.* www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
vanityfair.com
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The same way the judge in the anti-trans executive order case used science to dismantle claims about biological sex, journalists and others should use science (including social science) and history to dismantle claims that civil rights efforts are discriminating based on immutable traits.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cruz wants to cancel 20 NSF grants awarded to Cornell b/c they are "woke", by which he means they study marginalized populations or include them in activities. Largest by far ($9M) is infrastructure grant to improve science ed in rural NY -- so, mostly low-income white kids whose parents voted GOP.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Elon Musk isn’t eliminating government waste, he’s eliminating all of the agencies investigating him. He’s a criminal megalomaniacal narcissistic nazi supervillain systematically destroying America in order to avoid prison. There needs to be a reckoning with this filthy traitor. Immediately.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
bozemandailychronicle.com
'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses
The cuts weren’t isolated. Across the seven ranger districts that comprise the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Knight said she has heard of at least 32 terminations as of Monday.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far once and they cut all their heads off and now, when those in power fuck workers over, the French stop working. Don’t forget your real power Americans. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/02/2025
When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...
en.wikipedia.org
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service - Wikipedia
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In other words: the richest man on Earth, who owns a space technology company, is slashing the US government’s space program — with no electoral mandate to do so
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Your regular reminder that measles has a r0 (basic reproduction number) of 12-18, which means that in an immune-naive environment every infected person will infect 12 to 18 people around them: it's one of the most infectious diseases out there. Get a MMR booster or get your titers checked, ASAP.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Maria harvests Mandarin oranges in Parlier CA. She drives 80+ miles every day to and from work and earns $55 per 1000 lb bin. In a 7 hr day, she can only pick 2 bins. With the current rainy weather, she now works fewer hours and worries about meeting basic expenses. #WeFeedYou
1000 lb bins full of Mandarin oranges in the middle of an orange orchard
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I’m at the point where we have to stop saying “Our media must do better” and start talking seriously about why the don’t and how long they haven’t And the reflection necessary isn’t happening
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
it rules how whenever you criticize democrats a thousand people crash into your mentions to angrily demand you explain "what exactly would you like them to do" and then they do this
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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Agree
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
theguardian.com
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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CW Roelle @cwroelle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“Washington Dreams of the Hippopotamus” 2007, made for the book that accompanied the 2 cd album “Of Great and Mortal Men”
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.” This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic. www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a...
thepinknews.com
Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up
Empirical research shows bathroom predator concerns are baseless.
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The GOP majority in the house is 3 seats. There are two special elections in Florida coming up and one in NY. With a few bucks to donate to those efforts, we can shave or even erase that majority. We don't have to wait two years.
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A 3000 person conference w sessions across 2 large resort hotels in super hot and humid weather. I didn't think how much my POTS would hate it. I've asked about mobility aids - no stigma to anyone who uses them, just grappling w needing it myself.
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Aprille Roelle (aka Storychick) @eileen53.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This POTSie is intensely happy to be able to put my legs up after a day of travel
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