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Nicole Rizzuto

@fluentisona.bsky.social
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I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.

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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Yet only 1 in 4 renters with low incomes who need assistance actually receive it due to funding limitations, even though a near record number of renters are paying more than half of their incomes on rent."
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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
vacant lot remediation is one of the most robust evidence-based interventions for community violence and neighborhood wellbeing that we know of. like UBI, it works literally everywhere it's implemented
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Grumpygirl 🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sotired.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you really boil it down, American liberals are fine with death camps and wars, you just better not be tacky about it
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Coopertom @coopertom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yeah, Flow is a must watch movie. Some things here and there are not as polished compared to huge animation studios but it's still a beautiful movie and you can sense the passion that was put into it. Being able to tell a captivating story without saying a single word is quite an achievement!
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is an article worth reading, and my continuous goal this year is to read more. Yours should be, too.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
Exacerbated environmental racism is one of the major very real harms of data centers, and something that people who've been studying & discussing this for over a decade have long pointed out. It gets put in communities already most disproportionately harmed by pollution like emissions & waste heat.
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trans kids deserve to see themselves on TV, actually.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Not saying gay doesn’t make the LGBT community disappear and not saying climate change won’t make the Earth’s temperature rise stop. Only reducing emissions to net zero is going to do it. Sorry. www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
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Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'
The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There is literally nothing true in this statement.
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Riot grrrl Pescatarian Heteronormative (as in, the thing I define by being its negation) Verklempt Hoochie
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yaassss
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is what kills the internet for good. “Marketers” in Vietnam & Philippines will crank up all their shrimp jesus boom challenge Facebook clusters to GEO jam whatever products they’re spamming on Facebook to game the AI recs and 🧨💥🔥 Dead Internet is not a conspiracy or a theory, it’s here.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
these are the questions to be asking imo
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But the children are ours. All the children. We are all responsible for protecting and caring for them.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This thread is essential to understanding why family ties should not be the reason anyone believes in justice. "Selective love" is how we reached fascism in the first place.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
eventbrite.co.uk
Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network
Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This amendment would ban oil & gas donations to UK political parties. Given the urgent need to transition to renewables to tackle the rising threat of climate change, this seems like a no-brainer for all MPs to support. Please share and ask your MP to back it. 🙏
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I can't believe we lost Ginzburg. The Cheese and the Worms shaped my work as a historian. May his memory be a blessing to us all.
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🎃von🎃 @vonhonkington.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Americans actually have negative political education
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 09/07/2026
Graham Platner Pretty Sure The Establishment Was Asking For It www.wonkette.com/p/graham-pla...
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Graham Platner Pretty Sure The Establishment Was Asking For It
Don't let the door hit you, bud.
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I agree with this statement.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
Spoke to my grandmother for an hour last night. She passed in '97.
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I don't do enough work in ancient history, but this looks so cool.
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Have you considered...reading this whole thread?
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."
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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
moderation will never defeat fascism. you cannot defeat an enemy by waging a campaign designed not to make your enemy upset.
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Lucia Gajda @gajda.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is terrifying and sad. This is happening in every field. People who use AI and then can’t ‘remember’ or don’t know the details of their work - because they didn’t think through it. AI did. Except… AI doesn’t think. Humans do.
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This thread tells us quite a bit about the future of research.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/06/2026
In the United States, solar energy is outpacing coal for the first time ever
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In the United States, solar energy is outpacing coal for the first time ever
It now provides more than twice the share of electricity that it did five years ago.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
once again tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, reader funded newsrooms how and where you are able to
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Join me in giving to Invisible Histories on Give OUT Day 2026! Their work is essential to preserving Southern LGBTQ+ history, which is vital work, especially now.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The toll on press covering Delaney Hall:
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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Rather than being purely social, this gave youth things to do, opportunities for skill building, and ultimately put money in their pockets." Read the article, track these solutions, make Chicago better for all our teens.
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Briar Darby Sinéad Madarch (fae/it/he) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
happy pride month (now with alt text) 🌈🌈🌈
parody news screenshot showing an elderly pair of gay men and the headline “Does Kink Belong at Pride? We Asked LGBT Elders and They Asked if We Were Cops”. posted 3 years ago by Cam Crawford.
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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Everyone I know who knows about the computer, especially ones who have worked in the tech industry, is an actual, literal Luddite in the historical sense of the word now.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles." read theory damn it www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
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Why is the Left No Fun?
Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Non-union workers in Watsonville CA are picking strawberries at $6 hourly wage + $2/box. “It's unfair we are making less than minimum wage, but not all companies respect the law. If we mention this to the supervisors, we are let go from our job and we need the pay.” #WeFeedYou
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“Nepal has, for the first time, established a ministry explicitly recognising sexual minorities as the country continues its march toward liberal policies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) community.” Some encouraging news from Nepal. 🇳🇵🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Historic milestone: Nepal establishes Ministry for Gender and Sexual Minorities under PM Balendra Shah
In a South Asian first, the Government of Nepal under PM Balendra Shah has officially formed the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security to legally protect and em...
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I think about this alot. #forthechildren
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
As someone who studies intellectual property, labor, creativity and justice, this is so, so powerful.
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Sarah Randall @serene-lovelace.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“Are we doing nothing? Cause it seems like we’re doing nothing? I don’t get it…We’re trying to build no houses? People live in houses…” Iconic
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MOYA 🍒🎧🌙| Fujo in a Lab Coat ™ | HAPPY SPOOKTOBER @moyaoyaoya.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Even tho the looks are nice at the met gala pls talk about the workers rights protest that’s happening rn ahead of the met gala! “Ball without Billionaires”!! Spread the word!!
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
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