who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I really like this election’s postcard design and wouldn’t mind having it in poster form! Anyway I signed up to help nudge Viet turnout towards Ossoff /Lance Bottoms in GA partly to balance out my family there 040
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m back on my bullshit again (writing bilingual English/Viet postcards to help voter turnout in specific races) www.pivotnetwork.org/postcardspivotnetwork.orgPIVOT’s 2026 Midterm Elections Postcards Campaign — PIVOT - The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization 170
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also some of the other countries that people are running to have their own homegrown issues with racist fascists and 😬 110
Reposted by who!c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fomalhaut is the 18th brightest star in the night sky, located approximately 25 light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It shines in solitary splendor with a bluish light in the autumn sky. It's also an eye wreathed in flame, never blinking. That's the duality of astronomy.🔭 312117
Reposted by who!tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The reality is a lot of Asian American and non-Asian American progressives and leftists don't pay attention to progressive or leftist organizing in Asian American communities. 161
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Franz Ferdinand? Only a forgotten Archduke and a popular 00s band 080
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Derek Bell described this dynamic the best in the Rules of Racial Standing, and I think it is absolutely why you see the prominence of the Kash Patels, Elaine Chaos, and Hung Caos in our communities. Also it goes along way in fostering mistrust between communities of color 070
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FWIW as someone seeing this in my own comm (hi Viet folks!!) I think it does not help that we have a larger, majority White media ecosystem that continues to highlight and uplift the more racist and conservative members in our communities exactly bc it reinforces the white supremacist status quo 170
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In another life I would’ve gone into ethnic studies w a similar focus on relationships and histories between communities of color 110
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was thinking of tagging you! Tamara is right though, it’s a shame that we haven’t talked about either/both very much during the rise of BLM or after 110
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It was a leap of faith because I was very afraid I wouldn’t be able to! a positive bet on my future 1170
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is a big reminder to me to read Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting by Prashad, which I always had my eye on in college but didn’t get around to 🫣penguinrandomhouse.comEverybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad: 9780807050118 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksSelected as One of the Village Voice's Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against ea... 100
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This weekend away is something I put a deposit on back in February when I was waiting to hear what exactly the mass in my abdomen was, and it’s such a relief to be 7 months out and be healthy enough to take this trip! 3270
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026All that middle-aged moms want is a quiet morning to eat breakfast, drink iced coffee and watch GBBO (it’s me and I’m taking a 3 day weekend away! The away part is after I eat breakfast) 2262
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I genuinely had a call at work recently where I wasn’t sure if the microaggression was bc I was a woman or specifically bc I’m an Asian woman 130
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A personal work in progress: getting comfortable w saying out loud that the issue is racism when the issue is… racism 1200
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You know, I forgot that was an option! I so rarely leave the overall Baltimore/DC/Philly megalopolis that I never need to 110
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I already have some stuff to print at the library so that’s my plan! 010
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Do you remember the last time you printed directions? I can’t but it was probably in the 2000s 260
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026How I know that my mind is less nimble w technology as I’ve aged: it took me forever (a few minutes more than I’d like) to find how to get a text only version of directions to where I’m going this weekend. The destination doesn’t have v good cell service so I’m preparing by printing directions out 1100
Reposted by who!Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 30/09/2026I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what? 124851
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The show that dares ask the question: what if we made world-class athletes mud wrestle and fight over a giant medicine ball 010
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m back on my bullshit: watching episodes of Physical: Asia 111
Reposted by who!Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 29/09/2026MoCo and PG locals: water advisory, I’d guess not too long due to it’s actually a power issue (but Pepco who knows) anyway fyi, limit use to avoid a boil advisory www.wsscwater.com/news/2026/se...wsscwater.comUrgent Request – 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2026: Essential Water Use Only Issued for All WSSC Water Customers; Power Outage at Potomac Water Filtration Plant | WSSC Water 011
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The most absurd thing about this is that the neighborhood doesn’t even include this road, the majority of it is east of Walther 040
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am trying v hard not to chime in with a “you’re wrong, here’s why” email when I know intellectually that’s not how you persuade people. Please clap for the trying 1110
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today in the old neighborhood listserv: arguing over the Harford Rd overlay bill 260
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Clearer= I never said it at all! So completely my fauly 110
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m sorry since I should have made it clearer, but the offer for recs was specifically in case any Baltimore-area mutuals wanted to talk w a local gyn who was up to date on the latest research 120
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Guess what! Your girl got the ok and rx to try HRT to ease the perimenopause symptoms! Feel free to DM me if you want a gyn rec 😅 3330
Reposted by who!Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pisces: We should always try our best. So if you’re going to be a failure, be the biggest and best failure the world has ever seen. 120059
who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just watched the first episode of GBBO and some of the bakers needed this! 150
Reposted by who!Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...thewarhorse.orgHegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are PassingData shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard. 420348
Reposted by who!Kate @arsenalkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comMad Max Immortal JoeAlt: Mad Max Immortan Joe quote: DO NOT MY FRIENDS BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER, IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE 0158