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Lyonside

@lyonside.bsky.social
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Former wetlands and waterways scientist. Current science teacher in Philadelphia. Proud black biracial queer parent of a multiracial latin@ queer teen. Pro-union, pro-equality, pro-equity, pro-science, pro-history, pro-social contract, pro-sanity.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/04/2025
Sen Van Hollen met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa, who told him that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because the Trump admin is paying them to do so. They also provided no evidence that Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13 or committed any crimes.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So... pretty much admitting that this variety of straight men don't want to care about consent.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals
The company rolled out a series of diversity initiatives in 2021 after a spate of sexual harrassment lawsuits and a lawsuit alleging discrimination by a group of Black former owners of McDonald’s fran...
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 07/01/2025
What is your word for 2025? Mine is #Resist
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hey @RandPaul — maybe not a great idea to install a guy as speaker who can’t get security clearances in part because of his ties to a murderous dictator who openly wants America’s economy to crash and the country to fall apart? 🤷🏻 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”. It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck. I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work. Because—- *gestures at everything* See wahala?!???
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Remains my favorite definition
During the testimony, Warren's


attorney, Jean-Jacques Cabou asked
those within DeSantis


administration what "woke'


meant to


them.


The governor's general counsel,
Ryan Newman, said, in general, it
means "the belief there are systemic
injustices in American society and
the need to address them." He added


that DeSantis doesn't believe there


are systemic injustices in the
country, reports Florida Politics
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Spoken like an apartheid nepotism baby who has never paid rent, or even struggled a day in his misbehotten life.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Have you noticed that there has NEVER BEEN a logical explanation by the REPS as to WHY SSN and Med should be cut? You know why that is? CAUSE THERE FUCKING ISNT ONE.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
As I said months ago (re: overtime pay): can't tax what you don't have, muthafuckas.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Crab nebula. A star that violently exploded ~970 years ago and left a neutron star in its center. 🔭 🧪
An oval nebula with a complex structure against a black background. On the oval's exterior lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. Translucent thin ribbons of smoky white lie within the remnant’s interior, brightest toward its centre.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It doesn't take a lot of IQ to be a self-serving opportunist.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Do you hear the people sing....
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wow. No one else has made this point so clearly:
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just a reminder that land doesn’t vote. People do.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As a parent, as a teacher, as a queer brown woman with a disability, I will still be on the outside of the circle facing towards the predators. Be the elephant. Be the buffalo. Little ones, get inside.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Louis Pasteur is spinning in his grave.....
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Trump "I had a great call with President Shinybum of Mexico. She will stop rapists and criminals from coming here!" President Sheinbaum "I informed Mr. Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in America, is for people to stop electing them." ow.ly/AP9R50UhcgT
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Critics mock 'Donny deals' after Trump met with brutal fact check from Mexico's president
Social media critics collectively laughed at Donald Trump on Wednesday night after the president-elect appeared to get a brutal fact-check from the president of Mexico.Trump bragged earlier in the day...
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It's... a concept of a box.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
From Tumblr - something to hold on to in the dark times we're heading towards....
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Bluesky needs the puke emoji for disgusting but true ideas.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why do y'all think the for-profit prison industry was salivating over this....
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Called it during the campaign: can't tax what you don't have. Muthafuckas.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Exactly.
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Lyonside @lyonside.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
An astrolgy-believer in charge of Medicare and Medicaid - what could go wrong? (Everything. The answer is everything)
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Look to community. Look to friends and family who stood with us and who suffer the grief of this loss with us. In their company find comfort. And when you are ready to stand up and fight, I will be with you, too. We will prevail. For the light always defeats the darkness. /end
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A few details would be very telling, like if the racial targeting was actually highly accurate. How do you acquire the phone numbers & how do you know people are Black? The first questions I would ask every single one of these people is whether they’ve ever had a Twitter account.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Every American deserves to see the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Repost if you agree.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A reminder from the past to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself: the Cuyahoga River caught fire over a dozen times, leading to change in 1969. Here is an overview of Trump’s reduction in clean water protections during his last term: (1/2)
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