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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"We've known Dad didn't have to die. They just made it official." Fucking fundamentalist bullshit. They didn't care that he still had children at home. They preferred to have a matyr. #exjw

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is the musical space I've been living in for a while and will continue to for the foreseeable future

music.youtube.com

generational smash

If you can give me some gen X flavor to add, do so 👇 🤘🖖✌🏻

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's not what we are; it's the promise of what we could be. A solemn Fourth of July, from me and mine to you and yours.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"History rarely repeats itself, but almost always rhymes." -Nearly every historian, ever (paraphrased)

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I've had two playlists, that up until now I've kept separate. One, a list of my anger music which serves as my "protest playlist." Two, a list of the Vietnam protest music I got introduced to by my dad. Today they got smashed together. I'll be in this space until further notice.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Once a library kid/always a library kid + no book budget = had to wait to be able to get it on interlibrary loan 💕🤌🫠 @leahlitman.bsky.social

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Lord of the Rings playing ✔️ Ham in the oven ✔️ Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My eighth grader is possibly going to need do extra credit for their SS/US history class. I'm strongly suggesting they think about doing a compare and contrast paper on reconstruction v redemption @strictscrutiny.bsky.social can you recommend any layman's language sources? Or send me on to someone?

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

When you're old enough to predate AO3, still have the first "grownup" email address you claimed and you get a ping from ffn that somebody followed something that hasn't even been looked at in good knows how long #fanfiction #godimold

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I have to worry about people besides myself, but this is where I'm at. Digging into resources that will allow me to prepare for when the risk outweighs everything, reading civil disobedience training guides.

amnesty.org

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My Nazi Germany/Holocaust education was some thing of a drop a newborn into a pool and see how they swim exposure. Parents were Jehovah's Witnesses so we had those VHS in the house that our access to wasn't limited. 1/2

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Current reading goals for my daughter and I.

A photo of two book spines. One is titled "A People's History of the United States" the other is "A Young People's History of the United States" Both are by Howard Zinn

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A Montana court has struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding that it violates the rights to privacy, equal protection, and free expression guaranteed by the Montana Constitution. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Bookshop, library, whatever- go, go, go!

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

She’s in her AUTHOR ERA! It’s publication day for LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes! As a forever book nerd, I had so much fun writing this-I hope you have fun reading it! Get it at your local bookstore today!! bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's lovely when you're just trying to find something to put on for noise while you fall asleep and the channel plays next a made for TV documentary from 2017 about how Hitler used Christianity and it's imaginary to strengthen his position. </S> Oh god, the echos. I just wanted something benign.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My relationship with formalized religion is difficult. Personal faith that I can understand and empathize with. But formal systems of religion; can't really help it they rub me weird. But for some reason I could never exactly put a finger on Pope Francis struck me as different. I think this is why:

apnews.com

Pope Francis bestowed a special nickname on AP's Vatican reporter for her often-tough questions

Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the nickname “la prima della classe” -- or “the first in class” -- from him in ...

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Tried to search for a sticker that said "The Courts won't save us." The search options were trash. Need stickers. But maybe a play on "SCOTUS won't save us" would be better anyways? Dunno.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Was cleaning out some photos, and came across this screen shot I took a couple months ago when the spouse, a friend of ours and I were having a conversation about A.I. and whatnot

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

My two morning mood choices @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Also does the Hysteria pod not have a Bluesky, or am I just not seeing it?

A photo of two coffee cups sitting on a kitchen counter. One reads "Time for Some Bad Decisions" and the other, "Fuck that guy."

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Do something, say something. Punks have been punching Nazis forever. Don't let them encroach on your scene: chances are they don't get it; they're trying to co-opt and they'll chase out our loving weirdos in the process

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#missoula #montana got kids, broke, 6+hour drive. But please, please let me live vicariously and feel some pride. Show your faces on the 16th at the Adams Center with Bernie & AOC

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This is the sort of day that has prompted this exact post elsewhere multiple times, but it's my first time saying it on Bluesky: I'll be over there -> screaming into the void

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think someone said this on here previously but to have a broad movement for good things you need to have some casuals and first timers, unless you are only in this to feel superior to those people, in which case...

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Can't decide if the instinct to stand straight when I am wearing heels is influenced more by the simple fact you have to hold your weight differently or the trauma of having the little old ladies of the congregation say I needed to stand straight so I didn't show cleavage starting when I was ten.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Cat will cat In a box Or with socks Or, in a box with socks (*bows & exits stage left*)

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I was raised by Jehovah's Witness parents. I can't exactly say when I first came to understand what the Holocaust referred to. The yellow Star of David, the Purple Triangle; they were a part of history that intertwined with my childhood. 1/4

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I grew up in Tulsa. My parents were from Oklahoma, but not *from Tulsa* and also, they were Jehovah's Witnesses, so strict pacifists.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Being a JW kid, I knew from the moment I entered kindergarten that I couldn't be forced to say the pledge of allegiance, or put a hand over my heart. That they shouldn't even force me to stand, though we were told that it was best to show a minimal level of respect and at least rise to our feet.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just had Incubus pop onto a playlist for the first time in forever. My parents were fairly lax when it came to music (Daddy was an outright hippy at one time) but the rest of the congregation was a bit... Ehhh.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

In some cases this can add up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees, as it did for a woman named Shelby Hoffman. Originally sentenced to seven years, she served only ten months before being released. A couple years later while applying for a job and jumping through the typical hoops that a formerly incarcerated person has to do as a matter of course, she found out she still owed $127,750.

"I felt so tricked and so fooled," Hoffman said.

"There is no ladder with them. There is nothing that you can do. Apparently. That will ever truly allow you to be a second chance anything. There isn’t. And they make sure of it.”

Obviously this is not really about reimbursing the state for your stay in Hotel Hell, it's also, as so many things in this country are, about creating and entrapping people in a permanent underclass from which there is little hope of escape. Saddling people, and yes usually a certain kind of people, who have served their time, with crippling debt so that they'll be forced into accepting worse working conditions forever. Or end up back in prison again where the state can further profit off of their bodies.

As an added bonus, those that cannot pay the fees have also not technically completed the terms of their sentence and therefore cannot have their voting rights restored.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Showed the spouse where my Starburst stash is tonight, while asking him to not demolish it. "Not sure that's a good idea." "I need you to know in case you need to bribe the kids." "Not sure that's going to go any better." 🤣🤣 we both have valid points here

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Looking for free-use images of suffragettes and female abolitionists for a creative things. Can anybody give me any rabbit holes to fall into?

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I've got my mind-puke written on a tiny ass notebook, and it probably won't make sense to anybody but me

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

How do you storyboard? I've had the song and the story in my head for a while. Trying to stage it out in a way that I can ask for help from others with skills beyond my own, but it's been years and years since I've dipped my toe into video editing

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Trajan Hammonds @starlord37.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm re-reading it now, after a very long time, because my oldest is getting to that age. But out of curiosity, at what age did you first read Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl?

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My parents attempted to raise me to be a Jehovah's Witness. They failed quite spectacularly, but that doesn't mean it didn't leave marks. Fatalism is a big one; one I've only recently felt able to name. I've been kind of probing it like a sore tooth. Don't want or have room rn, but can't help it.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If someone calls a woman a Cassandra as a synonym for being quote-unquote hysterical at this point in time, do we still have an obligation to point out they've missed the entire point of the myth?

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Hey, @rich-harris.dev, this might be a bit weird. But the hubby is a dev, and years ago when he first started going "svelte" this, and "Rich Harris" that, I went... I know that name. From the Guardian. For people looking to support free press, would you still full-heartedly donate to The Guardian?

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It was a common question, especially once we had kids. Would I ever be moving back to Oklahoma? Covid lockdown and immediately after, it at least doubled. Maybe tripled. My "No." became only more forceful after my first child, way before that. Now? Fucking now: fucking never. I won't risk my kids.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Welp, my brain has found a logical path as to why the OK State Superintendent wasn't the DOE nominee, when it originally went "uhmm.?" The OK AG didn't want this. He briefed against it, multiple times, if memory serves me correctly.

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Amelia Brown @projectgenesis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My roots are in OK. While the pit in my stomach was deep, I still had mentally crossed everything I could think of that SCOTUS would somehow, in some manner decide not to take this up. @eringloriaryan.bsky.social Ryan Walters is an effin guy. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social can you break this down soon?

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court to decide whether states can allow religious public schools

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country

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Christopher @cjackson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Every time the phrase strict scrutiny is uttered in a SCOTUS argument I just want the podcast hosts to pop up like Beetlejuice @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

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