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Reba Banks

@rebaba.bsky.social
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Detroit born and repatriated. Wife x1, Mom x2, grievances x a whole lot.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May be best to step away from those Breaking News updates for a bit...
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And then ahead and bring back partner benefits with the proceeds, Disney
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
folding iphone feels like what happens when product design is driven by tech innovation, and so ends up leaving users asking "ok but why". But iphone and airpods are examples of what happens when tech innovation is *driven by* rather than *driving* product design
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
anyone else notice that Google’s Labor Day Doodle has no people in it
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Rep. Debbie Dingell @debbiedingell.house.gov · 25/08/2026
Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Grown ass people telling me that they want schools teaching AI so kids "know how to use it..." These tools are as smart or as stupid as your prompts. Good prompts require broadly educated people, not "AI-educated people." Instead, study economics of AI & its impact on economics, power, culture.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Watching kiddo’s soccer practice and realizing this must be what other parents feel like watching baseball 😴
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
people will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Me to Emily Wilson, Susan Orlean, Joyce Carol Oates, etc: Ladies, ladies! I know how we can settle this! I've got this golden apple, see ...
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
At one point in my relative youth, I had a goal of being the historian who made films correct because I believed, so earnestly, that they just didn’t KNOW. I understand now source material is considered incidental.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/07/2026
I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The correct answer rhymes with “class solidarity” www.philanthropy.com/news/why-pro...
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Why Progressive Funders Are Now Backing Conservative Groups
Institutional donors gave nearly $1 billion to bridge-building efforts last year, a 36 percent jump. Behind the numbers: a reckoning over whether progressive philanthropy fueled the polarization it se...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@yellowcardigan

My therapist: <laughs at a joke I said>

Me (to myself): This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in therapy, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Join Xerces and make art that supports conservation! 🐝✍🏽 Job Title: Science Illustration Intern 🌎Location: Remote 💲Compensation: $24/hr, 20hrs/week 📅Duration: Sep-Dec 2026 ❗Apply by: July 31, 2026 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re hiring! Science Illustration Intern. Apply by July 31, 2026”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
El-Sayed: Shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you rather than to drop bombs on somebody else and their kids
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m not fond of sports metaphors. “Winners” & “losers” is Trump talk. We can defeat fascism, but “winning” talk erases the deep damage already done. Repairing what we can won’t take years but far longer. And some of it, especially around climate, is at best scar tissue.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Actually would legit appreciate an ice cream truck right about now
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Prediction: Hot Odyssey summer, incoming.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 06/06/2026
If Lenin had just called it a public-private partnership, we'd all be speaking Russian.
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇲
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Every time someone states what ought to be, people rush to the mentions to explain that it won't happen, and now I am talking to those people, and I want to be very clear: YOU are the reason it won't happen. Every time you say that you are taking energy away from "should" and reinforcing "is."
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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
When Barack Obama and Kamala Harris were asked if they thought America was a racist country, that was a humiliation ritual. That was white power structures mocking them, and us, because they know the answer to that question and they're also the reason answering honestly is political suicide.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/04/2026
'Emotional behavioral disorder' gets slapped on Black and Brown students to keep them out of mainstream classrooms while white students have learning disabilities and get integrated education, a divide that entrenches systemic disparities—and deprives Black and Brown students of their future.
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Why emotional disturbance, a special ed category, is a double-edged sword for students
Every school has problem students, but some are labeled emotionally disturbed (ED) and taught separately from others.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We didn't deserve this day.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Would love (actually hate) to see what this administration has done for rates of domestic violence
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wish everyone could have the chance to watch an incredibly determined 2nd grader work on a Lego vehicle on him until it was done, despite multiple breaks. I’d set it to Artemis II playlist 🥹
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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yelling about nukes moves the Overton window to make destruction of infrastructure permissible, even a relief, compared to what Might Have Been.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Civilization is beyond the things that facilitate energy use (power plants) or enable commerce (bridges). Civilization is art, culture, tradition, community. These are resilient and at the same time precious. That this president relishes in the idea of destroying them is its own sickness.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Blowing my spring break staycation savings on native plants and Go Fund Me contributions for people getting effed by this terrible moment in history.
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 31/03/2026
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...
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Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books
Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Terrible news from this illegal Supreme Court re: Colorado conversion therapy. Holding trans people in my heart every day but especially on this #transdayofvisibility. I love you, I see you, I stand with you.
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jennifer Coolidge in white lotus two meme edited to say “these straits they’re trying to murder me.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"And our governments are very much the same."💥
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
None of this is necessary, and all of it is evil. The GOP has sunk to a depth reserved for the worst people in history.
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Reba Banks @rebaba.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Repeat posts of the grossest workout video ever is really doing the work in helping me with my social media fast
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a man with glasses and a suit says first of all eww
ALT: a man with glasses and a suit says first of all eww
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Very much this, but also broader. All sorts of education - gender/ethnic studies, social sciences, natural sciences, literature, history, philosophy - teach people to think in ways that don’t serve the purposes of the powerful.
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