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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

...at least I can recognize kindness, caring, and cooperation as realities rather than naive concepts. I can choose to stop defaulting to cynicism and exhaustion. I can refuse the seemingly inevitable crushing force of fascism, greed, and oligarchy, and join those who are building the impossible."

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

From today's post: "I’m tired of fighting against everything that is going so very wrong. I’m tired of arguing for changes that seem to get further and further away. Even if I don’t live long enough to see a new future,

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Building the Impossible

We don't just need a regime shift. We need a paradigm shift.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The Highway and The Holy Tucked in between a highway and a mall, the ponds are a liminal space. Some days, the traffic is loud. Some days, there is a shower caddy in the bushes. My latest essay is about finding the holy in the noise.

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The Highway and The Holy

a matter of focus

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

excerpt "When trauma is pervasive, when the whole being is threatened and not just an arm or a leg, when the breath, the life-force, the soul (if you believe in such things) is captured, what part do we shake loose to survive? Where do we begin the process of growing our bodies and our lives again?"

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The Hologram of Being

On Autotomy and Excavation

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"I am alive today...and because of that, I have the choice to add to the overall goodness of the world at large. Not because I am compensating for being worthless, not because I must earn my place, but simply because I have it in me to do good, and the choice to bring that forth into the world."

theliminalatlas.substack.com

What good shall I do this day?

From "What fresh hell?" to "What good?"

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

...The process of letting this anger work its way through me takes time. In a regime where another atrocity is only a breath away, this processing becomes a constant, grueling task."

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Excerpt from this week's post: theliminalatlas.substack.com/p/the-line-i... "Anger and hatred tighten around me, a binding cloth from which monsters are made. When these feelings dominate, I begin to see a stranger in the mirror—familiar in our times, but foreign to my values...

Anger and hatred tighten around me, a binding cloth from which monsters are made. When these feelings dominate, I begin to see a stranger in the mirror—familiar in our times, but foreign to my values. The process of letting this anger work its way through me takes time. In a regime where another atrocity is only a breath away, this processing becomes a constant, grueling task.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Feeling better and back at work. Pippa isn’t done cuddling, though, apparently?

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We have lights! And my wife made the first six books. The stairs and the arched entry way are adorable.

miniature library project. Books, an archway, and steps.

miniature library project. Books, an archway, and steps. Paintings on the wall.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The depth of the material, combined with Deary’s approach to it, made this an often visceral experience. I highlighted the hell out of this and will continue to work with these observations and ideas in my own approach to “navigating the wear and tear of living.” #2026Reads (3/3)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

".... But we all have a breaking point at which things start to unravel. What pushes us to that point, and what that unravelling looks like, will be specific to each of us. Our breaking, like our world, will be our own. " I wasn’t expecting his beautiful, at times poetic, writing. (2/3)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"To be clear right from the start, this is not a book about mental illness. This is a book about you and me and what happens when we are pushed past our limits. And for sure, some of us will end up with a formal diagnosis, or under a system of care... (1/3)

Book cover for How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living, by Vincent Deary

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Cold and foggy morning at the ponds.

an abstract moment of leaves and branches

foggy moment with the ponds, a bare tree with many branches, and a small outcropping of land

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Dead Man's Switch: On Learning Safety in Unsafe Times Excerpt: When do we learn safety, I ask myself. When we are taught. When did I learn safety? If safety is learned, then what happens to those of us who were enrolled in a different curriculum?"

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Dead Man’s Switch

On learning safety in unsafe times

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This morning's pond outing

A tree with evidence of fresh beaver markings with shavings on the ground

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026

This is the video.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Been a while since I've been to the ponds. Felt like coming home. And what a better way to start a new year than capturing duck butt, geese, mergansers, and a cormorant feeding on a catfish!

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

... Donald Trump’s latest front in his campaign to stamp out all political, electoral and ideological opposition,” ActBlue said in a statement. (2/2) #facism #fascisminrealtime

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“The Trump Administration’s and GOP’s targeting of ActBlue is part of their brazen attack on democracy in America. Today’s escalation by the White House is blatantly unlawful and needs to be seen for what it is: ... (1/2) apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump orders Justice Department to investigate Democrats' top fundraising platform

President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate the Democratic Party’s top fundraising platform.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

First comes outrage, then comes courage.

Sign: Know your parasites. Deer Tick, Dog Tick, Luna Tick (photo of Trump)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Stand up to Fascism! EUGENE April 19th, noon to 3 PM Park Blocks (8th & Oak) In solidarity with 50501

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Ponds this morning.

canada goslings tucked up by adult goose's tail feathers

canada goose in flight, with wings in a v and beak open. reflection in water beneath.

red-winged blackbird sitting on a curved branch

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

First babies of the season! Also, the ospreys are nesting.

Canada goose with four little fluffy babies on water

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The whole future lies in uncertainty; live immediately. - Seneca

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My life makes so much more sense to me knowing that I’m autistic. Happy #autismawarenessmonth to my fellow neurodivergents. (3/3)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

And while I absolutely advocate that self-diagnosis for adults is valid, when I was presented with an opportunity to get a formal assessment, I signed up. It confirmed what I already knew. I have mixed feelings about the entire experience but not about being the diagnosis. (2/3)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I’m writing a longer piece about this but right now it keeps hitting me that I was formally diagnosed with autism this week. Although my psychologist confirmed my self-diagnosis in May of last year, she couldn’t do an official assessment for a variety of reasons. (1/3)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We often talk about gender dysphoria as the main experience of being trans. And while that is so very much of it for many of us, #transjoy is pretty damn amazing. Today was a dream come true. (4/4)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I surrendered entirely to a complete stranger holding a very sharp blade to my face and neck; it was the happiest I've been in a while. (3/4)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As someone who has never had a manicure, pedicure, or spa day, this was a unique experience for me. The prep, which included three rounds of a different lotion/cream followed by a hot towel, was the most present I've been in this world in months. (2/4)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I had the exquisite joy of having an experience that has been on my #SecretBucketList since I was a kid. I never thought it would become a reality. After letting my facial hair grow out for three months, I had a true barbershop shave this afternoon. (1/4)

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Project 2025 Tracker We’ve known for years what the plan was. And yet here we are…

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thanks for the reminder. I had it set to require alt text. Not sure what happened.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised Against injustice, ignorance, and lust, The inquisition yet would serve the law… From “Protest” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Protest

To sin by silence, when we should protest,

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Still going and now I'm starting my morning sobbing because I've been so desperate for this kind of energy from congress. The letters he is reading... and him saying to the writer "Thank you. I see you, Julia." www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Much needed morning at the ponds

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Excerpt: Decades would pass with my passing as butch, as dyke, as a lesbian with heterosexual tendencies.Then one day, in the final minutes of therapy,I would finally claim my queerness in a new way, adding gender before it, before bolting out the door.

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When I was a boy

Not the Absence of Gender, But the Presence of Truth

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“The Military Ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”

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Judge Who Shut Down Trump's Trans Troop Ban Issued a Scathing 80-Page Ruling. Here Are Our Favorite Quotes

“The Court cannot read minds. But it can read.”

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The transphobes have lost their damn minds. "The bill defines social transitioning as 'any act by which a minor adopts or espouses a gender identity that differs from the minor’s biological sex … including without limitation changes in clothing, pronouns, hairstyle, and name.'"

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GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors

The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

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Rooze @rooze.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Brilliant guide on how to talk about current events. The "Do Not Associate" List

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The "Do Not Associate" List

How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths.

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