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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.

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ALT: a young boy in a striped shirt is pointing his finger

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Love this latest Substack post by The Happy Urbanist (he's also on TikTok). It's a good reminder that we aren't obligated to do it all, but we are obligated to do something. Here's to the infinite game... open.substack.com/pub/thehappy...

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Remember kids, 1. "If it doesn't go to zero, that graph is a weirdo." 2. "If there are no labels, your being told fables." 3. "Bad bar size, guaranteed lies." #medialiteracy

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I made a pineapple. It only took two years. "Farm living is the life for me!" But seriously, it's a small example of why telling people to "just grow your own food" in response to outrageous food prices, supply chain issues, Corporate Farm exploitation, etc., isn't all that helpful for many folks.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I was just thinking about how egging and TPing houses were things when I was a kid, and both those things have been scarce commodities at some point in last five years. Did those little suburban shitheads manifest this current timeline?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Hearing Nirvana play in Kohls makes me sad for many reasons.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

why did this make me laugh

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

That and all the late night votes that seem to be norm now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I'm soooo tired of unhealed men and their fragile egos being everyone else's problem. They really would rather start a war than go to therapy, wouldn't they?

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

North Pinellas County making me feel slightly more hopeful today about where I live. #nokings

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

100 calorie snack packs are bullshit. I feel like a damn lab rat being rewarded with little morsels of sustenance for each tiny package she successfully opens.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I've yet to figure out if this cute little squirrel is a new friend or my next nemesis.

Squirrel sitting in the window sill outside of my studio

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I didn't need to buy more books today, but they're from a local bookstore, so it doesn't count according to Girl Math, right?

Photo of two books, "The Book of Alchemy" by Suleika Jaouad and "Kate & Frida" by Kim Fay

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Love this. Journals are one of my most valuable self-care tools, dump that shit on paper & sort yourself- writingcooperative.com/write-what-d...

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Write What Disturbs You

The more you write privately, the better your writing becomes

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is the best definition I've ever seen 💯

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Reminder for the "not everything is political" folks burying their heads in the dirt. There are people living in areas that forbid gardening, deny space to grow, &/or prohibit collecting rain water due to policies & laws. Gardening can be a form of resistance, but it's also a privilege.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The fledglings' last day huddled together. Carol & Wayne were hollering at them for the past two days to get a move on & VACATE. This afternoon they finally did. Excited for them but sad to see them leave. Hoping the hawk that showed up doesn't find any of them. Stay safe, my little friends🤞 #birds

Carolina wren fledgling on ground in front of yellow wall

Two Carolina wren fledglings sitting in hanging spider plant, preparing to leave the nest

Red-shouldered hawk (I believe) sitting in a moringa tree.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A face only a mother could love, but I'm glad to see the babies have hatched and mama bird is able to leave the nest again. Sitting in that nest 24/7 had to be hella boring- LOL #birds #carolinawren

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Judy Blume…spoke against the bills…saying book bans hurt students. Adults are afraid, she added, that books will prompt too many questions or make children change. “Books don’t make kids become anybody else. Books make kids think.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/05/f...

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Florida GOP looks to make it easier to challenge books on school shelves

Their proposals mean schools could not consider whether books had “serious” artistic, literary, political or scientific value — only whether they depicted “sexual conduct.&#…

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

A nice fluffy bee who has just stepped out of a salon and is feeling good but also very thirsty.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 01/04/2025

Let me break down the SAVE Act, which Congress is voting on this week. If you got married and changed your name, your ID will not match your birth certificate. ⬇️

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Turns out I'm also hosting a tufted titmouse, along with the Carolina wrens by my front door, eastern bluebirds that return to the same birdhouse each year, & woodpeckers that bore a hole in the birdhouse they staked a claim to. This is either the coolest thing or how I'll end up dying of bird flu.

Tufted titmouse bringing food back to the bird house we hung in our tree.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The mama bird outside my front door. I recognize that intense desire to protect our babies.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Create vs consume... I got hobbies for DAYS. Grow something Read something Create something Donate something Repurpose something Be more interesting than your purchases.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ukrainian-born French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, Rythme colour, 1946 #womensart

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Low-key excited that my "new neighbors" have decided to start a little family in one of my hanging plants by my front door. Here's hoping the little ones don't have any mishaps after they hatch and face plant on the pavers below when learning to fly! 🤞

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I know some folks (ok, probably mostly women) name their plants, but does anybody else name their garden? I've named mine Georgia. I've been writing about her and our relationship & I think I might start blogging again about it all.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My vegetable consumption habits might be one of my proudest "adulting" accomplishments.

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Nicole North Rodriguez (Nicole NR) @stuffnicdoes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Given how often I've given off "bitch" as a first impression, I feel certain this won't be a problem.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

FYI:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/02/2025

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black history isn’t confined to a month—it’s woven into the fabric of American culture every single day. From music to movements, innovation to influence, Black contributions shape the world. Erasing a date on a calendar doesn’t erase history. It’s here. It’s now. It’s always.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

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