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Elle

@sylvanfae.bsky.social
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Mom, docent, Druid, writer/editor/poet, with degrees in Philosophy and Environmental & Sustainability Studies (Anthropology minor). Quite the emergency we're living through. Let's tend to our communal connections so we can weather it.

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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Then next time, speak directly to this objection. This objection seems unrelated to your previous comment.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And another wanted communications with him to be done a very particular way, but you were not to expect him to consider your communication preferences at all.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Like, one of them had us study for 5 different tests while the day of the test he was going to surprise us with which one he was actually giving.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I had an old-school prof or two, which was next level on hw, tests, and whims, so I think your profs are just thinking about how easy you actually have it, and you don't realize it.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
😂
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Which things Descartes navigated more carefully, and he succeeded at getting the same bombshell past the censors.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why do you think it has to be one or the other? We can bolster the constructive endeavor while learning about the destructive forces. Understanding what undermines the endeavor isn't something to overlook or undervalue.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What are the obligations industry will have under the legal framework?
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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We must abolish ICE. And, Democratic candidates and legislators must be loud and clear about this right now: Citizens are filming and all of these ICE agents involved in abuse after abuse will be prosecuted, including the ones who stand by. We see you.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Then we go over his head. Tell the int'l community "Our country's being held hostage by a lunatic and his organized crime associates. You can clearly see for yourselves they are ticking off every box in the fascist playbook. Doesn't end well for us or the rest of the world if we don't get help."
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And yet he can well afford it.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We don't say things like that. Even in jest. People have been unjustly lobotomized for having political views that weren't liked by those with power over them. We're not like them.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's a one-time tax, not ongoing.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If I'm ever the loved one who gets threatened to make you betray the people and their democracy and future... let me fucking go.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Government by organized crime.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/08/2026
I get that the Trump White House has decided that Congress is a vestigial organ, but I think there should be more coverage of the fact that Brendan Carr just up and said "yes, Congress put a 39% cap on media ownership, but I think I can ignore it for reasons."
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Then you and he both need more education.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We'll find that tendency in hierarchical cultures, anyway.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"There is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
How about we investigate why even investigations that prove impropriety and crimes aren't leading to convictions or consequences. Where is the buck stopping in this government by organized crime?
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Government by organized crime.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A pre-Constitution yesterday... like from the time of the Articles of Confederation that were a dismal failure because you can't run a nation without taxes.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A large group of people that handles its affairs as a whole... maybe with an administrative organization... what a wild concept!
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Socialism in the end is just another word for society.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Greys Anatomy Maggie Pierce
ALT: Greys Anatomy Maggie Pierce
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Weird how they'll cite "experts" for their columns, but they're busy devaluing experts and expertise at all other times.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Bernie Sanders & Killer Mike Fist Bump in Barbershop
ALT: Bernie Sanders & Killer Mike Fist Bump in Barbershop
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Propaganda works. Especially when you tank education.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The whole concept of the common welfare has dropped out the bottom of conservatism. They have been propagandized into hating the concept of collective anything. Hyperindividualism is the only allowable mindset.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Anime Lawyer
ALT: Anime Lawyer
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is what happens when the GOP strangles education and young people grow up in an environment of abject ignorance, and enter a corrupt and crumbling society as its professionals.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Good news! Rampant corruption means you can buy or charm your way into literally any position, despite qualifications.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is how society runs now. 🫠 (Into the freaking ground.)
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's always the ones who want Christian Sharia law.
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The Ten Commandments Judge: A Quarter Century of Roy Moore's Unconstitutional Efforts to Mix Law and Religion
On September 30, 2016, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore for the remainder of his term for defying federal court rulings in regard to same-sex marriage. It w...
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What attracts predators to the Gang of Predators party, you ask?
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My understanding is that there are different kinds of data centers, and AI data centers aren't the same centers that are used for things like Netflix. They're much bigger and newer and more detrimental to the environment.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Listening to the "Thunderchord" album by Coyote Oldman, since I used to fall asleep to it every night in high school (and Native flute calls me home to the more indigenous worldview). But also staying connected with community and people who still share my values, who will look out for each other.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Since these conservatives don't understand virtues and genuinely caring, they see virtues themselves as mere signaling... yeah, they'd call his reform work virtue signaling.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They stifled education and became too ignorant to see what's wrong with their ideas an behaviors, or even that anyone might see anything wrong with them.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sorry, no. I have no outgroups. I'm a former conservative, so the right is my family/old friends as well as the people going so off the rails. They're misguided people with sick ideas, not my enemies. I would love to invite them into the society I hope to live in, where they'd get healthier ideas.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And I say that as a former conservative. There's a big difference between that playing-it-safe/ignorant-fear conservatism and wow-we're-replaying-fascism reactions.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That'll happen when the right (inevitably) creates scads of dire risk for everyone, rapidly changes the culture at the core values level, and mucks up institutions with corruption/funding cuts/elimination. It didn't make us conservative/afraid of risk; it put us in several real emergencies.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
People have climate grief, but I have social grief. Not only because we could handily fix climate chaos if we still had a coherent, functional social system, but also because I was raised by Silent Gen parents in a cohesive community, & had (and now have lost) the social fabric. Vital to reweave it!
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That's an odd non-sequitur, so I'll let the garbage flow on out.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A gang of children with personality disorders is running the world superpower and its agencies.
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I like to point out that competition isn't really necessary, either. Cooperative sports are just as fun. Our culture has a weird thing with individualism and wanting to sort out who's "best."
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Elle @sylvanfae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They were into abusing girls/women/trans people long before Epstein was born. Their gender ideology is ancient, too. Not as ancient as trans and intersex people having revered roles in various cultures, but still about as old as Levantine patriarchy.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
GOP: Gang of Predators
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