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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For sure. Definitely wouldn't quit unless I had agreed to a severance package and had it in writing and signed. And I might need it to include Bari Weis using a public apology. 😁

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Though in these situations, the severance package is sometimes pretty stellar.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I've seen lots of folks saying this. I get it. It seems like it makes sense. But it's inaccurate and gives Talarico less credit than it should. In 2021, Talarico did say there are 6 genders. He then explained the existence of chromosomal variations outside of XX and XY.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@belleamie27.bsky.social I post so rarely here that we didn't even remember we're already connected.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In this country, we do not swear loyalty to the POTUS. Federal employees, including military, take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. *ALL enemies.* Even if those enemies are serving in our government.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of this. The email HUD sent out didn't target performance but specifically said it was due to workforce restructuring.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Yes. And social media unfortunately rewards the sensation of "being right" much more than it encourages useful political action. Resist the dopamine boosts and keep focused on the future.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Yep. Weeha! Woohoo! And all that jazz. oof

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Just because this needs to be said regularly: the patriotic American thing to do is to esteem our Canadian friends and neighbors, guard and respect Canada's right to self-determination, and condemn aggression and bullying whether domestic or international in nature.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

They found someone to dismiss the Adams case. My hope (yes, I still have that) is this was a coordinated decision by the attorneys they put together & there's a plan (get the details of duress into the filing? 🤷‍♀️). My fear is it's someone trying to save themselves. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

reuters.com

Federal prosecutor will sign motion to dismiss Adams charges in bid to save colleagues' jobs, sources say

A federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in a bid to spare other career staff from potentially being fired by the acting deputy attorney general, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Greta Thunberg must have cut him down on social media at some point for him to be thinking this hard about her. (Also, besides being an utterly ridiculous comparison, she's been "scolding" all countries, not just the US.)

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It's now been two hours. Hopefully this means they're each supporting each other in upholding their oath and standing strong.

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Beezin' @whybee90.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Alt text for OP: "The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word transgender" from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website." Check out Will's timeline for protest info.

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn
Gives Back Initiative are outraged and
appalled by the recent removal of the
word transgender" from the Stonewall
National Monument page on the National
Park Service website. This blatant act of
erasure not only distorts the truth of our
history, but it also dishonors the
immense contributions of transgender
individuals -especially transgender
women of color - who were at the
forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the
broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Let us be clear: Stonewall is transgender
history. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera,
and countless other trans and gender-
nonconforming individuals fought
bravely, and often at great personal risk,
to push back against oppressive systens.
Their courage, sacrifice, and leadership
were central to the resistance we now
celebrate as the foundation of the
modern LGBTQ+ rights movement

This decision to erase the word
transgender' is a deliberate attempt to
erase our history and marginalize the
very people who paved the way for many
victories we have achieved as a
community. It is a direct attack on
transgender people, especially
transgender women of color, who
continue to face violence, discrimination,
and erasure at every turn.

SIGBI

We demand the immediate restoration
of the word transgender on the
Stonewall National Monument website
We will not stand by while the legacies
of our transgender siblings are erased
from the history books. The Stonewall
Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back
Initiative stands unwaveringly in
solidarity with the transgender
community and all who fight for full
equality, and we will not rest until this
grave injustice is corrected.

SIGBI

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The best and brightest.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Following Kendrick's performance yesterday seems like a good time to quote Toni Morrison's essay. Most of us will never have platforms like either of theirs, but that doesn't mean we can't also create meaningful, powerful, subversive, and rebellious art.

No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

No no no. The Musketeers would have fought these guys. These are rats — MuskRats.

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tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com · 03/02/2025

this is my first black history month working at a black-owned bookstore, and yesterday i was sitting at the desk feeling like i was missing something. but in fact i did not need to curate a bhm display bc over half our stock is black books. a surprising relief that i’m still processing

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm working at HUD (Dept. of Housing and Urban Development). Or mission literally includes building "inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination." Which, of course, is antithetical to any language the new regime is using.

From hud.gov/about/mission :
HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes; utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination, and transform the way HUD does business.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Kinda expecting to be put on administrative leave at some point, since last year I received two national-level DEIA awards from the federal agency I work for (one group award, one individual). Especially since I haven't stopped doing the work that got me nominated in the first place.

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Bri Hall 👽 SmartistaBeauty @brihall.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thread: HOW TO RESIST I see so many people talking about the importance of resisting without listing some ways how. Any topics more in-depth need to be done in private within your circles

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

One of the verboten words in the whole "shut down every federal program related to DEIA" tempest is, unsurprisingly, "inclusive." Which is a word at the forefront of the mission of the agency where I work. Just waiting to see how that plays out. 😡

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The way I usually explain how to write alt-text is to describe it as though you were telling a friend about it but they couldn't see it. That will almost always get you describing the important aspects of it in the right context.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A job I had hoped for and had gotten to the next stage in the hiring process has been canceled due to the federal hiring freeze. ☹️ My current job is also federal, but I was recognized nationally last year for my DEIA work, so who knows how that will play out. 😡

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So tired of people choosing to comply in advance.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thread on types of censorship

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Naomi Harvey PhD @naomidharvey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Remember: ‘liking’ a post has no effect on its visibility here (unlike on Twitter). To help good or informative posts get seen by other people, you have you repost them. This feels like a big part of why it can often feel so quite here.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Good grief. The new site at whitehouse.gov is something. Also, there are no archives of anything.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/01/2025

New(er) folks, remember to turn on your alt text reminder! It's an important feature that keeps the site useable for a lot of disabled people.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Do you ever hear someone else's voice as your thoughts? Right now, Alan Rickman is narrating mine (at least, those thoughts that have words). I'm not sure why, but it's weird. 🤷‍♀️

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Add alt text to your images. Describe the image like you were describing it to a friend over the phone; don't just use the space for jokes or Easter eggs. I figure with the influx of folks, it's a good time for that reminder.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

FloMask helps protect you from smoke and toxins in the air, as well as airborne illnesses. And right now they're available at 30% off. Discount code is CaliStrong30 www.flomask.com

flomask.com

Flo Mask

Next level protection for the whole family.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Yup. My brain is not braining and I have work I need to get done.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Tired of warming up your car in the morning? St. Louis PD has the solution in this humorous PSA. youtu.be/Tf6ZeGLcP1s?...

youtu.be

The Car-Warming Disappearing Act

YouTube video by St. Louis County Police Department

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I keep going back and forth on this. Right now, I like it. That could change tomorrow. But, ya know, art helps keep us grounded and sane. It's important to create, even when we're not particularly good at it. Maybe especially then. But, yeah, right now I'm digging how the leaves turned out. 🥰

Small, square painting of five green clover poking through a carpet of decaying autumn leaves

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Writer here! Interested.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Right‽ It's incredibly easy to find people who disagree with me. If I want to see what they're saying, try to understand their POVs, or discuss our differences, it's easy to do. But I don't want those views to be the mindset I'm surrounded by.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Guardian: “Share your experience of long Covid” ‘We’d like to hear from people who have long Covid and how it has affected their lives’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

theguardian.com

Share your experience of long Covid

We’d like to hear from people who have long Covid and how it has affected their lives

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I still have a soft, oversized T-shirt that I got as a kid around 38 years ago. It's not oversized anymore, but it's still comfy with no holes or fraying.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I love this movie so much. My gobs were smacked when someone told me they couldn't finish it after he learned a whole language in one evening of sitting around a fire. That's one of my all-time favorite passage-of-time scenes and this person just totally missed what was happening.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Why did I just get sent a notification about an upcoming Janis Joplin concert? I know people have made comments about having switched universes, but I'm pretty sure she's still long gone in this one.

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Tam @tam5.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Walking on Mission after getting off at my BART stop, and there's a fellow with a telescope set up on the corner. He's calling folks over to look at Jupiter and her moons. (And yes, of course I stopped.) Very cool. Thank you, random SF man.

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