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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I dreamed I got carted off to a Trump concentration camp for calling an ICE agent a coward, found Alex Jones there and convinced him this was his moment to live out his persecution fantasies and he led a prisoner uprising. My fault for falling asleep listening to @knowledgefight.bsky.social

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I'm so relieved for her! Still more work to do to exonerate her but she is free. She can be surrounded by love and support now.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This asshole keeps knocking over my cane every chance he gets.

Orange tabby cat inspecting a cane that he just knocked over.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"I'm still punk" I cry quietly to myself as I step into my slip on Sketchers shoes I got from Costco after once again herniating a lumbar disc.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Petition to change the name from Aircraft Carrier to Aircraft Dropper.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Here's a tip for smart bulb manufacturers. Making the damn thing flash while you connect it really fucks with a photosensitive epileptic. Had my ass trying to navigate your app with my eyes closed.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I just dreamed that "Having no VP" polled higher than JD Vance and it's the first laugh my brain has given me in months. Nature is healing.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ok but with this being Star Wars I'm perhaps a little too concerned Bix turns out to be Cassian's long lost sister.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Anyone else Neurodivergent just realize you made up an arbitrary rule for yourself you didn't even know you had made? Then break it because it doesn't need to exist? Did you know on bad pain days you can do yoga in bed? You don't have to be on a special mat on the floor? No one can stop you!

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Only eat what your grandparents would consider food!" Uh my great grandmother was from West Virginia and would make me a peanut butter and pickle sandwich because that was apparently a thing during The Great Depression.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I dreamed I was Andor last night and woke up severely disappointed to be me. I want to go back. Put me back! What do you mean I have to wait for my husband to watch the next episode together tonight? Inject it right into my eyeballs Clockwork Orange style.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Remember kids, if you don't sin then Jesus died for nothing. So get out there and make it worth his while.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I'm rewatching Andor season 1 like it's instructional and not just entertainment.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Everyone contributes to society in one way or another simply by existing in society. This whole autism/disability debate is only focused on a very narrow definition of "contribution" which boils down to "production". It illuminates what our society sees as "valuable" and it's ugly.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I felt this deeply when he spoke about his initial reaction to Oct 7th. I was in Dubai September 11, 2001. Shortly after an Arab woman asked if I was American while I was out. When I said yes she asked if she could pray and held my hand. I didn't understand then but I understand that moment now.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I don't miss Target at all. Costco has all my business now. If I can't find what I want maybe that means I don't really need it. This is doing wonders for my anti-consumerism efforts.

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 10/04/2025

Rep. Al Green Condemns Trump's 'Art of the Steal' Tariffs and Calls for Impeachment. Watch the clip of Rep. Al Green's floor speech by clicking here: youtu.be/xv7U3EOeBvA

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Rep. Al Green Condemns Trump's 'Art of the Steal' Tariffs and Calls for Impeachment

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/04/2025

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'm playing chicken with the tax deadline while TurboTax desperately emails me begging me to file.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I don't care if 100% of them had criminal records they are still owed due process. Either everyone deserves justice or no one does and I'd rather live in a society that protects us all and not just a select few.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/04/2025

Last night, every Senate Democrat voted for my amendment calling for a $17 an hour federal minimum wage while every Republican but 1 opposed it. The movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is growing. In 2025, a job must lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Society of American Archivists is providing a free webinar to help you learn how to advocate for archives which are under grave threat, along with museums, galleries, and libraries, in the USA. Apr 21, 2025 03:00 PM EST/EDT Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Raising Your Voice for Archives. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Archivists are concerned about developments at the national level affecting records we work with, our institutions, our users, and our professional lives. But how can we practically and effectively ad...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

You mean all this time I've been hating on Elon Musk since he attacked one of the divers rescuing kids in Thailand I could have been getting paid for it? I'm such a fool! Where's my big paycheck?

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I missed seeing Wicked when it came out and watched it last night. It goes hard right now in this climate. Defying Gravity is going to sustain me through this. Art is so important.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 26/03/2025

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I've had this song living rent free in my head since the news about Columbia caving to the regime. Post protest songs from any era or genre of you've got 'em. I need a full playlist. How can you run when you know? youtu.be/Hi829EsJvVo?...

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YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 22/03/2025

Join Congressman Al Green for a “Know Your Rights” Town Hall on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CST. Don’t miss this important opportunity to gain insights and essential tools about your immigration and citizenship rights.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I had a very cathartic conversation with my neighbor. We validated each other's observations about the state of this country. We confirmed we'll have each other's backs. We're reaching out to others. Is this organization? It feels like SOMETHING at least.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy #WorldDownSyndromeDay. It falls on 3/21, because people with Down syndrome have three copies of the twenty-first chromosome. This is the best Down syndrome PSA ever made and I want you to watch and share it. #WDSD2025

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LIBERTAD - Downeate - Mismas Realidades

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 21/03/2025

This is maybe the most illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral thing the Trump Administration has done yet. I'm disgusted: nebula.tv/videos/legal...

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LegalEagle — Trump Defies Court Order; Illegally Imprisons Venezuelans

He sold them into slavery in El Salvador.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This right here is a good question. Shit like this could get left leaning groups deemed as "terrorists" so that our rights can be more easily stripped away. Resistance should remain nonviolent until self defense is called for and I'd like to think we'd be smarter than this about it anyway.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I love this channel and this tutorial on reading crochet patterns is top notch! If you need to escape The Horrors for just a minute and always wanted to make your own clothes/accessories/amigurumi then give this a look! She has beginner videos as well! youtu.be/7D0b_nGSrNo?...

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Master Crochet Pattern Reading RIGHT NOW! [How to Read Crochet Patterns FOR BEGINNERS]

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

What a weird fucking time for me to finally watch The Menu. Very thematic.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My small act of NB joy today is learning how to contour my face more masculine to get my Texas DL renewed. As soon as I learn how to blend it's over for my gender conforming ass.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Anyone else just mainlining Sam Gamgee's speech to Frodo on repeat to get by right now? youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...

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LOTR The Two Towers - The Tales That Really Mattered...

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Took a break from The Horrors to take my daughter to Spanish story time at the library and damn near cried watching so many kids from different backgrounds sing and dance together. They can't take this from us we'll outlast this.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

ICE has shown up at a neighborhood school so I get to spend my afternoon coaching an 8 year old what his rights are and what to say if he's pulled out of class for simply having a Hispanic surname. I've ordered Know Your Rights cards for him to hand out to classmates. Fuck complying in advance.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is absolutely anecdotal but a bunch of houses in my Texas suburban neighborhood that had Trump signs still out past the ignogoration now have them out with the trash. I wonder if some sentiments are shifting around here. Either way it'll be nice not to see them in yards.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I woke up and it's Monday so I'm going to commit to making it Ted Cruz's problem. I'll be polite to any staffer who answers the phone. This may become my new morning routine.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm going to spend Black History month studying again the Civil Rights Movement but this time with an emphasis on how I can weaponize my whiteness against this fascist regime. If I have any measure of more protection I intend to use it any way I can. I think I'll start at my son's school.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Why is my four year old crying? Because she told me Pluto is her favorite planet and I informed her that since it doesn't clear its orbit it is no longer considered a planet. Some facts should just stay in my head sometimes.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Soon "Gulf of America" is going to refer to the intelligence gap between the US and the rest of the world.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'm so glad I quit industry to follow my dream of getting a PHd. That was truly a great move on my part. I suppose I could start applying to programs in countries that actually give a damn about science.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I made some art today instead of doom scrolling. I used this tutorial from Joel Create on YouTube. I highly recommend his work! youtu.be/JLQHbgkFyRs?...

An optical illusion digital painting of a tree branching out into the outline of a crow with a misty background and dark clouds illuminated by soft central lighting.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Just remembering the time I was pregnant during Trump's first campaign and out with my immigrant husband and a nut job handed me a pamphlet on "White Genocide". I wish I hadn't tossed it dramatically in the trash in front of her. It would be a badge of honor right about now.

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Rae Ospina (She/They) @thegammarae.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It will never stop amusing me that this ultra flattening sports bra I wear to combat dysphoria is called She Fit. Yeah...she fitting these titties all the way into my chest cavity.

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