Oof. This beauty. #poetry #poems #inspiration #hopeinthedark
01.11.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@stevesdropper.bsky.social
Proud community college professor, ravenous reader, Little Free Librarian, poetry proponent, passionate progressive, yogi, certified yoga and meditation teacher, doting dog dad, happy husband ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Oof. This beauty. #poetry #poems #inspiration #hopeinthedark
01.11.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThey were careless peopleโฆthey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.โ
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
So on brand for this would-be emperor and his callous cronies.
01.11.2025 11:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I did so at the height of the COVID pandemic when they platformed irresponsible anti-vaxxers, and I have never looked back or missed it for a minute.
29.10.2025 00:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This "therapy," widely discredited by medical professionals, is literally killing queer kids. As Schraeder Rodriguez notes, "Queer youth who have been threatened with or subjected to conversion efforts are twice as likely to have suicidal ideation."
21.10.2025 10:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0THISSSSSSSS
19.10.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
Same
19.10.2025 12:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Of all the great signs I saw at yesterdayโs #nokings in New Haven, this is the one that will stay with me. #nhv #gscia
19.10.2025 10:43 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โNuff said. #nokings ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
18.10.2025 21:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Great turnout in New Haven, CT for the #nokings rally and march. #gscia #nhv
18.10.2025 21:36 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.
18.10.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 1193 ๐ 294 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 16The Autobiography of Medgaf Evers and Fahrenheit 451
Timely #reading and rereading before and after joining #nokings protests today. #booksky
18.10.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
18.10.2025 15:33 โ ๐ 3760 ๐ 863 ๐ฌ 45 ๐ 23"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love โ whether we call it friendship or family or romance โ is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light"โJames Baldwin
A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to โmagnify each otherโs lightโ is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration
04.10.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Underreported in most of the stories about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcasting has snapped up hundreds of local stations with an eye toward promoting conservative talking points pre-packaged as "news." Media consolidation is a key tool of autocratic governments.
23.09.2025 11:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
How I wish this Mary Oliver poem was not so prescient about this terrible moment we are all living through #poetry #poems #truth
21.09.2025 20:39 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1So funny, and not funny at all.
20.09.2025 11:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A little something to soothe the soul in these crazy, crazy times.
12.09.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I did. Wow. Thank you.
12.09.2025 10:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We're three lines into "First they came..."
09.09.2025 22:45 โ ๐ 2435 ๐ 657 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 29On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretaryโs agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.
On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.
07.08.2025 20:45 โ ๐ 2873 ๐ 591 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 21"Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge."
Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025
Get great content, support my local public broadcasting, and stick it to the thought police all at once? Oh yeahhhhhhhhh. I am so in.
02.08.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
02.07.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 20670 ๐ 5187 ๐ฌ 1015 ๐ 292๐ Also, Prime Day sales were down 41% on the first day, according to Bloomberg. #dumpAmazon
11.07.2025 11:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We are literally living through the absolute dumbest moment in history.
09.07.2025 10:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Need another reason to avoid Amazon? You're welcome.
08.07.2025 14:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โAs a nation we are as close to autocracy as weโve ever been. It seems like fascism is basically a war on consensus reality and we need to put a pin in those points where itโs so obvious that itโs not true...We need to flood the zone too but with the truth.โ
08.07.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0