@grietbird.bsky.social
Book reader, science believer, capitalism hater, soup cooker, forest dweller, anti-fascist and anti-colonialist. Basking in my wayward auntie energy
"Believe your observations, not their denials.”
27.01.2026 22:57 — 👍 320 🔁 164 💬 0 📌 5change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage
07.03.2025 02:37 — 👍 3389 🔁 271 💬 90 📌 21Avebury, September 2025
#oldstones
#stonecircles
#neolithic
#modernantiquarian
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
12.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 6228 🔁 923 💬 112 📌 64Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.” Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”
Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c
11.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 16419 🔁 4081 💬 306 📌 100Cultural Regions of the US
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
07.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 1766 🔁 347 💬 163 📌 449🧵 1/4 📖 ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by Omar El Akkad
Haven’t read it yet but rave reviews, lots of awards.
DON'T be that title.
Speak out against injustice TODAY.
270 year old Sycamore tree in Abbey Green - Bath, England
Across the street from this tree is the building where a young Mary Shelley finished her final draft of Frankenstein (1817)
#england
#oldtrees
#gothic
#bathabbey
Seinfeld meme Kramer, what's going on in there? STALKER We're now standing at the threshold. This is the most important moment - in your life. You must know that your most cherished desire will come true here. Your sincerest wish, the desire that has made you suffer most.
I forgot I made this I crack myself up lol
30.08.2024 19:37 — 👍 847 🔁 199 💬 16 📌 6Sometimes, you end up living in the world you worked so hard to create. And in that world, the bullets are flying
11.09.2025 01:00 — 👍 267 🔁 74 💬 12 📌 8A typewritten note that reads "happy labor day. Learn about the battle of Blair mountain," with a hyper stylized stencil of a red fist
01.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 135 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 6Happy labor day, go thank a union
01.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 80 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day.
Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
I Childhood in Tennessee - Runs away - New Orleans - Fights - Is shot - To Galveston - Nacogdoches - The Reverend Green - Judge Holden - An affray - Toadvine - Burning of the hotel - Escape. S ee the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that har- bor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmas- ter. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sis- ter in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Five years ago today, cops and militia types encouraged a 17-year old with a 9th grade education to wander into a riot with an AR-15
A man prematurely released from inpatient care for his 2nd suicide attempt in 2 months chased him into a parking lot
The man lunged for the rifle. The kid shot him
savage 😂
22.08.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0hardcore relate 😔
22.08.2025 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“I’m a Bad Parent. My Disabled Son is Less Important To Me than My Shitty Values and I Would Rather Hurt Others than Help My Family.”
21.08.2025 13:27 — 👍 1362 🔁 236 💬 71 📌 26Sir thank you
07.08.2025 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👏👏👏
05.08.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Motherfucking wind farms…
30.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 47143 🔁 17694 💬 1141 📌 2379Dune, 1965
02.08.2025 08:31 — 👍 7058 🔁 2287 💬 56 📌 110Goodnight, friends.
Did you know that Monarch butterfly migration is multigenerational? That is, it takes several successive generations to make the trip. Their individual lifespans are too brief.
People are like that too. We have to persist in hope of what's to come.
I love you.
“A turn away from everything decent”
30.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 9713 🔁 2841 💬 190 📌 125