Amanda

Amanda

@slghtlyoffkey.bsky.social

Wife, mom, licensed social worker. Book lover. She/her. Opinions are mine.

66 Followers 221 Following 20 Posts Joined Jun 2023
3 months ago
"MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING" colored with the trans flag over top of a black background -- created by Fox Fisher @thefoxfisher.bsky.social

I'm a trans person w/ a trans kid & we lose trans siblings every year to hateful violence. On Trans Day of Remembrance we're called not only to collectively mourn those we've lost, but to renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who are still here.

#tdor 🏳️‍⚧️
Art by @thefoxfisher.bsky.social

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6 months ago
Trump: "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

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6 months ago

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

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6 months ago
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.

Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

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6 months ago
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F*ck‼️

Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.

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6 months ago

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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7 months ago

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

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7 months ago

A lot of people are learning that cowardice won’t save them in real time. Might as well be brave.

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10 months ago

im serious here, you really do need to find the things that make you happy. You cannot sit there and consume the horrors on a daily basis. Its not healthy. You are not wrong for taking the time to do the things you enjoy

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11 months ago

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11 months ago

“Improper ideology”? Get fucked.

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11 months ago

This is becoming more and more relevant by the day.

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11 months ago
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#DepecheMode #Violator

Violator 35th Anniversary

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1 year ago
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The Tea Dragon Society and The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill

These were both so cute!

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1 year ago
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The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services by Jessica Pryce

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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

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1 year ago
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The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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1 year ago
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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1 year ago
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Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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1 year ago
In 150 Characters or Lesss

Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things
and trying to make life worth living,
and I know I don't have to believe in everything,
but I believe in that.

Nikita Gill.

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1 year ago
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Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

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The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

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1 year ago

Thank you!

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1 year ago
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No one elected you to enable Trump An open letter to my US Senators—Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. Hello Senators: First, I’d like to congratulate you and quickly remind you of a simple yet vital fact. Both of you were ...

No one elected you to enable Donald Trump

An open letter to my US Senators—Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.

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1 year ago

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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1 year ago

Pay them.

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1 year ago
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Moonbound by Robin Sloan

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Go-to Dinners by Ina Garten

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What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

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