My Father’s Daughter

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Gorgeous

sane should always be written with quotation marks - for many reasons, but mainly bcz its use is historically intertwined with the carceral pipeline or the anti-state state per Ruth Wilson Gilmore

“There is no soul of a nation without the soul of its people…We either move forward together or not at all. There is no man behind the curtain who has control over your life.” - Viola Davis

it's march. soft resets. open windows. lighter dinners. fresh flowers. earlier mornings. a quiet return to rhythm

I feel her. In tears

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

restorative rest from lifetimes of emotional taxation

🤣 clears can never accept their irrelevance

From an ex-Hungarian MP @dailytelegraphnews.bsky.social, on April elections:

"The question is whether those who write the rules, distribute the money, count the votes, and announce the results will be willing to tolerate a world where they are no longer in power"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

what a stupid question/headline

“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives….remember that authoritarians exploit such events…to consolidate power…end checks & balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial…oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”

“I am a person who is experiencing hybridity, where my sense of ‘otherness’ is a result of immersion in multiple or mixed cultures…integral to multiple identities & voices – the sum of who you are in ‘zones of difference within & between cultures’, never a fraction of the self.”- @genni.bsky.social

Wow

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

“Where life is precious, life is precious.”

— Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Omg

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

“Because the teaching objective isn't for them to learn to say things. It's to learn about how the language works.”

We posted this a while ago, but it’s a breakdown of how general strike works, and hopefully will answer people’s questions.

It can get more concise than this. You have the information. The rest is up to you.

bsky.app/profile/gene...

🕊️ Absolutely incredible how true this is.

you’re not alone

“There’s a focus here not just on what kids learn, but on how they learn…What I realized is that cooperative learning provides something really important, something kids need to become good readers. It provides a lot of time for practice.” - Emily Hanford

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Hey did I mention that @motherjones.com is suing OpenAI?

😳

today years old learning about the Floating Freedom School

“The virtues of good institutional design were sought, but they were balanced agnst the desire to protect entrenched interests. The presidential selection system, perhaps more than the rest of the Constitution, was overbalanced towards protecting entrenched interests…”

Tell your dog I said hi 👋

but it’s good news bcz ppl are fighting for democracy - final overwhelm is the alternative