Heron Greenesmith, Esq. 🐀’s Tweets

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I've been hearing

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Gillian Branstetter

@GBBranstetter

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Many people are saying

human barometer, M.M.

@laurenancona

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seeing a lot of folks with major sensory aversions to children: hello: if being around children causes you literal pain, you may be autistic children also still get to exist in public around you & sometimes be loud

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far right: heil hitler far left: rail workers deserve sick pay elon: these are equally bad

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If the railways are too crucial to allow workers to strike, then they are too crucial to be owned by private companies whose only goal is to squeeze them for profit. Nationalized them, and treat the workers fairly.

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so much of modern conservatism is getting mad at things capitalists do but calling it marxism

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Alejandra Caraballo

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These are the people who showed up outside of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio and caused it to be canceled. This is terrorism. Where is the DoJ? This is a clear violation of civil rights by neo-nazi orgs.

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As a proud union member of

@UnionAtPRA

@WBNG32035

, I strongly support the rail strike. Yup, supply chain will get totally messed up. Am I excited about that? No. But I *am* excited about other humans having dignity and autonomy. They have NO. PAID. SICK. DAYS.

Jon Paul, Ed. D. (They/Them/Tired)

@DoctorJonPaul

This week I’ve been sitting with how much I’ve lost this year. Jobs. Friends I thought were close. Loved ones. Opportunities. But this morning I woke up reframing it because I can’t keep focusing on that. Losing so much this year has made room for me to be more grateful.

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Crushed to get this email that

@CellarStories

will be closing permanently at the beginning of 2023. I was one of those "wayward girls" back in 2007, between peace corps and law school. I wasn't quite wayward enough, or girl enough.

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Michael Chandley opened the store in 1982 with his friend Ray, a big dream, and very little money. The starting inventory came from their personal collections, and they worked opposite hours at the store so each could hold down a second job elsewhere- Mike at his family’s restaurant, Ray at B. Dalton. They managed a deal on rent for their first shop at 184 Mathewson doing odd jobs for the owner of the building, where they found an old 1917 National cash register in the basement (which we still use today). After a few years, Ray left to pursue other ventures, but Mike never tired of buying and selling books. The business changed and the inventory grew, prompting a move out of the cellar and into a first floor space at 190 Mathewson, and eventually down the street to our current location on the second floor of 111 Mathewson Street. Friends and family came out to help build shelves, move boxes, and organize the store.
Mike found help from a cohort of willing apprentices over the years, m

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I started working at Cellar Stories in 2014, and I quickly became aware that I had stumbled upon something truly special. It cannot quite be described- it's that feeling of searching for something you didn’t know you needed and suddenly finding it, like a treasure buried under years of dust. As Mike said in an interview with C-SPAN, “this is the greatest job in the world….never knowing what you’re going to see.”
Mike was my best friend for the four years we spent together. I learned so much from him, and I laughed so much because of him. He changed the whole course of my life for the better, and I can’t imagine what kind of person I’d be today if I hadn’t had the opportunity to work for him. I lost a big piece of my heart when he died and Providence lost an important part of its community. He was really something special. He could be stern and grumpy, but he was sweet and soft and kind, and he always had a little twinkle in his eye. He would give anyone a free book or a dollar for t

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Although it is very sad to say goodbye to Cellar Stories, I know Mike would be happy to see us keeping his legacy alive and proud to see all that we’ve accomplished. I don’t think anyone thought the store would make it 40 years, or that it would become such an important place to so many people. It will always be a special place to me, and I know I will never take for granted everything I’ve learned here.
We hope you will keep this place in your hearts too. Come say your farewells, share with us your stories and your memories, hug your favorite shelf, use up your store credit and redeem your gift certificates before it’s too late. Always support your local bookstores, be nice to your booksellers, and most importantly BUY BOOKS.

Thank you for everything.

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This is really fkn bad

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SpookySus

@def_spooky

This is fukin bad

Wow I love this

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mercy (they/them)

@iamafreedom

May 25

whether im partnered or not, it's really important for me to live/love romantically. to be engaged from a place of delight and care. to be adored. to be allowed to adore. my people are the people who understand + appreciate this about me. and move that way themselves.

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If Herschel Walker lives in Georgia but claimed homestead in Texas, that’s tax fraud. If he lives in Texas but is registered to vote in Georgia (he is, registered in 2021), that’s voter fraud. He definitely committed one of these crimes, so which is it?

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We're Suing Blaire White, organized by Eli Erlick

Remember when

made a video accusing me of the manslaughter of a living person a few weeks ago? She's refused to apologize/take it down, so

@j_remy_green

and I are suing her over it. You can now contribute, learn more, & share our fundraiser:

gofundme.com

My name’s Eli. I’m a writer, activist, and graduate student. I’m also a trans woman and the subje… Eli Erlick needs your support for We're Suing Blaire White

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Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions. He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Here we go!!

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The cost of living is pushing more people into sex work, at the same time as making it more dangerous. The answer is not to criminalise it. It’s to prevent poverty and keep workers safe. I’m proud to support

@HAHcampaign

, led by sex workers. Watch to find out more 👇🏽

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hey, if you're looking for some weekend reading, here's a 🧵 about my latest essay Anti-#Trans “Grooming” and “Social Contagion” Claims Explained... twitter.com/JuliaSerano/st #transgender #LGBTQ

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Julia Serano

@JuliaSerano

Nov 29

new essay! not only debunks #trans "social contagion" & "gr00ming" charges, but shows how they're linked, & the unconscious thinking behind the TERF-to-fascist pipeline. no paywall link, pls share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other ppl see it! juliaserano.medium.com/anti-trans-gro

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the replies crying about "but custom art is expensive" YES IT IS. custom art is a LUXURY ITEM. It's unfortunate, but true. But supporting AI art is only gonna make art even more expensive, because us artist have to crank up our prices to PAY OUR BILLS.

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You may think the AI art trend is cute and quirky, but your artist friends see you okay with using an $8 app and having it steal artwork to give you an image you could’ve commissioned that would’ve paid their bills minus some company profiting off of theft and your likeness

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Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic

1/ You may have heard of this article that shows that opening syringe exchange programs increases overdoses. It's a shocking finding. But if you look at the data and methods, there's a simple explanation. It has to do with something called survivor bias.

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In light of the recent opioid crisis, many public health entities have called for an expansion in syringe exchange programs (SEPs), which provide acce…

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There's no methodological substitute for, like, thinking about things. You gotta actually think about what you are doing and why or you'll end up with silly (and to the extent it affects policy harmful) errors like the one documented in this thread.

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Alex Gertner MD PhD

@gertner_alex

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confused as to why I have to share this tweet. I seriously thought we were beyond this:

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sad boy era

@MOLENAIDE

Dec 1

Considering one AI “art” bot was found to be collecting PRIVATE MEDICAL PHOTOS to teach its AI, maybe don’t feed these things dozens of your own selfies voluntarily. These things are SHADY and not regulated.

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Rail workers aren't threatening the economy over more paid sick time. Rail companies are threatening the economy to protect their record profits.

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If you've recently been playing around with the Lensa App to make AI art "magic avatars" please know that these images are created with stolen art through the Stable Diffusion model.

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I agree with you 100% and this brings up 2 more issues 1) I WILL GET A SABBATICAL NEXT YEAR BECAUSE OF

@UnionAtPRA

!!! And 2) Unfortunately, I'm trapped working at nonprofits until my loans get forgiven. We do not talk enough about this fucking trap.

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Jess O'Thomson

@DisabledJess

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You've got it really tough Heron, and this is work so intense that people need to take turns doing it. It might be time for you to take a nice, long, sabbatical and pass on the torch for a bit. All my love x

@chican3ry@social.transsafety.network

@Chican3ry

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Thinking about when @BluBuchanan said "This is disabling work" and I cried because it is. "This" meaning opposition monitoring, researching the Right, extremism research, war correspondence, any work in which you expose yourself to violence and horrible rhetoric every day.

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@chican3ry@social.transsafety.network

@Chican3ry

Or they'll be taking for 4 hours straight, and 90% of it will just be self aggrandising bullshit and then they will briefly come out and describe something they're planning on doing, and you have to be attentive throughout or you might miss it. Just exhausting bullshit.

My physical health has declined pretty steeply since starting this work. (Of course, two years in another mass disabling event began and is still occurring.) I am in constant physical pain. I now use a cane and will be pursuing accessible parking, seating, etc.

So we work until we physically can't any more, and we call it a win because we didn't unalive ourselves, or burnout mentally in a firey rage, or turn reactionary. Sure, but we can't walk because our spine is serving the same purpose as rebar in pudding.

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Which makes it particularly fun when most of the people doing the work are already incredibly disabled and otherwise marginalised.

And so, even in spaces that are serious about sustainability and self-care, the emphasis is on paying attention to your mental symptoms. So we ignore physical warning signs. Stomach issues. Pain. Frequent sickness. Viral flare-ups. Injuries.

Is my mind in absolute shambles due to reading about how I and my whole community should unalive itself? Yes. But is my *body* also in total shambles? Also yes.

This emphasis on the internal also impacts our conversations on burn-out, and health. The conversations around burn out focus entirely on mental health. Lack of focus, lack of initiative, lack of inspiration. Depression, anxiety. Ignoring the physical disabling impacts.

And I'm thinking about how physical bodies are seen as mere vessels, as limiters, in academic work and in nonprofit work that isn't direct services. There's this understanding that our brains are our only value. Our critical thinking. Our analysis.

This is disabling work. Repeat it. Our heads, our hearts, our stomachs, our joints. But even among the institutions who pay us for this work and largely lack the supportive systems to mitigate the disabling effects of the work, not all impacts are treated equally.

Thinking about when

@BluBuchanan

said "This is disabling work" and I cried because it is. "This" meaning opposition monitoring, researching the Right, extremism research, war correspondence, any work in which you expose yourself to violence and horrible rhetoric every day.

Old Woman Seeking Justice

@GrownRoom

Nov 30

As we speak, the “most progressive” cities in the country are arming robots to kill civilians & enacting laws that will allow the homeless and other “non-desirables” to be involuntarily incarcerated in “mental health” facilities. Democrats. There is no opposition to fascism.

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This is concerning stuff. I hope the child isn't trans (and, to be clear, the child in question never came out as trans or even wore clothing from the "other" side of the store), bc of the potential damage here.

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Assigned

@assignedmedia

A parent writes for the Federalist that after their child put rainbow stickers on their phone, the family pulled then out of school, cut them off from all their friends, and started pointing out biological differences between women and men. assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/

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@angryblacklady@mstdn.social

Imani Gandied Yams

@AngryBlackLady

Hey buddy,

@JoeyMcFarland

? This is real fucked up. This is about as fucked up a thing as I’ve seen in a while and I lived through the Trump administration

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Variety

@Variety

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#Emancipation producer Joey McFarland brought the original "scourged back" photo from 1863 to the film's premiere: "I wanted a piece of Peter to be here tonight." bit.ly/3FdzU7A

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