Rikibeth
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- Reposted by RikibethNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by RikibethI was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
- Nice hot bath with Super Milk bath bomb, tea with a splash of apricot brandy, hydrating honey & vitamin C sheet mask.
- Reposted by RikibethThe public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
- Reposted by RikibethAll these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
- Reposted by RikibethHappy Black History Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com
- Reposted by Rikibethas i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
- Reposted by RikibethThis is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
- Reposted by RikibethContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by RikibethIn honor of the fact that we have now shipped 100,000 whistles in February (yes, in FEWER THAN FOUR DAYS) I would like to celebrate by sharing a glimpse of what it is like to be in the group chat. 🤣 We're normal about whistles. Need some? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles Wanna help? linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
- Reposted by RikibethThe whole list exceeds my expectations in terms of being creative about making them sound deranged for objecting to any of it. So yeah TLDR get ready for the rest of DHS to be shut down for a while IMO.
- Reposted by RikibethPeople are going to be really mad that the ask here isn’t abolishing any deportation ever (which would be my choice if it was just up to me) but this is a very calculated list of reasonable asks that Republicans will lose their minds over, reinforcing revulsion in the American lizard brain.
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- Reposted by Rikibeth#Recall: Cobelae Busy Books; The toy books violate the small parts ban because the beads can loosen and detach from the product, posing a deadly choking hazard. Get replacement. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
- I’m white enough to glow in the dark but chili peppers, fish sauce, and cilantro are all things I regularly use when fixing dinner! As for sesame noodles - they’re a hot weather staple for me.
- Reposted by RikibethStarbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Reposted by RikibethUSE WHISTLES AGAINST ICE Look, I actually don't like to talk about actual vulnerabilities because there's evil shit people who'll weaponize it. I am sensitive to sound. I've been open about having cPTSD but not about all of the events around it and that'll stay the same. It was SEVERE, today less.
- Reposted by RikibethI think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
- Reposted by RikibethSeeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.
- Reposted by RikibethThere's gonna be a run on fainting couches over this...
- Reposted by RikibethTo those lamenting seeing activists fight over what often appears to be trivial bullshit: if it makes you feel any better, this is absolutely nothing NEW, and it doesn’t appear to be an impediment to success in and of itself. To those activists: take it to the Signal group chat more often. please!
- Reposted by RikibethI will say gently: every famous counter sit-in from the Civil Rights era was a crime. Nonviolent civil disobedience is quite literally and explicitly a strategy where you commit crimes.
- Reposted by RikibethMine: they were fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe organized by cynical political leaders who told their angry and aggrieved countrymen that a hated minority was responsible for all of their problems, and that once their countries were purged of those people then everything would be great again.
