@leeleykeel
anti-violence, anti-racist, artist & gardener. laughter encourager w crispy edges. baffled Buddhist, probably napping, GenXer, over it. Small town Ontario, Algonquin Territory (🇨🇦) she/her I have three kittens to distract me from reality
Yesterday at the women's day march police in Manila attempted to stop protesters reaching the US embassy in the Philippines. Protesters briefly broke through
Women were protesting US Military actions & highlighting the impact of global conflict on women, workers, and poorer nations
Vid via ABC-CBN
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)
Seven pm and it’s not dark yet and for that I am grateful ✨
That’s my mother ship! lol
Is that a place that is of interest to you? Just a question - no explanation required etc etc etc
Random but semi-related q:
Are you near Plum Village?
After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.
With @oregonian.com
This is genuinely grotesque
Wow. Viola Davis co-wrote a book with James Patterson.
"Judge Stone" is a courtroom thriller that follows a judge in a small Alabama town presiding over a trial of a doctor charged for providing care to 13 y.o. girl. As a victim of abuse, Davis says every character is from her experience. #BlackSky
When someone says “I really like this” movie / TV show / book / video games etc, I’m intrigued by the impulse some folks have to waddle into their replies and say “oh, but EYE didn’t like it.”
What is that impulse? What’s its intention / social function?
"Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear"
Hehehehe
Finished your piece - it’s the copyright expiring in 2016 that I was thinking of when I made the original comment. Regardless, my belief that we weren’t ready for the internet is strengthened.
Thank you - I was so sure it wasn’t legal for much of post WWII. I’ll check out your link :)
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From promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by Ann Coulter’s white nationalist niece one day, to getting face time with the Secretary of State the next. America! We’re still the country where anything is possible!
I remember when that book wasn’t available and shuddered when that changed a few years back. And here we are.
The fact that the one day a year dedicated to women is only 23 hours, is peak irony.
#IWD
Thank you for all you do! 💕
Bouquets of roses and a plate of croissants
My feminist fitness instructor had bread and roses for everyone after class today.
“Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.”
Happy International Women’s Day ❤️
look i’ll be honest, i think men have lost their right to run the country and/or world for at least a century
Excited for you & to see your choices!! Enjoy!!
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
Come on up and be my neighbour 😀🤞
New to me: Dirty Data, a collaborative project featuring 40 journalists across Asia, Latin America, and Europe investigating data centers, their impacts, and how communities are fighting back against data center construction. The website includes original reporting and an interactive map.
Those IKEA sales and the as-is section is the BEST :) good find!
Woohoo! Summer kitchen is a GO for launch!!
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