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wendythedruid
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- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org3h ago
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org5h agoretooted Wendy1,433 people wake up to The Daily Gathering. Some come for the news nobody else runs straight — trans lives, queer wins, the fights the big outlets flatten. Some come for the fiction, stories where people like us get to be the whole world and not the tragedy. Some come to be talked back from the edge, gently, by the self-help that doesn't lie to you.
Three doors. One house. No ad network holds the deed and no billionaire signs the checks — you do, or people exactly like you do.
A dollar a month keeps the lamp lit. Free still gets you the whole morning, every morning, because the gate was never the point. The room was.
You're already one of the 1,433. Fund it if it fed you.
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#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerNews #QueerFiction #Pride #IndependentMedia #ReaderFunded #Journalism #Solidarity #QueerJoy #LGBTQwriters #Community - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org9h agoretooted The Feral Altar of the Druid
LIVE — Playing Games
#LiveNow #Streaming #LGBTQ #Gaymer #Humor #Funny #BadPlaying #MatureGamer #FunnyGamer https://live.thistleandmoss.org/
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org11h agoretooted WendyThere was a reef that lit up a child's living room in 1979. It's bleaching now, in the same sea.
The nature documentary did the thing no chart ever managed — it made us fall in love, and you cannot grieve what you never loved. The Great Barrier Reef has endured nine major bleaching events since the mid-90s, most in the last decade. But the "Attenborough Effect" is measurable: after Blue Planet II, single-use plastic climbed the political agenda. Wonder still moves the needle.
That child grew up knowing the reef was worth loving. And a people who learned to love a thing will fight for it longer than any statistic can. The wonder was never decoration. It was the down payment on the defense.
What was the first piece of the living world you ever loved on a screen?
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#Nature #ClimateAction #Attenborough #CoralReef #QueerNews #Pride #Photography #Wildlife #TransRights #Solidarity #Conservation #EarthBased #Resist - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org11h agoretooted WendyThere's a video going around, and it's the whole rotten machine in ninety seconds.
June 6th: Trump calls Graham Platner a pig, on the record, when the pig was useful. July: a woman credibly accuses Platner of rape, and suddenly the Grievance-Pickled Doubt-Dispenser discovers epistemology — "a question of whether you believe the woman." He didn't just call the man a pig. He called the man a pig, then called the woman a liar, and did it with the serene confidence of a man never once asked to believe a woman about anything.
He's liable for sexual abuse. Owes E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million. Accused by 27 women. That's not a careful question about evidence. That's a man building himself an alibi in public, one press gaggle at a time.
A man tells you exactly who he believes and exactly when — and the when is the whole confession.
Read it → https://twp.ai/4htSNb
#LGBTQ #News #Politics #Resist #Journalism #TransRights #QueerNews #Pride #Photography #Accountability #BelieveSurvivors #Solidarity #Democracy - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org11h ago
CW: sexual assault
The reporting is in today's issue → https://twp.ai/4htSPwA man tells you exactly who he believes and exactly when — and the when is the whole confession.
#News #Politics #Journalism #Resist #BelieveSurvivors #Accountability #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Democracy #Solidarity
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org11h agoretooted Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
Rape-bros stick together - that crosses any minor differences in personal tastes in fascism.
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org11h ago
CW: sexual assault
June 6th, Trump calls Graham Platner a pig — on the record, when the pig was useful. July, a woman credibly accuses Platner of rape, and suddenly Trump discovers doubt: "a question of whether you believe the woman."
The man is liable for sexual abuse. Owes E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million. Accused by 27 women.
#News #Politics #Journalism #Resist #BelieveSurvivors #Accountability #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Democracy #Solidarity
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org12h ago
CW: censorship, anti-trans policy
The complaint is public; today's issue has it → [article link]. Cùm a' cumail cuimhne — keep on remembering. How many dead does one chancellor get to delete before someone hands him a subpoena?
https://twp.ai/4htSPy#TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #News #Journalism #FreedomToLearn #Resist #Solidarity #Gaelic
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org12h ago
CW: censorship, anti-trans policy
Chancellor Brandon Creighton couldn't get his book-ban through the Texas legislature — so he skipped the voting and imposed it by decree. Emperor of the Reading List. Under the policy, med students were barred from treating trans patients "for any reason." A broken wrist. Look through her like a window.
https://twp.ai/4htSPrThis week the AAUP, Lambda Legal, and the NAACP LDF sued him in federal court. You cannot un-teach a people their own dead.
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org13h agoretooted WendyA chancellor in Lubbock decided which dead Americans a professor is allowed to name out loud.
Brandon Creighton couldn't get his book-ban through the Texas legislature, so he skipped the voting and decreed it from his office — Emperor of the Reading List, red pen quivering in his little fist. Under the policy, med students got barred from treating trans patients "for any reason." A trans woman walks in with a broken wrist, and the future doctor is told to look through her like a window.
This week the AAUP, Lambda Legal, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund dragged him into federal court. You cannot un-teach a people their own dead. Somewhere a Texas kid finds the scrubbed name anyway — and all the Emperor's fear buys him is a permanent seat in the paragraph he tried to delete.
When did you last find a name someone tried to erase?
Read it → https://twp.ai/4htSLy
#LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerNews #Pride #AcademicFreedom #TexasTech #CensorshipFails #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #FreedomToLearn #QueerHistory - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org13h agoretooted WendyThe weed in your driveway crack. You've stepped over it a thousand times.
Common mallow — Malva neglecta — is the thing for a throat the wildfire smoke scraped raw. Pick a handful of young leaves, simmer them slow eight or ten minutes until the pot turns silky. That silk is mucilage. It coats and calms the way nothing off a pharmacy shelf quite manages.
It grows for free in the one place nobody thinks to look. Which is most true things.
What do you reach for when the air turns to smoke?
Full herbal → https://twp.ai/4htSM3
#Herbalism #ForagedFood #HerbalMedicine #Mallow #QueerNews #Pride #TransRights #Nature #Photography #Solidarity #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Resist - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org13h agoretooted WendyA gay teacher and an ally parent in Fairfax stood up for queer kids. So somebody built a fake "child abduction ring" smear to destroy them.
This week a jury handed them a million dollars and handed the liars a collapsed case. The million isn't the point. The point is that a lie built to erase two people who told the truth fell apart in a courtroom, and the people who told the truth walked out whole.
This is reader-funded — no oligarch, no ad network deciding which griefs are marketable. If a morning like this is worth it to you → https://twp.ai/4htSOM
When did you last watch a liar actually lose?
#LGBTQ #QueerNews #Pride #TransRights #Solidarity #QueerJoy #Photography #News #Resist #LoveWins #CommunityDefense #Fairfax #Justice - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org13h ago
The money isn't the point. The point is that a lie built to erase two people who told the truth collapsed in a courtroom, and the truth-tellers walked out whole. Solidarity you can feel in the hands — a name on a witness list — is the only kind history records.
#LGBTQ #QueerNews #Pride #TransRights #Solidarity #QueerJoy #CommunityDefense #News #Resist #LoveWins #Gaelic
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org14h ago
The weed in the sidewalk crack — common mallow— is the plant of the household, some of the old tongues called it.
Simmer the young leaves slow eight or ten minutes until the pot turns silky. That silk is mucilage, and it's the whole gift — it soothes a throat the summer smoke scraped raw.
It grows free in the one place nobody thinks to look.
https://twp.ai/4htSPuHashtags: #Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Druid #Nature #QueerNews #Solidarity #EarthBased
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org14h ago
This is the 10th of July, deep in the heat — the season the old people called the time of the standing corn
The corn stands still in the heat and does not fight it. It just keeps making, cell by patient cell, the thing it was put here to make. And under the parched field the roots are still drinking from water the surface forgot it had
Tha an samhradh trom — the summer is heavy
#Druid #EarthBased #Phenology #Seasonal #Gaelic #Nature #Paganism #Mindfulness #QueerWitch #Solidarity #Herbalism - wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org15h agoretooted Terranux
@wendythedruid that explains a lot 😂
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org16h ago
Proximity https://twp.ai/4hsKbu
- wendythedruidwendythedruid@thistlenfern.org16h ago
So my engineer (who is my problem child), admitted today that he can only work in #azure environments, and refuses to work in #aws and #gcp environments. Because he doesnt understand them, how they work, or how to build stuff in them. Despite his constant use of #claude to build #IaC #terragrunt. So console and env awareness shouldnt matter right?
#Devops #Cloudops #Revops #FinOps #WhatTheFuckEverOps
As everyone can guess (I am the at the bottom of the list in the pic).
