Nicole Shambles
@shamblingalong.bsky.social
Occasionally a thought may drip out.
On this, the 6th day of our Queer Holy Month of Pride, I'd like to share some queer book resources! 🌈📚 First off, I've been creating/curating queer adult SFF lists since 2019. The latest has links back to all of the previous lists:
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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Today, let us honor George Floyd not just with remembrance, but with action. Let us recommit ourselves to building a world where every Black life is treated with dignity, humanity, and care.
CIDRAP: 'Long COVID costs world’s economy billions: analysis' '“Patients already knew this crisis is enormous and it isn’t over,” said Stone, adding that the United States urgently needs national strategies, funding, and care..." www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID costs world’s economy billions: analysis
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Lawmakers in DC: hear us roar! 📢 Nurse leaders took the fight to #AbolishICE to the streets of our nation’s capital today — because our patients and communities deserve care, not terror!
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities. We're standing up anyway. So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting: Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI FUCK ICE.
ICE surge in western Wisconsin echoes trauma, intimidation of Twin Cities
Volunteers have raised money to pay rent, coordinated rides to school for children and donated groceries and household supplies.
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I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
Hi Bsky Fam- if you know of anyone who needs a wheelchair (with detachable leg extensions)- I’m weaning off mine & can’t store it. Pick up or drop off near DT Mpls.
Context: 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.
Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 8mo agoSir 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
If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter. Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 9mo agoDems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"
Mountains of Ice
When you listen to the song you can hear below you might doubt me – but it is not a topical song written about recent events. It was written by Parlando alternative voice Dave Moore in 2014. Dave’s…
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Today is a good day to educate yourself about the Baldies, the Minneapolis political punks who fought Nazis and founded Anti-Racist Action. These guys were heroes of mine. This is a great documentary. youtu.be/8BSDZ1DIEIQ?...
Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis: The Baldies | Full-Length Documentary
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
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Powerful march today. Keep putting salt in their gears to slow down this disgusting federal operation. ICE OUT NOW!
-11 degrees at MSP & we are protesting the ICE Occupation in Minnesota during a day of General Strike & Truth and Freedom. We are demanding ICE leave, Accountability for the officer who murdered Renee Good, businesses no longer working with ICE, and no more funding to ICE. Stay safe, Stay warm!
how (if at all) can we support the minnesota general strike on friday from afar?
ping’s in loring park are giving out a whistle, a know your rights card, and a zine on using whistles to alert your community of ICE in 4 languages with their takeout orders, if you’re looking for a family run, chinese restaurant that is supportive of the mission here. take out only pingsmpls.com
Ping's Szechuan Bar & Grill
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This week, the House votes on DHS funding. I will not vote to give ICE a single cent. No more blank checks for a rogue agency that operates above the law, escalates violence, and erodes our most basic freedoms.
We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.
'Be Yourself' - Taniuchi Masato, late 1900s. The poem is translated roughly as, "Do not try to over extend, just be yourself.". #Caturday #JapaneseArt
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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