Anna Minsky

@aminsky256.bsky.social

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Libraries. Liberation. School integration. NYC. Ceasefire. Still thinking about Ella Baker.

a police car parked in a raised bike lane
A honey locust tree covered in snow in front of a brick apartment building.
Quote from nytimes, with emphasis on the last sentence: "I think there's been a lot of cases recently where if the video had not been there, I'm not sure if the story would have been told the same or we wouldn't have known what happened," he said. But he gets that people want to have some measure of control. "That's the balance. It's not just like unfettered mass surveillance," he said. "That's not what we have with Ring. You get to choose what you do with your individual home." Davia Temin, a longtime corporate crisis strategist, said Mr. Siminoff was emphasizing the most important point in this particular maelstrom. "A C.E.O. who acknowledges that his company wants to give as much control to the consumer as possible -- that is as healthy as it gets," Ms. Temin, who runs the communications firm Davia Temin & Company, said. "Privacy will always be contested until we get to the next step."
Gold medalist Tommie Smith (center) and bronze medalist John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200 m race at the 1968 Summer Olympics; both wear Olympic Project for Human Rights badges. Peter Norman (silver medalist, left) from Australia also wears an OPHR badge in solidarity with Smith and Carlos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute
two loaves of challah being basted, and next to them on the table is the book The 100 Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, open and spine up.
Three people at no-kings protest wearing signs. Text on signs in post.
A group of 50-plus protesters on a street corner with no-kings themed sings and umbrellas
me wearing a mask knocking on the door of a voter.
Don't look at me, look at your own self / In the given weather it's raining harder / The world is round & falling down, so rocks / Look out! it's nice to be exact as she & he / Fall like rain to a little bit lower than / Young & watching something without participating / Where you begin or above like snow flying up / The curve uncriticized by us, the child / The dumb drips exist when the sun / Beyond the stupid rectangles is the ancient flower / Shines on them? comes out? so what? criss-cross? / / Counting nineteen humans plus eight trees equals / Twenty-seven living beings and that's all / And one is watching this something, you carry the one
Sardines is a yellow, red, orange, black & green / word. I got sardines at the dollar store / where everything except sardines is more / than a dollar, for sixty cents, as they should be / my father used to take sardine sandwiches to work / perhaps, therefore, I love sardines. when people / used to talk about the subway, they'd say: / we were packed like sardines which sends a message: / small, cheap, tightly packed, anchovies for the poor / or you too can be colorful & inexpensive as / a really snappy, tiny bright blue convertible / in which you can enjoy the good things about / feeling like a sardine but maybe you'd rather / be a striped bass or be a manatee with me / or a grand whale / forgetful of nothing even / being so big, the ocean's CEO, you'll take home / a giant amount of cash when the ocean goes bust / so you can share it even with the downtrodden / sardines who get packed in cans in Thailand / & shipped to the family dollar store for Bernadette
An image that uses bikes as a metaphor for equity/equality. In equality everyone has to ride the same bike. Equitable means a kid size bike for a kid and a recumbent hand-pedal bike for a person using a wheelchair.
picture of omny vending machine saying "your omny card has a negative balance."
People skating in an outdoor rink