Rose Bigham

@funchefchick.bsky.social

114 Followers 199 Following

Seattle-area tech veteran, dog-lover, gardening n00b, culinary student/scholar. Now disabled by a collection of debilitating auto-immune disorders. I spend my time -when able- advocating for reasonable and appropriate pain care for chronic pain sufferers.

Old-school American tv signal with overlaid text saying “Sorry! America is experiencing technical difficulties due to a batshit white nationalist minority”
Professional ethics must guide us precisely when we are told that the situation is exceptional
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit du corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity. Wendell Phillips, American Abolitionist Speeches before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, January, 1852.
Thomas Jefferson probably never said that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" but other Americans of his era certainly did. When we think of this saying today, we imagine our own righteous vigilance directed outward, against misguided and hostile others.   We see ourselves as a city on the hill, a stronghold of democracy, looking out for threats that come from abroad. But the sense of the saying was entirely different: that human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder, Feb 2017
Image of protestors holding hands, text reads: If you wanted teachers to stand aside and let ICE take their kids, maybe you shouldn't have conditioned them to be willing to take a bullet for them.
A warning from an anonymous United States Postal Service employee that undocumented parents with minor children born in the USA - and who are therefore American citizens - applying for US passports for those children are at risk. USPS employees have been directed to gather information on suspected undocumented parents and REPORT to immigration. It is disgusting and wrong.
Text over gorgeous American national park reads: First they came for the scientists. And the National Park Service said, “LOL. No.” And went rogue. And we were all like, “I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance. None of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this. But. Cool.”
Dark and gloomy backdrop with the following bold and bright text: the road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
Tweet from @jzellis reads: “Stopping climate collapse before it ends civilization and probably our species has been estimated to cost in the ballpark of who gives a flying fuck, we either do it or we die, I can’t believe people are so stupid they need this explained to them.”
Image of rainbow over Puget Sound ending on the Cathlamet car ferry at Vashon Island dock
Image of a rainbow over Puget Sound with one end on the Cathlamet car ferry
Image shows a Burger King burger with the text “We don’t snitch”. It is a reference to the McDonald’s employee who turned in the suspect for alleged shooter of the United Healthcare CEO. In other words: BK is better attuned to the American public than McD’s!
Humorous graphic describing how *I* tell a story as compared to a "normal" person; in other words: I start with a pre-story for context, add too many details, tell a related side story, lose my train of thought, remember what my main point was, wrap up the story, and then apologize. Fin!
Excerpt from Matthew Perry's memoir, key bit being: "but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people. I know it won't happen, but it would be nice." - Matthew Langford Perry