Elsie ShartinFolkert

she/her/hers

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

One of the most sinister things our media does is repackage dystopian social failures as some hopeful or inspiring feat of human resilience

[Jennifer Wright @JenAshleyWright]

Part of being an adult is just accepting that this is the way your back feels now.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

They say the Green New Deal is expensive. Compared to what?

[Northern Sparrow @NorthernSprw]

Remembering that time in grad school when my advisor, a great ornithologist, got a random call:

drunk guy, bar noises in background: IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR?

my advisor: um..yes?

drunk guy: DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?

my advisor: ...yes

*wild cheering over phone from bar*

[Curtis @ckimberlinjr]

10 years ago today.

[Elsie ShartinFolkert @Elsie2016]

@morgs_nickel Omg delete this tweet and let’s get a patent

[. @aishaiiv]

Daisugi - the Japanese forestry technique of growing trees out of other trees

[ab d. roger @aliabdi]

nancy pelosi thanking george floyd for sacrificing his life and mayor jacob frey saying floyd made minneapolis a better city i think politicians should just please for once shut the fuck up

[𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆 @feralfuneral]

there is literally a military occupation of minneapolis happening right now. military vehicles parked all over, personnel patrolling the block in pairs with M4s. i hope the rest of the country understands this could be them too. this isn’t for our safety, it’s for control.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Derek Chauvin is on trial.
America is on trial.
Our criminal-legal system is on trial.

George Floyd is not on trial.

[B 🦋 @isabellayonce]

Thinking about this 1400 year old ginkgo tree.

[Sarah McGonagall @gothspiderbitch]

I think any cop who stands behind the statement that having a bad day could lead to a racially-charged mass shooting should probably never be allowed to touch a weapon, but that’s just me.

[manny @mannyfidel]

when Black people have "bad days" they are killed by police and then exposed on national media for smoking a joint once in middle school

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

asked my 5-year-old what she wanted for dinner and she said “not a burned quesadilla” bc in the summer of 2019 I overcooked one side of her quesadilla