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Knitter, writer, witch, largely deprecated orchid nothogenus.

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My period started today, and no one's awake to tell me I can't have ice cream at 2 in the morning πŸ₯³πŸ¨πŸŒ˜

03.03.2026 06:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a bronze statue of a family group including two women and two small boys all holding hands in a line sited on a grass area near buildings in a city

Photo of a bronze statue of a family group including two women and two small boys all holding hands in a line sited on a grass area near buildings in a city

'A Real Birmingham Family' sculpture by Gillian Wearing #womensart

23.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fate-of-the-dis-union

23.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 2359 πŸ” 683 πŸ’¬ 316 πŸ“Œ 76
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23.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 3544 πŸ” 367 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 34
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Coming soon: Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

Public Access RPG is coming to Kickstarter on March 17th! If you haven't already done so, please sign up for prelaunchβ€”we're aiming for 5000 followers before launch.

And please help spread the word!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

23.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 13
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Washington Post is officially a right-wing mouthpiece.

23.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, with all this AI shit, Microsoft should bring back Clippy. Screw CoPilot, nobody's flying planes here -- we want wrong answers and useless advice from distressingly chipper office supplies, just like in the good old days.

17.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

01.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 20969 πŸ” 8207 πŸ’¬ 1052 πŸ“Œ 529
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01.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.

These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 26679 πŸ” 8849 πŸ’¬ 1063 πŸ“Œ 452

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

27.01.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 11319 πŸ” 3424 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 47

Even on video game review sites, I get ads for menopause drugs. The algorithm is cruel.

27.01.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I got a really exciting rock. It's malachite, and it's full of flowers and EXPLOSIONS

09.09.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FUN FACT: For those keeping score, in President Biden’s last full month, the U.S. economy added 323,000 jobs. ⬆️

05.09.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 1778 πŸ” 712 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 24
Photo of a white hand holding a paper cut artwork depicting flowers  and leaves in white

Photo of a white hand holding a paper cut artwork depicting flowers and leaves in white

Pippa Dyrlaga is a paper cutting artist and print maker based in England #WomensArt

08.09.2025 04:15 πŸ‘ 1143 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 15
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What RFK Jr. got wrong about vaccines during Senate hearing The health secretary's statements came amid heated exchanges with some senators.

Here's what RFK Jr. got wrong about vaccines during his Senate hearing:

04.09.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 1887 πŸ” 555 πŸ’¬ 400 πŸ“Œ 100
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Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

08.09.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 731 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 8

Nearly 30 years of online dating has taught me one thing: people with kids really are kind of boring.

08.09.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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People will literally die of cancers and lung disease and have miscarriages because pollution isn't being tracked, let alone remediated.

19.07.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indiana Jones and Are You Fucking Kidding Me Why Do I Have to Put Learning Outcomes on My Syllabus The Outcome I Want is For the Students to Learn What's Assigned on the Parts of the Syllabus They Can Barely Find For All the Dumb Boilerplate Nonsense I'm Supposed to Put on the Syllabus

02.07.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 707 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 21
Mamdani's pledge to lower the cost of living in New York City

Mamdani's pledge to lower the cost of living in New York City

Only history's greatest monsters have [squints at Fox News graphic] addressed the cost of living in practical ways.

25.06.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 1782 πŸ” 276 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 128

nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it

25.06.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 8029 πŸ” 990 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 24
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Opinion | What if Mamdani shows the best path forward for Democrats? Maybe the party should consider abandoning its cautious old ways.

Maybe the lesson of Mamdani's win is that the time has finally come for the Democratic Party to side with the young in the party's generational split, keeping drifting allies rather than trying to find an inoffensive middle ground.
Gift link: wapo.st/44zuWyC

26.06.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 183 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 4
meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

probably a good time to bring this back

25.06.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 20586 πŸ” 5075 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1
As donors try to assess their next moves in the mayoral race, one of the biggest donors to Andrew Cuomo’s super PAC, the investor Mark Gorton, said he is likely to back Mamdani. That is because of the support that Mamdani had gotten from Brad Lander, who Gorton said he ranked first. β€œI feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm,” Gorton said in an interview. β€œIt was basically, β€˜Oh, looks like Cuomo is coming back. We don’t want to be shut out. Let’s try and get on his good side.’ That’s kind of how things work with Cuomo. It’s sad political pragmatism. I wish we lived in a world where those sort of things were not useful things to do.”

As donors try to assess their next moves in the mayoral race, one of the biggest donors to Andrew Cuomo’s super PAC, the investor Mark Gorton, said he is likely to back Mamdani. That is because of the support that Mamdani had gotten from Brad Lander, who Gorton said he ranked first. β€œI feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm,” Gorton said in an interview. β€œIt was basically, β€˜Oh, looks like Cuomo is coming back. We don’t want to be shut out. Let’s try and get on his good side.’ That’s kind of how things work with Cuomo. It’s sad political pragmatism. I wish we lived in a world where those sort of things were not useful things to do.”

Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

25.06.2025 23:18 πŸ‘ 8609 πŸ” 1285 πŸ’¬ 310 πŸ“Œ 194

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.Β 
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Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
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Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

β€”Harry Truman, 1952

25.06.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 34362 πŸ” 10873 πŸ’¬ 634 πŸ“Œ 395

There’s a weird thing on this website and lots of left-wing subcultures, where people love to throw around β€œliberal” as an insult, but from what I can tell liberals voted overwhelmingly against Cuomo and are rallying behind Zohran now.

25.06.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 21410 πŸ” 2202 πŸ’¬ 1436 πŸ“Œ 496
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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

26.06.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 23408 πŸ” 10410 πŸ’¬ 899 πŸ“Œ 665

I know no one's going to hear this, but Dems, *listen to your voters* for a change. Mamdani is your candidate, chosen by the people! Don't let NYC go the way of Buffalo, with a corrupt "independent" mayor over a well-liked, effective, morally upright one who happens to be left of center!

26.06.2025 12:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hoo hoo hoo

Dem Socialist won the NYC mayoral primary!

Maybe the pendulum really will swing back.

25.06.2025 02:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0