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alittlechick.bsky.social
@alittlechick.bsky.social
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‘What's that crashing sound
That follows us around?
That's the sound of all things good breaking'.

She/her

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mjrobbins.com
My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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loucalvey.bsky.social
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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which-witch-ru.bsky.social
Yup. I love this piece on how so many straight men are actually homoerotic and only truly love other men, they just unfortunately aren’t sexually attracted to them:
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.” Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
July 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.
joestieb.bsky.social Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · Jul 6
You basically cannot.
July 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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newcastleunited.com
We are deeply saddened to learn the heartbreaking news of Diogo Jota's passing.

Our heartfelt condolences are with Diogo’s young family, friends and everyone at Liverpool Football Club during this incredibly difficult time.

Rest in peace, Diogo. ❤️
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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nursemurderer.bsky.social
imagine caring where someone was born
June 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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monkemma.bsky.social
What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

🧵

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Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline
June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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sharonodea.com
No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.

I am CRINE.
May 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man
rhiggitt.bsky.social Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Nov 2
Bit of an odd story this one - the main analysis says women don't use AI because they lack STEM skills, confidence and value in the workplace. Yet the anecdotes suggest that women excel at communication, whether writing or interpersonal, and can spot ChatGPT's flaws
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Why are fewer women using AI than men?
The use of artificial intelligence appears to have a significant gender imbalance.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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ryanabt.bsky.social
Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple.

Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.

A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Apr 27
This is the only content i wanna see
April 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
Can someone explain how this new situation where a protected minority's everyday lives are being DRAMATICALLY worsened *purely because of their protected characteristic* is not in fact in contravention of the Equality Act ?
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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alexvont.bsky.social
Why do people now have to solve a sphinx’s riddle before they pee? This is absurd and impossible for individuals, workplaces and services to manage. I think we must all just use whatever loo is free from now on. Let these ridiculous idiots have conniptions over it if they want to.
In workplaces, it is compulsory to provide sufficient single-sex toilets, as well as sufficient single-sex changing and washing facilities where these facilities are needed. It is not compulsory for services that are open to the public to be provided on a single-sex basis or to have single-sex facilities such as toilets. These can be single-sex if it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim and they meet other conditions in the Act. However, it could be indirect sex discrimination against women if the only provision is mixed-sex. In workplaces and services that are open to the public: trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men’s facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women’s facilities however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use where possible, mixed-sex toilet, washing or changing facilities in addition to sufficient single-sex facilities should be provided where toilet, washing or changing facilities are in lockable rooms (not cubicles) which are intended for the use of one person at a time, they can be used by either women or men
April 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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glennkenny.bsky.social
“Why?,” “Why?,” and “For Christ’s sake, why?”
April 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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deirdreassenza.bsky.social
Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space
Mae Jemison wears a bright orange NASA space suit and holds her helmet for a photo
April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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alexvont.bsky.social
I believe him
laurenoneal.bsky.social Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · Apr 7
Some good news: A judge in Brazil was just revealed to have been living under a false identity for decades, pretending to be British, and the fake name he came up with for himself was Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield.
April 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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lizziedearden.bsky.social
Breaking: Russell Brand has been charged with the following offences:

One count of rape
One count of indecent assault
One count of oral rape
Two counts of sexual assault
April 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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unlox.bsky.social
[JD Vance renamed the chat “War-a-Lago”]
[Michael Waltz renamed the chat “Houthi and the Blowfish”]
[JD Vance renamed the chat “Yemen Retention”]
[Pete Hegseth renamed the chat “Houthi PC small group”]

HEGSETH: ok that’s enough
emilyoram.bsky.social Emily ✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · Mar 24
Workshopping some kind of “JD Vance changed the chat name to War-A-Lago”
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
alittlechick.bsky.social
I think this might be the maddest thing I’ve ever heard.
socialsecurityworks.org Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · Mar 21
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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ke-alos-ghenate.bsky.social
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March 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
Ngl “I can’t be racist, some of my best friends were slaves” is a good bit.
Raw Story v @RawStory Follow Errol Musk, the father of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, believes that his son can't be racist due to his past relationships with "Black servants" who worked for the family in apartheid South Africa.
March 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
as a 39-year-old woman I am not surprised that it is men my age and a bit older who are the most regressive when it comes to sexism. have you SEEN the media that raised us.
owenwntr.bsky.social Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · Mar 21
Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men

Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?
Chart showing the percentage of men and women of different ages who agree with all three statements: 1. Most women fail to appreciate fully all that men do for them 2. Women seek to gain power by getting control over men 3. Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist The chart shows that around 5% of both men and women aged 18 agree with all three statements. Among men, this rises to around 15% among men in their 20s and 22% among 35-45 year olds, before falling back to around 12% among 55-65 year olds. Overall 16% of men and 5% of women agree with all three statements
March 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Just less rich. That’s all we’re asking.
A screenshot of a social media post from the account "GET A GRIP" (@docrussjackson ), timestamped 1 day ago, with a blue checkmark. The post quotes a previous post by "Martha Kelly" (@MarthaKelly3 ), which reads: "Under capitalism, it’s normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich – not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane." The quoted post is followed by a reply from "techsiren" (@techhsiren
March 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM