Baba Corva
@babacorva.bsky.social
Artist, Podcaster, Weird "old" lady in the woods she/her
(Check out Astronomica podcast I guess. What is it? Find out!)
(Check out Astronomica podcast I guess. What is it? Find out!)
First of all, holy shit this is unconscionable
But second, remember how MRA and Republican types keep telling us that men's mental health is in crisis and we don't culturally do enough? I'm real curious how gutting VA mental health care and suicide prevention is gonna help that
But second, remember how MRA and Republican types keep telling us that men's mental health is in crisis and we don't culturally do enough? I'm real curious how gutting VA mental health care and suicide prevention is gonna help that
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
First of all, holy shit this is unconscionable
But second, remember how MRA and Republican types keep telling us that men's mental health is in crisis and we don't culturally do enough? I'm real curious how gutting VA mental health care and suicide prevention is gonna help that
But second, remember how MRA and Republican types keep telling us that men's mental health is in crisis and we don't culturally do enough? I'm real curious how gutting VA mental health care and suicide prevention is gonna help that
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Time for a new arc and that means a brand new motivation to be professional and have standards and norms and civility and definitely not run any cons or accidental revolutions or double crosses.
Just kidding! We're totally gonna keep doing all those things, obvs
#scifi #actualplay #swn #podcast
Just kidding! We're totally gonna keep doing all those things, obvs
#scifi #actualplay #swn #podcast
Ep 245: A New Leaf - Astronomica
It's the start of a new arc and that means we've got some changes to make around here! Auggie and Hilde engage in some banking while Mackie preps for an important speech. Later, the crew finally talks...
www.buzzsprout.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Time for a new arc and that means a brand new motivation to be professional and have standards and norms and civility and definitely not run any cons or accidental revolutions or double crosses.
Just kidding! We're totally gonna keep doing all those things, obvs
#scifi #actualplay #swn #podcast
Just kidding! We're totally gonna keep doing all those things, obvs
#scifi #actualplay #swn #podcast
This is to be remembered, always. For the vast majority of us, kindness and community is the default, not the exception. Cruelty takes more effort to maintain than the simple wish to live and let live. Fear is a divider, yes, but it requires constant reaffirmation not to simply burn away.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This is to be remembered, always. For the vast majority of us, kindness and community is the default, not the exception. Cruelty takes more effort to maintain than the simple wish to live and let live. Fear is a divider, yes, but it requires constant reaffirmation not to simply burn away.
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Do you think tech bros like AI because they all love Ayn Rand and they think reading is supposed to be tedious?
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Do you think tech bros like AI because they all love Ayn Rand and they think reading is supposed to be tedious?
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Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.
Schumer is out here saying elected Dems are "fighting" for healthcare. The people who are fighting are the people willing to go through their own hardships so that others don't have to. Elected Dems get no credit for shit until they put themselves on the line the way average citizens have.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Schumer is out here saying elected Dems are "fighting" for healthcare. The people who are fighting are the people willing to go through their own hardships so that others don't have to. Elected Dems get no credit for shit until they put themselves on the line the way average citizens have.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
Looking forward to some interesting primaries
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Looking forward to some interesting primaries
Perfection
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Perfection
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Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
I'm by no means an electoralist but this is the constant drum I will never stop beating. Always show up for local election!
You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
Local. Elections. Matter.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I'm by no means an electoralist but this is the constant drum I will never stop beating. Always show up for local election!
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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Donald Trump is the first president in US history to deny food to citizens.
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Donald Trump is the first president in US history to deny food to citizens.
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames.
Reported just 12 minutes ago.
Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.
Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.
Reported just 12 minutes ago.
Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.
Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.
Israel suspends aid into Gaza and launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live
Ceasefire close to total collapse as health officials say 29 Palestinians killed in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames.
Reported just 12 minutes ago.
Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.
Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.
Reported just 12 minutes ago.
Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.
Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Hell yeah! Super proud of my alma mater and their "rival" IU for this combined effort. BOILER UP!
October 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hell yeah! Super proud of my alma mater and their "rival" IU for this combined effort. BOILER UP!
No Kings 2 Protest in Memphis
YouTube video by TheMemphisFlyer
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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A lot of these red states are gerrymandered to the hilt as well. Republicans are making it almost impossible for people to vote their way out of this mess
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A lot of these red states are gerrymandered to the hilt as well. Republicans are making it almost impossible for people to vote their way out of this mess
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In case there was any doubt, ICE agents will keep doing perv shit bc the kind of people who will join up were always just the worst and will always push to be as shitty as they can possibly get away with to everyone around them
An ICE agent argued that taking upskirt photos of a flight attendant wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky. Um, no, says the 11th Circuit, which upheld his conviction reason.com/2025/10/16/i...
ICE agent who took upskirt photos of flight attendant says it wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky
Billy Olvera's "clandestine video voyeurism," as his lawyer would later describe it, took place while he was on duty as a deportation officer.
reason.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In case there was any doubt, ICE agents will keep doing perv shit bc the kind of people who will join up were always just the worst and will always push to be as shitty as they can possibly get away with to everyone around them