Elle Waterbury (they/them)
@bardowelle.bsky.social
Queer humanist, radical feminist, perpetual student, Trekkie, birdwatcher, fiber artist. Doodler and writer of bad fiction. Huge fan of ancient history, folklore and mythology, and women. Lover of soups.
Has anyone written a lesbian retelling of The Great Gatsby? I feel like it has potential.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Has anyone written a lesbian retelling of The Great Gatsby? I feel like it has potential.
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
This is the least mid duck I've ever seen. Look at this duck. Gaze upon her and weep.
I literally got this pic of a wood duck and was like "aw. It's a little blurry. But that's ok I guess, I'll get it next time." Then I log into BS and I'm greeted with the most 4k resolution mid flight wood duck I've ever seen. How does it know? Why must it hurt me so?
September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is the least mid duck I've ever seen. Look at this duck. Gaze upon her and weep.
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
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Which members of Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters?
And what that means about the contours of American politics
dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...
And what that means about the contours of American politics
dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...
Who in Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters?
And what that means about the contours of American politics
dcinboxinsights.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Which members of Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters?
And what that means about the contours of American politics
dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...
And what that means about the contours of American politics
dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...
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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
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Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
www.motherjones.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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NEW: More than a dozen, mostly Long Island-based business interests have joined National Grid in backing a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump.
Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.
Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.
New York Business Groups Rally Around Trump-Backed Pipeline
As a key deadline approaches, business interests have launched a concerted campaign to back National Grid’s demands for more gas.
nysfocus.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEW: More than a dozen, mostly Long Island-based business interests have joined National Grid in backing a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump.
Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.
Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.
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"I’ve never seen this kind of venom and retribution for a group actually advocating for minority voices, and I think it’s pretty self-defeating and disruptive."
Abortion Pill Crackdown, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill and Discriminatory Maps: Texas GOP Escalates Retaliation After Democratic Walkout
Abortion Pill Crackdown, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill and Discriminatory Maps: Texas Republicans Escalate Retaliation After Democratic Walkout
msmagazine.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"I’ve never seen this kind of venom and retribution for a group actually advocating for minority voices, and I think it’s pretty self-defeating and disruptive."
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"The campaign against trans athletes is less about fairness in sports than about weaponizing hate against women."
Why Anti-Trans Hate Makes a Toxic Environment for Women Athletes
The campaign against trans athletes is less about fairness in sports than about weaponizing hate against women.
msmagazine.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The campaign against trans athletes is less about fairness in sports than about weaponizing hate against women."
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Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue (1984)
Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
August 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue (1984)
Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
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FYI, the New York State Museum is reconstructing a revolutionary era gunboat in public in one of the back galleries; it's fantastic.
August 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
FYI, the New York State Museum is reconstructing a revolutionary era gunboat in public in one of the back galleries; it's fantastic.
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Former residents say Liberty’s Godparent Home used shame and faith to force adoptions.
Inside Liberty University’s Secret Maternity Home
Imagine you’re a pregnant teenager in 1972. Abortion isn’t an option, and you’re not ready to get married… so you might turn to a maternity home for unwed mothers. You’ll live there until the baby is ...
msmagazine.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Former residents say Liberty’s Godparent Home used shame and faith to force adoptions.
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Also, the answer is simple:
read queer histories.
There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it.
For example:
read queer histories.
There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it.
For example:
July 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Also, the answer is simple:
read queer histories.
There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it.
For example:
read queer histories.
There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it.
For example:
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Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,
forward.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
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This is slavery. What Trump is proposing is slavery.
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is slavery. What Trump is proposing is slavery.
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there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT
reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
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July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT
reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"I regret to inform you that at 3 o'clock yesterday, my mind came to a stand, and has since then been stationary. Ere this intelligence reaches you, I shall probably be a snail." -- Emily Dickinson
July 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"I regret to inform you that at 3 o'clock yesterday, my mind came to a stand, and has since then been stationary. Ere this intelligence reaches you, I shall probably be a snail." -- Emily Dickinson
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ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
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History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.
June 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.
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Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??
June 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??
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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably