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Swamp Witch ❄️🌨️
@beneathhergaze.bsky.social
Witch, wordsmith, midwife of emotions. Terminally online, vehemently anti-AI. DCTID. Always follows the #1 Rule of the Casual Criminalist.

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"If you don't want to be in a poem, don't fuck a poet."
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I don't do automatic follow 4 follow: some of y'all post like you're two seconds from either a grippy sock vacation or lacing up your Nike Decades and I am trying to preserve my sanity and peace here by cultivating my feeds. It's nothing personal.
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i effortlessly lift my lamp beside the golden door but maybe i'm just fuckin built different
Maybe because some of us, when we put a big fuckin’ statue in the harbor of our biggest city that says “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” on it, we mean it.
January 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Email from my CEO. 60% of the people we serve are from Cabo Verde.
January 24, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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in 2226, scholars will debate the origins of the Minnesota greeting “Fuggise,” used as both a hello and a good bye
"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest
January 23, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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didn’t hear back from any of the places i contacted about housing yet.

if you know of affordable housing or a room available in ann arbor or ypsilanti that’d be available beginning in february or march, i’d be very interested.
January 23, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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also: if your space is a mess its pretty unlikely it became that way in a single day. so why do you expect to fix it in a single day? thats being really unfair to yourself
January 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
*laughs in MCAS*
A thought I had this morning: There is some point in your life when you have been closest to death. Maybe a car accident or near-accident, maybe a fall or near-fall, maybe accidental poison or asphyxiation.

What percentage of people do you think could correctly identify that point in their lives?
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This is just the median experience of chronic illness
someone in discord once asked me to try to summarize jfk's assorted medical problems from memory
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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I’m almost 50. What the fuck am I going to do with the next 20 years of my life, other than try my best to contribute what I can to moving the ball down the field for the people after me? I’m going to sit around and just be angry and scared? How much sense does that even make?
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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Where are all my UM law grads:
The University has implemented some bizarre and likely unlawful survellance on the Law Quad and the Diag. Tell them to cut it out. @umichlaw.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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They put the so-called conservative Christians to shame. If you're a Christian, when was the last time you did something Christlike? Suffered? Put your own safety at risk to stand up for the oppressed, the stranger?
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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With alt text.
The entire fucking point, supposedly, was the app spying on US citizens and they make it even MORE invasive. Get the fuck off TikTok.
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Ingesting older media/historical content is honestly startling because it makes me realize how insidious purity culture has become. Like the panopticon has everyone desperate to be a sexless, unproblematic Übermensch. Others have written about this ofc, but it just jolts me when I think about it.
January 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I am once again hollering at y'all to work smarter
I grew up where the climate rivaled Siberia & I also knew folks who died from shoveling widowmaker snow like what's out there today, so reminder: PUSH 👏 THE 👏 SNOW 👏 Do not scoop+lift: it's too hard on the body. Get a snowblower or larger shovel, e.g. Yooper Scooper, that pushes snow out of paths.
January 23, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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Hey folks, this account is spreading dangerous advice that a gas grenade can be extinguished by smothering it WITH YOUR OWN BODY. Do *NOT* do this under any circumstances! They claim that they've done it themselves. This is a lie and I suspect they are trying to get people hurt.
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Went to Meijer and everyone was staring at me like I'm from space

Could not figure out why

Apparently either no one or everyone is into arctic chic
January 23, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Searched the Meijer app for a sugar bowl

MJR did the thing I hate where they have too few options so suggest tangentially-related crap to encourage any purchase at all

They suggested a lidded mini-casserole, which I already own & never use, but had never thought to use for this purpose
January 23, 2026 at 1:13 AM
vOtE bLuE nO mAtTeR wHooooo
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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And I'm a fucking atheist, girl
January 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM