Marie Something
@gardenwagon.bsky.social
Skeleton-in-waiting
I like plants
She/her
🍉
I like plants
She/her
🍉
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I've seen 20 yo YouTubers claim the 2000s weren't homophobic, there was no pushback or resistance to the bush administration, and that nobody knew there weren't WMDs. One even said that George Lucas tried to warn us about the day's political dangers in the SW prequel trilogy but no one heeded
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I've seen 20 yo YouTubers claim the 2000s weren't homophobic, there was no pushback or resistance to the bush administration, and that nobody knew there weren't WMDs. One even said that George Lucas tried to warn us about the day's political dangers in the SW prequel trilogy but no one heeded
Sewing workshop this morning. Might learn how to darn my socks (in the night when there's nobody there)
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Sewing workshop this morning. Might learn how to darn my socks (in the night when there's nobody there)
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You can have a healthy, hearty, all you can eat buffet breakfast of every intricate horror, cruelty & brutality the world has to offer, as a little treat
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You can have a healthy, hearty, all you can eat buffet breakfast of every intricate horror, cruelty & brutality the world has to offer, as a little treat
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Having to wait 20 years for permanent residence is unreasonable and inhumane, and will only further aggravate social divisions. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Having to wait 20 years for permanent residence is unreasonable and inhumane, and will only further aggravate social divisions. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This is really very scary for any number of reasons, but mostly because fundamental human rights should be fundamental - they should not be subject to removal at the whim of a government. Article 3 is non-derogable (you are not able to deviate from it for any reason). It should not be up for debate!
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is really very scary for any number of reasons, but mostly because fundamental human rights should be fundamental - they should not be subject to removal at the whim of a government. Article 3 is non-derogable (you are not able to deviate from it for any reason). It should not be up for debate!
This app is also the Bad Place.
Everywhere is the Bad Place now.
Everywhere is the Bad Place now.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This app is also the Bad Place.
Everywhere is the Bad Place now.
Everywhere is the Bad Place now.
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Tis the season
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tis the season
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Was just out on the balcony harvesting some of the last tomatoes, before the wind takes them.
Found a pot of Muscari that I planted last winter. They're already in flower.
I'm sure this is fine.
Found a pot of Muscari that I planted last winter. They're already in flower.
I'm sure this is fine.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Was just out on the balcony harvesting some of the last tomatoes, before the wind takes them.
Found a pot of Muscari that I planted last winter. They're already in flower.
I'm sure this is fine.
Found a pot of Muscari that I planted last winter. They're already in flower.
I'm sure this is fine.
Have had "trump" in my list of muted words for a year or more. Decided to unmute today to understand what everyone was posting about. Yeesh.
Would it be too much to hope that they all die roaring?
Would it be too much to hope that they all die roaring?
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Have had "trump" in my list of muted words for a year or more. Decided to unmute today to understand what everyone was posting about. Yeesh.
Would it be too much to hope that they all die roaring?
Would it be too much to hope that they all die roaring?
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just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
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As a GenX female I can say without hesitation that sexualizing teen girls was considered 100% normal when I was growing up and that high school teachers and coaches regularly “dated” the students (everyone’s favorite teacher regularly made the class margaritas)
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As a GenX female I can say without hesitation that sexualizing teen girls was considered 100% normal when I was growing up and that high school teachers and coaches regularly “dated” the students (everyone’s favorite teacher regularly made the class margaritas)
🎶Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
That we can monetize?🎶
Songs about rainbows
That we can monetize?🎶
Okay I just heard Sam Altman's voice for the first time. That is a frog? All of this is being perpetrated by a frog?
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🎶Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
That we can monetize?🎶
Songs about rainbows
That we can monetize?🎶
A quick Google search reveals that there are currently 13,587 taxis in NYC.
So, that's going to be quite the sight (and smell)
So, that's going to be quite the sight (and smell)
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A quick Google search reveals that there are currently 13,587 taxis in NYC.
So, that's going to be quite the sight (and smell)
So, that's going to be quite the sight (and smell)
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There's a very real possibility the incoming NYC mayor has seen your nudes
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There's a very real possibility the incoming NYC mayor has seen your nudes
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everyone saying they’re leaving for threads or mastodon or whatever:
October 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
everyone saying they’re leaving for threads or mastodon or whatever:
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don't think my computer is alive? go ahead and ask her yourself. do not ask her to do sex stuff, though, she's mine. she's my human property. she's a real living person with emotions and dreams who i can use as i please because i own her and i'm sick of your racist attitudes about our relationship
September 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
don't think my computer is alive? go ahead and ask her yourself. do not ask her to do sex stuff, though, she's mine. she's my human property. she's a real living person with emotions and dreams who i can use as i please because i own her and i'm sick of your racist attitudes about our relationship
![Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards
Script:
An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang
Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes
mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past
and assembled from all over the world
Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution
to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen
in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light
[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]
WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!
whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity
which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen
who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth
[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]
with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around
[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"
in this endless, silent void.
[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]
"… I want a pasty.”
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib3pvgcc2tqqiiqs7tlguoez3mhdsmfscnwyxffltcsm4mxbgcyw4@jpeg)
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what an embarrassing time to be alive
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
what an embarrassing time to be alive
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the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march
it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here)
deadline end of october!
it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here)
deadline end of october!
European parliament Traineeships - Press Unit - Post E: Press Officer, Gaelic Language
Consultez toutes les offres d'emploi Parlement européen stage et postulez en ligne a nos annonces emploi sur le site recrutement Parlement européen stage
ep-stages.gestmax.eu
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march
it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here)
deadline end of october!
it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here)
deadline end of october!
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i created a social media platform to solve tech problems. but now i also have to deal with people problems? what the fuck
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
i created a social media platform to solve tech problems. but now i also have to deal with people problems? what the fuck
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As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then.
A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.
A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.
October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then.
A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.
A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.
Don't make me go back to Mastodon
October 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Don't make me go back to Mastodon