Isabel
@isitis.bsky.social
she/her. minneapolis. I do cool things with orchestral strings (instruments) for money, lots of other stuff for fun. see my gay orchestra at o'shag may 24 www.mnphil.org/mc-events/reverberations
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In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
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Edward Gorey
December 26, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Edward Gorey
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December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours
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we reached out to gen Z republicans to see if their entire worldview was utterly repugnant. and it was! here is a bunch of stuff they think,
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
we reached out to gen Z republicans to see if their entire worldview was utterly repugnant. and it was! here is a bunch of stuff they think,
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Someone said that the passage of the violently anti-trans bill was progress because only three Democrats voted for it & four Republicans voted against it but when these same kinds of bills were introduced eight or nine years ago they were opposed by a large bipartisan majority. We've lost so much
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Someone said that the passage of the violently anti-trans bill was progress because only three Democrats voted for it & four Republicans voted against it but when these same kinds of bills were introduced eight or nine years ago they were opposed by a large bipartisan majority. We've lost so much
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Hilariously, we have created a commerce model where it’s increasingly impossible to buy something locally today, but you can have nearly anything on earth delivered tomorrow.
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hilariously, we have created a commerce model where it’s increasingly impossible to buy something locally today, but you can have nearly anything on earth delivered tomorrow.
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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It can’t be said enough that the heart of creativity is the process of creating, not the final product. It‘s the process, the struggle, the change in direction, the finding your way. That is everything. All these ppl slobbering over AI removing the process as if that can make art. It destroys it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It can’t be said enough that the heart of creativity is the process of creating, not the final product. It‘s the process, the struggle, the change in direction, the finding your way. That is everything. All these ppl slobbering over AI removing the process as if that can make art. It destroys it.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
I laughed out loud (complimentary) at this part
It’s the first show I’ve seen where a sex scene fades to black then fades in again and they are still going at it
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I laughed out loud (complimentary) at this part
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WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
don't love this framing tbh !
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
don't love this framing tbh !
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the thing I don't understand is like. if there's no birthright citizenship then who is a citizen??? that's literally the reason I'm a citizen, that's the reason the president is a citizen!!
December 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
the thing I don't understand is like. if there's no birthright citizenship then who is a citizen??? that's literally the reason I'm a citizen, that's the reason the president is a citizen!!
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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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the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
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this is where I am at, because I feel like the mindset that we need to "explore" "AI" and "what it has to offer" just leads to an unresolvable contradiction. it's basically this dril tweet tbh, I'm sure I'm not the first to make this comparison
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
this is where I am at, because I feel like the mindset that we need to "explore" "AI" and "what it has to offer" just leads to an unresolvable contradiction. it's basically this dril tweet tbh, I'm sure I'm not the first to make this comparison
*multiple times* I have had to stop myself from offering to do stickers when picking up from a busy dominos
when i go out to eat and the restaurant starts getting in the weeds it still stresses me out so bad on those poor bastards’ behalf man i’m still so codependent with the restaurant industry
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
*multiple times* I have had to stop myself from offering to do stickers when picking up from a busy dominos
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
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i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
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Every day I log on and it hasn't happened yet
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Every day I log on and it hasn't happened yet