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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising
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"The thirst trap of Andersonville!" - Anne

Love, ferocity, and mathematics.

She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
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With love, ferocity, pride, and spite, we will endure.

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At a time when the powers that be are actively dehumanizing marginalized communities, we're not just allowed to have feelings, I think it's important to have them. We are fully human, and expressing that is an act of defiance.

Thanks for everything, Catherine. 💔
ANYONE who says you can't be sad about Catherine O'Hara because _______ is so bad right now and more people should be upset about _______ should shut the fuck up

you're a human. you're allowed to have feelings. you're allowed to be sad when something makes you sad. we can be sad about many things.
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
You know, I often think my job's pretty cool.

But then here comes Amy, with a little perspective.
This is what I'm here for.

Open the alt text.
January 30, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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This is what I'm here for.

Open the alt text.
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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RIP to the icon, Catherine O'Hara.
January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
"...it is embarrassing to think that a British soldier’s greatest enemy is not gunfire or explosions, but a set of fucking pronouns."
January 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 3:29 PM
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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For the Rhode Islanders... ICE info, including numbers to call if they're spotted and where they've been spotted staging in PVD.

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January 30, 2026 at 11:45 AM
I'll happily vote "good enough". I won't vote "not good enough".
January 29, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Democrats: If Texas/Florida/Oklahoma/whoever passes the Trans People Chopped Into Little Pieces and Fed to the Ducks Act, we will follow the law.

Trans people: Well, that's a shitty thing to say.

Democrats, six months later: We weren't transphobic enough. Also, Trump is your fault.
Palestinian-American voters: Please stop funding and supporting the cold-blooded murder of our kin.

Democrats: Best we can do is ask Israel politely to stop using the weapons we sold them to kill you.

Also Democrats: Those ungrateful fucking Palestinians!
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The moment when the campaign irrevocably went Full Shitshow.
January 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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There's been some commentary to the effect that the only thing standing in the way of mandatory trans segregation in the UK is the outcome of the GLP vs EHRC judicial review.

On the face of it, this seems right.

But let's suppose that GLP loses...

1/
January 29, 2026 at 12:25 PM
A reminder:

It's not just Minneapolis.

It's not just Chicago and Los Angeles.

It's not just big cities.

It's not just blue states.

The goon squads are operating nationally.

Take care of your self, take care of one another.

Abolish ICE and DHS.
I'm so angry.
At my food pantry shift today, 2 clients came running in. ICE was 2 blocks away, they wanted to get their food & run back home to warn people.
The pantry is in a very poor neighborhood populated with unhoused, Black & Brown people. In other words, easy pickings for ICE. /1
January 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Working from home today, so instead of the usual Wednesday commute pic, here I am in something other than multiple layers of warm.

Field Museum variant of the Chicago flag, complementary earrings.
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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40 acres and a pony

The pony:
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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I've got half a mind to jump on that thread, and tell them I'll only vote Dem if they promise me an actual pony.
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I don't know how he does it, but the Hooligan can knock my watch charger off the night stand in the middle of the night. Without moving my watch.

He's very talented.
January 28, 2026 at 3:25 AM
And it only works one way, for some reason. Not voting for Harris = a vote for Trump, but not voting for Trump ^= a vote for Harris.
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
A reminder that ICE was established in 2002, in the midst of an earlier bout of anti-brown-people panic.

It's been around for less than 24 years. Its existence isn't a law of nature.

Tearing it down is the bare minimum. Anything less is collaboration.
Ah yes, I see senate Dems have gone from "abolish ICE!" to "well actually ICE is pretty great, as long as it's pointed at *those people* and they're wearing ID while they brutalize them. Also somehow they'll obey all of this despite covering up murders."

Expected yet still disappointing.
Word is from NBC that instructions from Mr. Schumer to his caucus are: “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” 1/ www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 27, 2026 at 3:02 PM
That would be the SPSDTTEONASAA
Did you know that NASA has an entire SharePoint site dedicated to the explanation of their acronyms?
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Data: homeless kids are disproportionately LGBTQ

Labour: it's not disproportionate enough
"The guidance states that where a child requests action from a school in relation to “any degree” of social transition, schools should speak to parents “as a matter of priority” and encourage the child to speak to their parents."

This will get people killed. 🤬
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
...looks over at @scarlettaddams.bsky.social, nods in agreement.
Wife4wife is best life
The thought you can be a wife without having to be married to a man is so freeing
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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The gif of the year continues to deliver.
January 26, 2026 at 8:19 PM