Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian
@lilbrownbat.bsky.social
Lesbian, activist, tech worker, aikidoka, writer
Pronouns she/her
Located in Massachusetts
I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity
I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts
Pronouns she/her
Located in Massachusetts
I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity
I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts
The only thing lamer than a flounce is threatening to flounce and then...not.
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The only thing lamer than a flounce is threatening to flounce and then...not.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
Don't cross the picket line!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don't cross the picket line!
Pure poetry.
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Pure poetry.
If I could have picked a single image to accompany this news...this would have been it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If I could have picked a single image to accompany this news...this would have been it.
I don't know, I didn't see, I just heard, I just read it, I haven't seen that, I'm not gonna comment on that
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I don't know, I didn't see, I just heard, I just read it, I haven't seen that, I'm not gonna comment on that
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in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
When SNAP benefits run out, 'people can die,' say health experts
“People can die” from even short gaps in nutrition and food access, experts say ahead of SNAP benefits not going out in November in at least 25 states.
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...
Face taxes or face pitchforks.
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Face taxes or face pitchforks.
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The only thing that went right was that California did not believe the U.S. government’s insistence that it was totally safe, and so made the life-saving decision to close the freeway.
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The only thing that went right was that California did not believe the U.S. government’s insistence that it was totally safe, and so made the life-saving decision to close the freeway.
Yeah, what the fuck, we need another gaudy eyesore built to Trump aesthetics at taxpayer expense. Why the fuck not. Not like there's any better use for that money.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yeah, what the fuck, we need another gaudy eyesore built to Trump aesthetics at taxpayer expense. Why the fuck not. Not like there's any better use for that money.
This is the kind of news that inspires me to make popcorn. Seriously, dude wants banks to give him a do-over? Really?
Elliott Broidy is also suing @americanexpress.bsky.social, claiming he was denied him a credit card because of his conviction for illegal foreign lobbying, even though he was pardoned by Trump.
AmEx says he was denied because he had previously misused his accounts.
AmEx says he was denied because he had previously misused his accounts.
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the kind of news that inspires me to make popcorn. Seriously, dude wants banks to give him a do-over? Really?
A central component of Republican mental illness is their fetishization of what they imagine victimhood to be. It's like grown-ass adults who love dystopian YA fiction where all problems are solved after a little lightweight performative "suffering".
Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "When you talk about authoritarianism, let me tell you, my first 4 years in Congress were spent under authoritarian government. It was President Biden ... "
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A central component of Republican mental illness is their fetishization of what they imagine victimhood to be. It's like grown-ass adults who love dystopian YA fiction where all problems are solved after a little lightweight performative "suffering".
Finally, someone said it.
do people realize they can just do stupid things and not make them everyone else's fuckin problem
I never wash our bread knife – and I won’t let the internet shame me into changing my ways | Emma Beddington
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finally, someone said it.
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The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...
yeah...that's one of their favorite stories to tell: "Democrats stood their ground. Will this come back to haunt them in the midterms?" -- it gives them reliable copy they've already written many times over, so they can just search-and-replace
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...
Kash Patel is a flaming asshole.
"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Kash Patel is a flaming asshole.
Look, I'm not gonna give my uneducated hot take on what flavor of neurological damage The President(tm) has. But he's got something and it's bad, and that's all the reason you need to know about why this is happening. What to do about it is the problem.
“The President of the United States—who has access to better intelligence than anyone on Earth—is moving to deploy military forces against American citizens based on what he saw on TV and what his “people” told him, without bothering to verify whether any of it was real.”
So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him
Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American …
www.techdirt.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Look, I'm not gonna give my uneducated hot take on what flavor of neurological damage The President(tm) has. But he's got something and it's bad, and that's all the reason you need to know about why this is happening. What to do about it is the problem.
This is a brilliant succinct takedown of AI-generated media. But also, you really wanna look upthread.
Whatever they do with AI brainrot, it will never beat watching a real jerk take a sharp blow to the gonads, and knowing that it's real. And if the AI promoters are honest with themselves, they know that too.
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a brilliant succinct takedown of AI-generated media. But also, you really wanna look upthread.
I know the news is worse every day, but I'm about done with constant posts of "you people should be terrified and freaking out and you're just not doing enough of that (for me)". Think what it says that your response to a crisis is to demand that OTHER PEOPLE act terrified in ways that satisfy you.
September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I know the news is worse every day, but I'm about done with constant posts of "you people should be terrified and freaking out and you're just not doing enough of that (for me)". Think what it says that your response to a crisis is to demand that OTHER PEOPLE act terrified in ways that satisfy you.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Elon, Thiel, Bannon, Trump ….
Sounds like if all the truth comes out, the whole MAGA project just goes poof.
Sounds like if all the truth comes out, the whole MAGA project just goes poof.
🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
September 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Elon, Thiel, Bannon, Trump ….
Sounds like if all the truth comes out, the whole MAGA project just goes poof.
Sounds like if all the truth comes out, the whole MAGA project just goes poof.
Read the whole thread.
it's not considered a cultural problem because people in prison are seen as deserving harm.
these vague cultural moral panics aren't about solving real problems. they're about asserting that current hierarchies need to be more rigorously enforced.
these vague cultural moral panics aren't about solving real problems. they're about asserting that current hierarchies need to be more rigorously enforced.
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Read the whole thread.
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Here is my take on the male loneliness crisis. Tell me if I'm wrong:
"I want women to take all their clothes off and do what I desire whenever I wish it. I do not want to have meaningful conversations with them. I also don't hang with guys because that's gay. I'm lonely."
"I want women to take all their clothes off and do what I desire whenever I wish it. I do not want to have meaningful conversations with them. I also don't hang with guys because that's gay. I'm lonely."
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Here is my take on the male loneliness crisis. Tell me if I'm wrong:
"I want women to take all their clothes off and do what I desire whenever I wish it. I do not want to have meaningful conversations with them. I also don't hang with guys because that's gay. I'm lonely."
"I want women to take all their clothes off and do what I desire whenever I wish it. I do not want to have meaningful conversations with them. I also don't hang with guys because that's gay. I'm lonely."
Science...is good.
Among this, the fact that HIV is no longer an automatic death sentence, mRNA vaccines, and the fact that we *may* be on the verge of CURING (!) Type I diabetes, wow. What a fascinating modern age we live in.
Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Science...is good.
Absofuckinglutely NOT.
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Absofuckinglutely NOT.
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