Mother of Destruction
@maofdestruction.bsky.social
I enjoy whiskey, correct punctuation, and proper grammar.
When I’m serious, I’m very serious. When I’m silly, I’m unstoppable.
My kid plans to turn me into a diamond when I die; I will sparkle FOREVER, which is great, bc “sparkly” is my favorite color.
When I’m serious, I’m very serious. When I’m silly, I’m unstoppable.
My kid plans to turn me into a diamond when I die; I will sparkle FOREVER, which is great, bc “sparkly” is my favorite color.
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” -ZNH
#OTD in 1960 Zora Neale Hurston died. She "was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Ne...
Books by Hurston at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73549
#books #literature
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Ne...
Books by Hurston at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73549
#books #literature
January 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” -ZNH
I’m getting really tired of all this “gun-owners know they’re raising the risk” rhetoric.
I was at a protest in 2016 where a sniper started shooting at police, yet I spoke w a Black man who Dallas police managed to question w/o executing despite his having been carrying an assault rifle.
I was at a protest in 2016 where a sniper started shooting at police, yet I spoke w a Black man who Dallas police managed to question w/o executing despite his having been carrying an assault rifle.
Leavitt: Any gun owner knows when you are carrying a weapon and are confronted by law enforcement, you are raising the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against you.
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I’m getting really tired of all this “gun-owners know they’re raising the risk” rhetoric.
I was at a protest in 2016 where a sniper started shooting at police, yet I spoke w a Black man who Dallas police managed to question w/o executing despite his having been carrying an assault rifle.
I was at a protest in 2016 where a sniper started shooting at police, yet I spoke w a Black man who Dallas police managed to question w/o executing despite his having been carrying an assault rifle.
I am sleeping so much better lately…thanks to the anemia that nothing seems to help.
But I can fall right to sleep and I can confirm that it is AMAZING, even if I wake up still tired.
But I can fall right to sleep and I can confirm that it is AMAZING, even if I wake up still tired.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I am sleeping so much better lately…thanks to the anemia that nothing seems to help.
But I can fall right to sleep and I can confirm that it is AMAZING, even if I wake up still tired.
But I can fall right to sleep and I can confirm that it is AMAZING, even if I wake up still tired.
Alright. Time to reset the simulation. This one has jumped the shark. Reset to mid-eighties or so.
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Alright. Time to reset the simulation. This one has jumped the shark. Reset to mid-eighties or so.
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Not satisfied with terrorising neighbourhoods and killing innocent women, they now want people to turn on their neighbours, just like the Nazis did. How long will America put up with this?
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Not satisfied with terrorising neighbourhoods and killing innocent women, they now want people to turn on their neighbours, just like the Nazis did. How long will America put up with this?
Sorry, they had to do a study to figure this out?
It’s corporations looking to make big money w few issues. Of COURSE they’re in places where it’s cheaper to buy & build, and of COURSE they’re saying it’ll create jobs. That’s how they get the permits to build these giant ecology-destroying centers🙄
It’s corporations looking to make big money w few issues. Of COURSE they’re in places where it’s cheaper to buy & build, and of COURSE they’re saying it’ll create jobs. That’s how they get the permits to build these giant ecology-destroying centers🙄
"They found that hyperscale data center developers often choose to build in rural communities rather than urban locations, not to create jobs and increase a community's economy, but because of low costs and abundant land."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Data centers target rural communities for lower costs, not to create high-quality jobs, study finds
Local governments often tell residents that the power-hungry developments will bring numerous tech jobs to their communities. A new study contradicted that.
www.kare11.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Sorry, they had to do a study to figure this out?
It’s corporations looking to make big money w few issues. Of COURSE they’re in places where it’s cheaper to buy & build, and of COURSE they’re saying it’ll create jobs. That’s how they get the permits to build these giant ecology-destroying centers🙄
It’s corporations looking to make big money w few issues. Of COURSE they’re in places where it’s cheaper to buy & build, and of COURSE they’re saying it’ll create jobs. That’s how they get the permits to build these giant ecology-destroying centers🙄
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"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.” –Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.” –Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
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Fact: Trump is leaning into this fiction, as he does with all false claims of authority, because he is weak and lacks real power. The only way he could ever obstruct the midterms is if we—along with our lawmakers, governors, and state legislatures—choose to hand him that power out of cowardice.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Fact: Trump is leaning into this fiction, as he does with all false claims of authority, because he is weak and lacks real power. The only way he could ever obstruct the midterms is if we—along with our lawmakers, governors, and state legislatures—choose to hand him that power out of cowardice.
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I haven’t seen the Avengers: Doomsday trailers yet but I keep seeing comments about all the people coming back. I’m looking forward to the presumptive return of two of my favorite aliens:
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 AM
I haven’t seen the Avengers: Doomsday trailers yet but I keep seeing comments about all the people coming back. I’m looking forward to the presumptive return of two of my favorite aliens:
What I really love movies at home is I can pause & think. Like the perpetual motion balls in a scene: how long will that actually keep going? What about wear & tear from the impacts?
Or: why are all the moons in the same phase on this planet?
I miss things in theaters bc I’m thinking.
Or: why are all the moons in the same phase on this planet?
I miss things in theaters bc I’m thinking.
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
What I really love movies at home is I can pause & think. Like the perpetual motion balls in a scene: how long will that actually keep going? What about wear & tear from the impacts?
Or: why are all the moons in the same phase on this planet?
I miss things in theaters bc I’m thinking.
Or: why are all the moons in the same phase on this planet?
I miss things in theaters bc I’m thinking.
Reminder that the bots and those who control them wouldn’t try so hard to keep you from voting if it didn’t matter. Your vote is your voice in government. Use it. Millions stay home rather than vote and the results speak for themselves. Go out & make your voices heard. In EVERY election.
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Reminder that the bots and those who control them wouldn’t try so hard to keep you from voting if it didn’t matter. Your vote is your voice in government. Use it. Millions stay home rather than vote and the results speak for themselves. Go out & make your voices heard. In EVERY election.
Plot twist: 🍊 had 🪵 kidnapped so he could ask for tips on how to get a third term. Pardon to follow.
January 4, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Plot twist: 🍊 had 🪵 kidnapped so he could ask for tips on how to get a third term. Pardon to follow.
What the hell, @merriam-webster.com ??
Well. Maybe it’s for the best if 2026 is anything like 2025 was.🤷🏼♀️
Well. Maybe it’s for the best if 2026 is anything like 2025 was.🤷🏼♀️
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
What the hell, @merriam-webster.com ??
Well. Maybe it’s for the best if 2026 is anything like 2025 was.🤷🏼♀️
Well. Maybe it’s for the best if 2026 is anything like 2025 was.🤷🏼♀️
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Zohran is already making Regular People's lives harder...
January 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Zohran is already making Regular People's lives harder...
At this point, my personality is almost entirely trauma responses and coping mechanisms.
batman and robin are sitting at a table talking to each other in a diner booth .
ALT: batman and robin are sitting at a table talking to each other in a diner booth .
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
At this point, my personality is almost entirely trauma responses and coping mechanisms.
Reminder that Gavin Newsom is for himself, not the people. In case you forgot his bad takes on trans rights or that he physically removed the property of homeless constituents w no help or alternate plan in place for them.
Nice to see a billionaire chipping in to oppose a requirement that he do so.
Nice to see a billionaire chipping in to oppose a requirement that he do so.
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Reminder that Gavin Newsom is for himself, not the people. In case you forgot his bad takes on trans rights or that he physically removed the property of homeless constituents w no help or alternate plan in place for them.
Nice to see a billionaire chipping in to oppose a requirement that he do so.
Nice to see a billionaire chipping in to oppose a requirement that he do so.
I know it’s not definitive and a lot of things include information that’s not in English, but the big green print I can make out on this thing is in Hebrew, which…might have been an additional clue.
December 31, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I know it’s not definitive and a lot of things include information that’s not in English, but the big green print I can make out on this thing is in Hebrew, which…might have been an additional clue.
I was in Oslo the same weekend Lizzo was performing there. I went to the Vigeland Sculpture Park to walk around one drizzly day. This huge group of people came in ~5 min later; I spent the whole time trying to avoid them all & enjoy the park. I later found out it was Lizzo and her group.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I was in Oslo the same weekend Lizzo was performing there. I went to the Vigeland Sculpture Park to walk around one drizzly day. This huge group of people came in ~5 min later; I spent the whole time trying to avoid them all & enjoy the park. I later found out it was Lizzo and her group.
Umm, this is a HUGE change. The focus of the screenshot is ballots but this is a big deal for legal correspondence, too. It matters for lawyers, for people trying to comply with or avoid being bound by contracts, & so many other issues! Y’all thought cancelling your gym membership was hard before!
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
December 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Umm, this is a HUGE change. The focus of the screenshot is ballots but this is a big deal for legal correspondence, too. It matters for lawyers, for people trying to comply with or avoid being bound by contracts, & so many other issues! Y’all thought cancelling your gym membership was hard before!
This article is jammed full of absolute nightmare fuel.
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This article is jammed full of absolute nightmare fuel.
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This Needs To Stop!🛑
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This Needs To Stop!🛑
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?
There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.
I just learned about this accidental start to the Santa tracker and I’m in tears. It’s so sweet 🥹
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
From the NPR archives.
From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
n.pr
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I just learned about this accidental start to the Santa tracker and I’m in tears. It’s so sweet 🥹
Two ways to say the same thing:
I love the aurora because it allows you to see the shape of the wind.
I love the aurora because you can see what the sun’s farts look like.
#aurora #writing #nightsky #KnowYoutAudience
I love the aurora because it allows you to see the shape of the wind.
I love the aurora because you can see what the sun’s farts look like.
#aurora #writing #nightsky #KnowYoutAudience
December 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Two ways to say the same thing:
I love the aurora because it allows you to see the shape of the wind.
I love the aurora because you can see what the sun’s farts look like.
#aurora #writing #nightsky #KnowYoutAudience
I love the aurora because it allows you to see the shape of the wind.
I love the aurora because you can see what the sun’s farts look like.
#aurora #writing #nightsky #KnowYoutAudience
Guess he forgot that David beat Goliath w a slingshot but Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho w just a lot of noise…
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Guess he forgot that David beat Goliath w a slingshot but Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho w just a lot of noise…
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
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Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“
I think we can turn Texas blue—
I think we can turn Texas blue—
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“
I think we can turn Texas blue—
I think we can turn Texas blue—