Maximum Mary
@maximummary.bsky.social
Noir hound, knitter, all around hep kitten
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2025 recapped
Anxiously checking to make sure that some asshole conservative you just read about isn’t the nice guy with the same name you went to high school with.
Nope, Mr Awful went to Harvard, not UVA.
Nope, Mr Awful went to Harvard, not UVA.
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Anxiously checking to make sure that some asshole conservative you just read about isn’t the nice guy with the same name you went to high school with.
Nope, Mr Awful went to Harvard, not UVA.
Nope, Mr Awful went to Harvard, not UVA.
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The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.
We need a new adaptation of The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side. I remember seeing the Elizabeth Taylor and Angela Lansbury version and being absolutely horrified by the ending.
Chicken pox was the last of the shots against common childhood diseases. It was licensed in the US in 1995, 16 yrs after the rubella vaccine capped an amazing run 1954-1969.
Also: measles is not benign. It can be nasty, sometimes fatal at the time, w. lasting sometimes fatal long term sequelae
Also: measles is not benign. It can be nasty, sometimes fatal at the time, w. lasting sometimes fatal long term sequelae
Joe Rogan confuses chickenpox with measles—also doesn’t know that measles wipes out your immune system’s memory to fight other germs: ❌"Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid…“❌ WRONG.
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We need a new adaptation of The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side. I remember seeing the Elizabeth Taylor and Angela Lansbury version and being absolutely horrified by the ending.
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Costco loses a shipment of lobster to tech savvy thieves--a reminder that the grocery store shoplifting stories that locked stupid amounts of material under plexi in the US and UK were bunk and covered the ACTUAL theft problem: organized crime-level, and at warehouses and transshippers.
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Costco loses a shipment of lobster to tech savvy thieves--a reminder that the grocery store shoplifting stories that locked stupid amounts of material under plexi in the US and UK were bunk and covered the ACTUAL theft problem: organized crime-level, and at warehouses and transshippers.
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The evergreen SNL sketch with Kate McKinnon & Cecily Strong as Bridgette Bardot & Catherine Deneuve defending the right of creeps like Depardieu to do whoever they want to women because. youtu.be/6Ku-tRgWZuc?...
May 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The evergreen SNL sketch with Kate McKinnon & Cecily Strong as Bridgette Bardot & Catherine Deneuve defending the right of creeps like Depardieu to do whoever they want to women because. youtu.be/6Ku-tRgWZuc?...
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
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whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot
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Update and clarification from Abby Westlake! (Still a great story!)
Hi Sarah, I'm Abby. We were on a ship crossing the Atlantic. Don had been enlisted to do a murder mystery event. Roger was one of the speakers. Don and Roger hit it off & Don got Roger to play a part in the mystery. He was a lot of fun. In the photo, Roger is not doing karaoke, he's just speaking.
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Update and clarification from Abby Westlake! (Still a great story!)
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Please enjoy this random 1997 photo of Roger & Chaz Ebert and Donald & Abby Westlake singing karaoke on a cruise ship
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Please enjoy this random 1997 photo of Roger & Chaz Ebert and Donald & Abby Westlake singing karaoke on a cruise ship
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It's likely Zelensky himself didn't want a full pomp and circumstance arrival ceremony, but to have literally *no* US official present to greet an arriving head of state is an insanely norm-shattering snub.
December 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's likely Zelensky himself didn't want a full pomp and circumstance arrival ceremony, but to have literally *no* US official present to greet an arriving head of state is an insanely norm-shattering snub.
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So, I haven’t thought deeply about this, but I had a realization the other day that I actually don’t think private schools should exist.
Part of the good of a public education is that it teaches everyone a common framework of understanding, and gets people used to interacting with their community
Part of the good of a public education is that it teaches everyone a common framework of understanding, and gets people used to interacting with their community
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
So, I haven’t thought deeply about this, but I had a realization the other day that I actually don’t think private schools should exist.
Part of the good of a public education is that it teaches everyone a common framework of understanding, and gets people used to interacting with their community
Part of the good of a public education is that it teaches everyone a common framework of understanding, and gets people used to interacting with their community
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Brigitte Bardot, a repulsive babbling Nazi idiot, is completely dead. Didn't even know she was still alive.
December 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Brigitte Bardot, a repulsive babbling Nazi idiot, is completely dead. Didn't even know she was still alive.
Bardot was an awful person. Her animal rights activism served to obscure her racist, far right views. Convicted of inciting racial hatred five times!
I remember watching AND GOD CREATED WOMAN one afternoon in high school. She was utterly beguiling.
Goodness knows nothing of beauty.
I remember watching AND GOD CREATED WOMAN one afternoon in high school. She was utterly beguiling.
Goodness knows nothing of beauty.
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Bardot was an awful person. Her animal rights activism served to obscure her racist, far right views. Convicted of inciting racial hatred five times!
I remember watching AND GOD CREATED WOMAN one afternoon in high school. She was utterly beguiling.
Goodness knows nothing of beauty.
I remember watching AND GOD CREATED WOMAN one afternoon in high school. She was utterly beguiling.
Goodness knows nothing of beauty.
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Raise your hand if you were a kid when microwave ovens became a normal way of cooking.
🖐️
Two hands if your mom worked.
🙌
Was just thinking yesterday how crazy futuristic that seemed.
🖐️
Two hands if your mom worked.
🙌
Was just thinking yesterday how crazy futuristic that seemed.
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Raise your hand if you were a kid when microwave ovens became a normal way of cooking.
🖐️
Two hands if your mom worked.
🙌
Was just thinking yesterday how crazy futuristic that seemed.
🖐️
Two hands if your mom worked.
🙌
Was just thinking yesterday how crazy futuristic that seemed.
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I finished the Star Trek baby quilt a little while ago. It turned out lovely. #StarTrek #quilted #babyquilt #handquilting #quilt
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I finished the Star Trek baby quilt a little while ago. It turned out lovely. #StarTrek #quilted #babyquilt #handquilting #quilt
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To understand Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn, just look at the cheeky formula @naomiaklein.bsky.social created to explain right-wing radicalization:
Narcissism + social media addiction + midlife crisis + public shaming = right wing meltdown.
Narcissism + social media addiction + midlife crisis + public shaming = right wing meltdown.
Nicki Minaj Deactives Her Instagram After Meeting With Erika Kirk Backlash bit.ly/3YbpbTS
December 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
To understand Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn, just look at the cheeky formula @naomiaklein.bsky.social created to explain right-wing radicalization:
Narcissism + social media addiction + midlife crisis + public shaming = right wing meltdown.
Narcissism + social media addiction + midlife crisis + public shaming = right wing meltdown.
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I had no idea so many animals consider Christmas trees a tasty snack!
Where to recycle your Christmas tree: 'tigers love them'
Wildlife parks are appealing for Christmas trees so they can recycle them as animal toys and treats.
www.bbc.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I had no idea so many animals consider Christmas trees a tasty snack!
Hysteria over Democrats (non)misdeeds is about excusing in advance future Republican wrongdoing.
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hysteria over Democrats (non)misdeeds is about excusing in advance future Republican wrongdoing.
It was a free concert! They could have found someone else.
Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It was a free concert! They could have found someone else.
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Marlene Dietrich
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Marlene Dietrich
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AI guys in five years
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
AI guys in five years