Louise Cyphre
@plumsykespicot.bsky.social
Historic Chipotle Hater
I am a pedant, like my mother and her mother before her.
Feminist, Middle Millennial, Therapist-to-Be.
I am a pedant, like my mother and her mother before her.
Feminist, Middle Millennial, Therapist-to-Be.
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this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
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Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
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I just love the meta message of “this guy has so many fucking medals he can’t even arrange them in the right order,” and the fact that to prove your case you have to keep showing this pic of all his cool medals and asking people to look extremely closely at it and study what they all are
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I just love the meta message of “this guy has so many fucking medals he can’t even arrange them in the right order,” and the fact that to prove your case you have to keep showing this pic of all his cool medals and asking people to look extremely closely at it and study what they all are
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You all know that bulling =\= being unkind =\= not being friendly, right?
There's some weird discourse afoot.
There's some weird discourse afoot.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
You all know that bulling =\= being unkind =\= not being friendly, right?
There's some weird discourse afoot.
There's some weird discourse afoot.
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You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
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YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
YOUR FLIGHT IS LATE
The fact that Sapiens is on here now has me headcanoning that they decided to lean into getting episode ideas from Mangione’s Goodreads
we are aware of the situation
His favourite books on Good Reads
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The fact that Sapiens is on here now has me headcanoning that they decided to lean into getting episode ideas from Mangione’s Goodreads
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Oh my God, this so much. It can be even more annoying when it’s an opinion you somewhat agree with
Always funny when you can pinpoint the exact moment a YouTuber articulated a specific criticism because all of a sudden every discussion has it come up with identical phrasing when no one has mentioned it before.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oh my God, this so much. It can be even more annoying when it’s an opinion you somewhat agree with
Yup. I think my friend group did an impressive job staying connected throughout the worst of it, but there was absolutely a shift. It didn’t help that we moved from our 20s to our 30s during COVID, so there would’ve been a reduction anyway, but I think it was sharper than it would’ve been
this is far too common to be dismissed as anecdota tbh. the sheer number of clubs and social groups that couldn't survive remote, or stayed permanently remote, had a huge impact on the social lives of like 100 million americans bsky.app/profile/adis...
this is just anecdotal but among my social circle like 90% of regularly scheduled in-person hangouts simply imploded over COVID and never returned. it's way, way harder to start these things than end them.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Yup. I think my friend group did an impressive job staying connected throughout the worst of it, but there was absolutely a shift. It didn’t help that we moved from our 20s to our 30s during COVID, so there would’ve been a reduction anyway, but I think it was sharper than it would’ve been
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whether the median voter thought they'd suffered a trauma or not, they had
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
whether the median voter thought they'd suffered a trauma or not, they had
Oh my god they made a show just for me 🥹
This show is great, every episode is like "I am 73 years old and dependent on a CPAP machine. I moved to the middle of Blood Bear Death Ravine, seven thousand miles from the nearest generator. I am morally opposed to hunting and farming, and my budget is $16.34. Please send help." 10/10, no notes.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Oh my god they made a show just for me 🥹
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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As a lot of the people I'm subtweeting are men, I am sympathetic that some will have the mindset of "it's not my place to talk over women on a feminist issue", but given how often cis feminists who don't agree with the GC consensus get ignored, or even iced out, too, it's misguided
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As a lot of the people I'm subtweeting are men, I am sympathetic that some will have the mindset of "it's not my place to talk over women on a feminist issue", but given how often cis feminists who don't agree with the GC consensus get ignored, or even iced out, too, it's misguided
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i know this will shock a lot of you but movies can actually be bad. like, not bad as in "oh i don't this character's choices or this vibe isn't for me" but bad in "there is no logical connection between the scenes i'm being presented with"
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
i know this will shock a lot of you but movies can actually be bad. like, not bad as in "oh i don't this character's choices or this vibe isn't for me" but bad in "there is no logical connection between the scenes i'm being presented with"
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i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.
Or, movies are art/entertainment and that means wildly different things to different people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.
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no the new york times does not make money off of my once-a-year post about rogue one
The whole business model is just rage bait at this point. Just don’t engage with these people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
no the new york times does not make money off of my once-a-year post about rogue one
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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(Lightbulb going off)
Me too wasn’t threatening to shitty men just because of their past behavior: it also threatened their self-concept of masculinity
Me too wasn’t threatening to shitty men just because of their past behavior: it also threatened their self-concept of masculinity
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
(Lightbulb going off)
Me too wasn’t threatening to shitty men just because of their past behavior: it also threatened their self-concept of masculinity
Me too wasn’t threatening to shitty men just because of their past behavior: it also threatened their self-concept of masculinity
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The guy who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi piece is the son of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein which is almost too on the nose
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The guy who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi piece is the son of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein which is almost too on the nose
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road house, route 66, fontana, california, 1977
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
road house, route 66, fontana, california, 1977
Returning to this, Kale and Osborne deserve so much credit not just for their excellent reporting, but also for including the bit about Norris-Clark not believing in gravity, because in between stories of dying newborns I really needed the VERY loud laugh that got out of me
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Returning to this, Kale and Osborne deserve so much credit not just for their excellent reporting, but also for including the bit about Norris-Clark not believing in gravity, because in between stories of dying newborns I really needed the VERY loud laugh that got out of me
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I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.
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People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.