Birdie, Blanket-Burrito
@srslymagenta.bsky.social
Ridiculous feminist bluestocking crafter. BLM, ACAB, LGBTQIA+ fren. That ♿ chick. Nerd. Early 50's (I guess!), cishet single in SC. Dev Editor for manuscripts/dissertations. Mouth w/ no 🛑. AuDHD and PDA friendly. barrowediting@gmail.com for 📔 queries
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For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:
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Question Two of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Bedrooms and Beds. Bonus folklore: It's said Casanova used half a squeezed lemon like a cap as his preferred method of contraception 😬🍋 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Question Two of the Great #HouseholdLore Publication Day Quiz! Of Bedrooms and Beds. Bonus folklore: It's said Casanova used half a squeezed lemon like a cap as his preferred method of contraception 😬🍋 #WatkinsWisdom #Folklore #Booksky #Witchsky #PublicationDay #Quiz
Good morning to my kid's extra loud and piercing alarm that is ringing from the bathroom while he showers so I can't turn it off, and to it only. 🥱
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Good morning to my kid's extra loud and piercing alarm that is ringing from the bathroom while he showers so I can't turn it off, and to it only. 🥱
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Entrance light (one of two) to the Powhatan Apartments, Chicago — Victor S. Pearlman & Co. [designer], 1929
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Entrance light (one of two) to the Powhatan Apartments, Chicago — Victor S. Pearlman & Co. [designer], 1929
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November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Entrance light (one of two) to the Powhatan Apartments, Chicago — Victor S. Pearlman & Co. [designer], 1929
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Entrance light (one of two) to the Powhatan Apartments, Chicago — Victor S. Pearlman & Co. [designer], 1929
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joyce carol oates is the sole living human being who can well and truly claim to be chaotic neutral
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
joyce carol oates is the sole living human being who can well and truly claim to be chaotic neutral
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‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam
‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam
Last year, romance fraud rose 52% for over-55s in the UK. Victims often feel they’ve made a terrible mistake and are at fault – but really, they’ve been expertly groomed by criminals
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam
I'm clearing out my phone of my meme problem and posted about half into my file on Facebook and just did the math and that's roughly 1800 memes.
Which I haven't posted since June. Because a sadnessiversary came and got me.
Which I haven't posted since June. Because a sadnessiversary came and got me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I'm clearing out my phone of my meme problem and posted about half into my file on Facebook and just did the math and that's roughly 1800 memes.
Which I haven't posted since June. Because a sadnessiversary came and got me.
Which I haven't posted since June. Because a sadnessiversary came and got me.
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This cat, he’s teaching me how to love 🥲
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This cat, he’s teaching me how to love 🥲
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This was a good read.
Btw, did you know that after Joyce Carol Oates posted this Elon responded that she's a liar and then he immediately began going under film posts and replying "Great movie".
I'm not even joking. 😂
Btw, did you know that after Joyce Carol Oates posted this Elon responded that she's a liar and then he immediately began going under film posts and replying "Great movie".
I'm not even joking. 😂
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This was a good read.
Btw, did you know that after Joyce Carol Oates posted this Elon responded that she's a liar and then he immediately began going under film posts and replying "Great movie".
I'm not even joking. 😂
Btw, did you know that after Joyce Carol Oates posted this Elon responded that she's a liar and then he immediately began going under film posts and replying "Great movie".
I'm not even joking. 😂
An open letter to the Democratic public servants in Congress:
When I was in an abusive relationship with a master manipulator, in the beginning I thought that if I just gave him what he wanted, he would be nice and leave me alone.
But because the pain was the point, there was just more pain.
When I was in an abusive relationship with a master manipulator, in the beginning I thought that if I just gave him what he wanted, he would be nice and leave me alone.
But because the pain was the point, there was just more pain.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
An open letter to the Democratic public servants in Congress:
When I was in an abusive relationship with a master manipulator, in the beginning I thought that if I just gave him what he wanted, he would be nice and leave me alone.
But because the pain was the point, there was just more pain.
When I was in an abusive relationship with a master manipulator, in the beginning I thought that if I just gave him what he wanted, he would be nice and leave me alone.
But because the pain was the point, there was just more pain.
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'Submission emboldens the TYRANT'
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
'Submission emboldens the TYRANT'
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I got something like 36%, which isn't bad. Does it count if you don't remember the books because they were in high school? 🤷♀️
For #Readers: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is pretty darn great. It has the 339 books (novels, nonfiction, plays, poetry) that Rory of the The Gilmore Girls* is shown reading. I'm only at 23% so I need to get to steppin'.
* I've haven't seen an episode...yet.
share.google/2IBopgRRRtpf...
* I've haven't seen an episode...yet.
share.google/2IBopgRRRtpf...
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
Over the course of seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore was seen reading 339 books on screen. How many have you read?
From...
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I got something like 36%, which isn't bad. Does it count if you don't remember the books because they were in high school? 🤷♀️
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just Say NO!
&
tell
Jeffery
precisely
Where he can
stick his big blue dick.
just Say NO!
&
tell
Jeffery
precisely
Where he can
stick his big blue dick.
Amazon charge up to 40% rent to use their services.
80% of all profits are directly removed from the UK and into tax havens. Depletion of money in the UK economy.
Sell a great invention—they will copy it and sell it for themselves.
They steal & sell PRIVATE data.
This is a PREDATORY COMPANY
80% of all profits are directly removed from the UK and into tax havens. Depletion of money in the UK economy.
Sell a great invention—they will copy it and sell it for themselves.
They steal & sell PRIVATE data.
This is a PREDATORY COMPANY
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
.
just Say NO!
&
tell
Jeffery
precisely
Where he can
stick his big blue dick.
just Say NO!
&
tell
Jeffery
precisely
Where he can
stick his big blue dick.
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Rent: $3,200
Health Insurance: $2,600
Avocado Toast: $8
Someone who is good at the economy, please help me with my avocado toast budget 🥑
Health Insurance: $2,600
Avocado Toast: $8
Someone who is good at the economy, please help me with my avocado toast budget 🥑
Because many struggle with math…
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Rent: $3,200
Health Insurance: $2,600
Avocado Toast: $8
Someone who is good at the economy, please help me with my avocado toast budget 🥑
Health Insurance: $2,600
Avocado Toast: $8
Someone who is good at the economy, please help me with my avocado toast budget 🥑
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Me telling @anna-molly.bsky.social to wake up and listen to my man drama.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Me telling @anna-molly.bsky.social to wake up and listen to my man drama.
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And the spineless, feckless fucks wonder why folks don’t support them.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And the spineless, feckless fucks wonder why folks don’t support them.
This is 100% Trixie 's most Wonderful Time of the Year. ❄️❄️❄️⛄⛄❄️❄️❄️
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is 100% Trixie 's most Wonderful Time of the Year. ❄️❄️❄️⛄⛄❄️❄️❄️
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I have fought for six hard, very long years to get my youngest diagnosed properly and to keep him out of this system, so he can thrive. Thankfully, here his supervisors have been genuinely great people, once they realized how hard we were working especially. Not everybody gets that.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I have fought for six hard, very long years to get my youngest diagnosed properly and to keep him out of this system, so he can thrive. Thankfully, here his supervisors have been genuinely great people, once they realized how hard we were working especially. Not everybody gets that.
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I think we sometimes love certain places as they reflect what we feel, but can't say aloud. There's an old Hookland phrase – to be tulled – meaning to be caught between two worlds and at home in neither of them. I feel that a lot and I'm sure my favourite places do as well. – Martha Twilling #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I think we sometimes love certain places as they reflect what we feel, but can't say aloud. There's an old Hookland phrase – to be tulled – meaning to be caught between two worlds and at home in neither of them. I feel that a lot and I'm sure my favourite places do as well. – Martha Twilling #VOH