zira
@unfinishedidea.bsky.social
🔞 30s. She/her. ao3 | dw: unfinishedidea / masto: @unfinishedidea@federatedfandom.net / tumblr: thanbooksmightmean
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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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bluesky mods retire bitch
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
bluesky mods retire bitch
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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new explanation for our current political climate just dropped
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
new explanation for our current political climate just dropped
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September 30 // October 1
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
September 30 // October 1
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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if I buy a software i want to get physical media or at least a one time access code that lets me use the thing forever. you can sell updates and improvements but you can’t yoink away what I bought already
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
if I buy a software i want to get physical media or at least a one time access code that lets me use the thing forever. you can sell updates and improvements but you can’t yoink away what I bought already
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omg do you promise?????
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
omg do you promise?????
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the youth yearn for livejournal and dreamwidth
Social media and the like should let you have a dropdown of different profile pics representing various emotions so you can easily tone-tag your posts like an RPG textbox avatar
August 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
the youth yearn for livejournal and dreamwidth
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
Honestly, I hate that we collectively decided on "skeet" and wish that we would come up with something else. Does no one remember the early 2000s?
April 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Honestly, I hate that we collectively decided on "skeet" and wish that we would come up with something else. Does no one remember the early 2000s?
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Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.
February 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.
On a scale of 1-10, how embarrassing is it that my local Flour seems to remember me.
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
On a scale of 1-10, how embarrassing is it that my local Flour seems to remember me.
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
Obsessed with the fact that literally everyone is queer in The Sheridan Tapes
January 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Obsessed with the fact that literally everyone is queer in The Sheridan Tapes
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there's a bad second-level impulse in response to a lot of stories like this that comes down to "I want to believe abusers are ontologically evil so that I can avoid thinking that I might need to have a painful confrontation with someone I care about"
January 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
there's a bad second-level impulse in response to a lot of stories like this that comes down to "I want to believe abusers are ontologically evil so that I can avoid thinking that I might need to have a painful confrontation with someone I care about"
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One more thought about Gaiman, which I’ve been chewing on all day: I understand the impulse to argue that his image as a Friendly Feminist Writer was an intentional construction — a lie — that hid the abuse, which was true. More disturbing to me is the possibility that both facets were real
January 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One more thought about Gaiman, which I’ve been chewing on all day: I understand the impulse to argue that his image as a Friendly Feminist Writer was an intentional construction — a lie — that hid the abuse, which was true. More disturbing to me is the possibility that both facets were real
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. How fitting that he predicted the current state of our country almost 30 years ago. Worth reading. Happy Birthday, Carl. We miss you. 💙
November 9, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. How fitting that he predicted the current state of our country almost 30 years ago. Worth reading. Happy Birthday, Carl. We miss you. 💙
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linkedin finally has a shitposter
October 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
linkedin finally has a shitposter
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Baltimore #1. How embarassing for Boston.
August 3, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Baltimore #1. How embarassing for Boston.
I'm sorry but smishing just sounds overtly sexual and I can't take it seriously.
August 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I'm sorry but smishing just sounds overtly sexual and I can't take it seriously.
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crowdstrike pushing an update on a friday we love a messy bitch
July 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
crowdstrike pushing an update on a friday we love a messy bitch