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Vix D Sparrow
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Queer crazy cat person (they/she) and nerd of many flavors.
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there are so many impeachable offenses that you now need two wheelbarrows full of impeachable offenses to purchase a simple loaf of bread
February 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
What, did someone leave a salad in the middle of the road?
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Dec 24
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Dear Instagram,

Are you fucking kidding me???
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's so weird how antidepressants only cause the impulse to commit mass violence in the country where there is easy access to guns. What a coincidence!
First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.

There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.

You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.

#GunReformNow
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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you get actors like Alec Guinness despising their genre work, or like Jeremy Brett being massively screwed up by it, and then you get Christopher Lee calling his cat Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win

Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately

he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Imagine being so ludicrously hot, that moustache works on you.

(God that's a good film.

Redford, refusing to jump off a cliff: "I can't swim!"
Newman: "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!")
RIP, Robert Redford.
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors.

@theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
September 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I don't know why I'm even going to bother, but no it wasn't. It was hardly even brought up in the Federalist papers. The people who created the United States were almost pathologically fixated on the Roman Republic and Enlightenment-era Liberalism.
White Christian Taliban shit right here.

Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
September 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed.

Streisand effect:
September 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Oh so very true. I have had way too many forks and not nearly enough spoons for the past several months. I'm slowly doing a bit better as time moves along, but I'm still struggling hugely with a lot of people-y things.
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.

Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
August 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Oops, I've dropped a link to a delightful fancomic by the incredibly talented @megsyv.bsky.social !!
astudyinscarletandblue.tumblr.com
Did I use today's drawing as an excuse to reread the comic again? Perhaps...

#sketchbook #fanart #Spiderman #drawing
March 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I need to find/decide on a chat option that doesn't make my brain go into 'oh nooooo' every time I get a message. This whole locking myself inside my head really needs to stop.
March 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM