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Not enough people nerding out with me about seeing the space station fly over us last night.
IT WAS REALLY COOL, OKAY?!

#NASA #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #space #TheFinalFrontier! #EastCoast #ArlingtonMA
A dark image, taken at night, picturing the tops of two trees and the night sky filling the top of the photo. In the sky, near the tree on the right, there is a bright dot of light which is the International Space Station. There is an arrow drawn in to point it out. The arrow is black w a purple glow around it.
July 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
birbofprey.bsky.social
i think i have too much time on my hands every now & then…

#30Rock #VeryWool #Wool #HughHowey #LibbyApp #iLoveLibraries📚! (Seriously—SO thankful libraries exist!)
Image of a screenshot of the audiobook “Wool: the Silo Saga” by Hugh Howey with a picture of Victor Garber, the Wool executive from 30 Rock, toasting. Underneath he’s captioned with - [claps]
July 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Th…they have to know, right?

#Boston #WentworthInstituteofTechnology #grindr
July 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Here’s to you!
#mbta #soup #bus
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
birbofprey.bsky.social
I’d forgotten what it was like to live in Houston. It’s so kind of New England to remind me! 🥵 #TOOHot #NewEngland #summer #Houston #muggy
Text is white on black; reads: janelcomeau the east coast: I drew you a nice, hot bath me: in the bathtub? the east coast: in the air all around you :) the east coast: there is no escape :)
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
birbofprey.bsky.social
Requiring state anal seems a bit over* the top…
*under?
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I don’t think I’m cut out for non-fiction
A screenshot of a storygraph stats page with a pie chart of Fiction/Nonfiction books by %, showing all fiction books. Genres shown (most —> least) are: Science Fiction LGBTQIA+ Fantasy Magical Realism Thriller Romance [yuck!] Literary Horror
February 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Never again is literally now.

They’re coming for us. First the transgender population—who next???

Listen to the real Von Trapp family. We’re deep into Very Real Consequences territory…
A post shared by Françoise VonTrapp: My friends often wonder why I roll my eyes whenever they send me 'Sound of Music' references. They tell me - "it's such a great movie! You're famous!" What they don't get is that the true story is a far cry from the lighthearted musical, in which my father's family escapes the Nazis by hiding in a convent and then climbing over the mountain into Switzerland. In reality, they put on their hiking clothes and caught the last train to Italy before the borders closed for a proposed "hiking holiday". They were very, very lucky to have Italian passports - as my grandfather, Georg, was born in Zadar - then a part Italy, making them Italian citizens. They spent some time in the Netherlands before sailing on the American Farmer out of Southampton for the U.S., with a sponsor and a singing contract for a U.S. tour. They had very little money. Real Nazis were not bumbling fools who could be outsmarted by some clever nuns. They we're dangerous killers. My family was lucky to get out alive. Have you ever been to Dachau, a town near Munich that was the location of a Nazi concentration camp during the time of the holocaust? I have. It's easily accessible by train and bus. The camp, now a museum, sits right on the edge of a residential community. Only a fence separates it from a street with homes on it. Before I went there, I thought it must be all by itself, way out in the country. Inside the compound, the camp is eerily quiet. There are no signs of life. No birdsong. The camp was built to house 6,000 people. By the time it was liberated by U.S. soldiers at the end of WWll, there were 60K people being housed there in squalid conditions. It was a work camp, not a death camp like Auschwitz. But it still had a gas chamber used to kill those who were too weak to work or who had committed some violation, or simply to make room for more prisoners. When you walk around Dachau and imagine all the atrocities that took place there and the proximity of the neighborhoods outside the walls, it is impossible to believe that the residents of Dachau did not know what was happening there - despite what the records say. From second floor rooms, you could have seen over the wall. When the crematorium was operating, you could smell the burning flesh. How could they NOT know? They were either in denial or lived in fear for their own lives. Don't be mistaken to think the Nazis were only after Jews. Inmates included homosexuals, Catholics, Roma gypsies, anyone who did not fit the ideal of the Aryan race, as well as intellectuals who dared question the motivation of the Nazis. Physically and mentally disabled people were rounded up and sent to the death camps, as they could not be of service at places like Dachau.* While walking through the museum and reading all the stories, I realized that Dachau's proximity to Salzburg made it the location my family would have been shipped to if they had not left on that train to Italv. Make no mistake, the would have been Italy. Make no mistake, they would have been arrested - my grandfather for refusing a position to oversee a Nazi submarine base in the Adriatic, my father for declining an offer to run a department in one of Vienna's main hospitals, and the family for refusing an invitation to sing at Hitler's birthday. As my grandmother Maria wrote in her book, quoting my grandfather, "One does not say no three times to Hitler." If they had gone to Dachau, would they have been among the survivors when it was liberated in 1945? Doubtful, as they left in 1938. There would have been no musical career, no Sound of Music, and certainly no me. If you think this can't happen again and, in the USA, think again. There are clear indicators that recent actions taken by Trump and Elon Musk mirror those of Adolf Hitler when he took over Germany. Musk's comments and actions demonstrate that he supports the far right - as evidenced by his Nazi salute and also his investment and promotion of Germany's far-right AfD party. He seems to believe that as the richest man in the world, he is above the rule of law and the Us constitution. And then there is yesterday's news that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump are considering El Salvador's offer to house not only deportees, but U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in its new detention camp built to hold 40K inmates. Please don't turn a blind eye to what's happening Please don't turn a blind eye to what's happening right over that wall by writing this off as "posturing". If you voted for Trump because you didn't agree with the policies of the Harris Administration, or you were concerned about rising food prices, or the fentanyl crisis, or abortion laws, or immigration, or DEl initiatives, or gay marriage and transgender rights; or that you believed him when he said he wasn't affiliated with Project 25, or whatever he did that convinced you to vote for him, it's not too late for you to help stop what's going on. Because it's wrong and our democracy IS at stake. The Democrats in Congress are already mobilizing. Please, please contact your Republican Congresspeople and get them to mobilize too. Post Script: I just changed the status of this post to Public - so feel free to share this with your followers if you so choose! Thanks for reading. *Just added a correction above: the mentally ill and disabled were not actually sent to Dachau, a work camp. They were sent to death camps. [The bottom has photos of Dachau]
February 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
birbofprey.bsky.social
New World Symphony kinda morning…
A screenshot of a Spotify album: Dvoràk: Symphony No 9 “From the New World” with each movement listed, the second highlighted in green as it is currently playing. It indicates that Christopher Dohnàny is conducting the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. The album was recorded in 1986.
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Feeling AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[…] lately
A black backdrop with white printed lowercase “a”s repeated, superimposed with a screaming black cat, showing how we all feel
January 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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They’re not coming for me, they’re *here* for me. First boxing me in [trans + passport/ID issues] and now boxing me out [of life saving supports]

WHEN IS LITERALLY ANYONE GOING TO STOP THIS??

www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/t...
A screenshot from the linked article reading: Chief among the questions are whether funding for clinical research, suicide prevention and state infectious disease surveillance will see interruptions due to the pause. "The language is not entirely clear, but we believe that Medicaid is implicated along other discretionary programs like SNAP, TANF, WIC, workforce training programs, mental health/substance abuse funding, home energy assistance, HUD programs, and more," Krista Drobac, partner at Sirona Strategies, told Fierce Healthcare of her group's interpretation. "Medicare and Social Security are trust funds, so they are not discretionary and cannot be impacted." "The first reaction was that it appeared to be a pretty brazen power grab," said Andrea Ducas, vice president of health policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. "It's hard to overstate
January 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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i am so fascinated by my new hair! It got suuuper wavy on T, like into spiral/loose coils when it’s properly taken care of 🤯Blows my mind! (i have no idea what to do with it lol but I’m workin on it!)

Pre T hair |||| hair when it’s dry out/undermoisturized |||| hair when damp/properly moisturized
A three part panel of a white person, ft their hair: Panel 1 is a white backdrop and a zoomed in head with a winky emoji over the face. The hair is light brown with sun bleached highlights and about shoulder length, straight hair. Panel 2 is the same white person in a grey-ish blue Starfleet t-shirt. Their face is covered by a grinning emoji. Their hair is darker brown with fewer highlights and falls about an inch or so below the ears, with the front clipped up in the back. The hair is pretty straight, but has a slight curl up at the bottom Panel 3 is also this white person, in a black sleeveless t-shirt. Their face is covered by a content emoji. Their hair is quite wavy, though chaotic. Still a darker brown with a few sun bleached highlights & it falls about 2.5 inches below the ears
January 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A scroll through—
A scroll through of the shows highlighted for the “Let Freedom Ring” category: The Six Triple Eight Piano Lesson Jazzman’s Blues Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Mudbound Rustin Devil at the Crossroads Race Stamped from the Beginning Amend: the fight for america The Black Godfather Descendant Blood Brothers Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali Bill Russell Legend Passing Da 5 Bloods Who Killed Malcolm X? The 2 Killings of Sam Cooke 13th Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen Brother Outsider: the life of Bayard Rustin Black is Beltza
January 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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At first I was like “wtaf, Netflix. NOT the time, nor the audience!” but then I scrolled through and they’re literally all stories of Black heroes, so…I’m ok with this brand of patriotism.
Shoutout to the employee/s behind this!
#ThisIsTheWay #Netflix #LetFreedomRing #BlackLivesMatter
A photo of a Netflix home screen on a TV with “The Six Triple Eight” as the header show, blurry & out of focus. In focus below is a “Let Freedom Ring” category row of TV shows and movies, with the shows out of focus.
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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They paused it in protest of Meta’s now openly and self proclaimed bigotry. There’s a discord group, though it’s not the same.
A screenshot of the Star Trek Shitposting gronp, lacking its usual clever banner. It reads: “This Group* is Paused” “An admin paused this group on January 19, 2025” *misspelled by the Zuck Below the usual bar of “featured” etc, it says “Most relevant” with a post by Serin Jameson from 3 days ago below it, reading: “This group will be on pause to protest Meta’s recent shift away from semi-reasonable standards to full on and open bigotry”
January 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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*Tattoo Idea:
my man, Orien, but only the stars you can see through city light pollution.

*Ridiculous but appealing
A white background with grey dots. Four are a vertically oriented rectangle, with three dots going diagonally down from the right side middle: the only stars from the Orien constellation I’ve ever been able to see from the cities I’ve lived in
January 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Went to share this in gronp; gronp was closed. (Now who’ll enjoy my shitty & hastily pieced together meme?!)
@startrekshitposti.ng
January 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Vaping on the train 🙃
(“Oh but it’s only in the station stops” ~ I’m sure was the thought process…🙄)

Shaaaaaaaame
November 7, 2023 at 8:43 PM
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I, too, am a nonbinary trans mask person, as I believe in safety first!
(Love when the transcription makes beautiful mistakes!)
October 26, 2023 at 6:18 PM
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…wut??
#AlgorithmsGoneWrong
A screenshot of a “violations” page from Instagram from June 13 “your story was removed” explaining it went against community standards. The aforementioned story is pictured below: a meme of a velociraptor painting its toenails pink that reads “Easy. Breezy. Beautiful. Clever girl.” Another screenshot of an Instagram violation of community standards The meme pictured has two panels. Top panel is full of super airbrushed, hot, very clearly adult actors and is captioned “adults pretending to be teens in us shows” The bottom panel has 5 disheveled goofy looking actors in school uniforms that reads: “adults pretending to be teens in European shows” Bottom text reads: #europe's got it in fking spades #look at the battlement #the dishevelment #the utter chaos of that group energy #they know #they remember being a teenager
October 17, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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SPOTTED IRL
(I feel a deep sense of satisfaction now, as if I’ve completed a Rite of Bostonians)

#CarsOnly (#OnlyCars?)
#Storrowing
#Boston #StorrowDrive
A picture taken from the backseat of a car. You can see the bottom half of a green road aign that says “Newton” with an arrow pointing down, and the new road sign for Storrow Drive’s entrance, reading” CARS ONLY” in yellow on a dark grey background, with arrows pointing at the road in front of us.
September 1, 2023 at 4:12 PM