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@casualgypsy.bsky.social
Overly critical thinker. Jigsaw puzzle and book lover. Opting out as much as possible from an economy of hate.
Current goal: to be the best example of positive traits I can be for my daughter
Current goal: to be the best example of positive traits I can be for my daughter
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Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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Join today. Look it up, ask questions, get informed. Our problems cannot be solved alone or in a silo and the corporate owned parties America has now will not do anything to change the status quo.
Read to learn more: platform.dsausa.org
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Strong floors, no ceilings, full price.
Don't blame me, blame the market.
*Bidding war ensues*
Don't blame me, blame the market.
*Bidding war ensues*
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Strong floors, no ceilings, full price.
Don't blame me, blame the market.
*Bidding war ensues*
Don't blame me, blame the market.
*Bidding war ensues*
🚨 Wisconsin 🚨
Our state reps are about to ban ALL VPN use. Yes, all
Remote work? Dead
Remote school work? Nope
Privacy advocates, domestic survivors, journalists...not in Wisconsin
🚨 Call your rep and say no to A.B. 105/ S.B. 130. 🚨
"This breadth of the bill...isn't a bug, it's a feature"
Our state reps are about to ban ALL VPN use. Yes, all
Remote work? Dead
Remote school work? Nope
Privacy advocates, domestic survivors, journalists...not in Wisconsin
🚨 Call your rep and say no to A.B. 105/ S.B. 130. 🚨
"This breadth of the bill...isn't a bug, it's a feature"
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...
www.eff.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🚨 Wisconsin 🚨
Our state reps are about to ban ALL VPN use. Yes, all
Remote work? Dead
Remote school work? Nope
Privacy advocates, domestic survivors, journalists...not in Wisconsin
🚨 Call your rep and say no to A.B. 105/ S.B. 130. 🚨
"This breadth of the bill...isn't a bug, it's a feature"
Our state reps are about to ban ALL VPN use. Yes, all
Remote work? Dead
Remote school work? Nope
Privacy advocates, domestic survivors, journalists...not in Wisconsin
🚨 Call your rep and say no to A.B. 105/ S.B. 130. 🚨
"This breadth of the bill...isn't a bug, it's a feature"
Overherd a small child in the library refer to the back in of her knee as "my kneepit". I love it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Overherd a small child in the library refer to the back in of her knee as "my kneepit". I love it.
Never buy something because it is on sale (you are told to buy).
Buy something when you have decided you need it (you choose to buy).
Buy something when you have decided you need it (you choose to buy).
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Never buy something because it is on sale (you are told to buy).
Buy something when you have decided you need it (you choose to buy).
Buy something when you have decided you need it (you choose to buy).
Wicked 2: Manufactured Consent.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Wicked 2: Manufactured Consent.
My husband has not only discovered Otamatones but the entire subgenre of popular music being replicated with them. So far Freebird, Crazy Train, and APT are pretty spot on. Evanescence's 'Bring Me to Life" had me choking. It is dead on, brilliant creativity. Enjoy the laugh. You're welcome.
"Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence [OTAMATONE COVER]
YouTube video by moshibass
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
My husband has not only discovered Otamatones but the entire subgenre of popular music being replicated with them. So far Freebird, Crazy Train, and APT are pretty spot on. Evanescence's 'Bring Me to Life" had me choking. It is dead on, brilliant creativity. Enjoy the laugh. You're welcome.
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#WeAintBuyingIt — we’re building better.
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Discover Black Owned Businesses
social.demcast.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#WeAintBuyingIt — we’re building better.
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
"If the real world had to pay for everything women do behind the scenes, the economy would collapse."
Why Women Are Quiet Quitting Their Whole Lives
YouTube video by Midlife Anti-Crisis
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"If the real world had to pay for everything women do behind the scenes, the economy would collapse."
Pineapple, sausage, red onion, spinach green pepper pizza is the absolute best. Pretzel crust and balsamic drizzle just take it over the edge.
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Pineapple, sausage, red onion, spinach green pepper pizza is the absolute best. Pretzel crust and balsamic drizzle just take it over the edge.
When something is marketed as making life better, always ask "who's life?" because the answer invariably is going to be "the wealth class".
Fyi, if you earn paychecks you are not a member of the wealth class. You are working class.
Fyi, if you earn paychecks you are not a member of the wealth class. You are working class.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When something is marketed as making life better, always ask "who's life?" because the answer invariably is going to be "the wealth class".
Fyi, if you earn paychecks you are not a member of the wealth class. You are working class.
Fyi, if you earn paychecks you are not a member of the wealth class. You are working class.
Read it in this voice and it also works for Halloween:
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Read it in this voice and it also works for Halloween:
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Here’s a thought: after this is all over, every corporation that backed fascism gets fascism fines as a percentage from their corporate earnings.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Here’s a thought: after this is all over, every corporation that backed fascism gets fascism fines as a percentage from their corporate earnings.
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Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
De-google-ify your life. Consider Linux. Say goodbye to any Meta product/service. Take a 24hr break from screens once a week. Fuck 'em up good.
I wonder what would happen if everyone just turned off their cell phones for a day what financial impact it would have on META, Google, Apple and all the rest profiting off our attention?
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
De-google-ify your life. Consider Linux. Say goodbye to any Meta product/service. Take a 24hr break from screens once a week. Fuck 'em up good.
"No one believes anymore."
"Why are church numbers falling?"
Because it's not just the Catholic Church. My kid will never go to church, just another opportunity for strangers to abuse her. Faith - in a dirty or humanity - can grow and thrive without institutions that harm our most innocent.
"Why are church numbers falling?"
Because it's not just the Catholic Church. My kid will never go to church, just another opportunity for strangers to abuse her. Faith - in a dirty or humanity - can grow and thrive without institutions that harm our most innocent.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"No one believes anymore."
"Why are church numbers falling?"
Because it's not just the Catholic Church. My kid will never go to church, just another opportunity for strangers to abuse her. Faith - in a dirty or humanity - can grow and thrive without institutions that harm our most innocent.
"Why are church numbers falling?"
Because it's not just the Catholic Church. My kid will never go to church, just another opportunity for strangers to abuse her. Faith - in a dirty or humanity - can grow and thrive without institutions that harm our most innocent.
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It’s rich people
The problem is rich people
The problem is rich people
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s rich people
The problem is rich people
The problem is rich people
Do you earn paychecks?
Do need to use the paychecks you earn?
Congrats, friend, you are a member of the Working Class. The wealthy do not care about you, they live zero-sum lives. What's good for them is bad for you and vice versa.
Fight for what they oppose. It'll do good for far more folks.
Do need to use the paychecks you earn?
Congrats, friend, you are a member of the Working Class. The wealthy do not care about you, they live zero-sum lives. What's good for them is bad for you and vice versa.
Fight for what they oppose. It'll do good for far more folks.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Do you earn paychecks?
Do need to use the paychecks you earn?
Congrats, friend, you are a member of the Working Class. The wealthy do not care about you, they live zero-sum lives. What's good for them is bad for you and vice versa.
Fight for what they oppose. It'll do good for far more folks.
Do need to use the paychecks you earn?
Congrats, friend, you are a member of the Working Class. The wealthy do not care about you, they live zero-sum lives. What's good for them is bad for you and vice versa.
Fight for what they oppose. It'll do good for far more folks.
If I ever run for office, my core platform would be "I will always vote no to data centers in my jurisdiction and anywhere else I can influence". Landslide victory is inevitable.
Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If I ever run for office, my core platform would be "I will always vote no to data centers in my jurisdiction and anywhere else I can influence". Landslide victory is inevitable.
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Absolutely love "An ouroboros of shit."
I'd like to see a graphic showing the waves of money flowing back and forth in this nonsense. Just a bunch of arrows in different colors between brand names going in a circular direction.
It'll be helpful to see how far they have to fall.
I'd like to see a graphic showing the waves of money flowing back and forth in this nonsense. Just a bunch of arrows in different colors between brand names going in a circular direction.
It'll be helpful to see how far they have to fall.
Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Absolutely love "An ouroboros of shit."
I'd like to see a graphic showing the waves of money flowing back and forth in this nonsense. Just a bunch of arrows in different colors between brand names going in a circular direction.
It'll be helpful to see how far they have to fall.
I'd like to see a graphic showing the waves of money flowing back and forth in this nonsense. Just a bunch of arrows in different colors between brand names going in a circular direction.
It'll be helpful to see how far they have to fall.
Just finished Metal Slinger and my review as a result of the plot twist is basically to point to this TV trope entry. So infuriating #booksky
Ass Pull - TV Tropes
A truly great Plot Twist is one of the hardest things to pull off in storytelling. Optimally, the writer will want to reveal the twist in such a way that most of the audience is caught off-guard by it...
tvtropes.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Just finished Metal Slinger and my review as a result of the plot twist is basically to point to this TV trope entry. So infuriating #booksky
🚨 Pay attention 🚨
If you like clean (any) drinking water and affordable(ish) electric bills you have to pay attention!
Fight the AI data centers taking over the middle of the country, especially the Great Lakes region.
Charlie Berens explains the lies with levity. Now you must be heard locally.
If you like clean (any) drinking water and affordable(ish) electric bills you have to pay attention!
Fight the AI data centers taking over the middle of the country, especially the Great Lakes region.
Charlie Berens explains the lies with levity. Now you must be heard locally.
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🚨 Pay attention 🚨
If you like clean (any) drinking water and affordable(ish) electric bills you have to pay attention!
Fight the AI data centers taking over the middle of the country, especially the Great Lakes region.
Charlie Berens explains the lies with levity. Now you must be heard locally.
If you like clean (any) drinking water and affordable(ish) electric bills you have to pay attention!
Fight the AI data centers taking over the middle of the country, especially the Great Lakes region.
Charlie Berens explains the lies with levity. Now you must be heard locally.
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Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Saving for later
I had some bananas that were past their ‘use before’ date, lol, so I made them into Banana Snacking cake. This is a quick and easy recipe for delicious snacks right out of the oven or frozen for later use. These freeze beautifully & once thawed they are as good as if you just made them!
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.
They’re “too young to vote”.
They’re too young to drink.
But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?
Be serious please.