Miranda ♿
@heathenqueer.bsky.social
White, disabled queer Heathen who prefers cats to people. POTS/Long COVID. she/her
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April 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version
guess who tested positive for COVID again this morning
*sobs*
*sobs*
January 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
guess who tested positive for COVID again this morning
*sobs*
*sobs*
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Folks need to understand this.
Pornhub is absolutely in the right here. They are blocking states who require this because they don't want to be responsible for your PI data! They do not NEED that info to provide their service, so collecting and maintaining it is inherently privacy violating!
Pornhub is absolutely in the right here. They are blocking states who require this because they don't want to be responsible for your PI data! They do not NEED that info to provide their service, so collecting and maintaining it is inherently privacy violating!
pornhub is blocked in 17 states because 17 state governments are demanding that you upload your face and identifying information to a privately held company that may or may not sell that data to the highest bidder and pornhub believes that is a violation of your rights.
January 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Folks need to understand this.
Pornhub is absolutely in the right here. They are blocking states who require this because they don't want to be responsible for your PI data! They do not NEED that info to provide their service, so collecting and maintaining it is inherently privacy violating!
Pornhub is absolutely in the right here. They are blocking states who require this because they don't want to be responsible for your PI data! They do not NEED that info to provide their service, so collecting and maintaining it is inherently privacy violating!
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Some of my favorite pieces from this year 🖤
December 28, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Some of my favorite pieces from this year 🖤
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who could have predicted that bluesky caving to rightwing extremists would result in the arrival of more rightwing extremists 😮
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 AM
who could have predicted that bluesky caving to rightwing extremists would result in the arrival of more rightwing extremists 😮
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I posted something pushing back against the Carter-as-failed-president narrative yesterday, but in today's Cup of Coffee newsletter (which, if you're a baseball fan, you should definitely subscribe to) @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social put it much more eloquently than I did:
December 30, 2024 at 1:40 PM
I posted something pushing back against the Carter-as-failed-president narrative yesterday, but in today's Cup of Coffee newsletter (which, if you're a baseball fan, you should definitely subscribe to) @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social put it much more eloquently than I did:
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the internet is the best place to learn the fact that even your most innocuous and inoffensive thoughts engender a deep personal hatred in someone
humanity contains multitudes and at least one of them despises you
humanity contains multitudes and at least one of them despises you
December 29, 2024 at 6:51 PM
the internet is the best place to learn the fact that even your most innocuous and inoffensive thoughts engender a deep personal hatred in someone
humanity contains multitudes and at least one of them despises you
humanity contains multitudes and at least one of them despises you
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factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment.
December 29, 2024 at 6:20 AM
factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment.
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We’re just going to have a bunch of newscycles where Trump voters are like “I didn’t actually think he was going to do …. Just because he said he was going to.”
December 29, 2024 at 12:19 AM
We’re just going to have a bunch of newscycles where Trump voters are like “I didn’t actually think he was going to do …. Just because he said he was going to.”
Found this at work (a thrift store). LOL'd since I know how much of a ruckus the cover made.
December 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Found this at work (a thrift store). LOL'd since I know how much of a ruckus the cover made.
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TW: Rape
Babe, if you can't read dark romance because it triggers you that is fine. But you fake crying on reel because some people have rape fantasies is a weird choice.
Just learn to curate your own experience and keep it rolling.
Babe, if you can't read dark romance because it triggers you that is fine. But you fake crying on reel because some people have rape fantasies is a weird choice.
Just learn to curate your own experience and keep it rolling.
December 26, 2024 at 2:51 PM
TW: Rape
Babe, if you can't read dark romance because it triggers you that is fine. But you fake crying on reel because some people have rape fantasies is a weird choice.
Just learn to curate your own experience and keep it rolling.
Babe, if you can't read dark romance because it triggers you that is fine. But you fake crying on reel because some people have rape fantasies is a weird choice.
Just learn to curate your own experience and keep it rolling.
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I’m realizing that not a lot of people have a streamlined way to organize their masks so I’m sharing mine that I learned from Project N95:
December 13, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I’m realizing that not a lot of people have a streamlined way to organize their masks so I’m sharing mine that I learned from Project N95:
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The end game of this was always "we have to end women's sports to protect cis women from trans women."
I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn't just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/dona...
I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn't just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/dona...
Donald Trump tells rightwing group that he'll end women's boxing "very quickly" - LGBTQ Nation
He said the women's sport is ruining America's "spirit."
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 24, 2024 at 5:52 PM
The end game of this was always "we have to end women's sports to protect cis women from trans women."
I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn't just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/dona...
I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn't just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/dona...
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Motherhood as a function of white supremacy. It's something I've been thinking about a lot recently, the way in which white women are traditionally established in positions of "care" in order to surveill and disrupt "undesirable" families. The social worker, the nurse, the missionary. 🧵
At my former workplace, some of the white female colleagues, when they saw Israel's genocide of Palestinians, didn't feel any empathy for Palestinians. Instead, when Pro Palestine colleagues complained about so many children being murdered, they kept talking about wanting to "adopt" the children.
December 23, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Motherhood as a function of white supremacy. It's something I've been thinking about a lot recently, the way in which white women are traditionally established in positions of "care" in order to surveill and disrupt "undesirable" families. The social worker, the nurse, the missionary. 🧵
Hey all, I need recs for good non-fic books on the Reconstruction. I've googled a few but I'd like to know which ones stand out in particular.
December 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Hey all, I need recs for good non-fic books on the Reconstruction. I've googled a few but I'd like to know which ones stand out in particular.
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I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
December 19, 2024 at 2:31 AM
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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but when we tell them they definitely have some predators and deviants in their friend group chats they think we’re lying lmao
December 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
but when we tell them they definitely have some predators and deviants in their friend group chats they think we’re lying lmao
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David Zaslav, like so many other execs in creative industries and beyond, can’t imagine that something can be thriving and essential if it’s not growing exponentially forever.
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December 15, 2024 at 8:55 PM
David Zaslav, like so many other execs in creative industries and beyond, can’t imagine that something can be thriving and essential if it’s not growing exponentially forever.
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Everything America does to cut off its nose to spite its face is to hurt Black people first and women second. If you keep that in mind everything makes sense
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Everything America does to cut off its nose to spite its face is to hurt Black people first and women second. If you keep that in mind everything makes sense
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I don’t want to discount greed and bigotry but a lot of it is that they’re just really fucking stupid
December 17, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I don’t want to discount greed and bigotry but a lot of it is that they’re just really fucking stupid
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Every single one of these articles is the same: Blame Democrats for capitulating to "progressive advocates," blithely note that no one in power has actually done that, then tell Democrats to do exactly what they're already doing.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
December 16, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Every single one of these articles is the same: Blame Democrats for capitulating to "progressive advocates," blithely note that no one in power has actually done that, then tell Democrats to do exactly what they're already doing.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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You know, I'm something of an ex male myself
December 17, 2024 at 11:10 AM
You know, I'm something of an ex male myself
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Very weird to hear booktok crying about “but how will you find unique books?!” When all booktok ever did was promote the same 10 books by the same white authors over and over again.
And yes there were diverse booktokers but the amount of booktokers who talked about the same white books is 10xs.
And yes there were diverse booktokers but the amount of booktokers who talked about the same white books is 10xs.
December 14, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Very weird to hear booktok crying about “but how will you find unique books?!” When all booktok ever did was promote the same 10 books by the same white authors over and over again.
And yes there were diverse booktokers but the amount of booktokers who talked about the same white books is 10xs.
And yes there were diverse booktokers but the amount of booktokers who talked about the same white books is 10xs.