In My Righteous Fury Era
@heavymetaltshirt.bsky.social
Nonbinary Mainer / sick of this shit
So far the '20s is just me singing "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" with exponentially increasing desperation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i546...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i546...
This Year
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
www.youtube.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
So far the '20s is just me singing "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" with exponentially increasing desperation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i546...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i546...
Book rec: I just finished this book and I definitely recommend it. Stunning, jaw dropping content & it 100% speeds up my timeline for leaving fb.
I got the audiobook on Libby bc my public library is the best, but here's a link: bookshop.org/p/books/care...
#booksky #amreading #bookrec #summerreads
I got the audiobook on Libby bc my public library is the best, but here's a link: bookshop.org/p/books/care...
#booksky #amreading #bookrec #summerreads
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
bookshop.org
July 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Book rec: I just finished this book and I definitely recommend it. Stunning, jaw dropping content & it 100% speeds up my timeline for leaving fb.
I got the audiobook on Libby bc my public library is the best, but here's a link: bookshop.org/p/books/care...
#booksky #amreading #bookrec #summerreads
I got the audiobook on Libby bc my public library is the best, but here's a link: bookshop.org/p/books/care...
#booksky #amreading #bookrec #summerreads
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no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
My nervous system is so jacked right now. I'm trying to watch Season 2 of The Last of Us and about twice an episode I have to pause it because I get too scared
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My nervous system is so jacked right now. I'm trying to watch Season 2 of The Last of Us and about twice an episode I have to pause it because I get too scared
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
Eyyyyyy I made it
July 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Eyyyyyy I made it
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If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Very excited about how the grocery stores have now cut back on their gluten free products. It makes celiac shopping so much easier--nothing to buy!
Today's shortages: any non-Udi's sandwich bread, and frozen waffles.
Today's shortages: any non-Udi's sandwich bread, and frozen waffles.
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Very excited about how the grocery stores have now cut back on their gluten free products. It makes celiac shopping so much easier--nothing to buy!
Today's shortages: any non-Udi's sandwich bread, and frozen waffles.
Today's shortages: any non-Udi's sandwich bread, and frozen waffles.
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The Westbrook police department posted an AI generated image of supposed evidence they had gotten in a drug bust or something so that's cool, that's the stage of fucked we are now. Jesus Christ.
July 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Westbrook police department posted an AI generated image of supposed evidence they had gotten in a drug bust or something so that's cool, that's the stage of fucked we are now. Jesus Christ.
Ferrying souls to the underworld (and doing some little tasks on the way)
July 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Ferrying souls to the underworld (and doing some little tasks on the way)
It’s to the point now that, if I see her vote against something, I know the votes have already been tallied up and it will pass. It’s an early warning system!
She has only one trick. She never votes against her party when it would actually have an impact. #mepolitics
July 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s to the point now that, if I see her vote against something, I know the votes have already been tallied up and it will pass. It’s an early warning system!
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yeah i use LLMs
Lick
Lhese
Mnuts
Lick
Lhese
Mnuts
July 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
yeah i use LLMs
Lick
Lhese
Mnuts
Lick
Lhese
Mnuts
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Everyone who follows me should call their Senator this morning to urge them to vote in favor of Wyden’s point of order and remove the Medicaid funding ban for transgender care from Trump’s horror bill.
Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.
June 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Everyone who follows me should call their Senator this morning to urge them to vote in favor of Wyden’s point of order and remove the Medicaid funding ban for transgender care from Trump’s horror bill.
We can only hope.
I have a tolerance for expected, scheduled fireworks. But the years after they were legalized were awful—fireworks constantly going off at random times with no warning.
Towns have tightened ordinances since and now it’s mostly 4th of July week that’s full of bangs
I have a tolerance for expected, scheduled fireworks. But the years after they were legalized were awful—fireworks constantly going off at random times with no warning.
Towns have tightened ordinances since and now it’s mostly 4th of July week that’s full of bangs
The number of stores in the states has been declining since 2018, and after an uptick during the pandemic, sales have slowed as well.... #news#maine
https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/06/30/is-maines-enthusiasm-for-fireworks-fizzling-out/
https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/06/30/is-maines-enthusiasm-for-fireworks-fizzling-out/
Is Maine’s enthusiasm for fireworks fizzling out?
Central Maine News
www.centralmaine.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We can only hope.
I have a tolerance for expected, scheduled fireworks. But the years after they were legalized were awful—fireworks constantly going off at random times with no warning.
Towns have tightened ordinances since and now it’s mostly 4th of July week that’s full of bangs
I have a tolerance for expected, scheduled fireworks. But the years after they were legalized were awful—fireworks constantly going off at random times with no warning.
Towns have tightened ordinances since and now it’s mostly 4th of July week that’s full of bangs
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Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump
June 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump
I think this is part of the point. I have seen local (Maine) conservatives call for re-institutionalization because they do not care to see unhoused and mentally ill people in public. Not *just* nursing homes but asylums, specifically.
Institutional care isn't optional under Medicaid. Home and community based services care is optional. Cutting Medicaid will lead to more people losing HCBS and be forced into nursing homes, as I wrote for @motherjones.com in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's war on Medicaid will institutionalize millions of people
The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.
www.motherjones.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I think this is part of the point. I have seen local (Maine) conservatives call for re-institutionalization because they do not care to see unhoused and mentally ill people in public. Not *just* nursing homes but asylums, specifically.
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“But what if story was a way out? A path out of self-hatred to soul-sustaining sympathy? What if the simplest, most effective act of resistance was to refuse self-hatred and claim meaning, purpose, and vindication in love itself?"
The Groundbreaking Author Who Ushered In a New Kind of Queer Lit
The novelist who wrote Bastard Out of Carolina passed away in November 2024. Her legacy includes lesbian literature that valued working-class voices.
www.harpersbazaar.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“But what if story was a way out? A path out of self-hatred to soul-sustaining sympathy? What if the simplest, most effective act of resistance was to refuse self-hatred and claim meaning, purpose, and vindication in love itself?"
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Ending a relationship hurts, but have you ever wanted to send a meme to someone you don’t talk to anymore?
June 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Ending a relationship hurts, but have you ever wanted to send a meme to someone you don’t talk to anymore?
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this is where I am (not one of mine)
June 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
this is where I am (not one of mine)
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OK, this is like the second or third time in a week I’ve heard people make fun of Old Navy as “straight culture” and I don’t get it because IME Old Navy is like Soft Butch Central???
It was literally a plot point in a queer romance novel I narrated recently!
It was literally a plot point in a queer romance novel I narrated recently!
Before this I thought the height of heterosexual camp was families that all wear matching Old Navy Fourth of July shirts.
June 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
OK, this is like the second or third time in a week I’ve heard people make fun of Old Navy as “straight culture” and I don’t get it because IME Old Navy is like Soft Butch Central???
It was literally a plot point in a queer romance novel I narrated recently!
It was literally a plot point in a queer romance novel I narrated recently!
I’ve been running (on purpose!!) because it’s the only way my body can continue to coexist with The Horrors.
Today was a bad run. The worst one I’ve had yet. Low energy, heart rate hard to keep in zone. But I did it anyway. I’m a sicko for exercise now I guess
Today was a bad run. The worst one I’ve had yet. Low energy, heart rate hard to keep in zone. But I did it anyway. I’m a sicko for exercise now I guess
June 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I’ve been running (on purpose!!) because it’s the only way my body can continue to coexist with The Horrors.
Today was a bad run. The worst one I’ve had yet. Low energy, heart rate hard to keep in zone. But I did it anyway. I’m a sicko for exercise now I guess
Today was a bad run. The worst one I’ve had yet. Low energy, heart rate hard to keep in zone. But I did it anyway. I’m a sicko for exercise now I guess
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i also want to call attention to the ahistoric argument Sully makes because it's pissing me off. He talks about homosexuality as a fixed identity, and non-binary/trans people threaten that fixed identity but the idea that homosexuality is NOT a shift in one's gender is NEW.
June 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
i also want to call attention to the ahistoric argument Sully makes because it's pissing me off. He talks about homosexuality as a fixed identity, and non-binary/trans people threaten that fixed identity but the idea that homosexuality is NOT a shift in one's gender is NEW.
These changes (to the ACA, and to Medicaid) in the Big Billionaire Bailout bill would be disastrous for Maine. Think it’s hard to find a doctor now? Just wait until more rural medical offices close because their patients no longer have insurance.
"More than 64,000 Mainers have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace. But state officials and health care advocates say that many would lose coverage under proposed changes in the Congressional budget bill."
www.mainepublic.org/health/2025-...
www.mainepublic.org/health/2025-...
Health care advocates say changes to ACA marketplace plans threaten Maine's healthcare system
More than 64,000 Mainers have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace. But state officials and health care advocates say that many would lose coverage under proposed chan...
www.mainepublic.org
June 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
These changes (to the ACA, and to Medicaid) in the Big Billionaire Bailout bill would be disastrous for Maine. Think it’s hard to find a doctor now? Just wait until more rural medical offices close because their patients no longer have insurance.