Manda
@mandalevelsup.bsky.social
Story lover, art maker, displaced Connecticut apologist, make believe enthusiast. Valid for a limited time only. Void where prohibited.
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Manda
@mandalevelsup.bsky.social
· Jan 8
My name is Manda, I talk about Taylor Swift (and pop music), TV, podcasts, romance novels, politics, and TTRPGs a lot.
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
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i am mostly ignoring Nancy Mace these days because the thing she wants more than anything is attention but i will just note that her signature move during the presidential campaign was claiming women who allege they were assaulted are liars
February 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
i am mostly ignoring Nancy Mace these days because the thing she wants more than anything is attention but i will just note that her signature move during the presidential campaign was claiming women who allege they were assaulted are liars
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The best evidence that Trump's brain is completely gone is that he, who hates sharing the spotlight even a little, is openly letting Elon dictate everything he's doing, right down to a weird "I'm mad apartheid ended" essay that's like boy I wonder who is speaking there
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The best evidence that Trump's brain is completely gone is that he, who hates sharing the spotlight even a little, is openly letting Elon dictate everything he's doing, right down to a weird "I'm mad apartheid ended" essay that's like boy I wonder who is speaking there
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Senator, I am proud to have worked to re-elect you and you and @warren.senate.gov are the best 1-2 punch in the Senate. But this is a rent-a-cop and YOU'RE A SENATOR. Make him show you the authority under which a made-up agency can stop you OR MAKE HIM PHYSICALLY STOP YOU.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Senator, I am proud to have worked to re-elect you and you and @warren.senate.gov are the best 1-2 punch in the Senate. But this is a rent-a-cop and YOU'RE A SENATOR. Make him show you the authority under which a made-up agency can stop you OR MAKE HIM PHYSICALLY STOP YOU.
Well gang, I've spend 20 minutes here and it's still significantly worse than threads. 🫠
January 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Well gang, I've spend 20 minutes here and it's still significantly worse than threads. 🫠
My hometown was raided by ICE this morning. It was my home more than half my life off and on. It looks like the neighborhood we moved out of a month ago after over a decade. There are so many families in that neighborhood. I have never known rage and despair like this.
January 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My hometown was raided by ICE this morning. It was my home more than half my life off and on. It looks like the neighborhood we moved out of a month ago after over a decade. There are so many families in that neighborhood. I have never known rage and despair like this.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
www.teenvogue.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
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I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.
January 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.
Apparently I play #PokemonGo again so... You know. Let's be friends or something.
January 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Apparently I play #PokemonGo again so... You know. Let's be friends or something.
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Whatever respiratory infection my husband brought home comes with a brain rattling unquellable headache from hell and *that* is my real foe.
January 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Whatever respiratory infection my husband brought home comes with a brain rattling unquellable headache from hell and *that* is my real foe.
Still begging @support.bsky.team for that remove follower button.
January 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Still begging @support.bsky.team for that remove follower button.
Today is my dad's birthday, and I really wish I could call him and talk to him. I wish I could plan adventures with him to go explore Providence. I wish I'd gone to our hometown and gotten a slice of pizza today. I miss him a lot.
January 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Today is my dad's birthday, and I really wish I could call him and talk to him. I wish I could plan adventures with him to go explore Providence. I wish I'd gone to our hometown and gotten a slice of pizza today. I miss him a lot.
Told the VTM group chat I was building a back up character and it turns out that the character bench in #OopsAllTremere #vtm
January 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Told the VTM group chat I was building a back up character and it turns out that the character bench in #OopsAllTremere #vtm
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I’m going to signal boost this as a PSA for everyone. My wife’s uncle almost died because he left his generator on in his garage during a snowstorm with the door closed. The rest of the family is so lucky they came home later and realized something was wrong before it was too late.
If you've managed to remain safe from the LA fires but have lost power and are using a portable generator, remember to keep it outdoors and make sure your carbon monoxide (CO) alarms are working. 1 generator can produce as much CO as hundreds of cars and CO can kill in minutes.
January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m going to signal boost this as a PSA for everyone. My wife’s uncle almost died because he left his generator on in his garage during a snowstorm with the door closed. The rest of the family is so lucky they came home later and realized something was wrong before it was too late.
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Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
January 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
Seriously how are y'all coping without a remove follower option?
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Seriously how are y'all coping without a remove follower option?
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Trump is out here hoping people have memory-holed a whole-ass pandemic he presided over
January 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trump is out here hoping people have memory-holed a whole-ass pandemic he presided over
I am deeply concerned that some of the accounts who are following me are not prepared for all the completely earnest Taylor Swift fangirling and make believe Vampire bullshit I am bringing to the table so consider this the heads up about that.
January 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I am deeply concerned that some of the accounts who are following me are not prepared for all the completely earnest Taylor Swift fangirling and make believe Vampire bullshit I am bringing to the table so consider this the heads up about that.
My name is Manda, I talk about Taylor Swift (and pop music), TV, podcasts, romance novels, politics, and TTRPGs a lot.
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
January 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
My name is Manda, I talk about Taylor Swift (and pop music), TV, podcasts, romance novels, politics, and TTRPGs a lot.
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
Current standouts and faves:
🎵"Vertigo" by Beach Bunny
📺 @dropouttv.bsky.social
🎧 @pathofnight.bsky.social
📚 "Ornithologists Field Guide to Love" by India Holton
🎲 VtM🌹
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me bringing unhinged threads vibes to this place like
January 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
me bringing unhinged threads vibes to this place like
Welp. Guess I live here now.
January 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Welp. Guess I live here now.
From the character group chat: *you got the Toreador going on craft and art and value of fashion and style and now it's everyone's problem* #vtm #justtoreadorthings
January 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
From the character group chat: *you got the Toreador going on craft and art and value of fashion and style and now it's everyone's problem* #vtm #justtoreadorthings
Being chronically ill is a trip because holidays are super stressful so I often have to deal with a weaker immune system around them. It definitely looks like I am trying to avoid my inlaws at like... sit-com levels. 😂
December 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Being chronically ill is a trip because holidays are super stressful so I often have to deal with a weaker immune system around them. It definitely looks like I am trying to avoid my inlaws at like... sit-com levels. 😂