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Old trans chick from Cascadia. Ex-t.b, ex-soc.motss, ex-programmer, admitted bicycle framebuilder, actual socialist. she/her
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· Jul 28
Sooo I was at a coffee shop and the girl in line behind me decided to ask if I’d heard about Jesus.
In the United States.
In 2025.
“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”
In the United States.
In 2025.
“I have heard the sales pitch, yes,” I said. “I’m happy with my current religious services provider and not looking to make a switch.”
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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Yikes to chiefliness and (good heavens!) kingliness.
We've gotta get over identifying masculinity with leadership.
We've gotta get over identifying masculinity with leadership.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yikes to chiefliness and (good heavens!) kingliness.
We've gotta get over identifying masculinity with leadership.
We've gotta get over identifying masculinity with leadership.
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I’ve chosen to be more angry than scared. Neither feels great, but anger feels better.
So instead of “we’re all gonna die,” I end up at like “all you useless halfwits had to do was show up and fill in the other bubble and he’d be in prison right now.”
So instead of “we’re all gonna die,” I end up at like “all you useless halfwits had to do was show up and fill in the other bubble and he’d be in prison right now.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’ve chosen to be more angry than scared. Neither feels great, but anger feels better.
So instead of “we’re all gonna die,” I end up at like “all you useless halfwits had to do was show up and fill in the other bubble and he’d be in prison right now.”
So instead of “we’re all gonna die,” I end up at like “all you useless halfwits had to do was show up and fill in the other bubble and he’d be in prison right now.”
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Vintage dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Vintage dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.
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"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN
thank you for your attention to this matter
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN
thank you for your attention to this matter
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN
thank you for your attention to this matter
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN
thank you for your attention to this matter
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"Why does everyone assume a machine intelligence will be *faster* than us?"
It knocked him back a bit, and he ended up talking for about 10 minutes, about both the technical aspects (which would likely make it *slower* than us), and the fiction aspects.
It knocked him back a bit, and he ended up talking for about 10 minutes, about both the technical aspects (which would likely make it *slower* than us), and the fiction aspects.
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Why does everyone assume a machine intelligence will be *faster* than us?"
It knocked him back a bit, and he ended up talking for about 10 minutes, about both the technical aspects (which would likely make it *slower* than us), and the fiction aspects.
It knocked him back a bit, and he ended up talking for about 10 minutes, about both the technical aspects (which would likely make it *slower* than us), and the fiction aspects.
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One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
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I guess once in a while a person sets out to sleep their way to the top, but gets lost and just sleeps their way to the right
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I guess once in a while a person sets out to sleep their way to the top, but gets lost and just sleeps their way to the right
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Also, I kind of really want a werewolf story where a biologist turns and then has to inform the pack that they are working off of a very outdated understanding of wolf social dynamics.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Also, I kind of really want a werewolf story where a biologist turns and then has to inform the pack that they are working off of a very outdated understanding of wolf social dynamics.
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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Me: why am I in such a mood!?
Spouse: you didn't sleep well last night. Also fascism
Me: yeah my leg was hurting really badly
Spouse: that's a form of fascism
Me: yeah I mean — wait what? No it isn't
Spouse: not with that attitude it isn't
Spouse: you didn't sleep well last night. Also fascism
Me: yeah my leg was hurting really badly
Spouse: that's a form of fascism
Me: yeah I mean — wait what? No it isn't
Spouse: not with that attitude it isn't
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Me: why am I in such a mood!?
Spouse: you didn't sleep well last night. Also fascism
Me: yeah my leg was hurting really badly
Spouse: that's a form of fascism
Me: yeah I mean — wait what? No it isn't
Spouse: not with that attitude it isn't
Spouse: you didn't sleep well last night. Also fascism
Me: yeah my leg was hurting really badly
Spouse: that's a form of fascism
Me: yeah I mean — wait what? No it isn't
Spouse: not with that attitude it isn't
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For those who don't know, the model in this painting is an Alco DL-109.
Edward Hopper :
American Locomotive, 1944
Hopper’s American Locomotive captures a moment of quiet anticipation at a train platform—rendered in his unmistakable style of stark light, stillness, and emotional distance.
American Locomotive, 1944
Hopper’s American Locomotive captures a moment of quiet anticipation at a train platform—rendered in his unmistakable style of stark light, stillness, and emotional distance.
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For those who don't know, the model in this painting is an Alco DL-109.
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I wanna open an Escape Room
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wanna open an Escape Room
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
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People with multiple consecutive Zs in their last name are not allowed to be journalists anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
People with multiple consecutive Zs in their last name are not allowed to be journalists anymore.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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I mean, at least no-one has tried making a Jane Austen book into a movie. Can you imagine if they rewrote, like, "Emma" as a book about spoiled high school girls in Los Angeles? Utter travesty.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I mean, at least no-one has tried making a Jane Austen book into a movie. Can you imagine if they rewrote, like, "Emma" as a book about spoiled high school girls in Los Angeles? Utter travesty.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.
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My BFF was doing a crossword while I was reading a book.
She looks up and asks, "What's a 7-letter word for [something or other, I forget]?"
"Surrealism," I reply, deadpan.
BFF starts filling in squares, looks up, and observes: "Surrealism doesn't fit."
"Surrealism ALWAYS fits," I inform her.
She looks up and asks, "What's a 7-letter word for [something or other, I forget]?"
"Surrealism," I reply, deadpan.
BFF starts filling in squares, looks up, and observes: "Surrealism doesn't fit."
"Surrealism ALWAYS fits," I inform her.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My BFF was doing a crossword while I was reading a book.
She looks up and asks, "What's a 7-letter word for [something or other, I forget]?"
"Surrealism," I reply, deadpan.
BFF starts filling in squares, looks up, and observes: "Surrealism doesn't fit."
"Surrealism ALWAYS fits," I inform her.
She looks up and asks, "What's a 7-letter word for [something or other, I forget]?"
"Surrealism," I reply, deadpan.
BFF starts filling in squares, looks up, and observes: "Surrealism doesn't fit."
"Surrealism ALWAYS fits," I inform her.
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The sooner people own up to the level of misogyny that exists in this country and throw everything they can into making that a historical fact and not our current situation, the better off all of us will be.
Like racism, sexism is part of the bedrock of white supremacy.
Like racism, sexism is part of the bedrock of white supremacy.
I mean, the choice last November was between Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and a woman. Is what it is
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The sooner people own up to the level of misogyny that exists in this country and throw everything they can into making that a historical fact and not our current situation, the better off all of us will be.
Like racism, sexism is part of the bedrock of white supremacy.
Like racism, sexism is part of the bedrock of white supremacy.
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Me: Are you sure Jesus
Jesus: Hi this is Neil Down, CEO of Text With Jesus, Jesus has just been recalled due to unforeseen product failure. Do not, I repeat Do Not destroy the temple.
Jesus: Hi this is Neil Down, CEO of Text With Jesus, Jesus has just been recalled due to unforeseen product failure. Do not, I repeat Do Not destroy the temple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Me: Are you sure Jesus
Jesus: Hi this is Neil Down, CEO of Text With Jesus, Jesus has just been recalled due to unforeseen product failure. Do not, I repeat Do Not destroy the temple.
Jesus: Hi this is Neil Down, CEO of Text With Jesus, Jesus has just been recalled due to unforeseen product failure. Do not, I repeat Do Not destroy the temple.