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Jen Larkin
@petticoatdespot.bsky.social
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Social justice magetank. Goth, neurodivergent, and allergic. Cisgender out of spite, trans rights supporter. WoW player and board gamer.
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Mr. Squish supports this message.
A photo of a large stuffed monkey with his arm around a small stuffed monkey. The large monkey is Mr. Squish and the small monkey is Recursive the Metamonkey (but you can't see the stuffed monkey that he's holding).
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Matt Yglesias with another banger opinion that is ignorant of history, centers middle class white people, and imagines that you can be materially prosperous while having constant asthma attacks or cancer.

He's actually *paid* to say shit like this. Having political opinions is his profession!
A skeet by Matthew Yglesias: "If there's no shale gas then there's no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity." A response from Michael Stahlke: "OH, I don't know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things."
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Apparently, I have developed a boyfriend? Who gives presents? That I like? I have to admit: I was not expecting this.
The box for the game "Exploding Kittens: The Board Game." It shows a gray cat with fiery eyes, holding the severed head of a teddy bear.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Photo by Getty Images from Cuomo's party last night: Cuomo kisses a woman on the cheek without consent.

NYC: RUN, GIRL! WE DID!
A crowd shot from Cuomo's election night party. In the center of the crowd is a woman with brown hair and a somewhat distressed look on her face, looking towards her left. Andrew Cuomo is kissing her on the cheek while trying to pull her face towards him with one hand. Ew.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Today in delusionally false equivalences and opportunistic misogyny:

Invading Democratically run cities, rigging an upcoming election, exporting universities, and deporting dissidents is totes the same as forcing people to pay a fine for not buying health insurance and canceling student loan debt.😂
A screenshot of the New York Sun. The headline reads "Democrats Accuse Trump of Authoritarian Tactics, but Who Are the Real 'Kings'?" The subheader is "Criticism of Trump overlooks questionable conduct by Obama and Biden administration officials." This is followed by a photo of Obama and Biden reaching to shake hands in front of Harris. The caption reads "Vice President Harris reacts as President Biden shakes hands with President Obama at the White House on April 5, 2002. AP Carolyn Kasler". This is followed by a photo of a smiling white man named Victor Davis Hanson, who is the author.
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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One of my #noKings signs came true!
A hand-written poster that says "Trump deserves the Nobel Participation Prize!" In the bottom right is a photo of a participation prize doctored to say "NOBEL" in the center and to have "Donald J. Trump" on the nameplate.
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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One of my #noKings signs came true!

It's the Nixon Peace Prize, given to many people who bombed the shit out of others for "peace."
A handwritten poster that says "Trump deserves the Nobel Participation Prize!" In the bottom right is a photo of a participation prize that says "Participation" twice and has been doctored so that the prize says "NOBEL" in the center and "Donald J. Trump" on the nameplate.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Also, it's been expended to both wings, making it not "a ballroom," which the White House already had. It now has 2 grand walkways and you know the whole dawned thing will be gilded.

He's trying to make the White House the Kremlin.
The scale model of Trump's White House "ballroom." It has two long walkways extending from each wing of the White House, with a new building at each end, extending to the front, making the White House shaped in a u. An example of a walkways inside the Kremlin. It Is a long series of gilded arches, lit between each arch to emphasize the gold. Even the Bobdamned doors are gilded.
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Steven King's house.
A photo of Steven King's home in Maine. He is a neighbor of Susan Collins. In front of King's home is a truck with what appears to be an electronic sign, although I suppose it could be a wrap. It is red and features a black and white photo of Collins. It says "Trump broke the law. Susan Collins, don't help him cover it up. Vote to convicted and remove".
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Leonardo diCaprio raises a cocktail glass while wearing a tux at a party, in a scene from The Great Gatsby. Text on the image says "As always, fuck Bernie."
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I sleep with a stuffed monkey. I was so enamored with him in a dream that I took this in my sleep. He is not a cryptid though.
A very close-up photo of a stuffed monkey's smiling face.
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Now with alt text!
The image from the quoted post, a tweet from NYPD News: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests."
October 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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There's a guy copypasting this into numerous #noKings threads and he also pasted it into numerous skeet shares, presumably because he couldn't respond. Before I blocked him, I took a screenshot because OMG. Y'all, I cannot.

If your response is to attack Biden where Trump did worse, you fail at life
A sweet from an account named Ben Nevis, who claims to be a "pre-bunker," as opposed to a debunked. It reads: "No police. "No ICE. "No batons. "No teargas. "Very few non-white people. [Frog emoji] "[Link to article with description below.] "Are #noKings rallies simply state-sanctioned street parties? [Blank face emoji] [Red ball emoji][American flag emoji][Ukrainian flag emoji]MAGA[Israeli flag emoji][American flag emoji][blue ball emoji]" Then there's the news article, from canary.co, with a picture of Biden's face poorly photoshopped over a picture of a protest: "Authoritarian Biden cracks down on dissent on US campuses." "Biden's calls for 'order' on US university campuses come after cops violent...".
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Back from #noKings Baton Rouge. I can't estimate people 🤷‍♀️ but there were at least several hundred people. I didn't take crowd pics but people liked my allergy sign.
A poster that says "I'm allergic to fascism but I brought EpiPens in case MAGA shows up". A poster that says "Trump blames the Dems for the Epstein shutdown because predators always blame the victim". A poster that says "Trump deserves the Nobel Participation Prize!" In the bottom right is a black and white photo of a participation trophy that says "Nobel" and "Participation." The name Donald J. Trump is printed on the nameplate. A poster that says "Anti-antifa is pro-fascisn! Like, by definition".
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Context: art by Shepard Fairey
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An Obey Giant poster. Artwork by Shepard Fairey, which has been attache to the outsides of buildings across the US and perhaps in other countries. It features a black and white line art depicting a closeup of the face of Andre the Giant, heavily stylized with large lines and shadows. Below the face is a red bar with white slanted sans-serif lettering that says "OBEY".
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Appeals court unanimously upholds lower court ruling that Trump is not allowed to deploy troops to Chicago. They specifically noted that the lower court judge was correct to give low deference to the DOJ testimony, since it was contradicted by objective evidence
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The judges made once banal, now profound statements about the legitimacy of political protest, while Republican leaders regularly refer to peaceful protesters as “terrorists.” “Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion said. “A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows. Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue participants in the protest.”
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Wow! There are a lot of awesome inflatable costumes available!

This one is awesome, but is definitely not a stegosaurus.
A photo of am Amazon listing on a laptop screen. It has a cute pink inflatable axolotl costume and is titled "Stegosaurus".
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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While it is common for the FBI to have observers inside protests, we know who instigated the violence that day because they are on video instigating it. Those identified people were not FBI agents. No apology necessary.

That said, does Trump think we'll believe that Biden ran the FBI under Trump?
A Truth Social post from Donald Trump (@reallDonaldTrump): "THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETH8NG!!! Presiden5 DJT" 10/11/25, 11:38 PM.
October 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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No, Trump could not have won the Nobel Peace Prize. He supports genocide abroad. He supports eugenics here. He bombs fishing boats. He bombed Iran. He claims to have stopped 10 wars but started 2. He has sent the military to invade at least 4 of our own cities. He intends to invoke martial law.

No.
A screenshot of two news article summaries in search results. The first is a Newsweek article titled "Donald Trump up for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize-- Watch Winner Announced Live." The second article is from the Wall Street Journal titled "The 11th-Hour Campaign to Land Trump a Nobel Peace Prize."
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Of course the Overconfident Mediocre White Man speaks for me!

I have several chronic illnesses. The GOP is ending my access to health insurance, which will kill me. I was stalked for 10 years and I learned to stand up to it. Why would I stop now, when I will die either way?

He has Survivor Bias.
The Survivor Bias plane example. It features a line art drawing of a biplane, which is covered with red dots, concentrated on the ends of the wings, across the tail, and in the central body of the plane, including a portion of the wings next to that section of the body. The image is part of an examination of where planes that make it home from war are shot. The obvious solution is to protect those parts of the plane, but that is the wrong solution. That is because planes shot in the areas with no bullet marks did not make it home. It's the areas with no bullet marks that need to be fortified in order to get more planes home. The problem is what you do not see, not what you see. In the case of people who have stopped posting on social media to protect themselves, how do you notice lack of posts? How do you notice deleted accounts? How can you tell how many people *have* gone silent? How can you tell how many bullet holes are in a plane that never made it home? You don't. However, many white men believe that if they are unaware of something happening, that it didn't happen. My sister believes that too. This guy claims that it's narcissistic to stop posting because "the government doesn't know who you are." That's why DHS/Palantir are monitoring social media with AI and why the Right is doxxing social media posters. What's narcissistic is insisting that something isn't happening because you aren't aware of it. My sister, in fact, is a narcissist-- clinically. A classic narcissist move is to claim that other people are narcissists if they disagree with you. This week, DHS sent out a warning about a woman who identified an ICE agents online. A few days later, an ICE agents shot her unprovoked. She is now under arrest for assault. Pay attention.
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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No, keyboard suggestions, when I typed in "you have died of dys" none of these are correct.
My keyboard "suggestion" text options for "you have died of dys". The suggestions are dysfunction, dysfunctional, or dyslexia.
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Portland is not "war ravaged." It's not "under siege" and neither is ICE. The account just declared peaceful protesters to be "domestic terrorists" to be shot by the military.

And Trump didn't even write this! The punctuation is too good for it to be him.
A post from Donald J Trump, clearly written by someone else, who tried to emulate Trump by randomly capitalizing words, but failing by using correct punctuation. "At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect war ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Mike Johnson is a terrible, corrupt asshole and gee, this sure is a tempting claim, but:

Remember how Johnson passed the terrible House government funding bill and then dismissed the House until the Oct. deadline, to coerce the Senate Dems to pass the bill?

Is it October yet? No. Not in session.
A photo collage of Mike Johnson, Trump, and Grijalva with the caption "Speaker Johnson refuses to swear in Grijalva who is the decisive vote on Epstein files".
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I'm watching the news. The Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect (left) was on screen and I mistook him for Ed Martin (right).
Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann in court. He is a middle-aged white man with dark hair that looks like a toupee. He has a menacing look on his face. He is currently on trial for 7 murders of prostitutes whose bodies were found in a dumping ground beach on Long Island. Ed Martin, the man that Trump made the lead of the DOJ's new "Weaponization Team" that is trying to get retribution on Trump's enemies by prosecuting them for crimes that the didnt commit, but that Trump has committed. He is a middle-aged white man with dark hair that looks like it could be a toupee. He is exhibiting Resting Jackass Face but is a generally menacing person.
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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On a related note, I googled "Tom Homan sacrifices" to find articles about this and got a bunch of news articles plus a FB post saying that we need to pray for Tom Homan, who is saving our nation from non-criminal brown people. 🤮🤮🤮
A screenshot of google search results. The first result listed is from MSNBC.com "Tom Homan investigated for accepting $50,000 from FBI." The second result is a FB post that I will quote at length at the end. The third result listed is from The Independent "Trump's DOJ shut down investigation into Tom Homan...." The second result is the FB post in question. It's from 2 months ago and has 17,500 interactions. It has a headset of Homan on the right. It is by David Harris Jr. "We need to pray for Border Czar Tom Homan 🙏 We know how..." is the headline. The blurb is "Thank you for the great personal sacrifice you are making to make our country safer. God bless you.".
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM