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Meg
@prayingmantis.bsky.social
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Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE
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Thinking about this since I watched The Apprentice the other night.
Instagram comment from maggie.wiggin: I wonder if it's a good idea for a country to be run entirely by men who grew up with everything except love
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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"If you try to implement socialism, if you try to render our police weak and impotent," Silwa says in remarks apparently directed at Zohran Mamdani, "we are mobilizing." Silwa has tears in his eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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When they said "hot singles near you" this is what they meant
- hot breath from your laptop fan as it melts your thigh - hot shame from checking screen time and realizing you live here now - hot fury trying to unsubscribe from something that never let you subscribe in the first place - hot terror every time your phone buzzes & it's not who you wanted - hot nostalgia for a version of the internet that didn't feel like clawing through drywall to find a door that used to be open and still you log in again because what else what else
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Frankenstein's monster & Bride of Frankenstein, 2017 (I want to note that's my real hair)
a black & white photo of people dressed as Frankenstein's monster & Bride of Frankenstein. There is a medical illustration poster behind them.
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Pregnant zombie nun & zombie priest, 2010 (a woman at the Halloween parade saw us, looked horrified, & crossed herself!)
Zombie nun & priest; the nun has a zombie fetus sticking out of her belly
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Mantises, 2019 (at karaoke I sang MC Hammer's "Pray" & he sang "Head Like a Hole" 😆)
People in praying mantis costumes
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Dressed as Masterpiece by Lichtenstein, 2012 (if you want to see how accurate we were, click here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterp... )
A woman & man with red dots all over their faces, as well as black lines, in the Pop Art style, & a sign reading WHY, BRAD DARLING, THIS PAINTING IS A MASTERPIECE! MY, SOON YOU'LL HAVE ALL OF NEW YORK CLAMORING FOR YOUR WORK!
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Vincent Vega & Mia Wallace, 2008 (who are these CHILDREN)
We are dressed as Vincent Vega & Mia Wallace; Vincent has a bolo tie & there is blood on my shirt & face & a large syringe sticking out of my chest
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Happy Halloween! Have some throwbacks of @thatguywasfly.bsky.social & me. First up, Dustin & Eleven from Stranger Things, 2016
Two grown-ass adults dressed as kids. The man has his front teeth blacked out & he's wearing a t-shirt that says HAWKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL AV CLUB. The woman has a buzz cut wig, pink dress, tube socks, pink dress, & blue Members Only jacket, with a trickle of blood coming out of one nostril
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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TOO SPOOPY TO LIVE, TO CREPPY TO DIE
A plastic sign made of bones & skulls reading "SPOOPY," & a cookie cake decorated with a spider reading "CREPPY"
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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On Bluesky tonight like
Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen but he's saying "I am tired of baseball. These innings. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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1. So what I'm hearing is if I cultivate pessimism I'll get to shave 12 years off my life?! 🙏
2. Is it because you're going to be dead soon?
Article headline: Science Says Optimistic People Live Up to 12 Years Longer. Article headline: Opinion | It's Great to Be in My 80s
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Tumblr user guerrilatech posts a screencap of a tweet from @pixietit2 with a Communist Soviet Union flag behind it, which reads: My 17 year old brother's school did a mock election and one of the kids ran as the communist party as a joke and the school made them stop because they were winning. Tumblr user amateur-climber-pro-shitposter replied: The mock election was so realistic the school even played the role of the CIA
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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BIG SHOULDERS
BIRTHPLACE OF SOCIAL WORK
HAYMARKET RIOT
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October 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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"it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more." - Marge Piercy

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#NoKings
200k people in Chicago's Grant Park today.
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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You love to hear it at a liberal protest! I swear I didn't start this one! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Catch me bloc'd up at the liberal protest / other side of sign
#NoKings
Me in a black tee, black sunglasses, & black paisley bandana over my face, holding a sign reading WE WILL STILL BE QUEER BE TRANS HAVE ABORTIONS HELP EACH OTHER Sign reading ICE = GESTAPO SS OUT OF CHICAGO
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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#NoKings
A guillotine made out of cardboard, reading NO KINGS, at the protest today in Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A Facebook group called #LincolnSquare Mamas organized a #NoKings protest for kids. They expected ~20 people, but we all wrapped around the block (see pic). Little kids with their homemade signs chanting "No ICE! Be nice!" @thatguywasfly.bsky.social & I went with our niblings & their parents.
Kids marching down the sidewalk holding signs A baseball field, in the far distance there's a sidewalk full of kids & their guardians My nibling holding the sign they made. It says No kings here leave Chicago alone, & has the Chicago flag The sign my niece made. It says NO KINGS NO TRUMP
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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A drawing of three witches in a convertible. It says GET IN LOSER WE'RE GOING HEXING
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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FAR LEFT EXTREMISTS WANT YOU TO HAVE A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD AND A FULL STOMACH
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Why did I scroll before bed, I'm crying myself to sleep again
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October 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM