Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Finally catching up on season 2 of Frieren and wondering if I ever won’t get teary eyed when they play Himmel’s theme
I don’t know, I think the president should probably be someone who isn’t doing all that
ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were mad at her for not instantly following every order issued. The new ICE threat. "Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch." newrepublic.com/post/205189/...
“We Killed That Lesbian B*tch”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
Protesters are recounting federal agents using Good’s death to warn them off.
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No matter what’s going on in your life there is a form of potato that will make it better
The United Nations voted to endorse a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of continents. The U.S. cast the sole vote against the initiative, while six countries abstained: Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine.
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector.
The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.”
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It makes me weep that young folk will only ever know an internet in the palm of big corporations, and not the internet as it was in the days when it was still ran by John Internet out of the Internet Hut on Internet Island.
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · yesterdayParty on down at the Internet Hut. Where all your online services come from. 📖: PC Gamer, April 1997
“I should still get to enjoy the wizard books and their fan community if I support trans people otherwise” and “I actually always knew the books were bad and Rowling was evil, due to my superior mind” are actually both equally exhausting takes
Every. Single. Problem. In this entire story can be easily remedied by one simple solution, which is don’t fucking let your cat wander around outside completely unsupervised! You can’t be outraged and furious about what your cat gets up to when you don’t even know where it is!
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2d agoHas your cat been gaining weight and staying out at night, only to arrive home reeking of marijuana? These are just some of the signs that a neighbour is trying to entice them away ...
There’s a building at Penn State called the Mary Beaver White building and my mom says that when she was a student there someone pulled a prank and put up quotation marks around her middle name
Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 2d agoI love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.
I just think a country that claims to be first world, the best in the world in fact, and somehow manages to possess the largest nuclear armed military on Earth ought to have more robust federal public health measures than literally just one rabies guy
213 people recommended for rabies treatment after petting zoo exposure in NC
RABIES UPDATE | The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) said that 284 people were exposed to rabies at a petting zoo. They have recommended rabies post-exposure prophylaxis...
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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d ago"we estimate 856 (213–2220) human rabies deaths in the United States (US) from 2000 to 2024, meaning that only around 7% of human rabies deaths in the US were confirmed during this period." And that was BEFORE there was only ONE rabies guy in the whole federal government of this 3.2M sqft country
"we estimate 856 (213–2220) human rabies deaths in the United States (US) from 2000 to 2024, meaning that only around 7% of human rabies deaths in the US were confirmed during this period." And that was BEFORE there was only ONE rabies guy in the whole federal government of this 3.2M sqft country
Substantial under-detection of human rabies cases in the United States - Communications Health
Based on multiple instances of human-to-human rabies transmission via organ or tissue transplantation from initially undiagnosed rabies-infected donors, we estimate 856 (213–2220) human rabies deaths ...
nature.com
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.Shithole! Country!
Everyone responsible for the anti vaccine panic deserves to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail
J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨🚨 Intervention WTF🧵: In PA, "Public health officials are relying on word of mouth to fight the largest ongoing [measles] outbreak" in the US rather than "advertising locations that may draw reporters or protestors." Word of mouth for brief pop-up events,... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
There is some poetic justice in being so anti-gay and anti-Black that you get diverted to Baltimore
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3d agoIt’s interesting to be in semi-crunchy, Montessori-focused baby spaces online and see people completely missing the point by competing to buy really expensive, niche toys. Yes, the Grimms’ stacking rainbow and the Grapat shapes are all lovely, but know what items get the most play in my house?
Guinea pigs can get scurvy. They are also born very developed (like, they already have fur and open eyes and can run around) and females can get pregnant at only 4 weeks old. Males are capable of reproduction at 3 weeks. Basically they’re Tribbles
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3d agoTell me a fun fact.
![[Sailor Moon:
Top panel: Tuxedo Mask, with an anatomical human brain superimposed over his head, dramatically sweeps his cape. Text: "It's time for burn out".
Middle panel: Sailor Moon looks up in confusion. Text: "But we haven't done anything".
Bottom panel: The Brain as Tuxedo Mask turns his back and billows his black cape to depart.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreihpt3f3alcysd5igqdv2kxowgixhg2jhyt5r3rwjq2g5to4mduqhq)
Boom 💥 And “Miss” after a certain age was a sign that you had failed - a status to be pitied and shunned. “Ms.” defiantly shut that all down. ✊🏻
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked.
Gloria Steinem organized and spoke amazingly to what feminism could do for women she saw Being willing to speak galvanized generations Where many chose silence She chose action The first step may not be perfect but few take it as decisively as she did And never stopped walking
To emphasize how silly this whole article is, let me show you the Apple News alert I got about it. How did we become the “face of hormone therapy?” Well, you see, many of us are now in our 40s
pebbles@pebbles.gay · 5d agobabe wake up they're doing "social contagion theory" for cis women now
Whatever state agency approved this needs to pay for these people to be moved, because not only is this unlivable but it just destroyed their property value as well. They’re stuck
Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
Good!! Teach them to think before they can skip that step!
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoNew York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79
I want there to be a rewrite of Howl so that it’s about people ruining their brains with AI rather than drugs, but I am a very tired mother and so I’m just putting that out there
I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago“Teams will race to navigate three of the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes — the jungle, the desert, and the Arctic — using Gemini to help them identify dangers, survive brutal weather changes, and stay one step ahead.”