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she/they mid-30s chronically ill tranny dyke mad in both senses of the word potatoes are life
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d ago
you've got to be kidding me
Life seems to be happening *around* people at this current historical moment. This means that commentary is the main form of action for the vast majority. And it turns out that commentary keeps folks anxious and unfulfilled. People don't have a clear sense of what they can actually DO.
refreshing every tab on my computer over and over in the hope that one of the pages will suddenly read that all my physical and emotional needs have been permanently met
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
no you may not have my email address to sign up for a free account to read this article and fuck you for entertaining the thought. we both know you will email me nine times a week for the rest of my life because i felt like casually browsing this stupid op-ed. not on my watch pal
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
The Imagination Library in particular was such an incredibly moving thing to do with celebrity and fame and I will love her for that forever
Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), professionals, and even affluent folks are in DSA. That’s good! 🧵
I've been tempering my criticism of Jeffries lately but this is flatly unacceptable and shows (on top of everything else!) appalling political judgement in the message that it sends
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2w ago“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
Union News@unionnews.bsky.social · 2w ago“Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer” — WKYC #UnionNews #contract #strike
no, you can't trick me into participating in your humiliation fetish. I'm not gonna insult your intelligence while you stroke yourself to climax & this is obviously a ploy to get me to do just that. you could only cook up an idea this dumb if you needed me to call you a moron in order to finish.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3w ago"When I saw that DSA statement I got to wondering what else the DSA has said in its official communiques. And holy shit."
Here is our official statement on Small Press Expo and the labour boycott at Montgomery County Conference Center. Please spread the word and show your solidarity in the ways you can.
Woke went too far is a way of dems blaming the left for Trump 2 by obscuring how we got Trump 1 and what happened to resist and defeat him. This is pure anti-Black anti-movement anti-historical revisionist bullshit designed to sheepdog you into the new progressive wing of Dem politics and treating
Mia's brain, 2am: oh the destruction of a shared collective reality is a war against the formation of the class in and for itself because it's almost impossible to create the kind of collective identify and mutuality necessary for class formation and struggle with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
really loving all the protests against and support for trans women happening in and around the WNBA, a league that has never had a trans woman play in it. we’re just THAT interesting to talk about! for everyone! how fun!!!!
"Is Tom Holland a Grungler" - the greatest thread in the history of BlueSky, locked by a moderator after 12,239 posts of heated debate,
robyn!@thewobynfiasco.eurosky.social · last mo.I uh do not know what to do with this information
avengers movies are like the mcrib. I'm happy for everyone who gets excited when they come back but I have absolutely zero interest