raquel ❦
@raq.bsky.social
don't you see our lives are intertwined? designer, writer, weirdo. I care about people and I love comics. the cover photo is mine and the flower is the bougainvillea. queer, brazilian, texan, lefty, scorpio. ATX | she/they linktr.ee/raquelbreternitz
After this cup I have amended my rooting order to be Brazil > Cape Verde > Mexico > Latam > Everyone else > Argentina
I just watched Croatia get straight up robbed and I was rooting for Portugal
when are The Muppets having My Chemical Romance on
The vibes are completely different but if you liked heated rivalry you should read the binding
I have a problem where I want to post and interact with my friends online but also I do not want to be perceived in any way especially online
I have taken too much time off and now I fear I have gone mildly feral and can not work again
We don’t need New Year’s resolutions, it’s the year’s turn to be better.
had a dream last night that I was given a project to improve the typography in a giant document and I loved it lol. I obviously miss typesetting and layout 🥲
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. I'm not sure this is good...
Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds
I miss the golden days of twitter but real ones know what I really miss are the golden days of xanga
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for: 700,000 public housing units 500,000 low-income kids receiving health care 500,000 veterans receiving VA care 600,000 kids in Head Start Combined.
I am simply begging companies to stop replacing search bars that work perfectly well with AI chat bars that don't
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
Seriously, how hard is it to be the party of human dignity
centrist: we need to focus on popular policy me: holy shit! you mean we’re finally going to support universal healthcare? centrist: no haha not that policy me: ok so…gun control? centrist: no lol not that policy either me: ok which policy? centrist: oh you know the ones