The night before leaving the country in late 2019, I made out in an alley way, with an incredibly hot older trans woman I'd just met at a lesbian bar in Denver. Can't help but worry that my decision to get on the plane the next day shifted me onto a much worse timeline 🥲

"those who make peaceful change impossible win forever and everyone who doesn't want that should just go home and wait for permission to try again", i believe the saying is

feathery -> feath'ry feath'ry :>

In a world where most of human behavior is determined by norms rather than conscience, I want to build social structures that establish norms based on conscience rather than profit

USA liberals are doing a fabulous job of ushering in fascism

ICE literally murdered a guy in cold blood and the entire bourgeois press is talking about Charlie Kirk Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

But once you accept it, you can start to look backwards, at the periods where maybe things seemed better, and realize that this was always the way. Since 1492 the world of the colonizer was going to have to come to an end for any of us to truly know freedom and peace. There is power there.

Who up watching their 19th century sewing video in a scalding bath

this is why you never kill yourself. every day you stay alive is another chance to watch an enemy get liveleaked

Birdie is grateful for bicycles :>

It's time to play a game called "what if Birdie was kind to itself"

fascism is about entertainment, about milking the dopamine-fucked limbic systems produced by petit-bourgeois life in liberal democracy. every non-entertainer to become a fascist despot is an edge case

never stop screaming

i think ppl have a tendency to picture economic crash or state failure as this big, all at once, christian rapture event and not a series of gradual, slow boils with sudden jolts. it's almost a guarantee everyone will be posting their daily lives through it, just with little breaks & disappearances

COP 1: do you have any idea how fast you were going ALIEN: barely superluminal officer COP 2: why you heating up, nervous? ALIEN: i smell element 18 gas. it's deadly poison for me COP 2: he means argon, chief! COP 1: you're reacting exothermically with a noble gas in a school zone?? you make me sick

We've made a pack of accounts to follow who are posting updates from DC. Check them out here: go.bsky.app/4xmJFQr

Ok, well if you're not dying yet, you'd better go cook those potatoes

good morning

we've gotta make these people afraid to say shit like this again

Sometimes you gotta take a sweaty nap about it

We live surrounded by the ghosts of better worlds. They're friendly ghosts. They'll answer if you ask

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

'𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰, 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯.' - @margaret.bsky.social

bindweed

I can tell the other seagulls are jealous of me eating ice cream with my opposable thumbs, but they can fly so I think they got the better end of the deal

Warm summer rain mixed with thick Canadian smoke. What a time to be alive

My life so far has been relentlessly tumultuous, uncertain and exhausting, but VLC media player has been a stable presence in it for nearly 20 years, and for that I'm genuinely grateful

all those things that you taught me how to fear <3 I've got them in my garden now and you're not welcome here <3

The Nazis targeted disabled people first & pioneered the term “useless eater” They convinced the masses that we were less than”. People taking up resources & not contributing in any way. When Dr Oz says we must “prove our worth” to get Medicaid, he’s just resurrecting the concept. Don’t let him

World's horrific and it's been a hard day, but I did just manage to fix a radio with a cotter pin :>

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Little known fact, but the five second rule also applies to arrests.

Wake up and turn on the radio. Listen to NPR read the headlines... There's updates on politics all over the world, but zero mention of LA. Lol 🤡

"Abundance" is not a social movement. It will not capture hearts and minds, much less generate a broad activist and subcultural consensus. It's a vague aesthetic you've draped over a collection of policy planks. It will not catch on beyond a tiny class of liberal wonks who listen to podcasts.

I know seagulls don't usually live in birdhouses, but I'm special :>

Play Mad Max games, win Mad Max prizes

this bill is targeting trans people, homeless people, undocumented people, and disabled people in one single move. there you have it. that's the fucking coalition. either we stand with each other or it's mass murder by a million social deaths.

Birdie accomplished a lot today, despite it being another hard news day

Nature can hurt you but it cannot and will not *betray* you because it has no mind. It is not malicious, but it has depths, it is rewarding to work with it, care about it. Nature is thus an ally, a way to gain space and become immune to certain influences.

Cis people have always and exclusively cared about our HRT access entirely in terms of whether it affects their HRT access. Whether it keeps us alive doesn’t matter to them; we’re not human in the way we would need to be for them to consider that a valid question.

In 1938, a stateless Jewish teenager in Paris named Herschel Grynszpan went into the German embassy and shot a diplomat from the Nazi regime. He was arrested and disappeared. The Nazis used this action as the pretext for Kristallnacht, the most famous pogrom in history.

Being right really sucks sometimes :<

Traveling back to find my child self who was reading tons of sci-fi and history, wishing for a more exciting life, so I can say—be fucking careful what you wish for!

Call it a hunch, but something tells me maruchan ramen will play a major role in this apocalypse

I think it's hilarious that the first hatching of mosquitoes are so big and slow. Unfortunately they're the comedic foreshadowing of the blood sucking horrors that await