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evilrooster

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Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.

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As a British voter, I’m going to write a paper letter to my MP about trans rights and how I, as a woman, am perfectly comfortable sharing any facility with trans women. As an American voter, I’m going to call my reps (both D) and tell them I support Biden as the best-positioned candidate.

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I think that’s the best response to the ratfuck: there is literally nothing that will cause many of us to vote for Trump. There may very well be enough R’s pissed off at Dobbs that even the fuckiest of ratfucks won’t cause them to go for Trump. I don’t know, but I can hope.

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I would quite literally vote for a comatose Biden over Trump. But after the Hillary ratfuck I don’t believe a word of the Biden narrative. I’m tired of this shit.

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An absolutely brilliant choice. This guy walks the walk, and has for years.

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Ian Betteridge's avatar Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com
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So: Joanna Cherry lost. Rosie Duffield won, but in a Labour landslide saw her share of vote reduced. Kellie-Jay Keen got less than 200 votes. Maybe being a highly vocal bigot isn't the vote winner the punditocracy would love you to think?

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Iain Coleman's avatar Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social
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The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.

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Good to see conservative politicians saying things like, “The voters have spoken” and not doing an insurrection. Yeah, they’re fractally horrible, but I appreciate this.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Only in city council and water board elections.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Dual citizens: we get the hope and despair twice over.

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Your honor, with all due respect, their walls are built of cannonballs.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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So now I’ve learned how the bsky reporting forms work. I’m here for you.

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Just hating watching us all find out for some people’s fuckery.

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I hate how people will set the world on fire rather than ever ever treat a woman as an equal.

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Before you are two dogs. One of them lies and the other... Wait, it's lying too. What kind of a riddle is this?

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Random brain phrase after looking at the old place: “The soft misandry of low expectations.”

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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We had them when the kids were growing up and had their computers in the living room. Helped with K1’s dyspraxia, made the whole place funnier and more fun.

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Honestly, we should have stuck with Latin.

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Just found out that @chenowolf.bsky.social prefers title case to sentence case and I'm shook. They claim it's generational.

I never thought young people were entitled...until now.

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It was actually buggy when I was cycling home. I haven't had a face full of bugs for *years*. It's the very definition of a mixed blessing.

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The border America needs to secure is between church and state.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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I’m old enough to remember watching Michael Portillo lose his seat.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Fitting a dress through the lens of hating my body is hard and miserable. But I guess now I have a dress, and I’ll still have it when this wave of self-loathing passes.

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I’m always glad there are people upping the average mood while I’m sinking into darkness.

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Watching my sanity trickle away with the daylight…nope.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸's avatar Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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No we don't! You can't just say this in your headline and then not quote a single archaeologist in the article!

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I both hate that you’ve had to learn the skills to get through this and am glad you have them. 💐

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Matt Gabriele's avatar Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com
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Tell you what Louisiana, if you wanna do a Christianity in classrooms how about they put this image up?

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Mara Wilson's avatar Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social
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Truth Coming Out of Her Laundry Bag to Shame Mankind

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Lean on me and we'll go far. This Big blue box came from afar; it's Made to take us to the stars. Yes, Lean on me and on the TARDIS.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Not me; I’m kinda wibbly-wobbly on it.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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So many transitions in society to navigate and to prepare your sons to navigate. The extraordinary marriage he shared with your mum will have been part of that.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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It's not so much what number it is as that he thought there was a standard number.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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Yep. And once told me menopause happens at 54. (When I had anemia at 52 and he was dismissing my accounts of how much I was bleeding.) I’m going to skip details and get a referral to a gynecologist.

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Figured out why I’m so wiped out. Tuesday I have a doctors’s appointment about female-body issues and suddenly I feel like I have to suit up to fight the entire patriarchy.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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And genuinely good people too. I joined in January and I’ve never worked in a better place.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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I work for Guerrilla Games. We got to playtest it last Friday, and *we* kinda lost our minds over it. The amount of laughter in the office…

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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My colleague Bryan Adams might like to join.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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I subscribe to one for gift links, so if everyone is discussing a pay walled article I can see if anyone’s shared it.

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evilrooster's avatar evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
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You have a history of big blankets, IIRC.

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