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That Loathly Lady Lump@varlotte.bsky.social |
113 followers 656 following 47 posts
she/her
Chthonic, chronic, iconic, and ~secret fourth thing.~
writes plays, games, code, curricula, a novel (allegedly), and more
📝 femmefaust.us
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Thanks to Violet Affleck’s public comment, pretty much every media outlet of note in the world is now writing about masks and Long COVID… even the New York Times!
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Kate Messner
@katemessner.bsky.social
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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Just called my rep AGAIN to tell them to sign onto this. Every D in the House should be a cosponsor. Yes, it won't pass the R-controlled House, but we have to make this an issue.
Please feel free to call your own rep if you feel similarly! You can find them here: www.house.gov/representati...
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That Loathly Lady Lump
@varlotte.bsky.social
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Reading job listings:
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Megan Fox
@glassbottommeg.bsky.social
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HAH. You know all that Return To Office Is Really Happening news that monied interests keep trying to shove out?
No. No, not at all. Office vacancies are at an all-time high. www.axios.com/2024/07/09/o...
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
@xanindigo.bsky.social
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Unlike covid-19, generative AI actually might go away if everyone just ignores it.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
@napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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FYI: The final update of the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines was on February 29, 2024. PDFs of the Guidelines can be downloaded until August 16, 2024, when the website will be shut down.
www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/management/c...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This is also an indicator that many voters are just kind of checked out but DON’T want the far right to win, either - and they’ll turn out if they get spooked enough. We should remember this in the US
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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Y'all need to buy @swordsjew.bsky.social new book, which I am referencing here cause I don't think you fully understand the depth and breadth of the evangelical right's depraved, evil agenda and stranglehold on the country. Talia lays it all out. It is *essential* reading for all Americans.
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Dashiell Bennett
@dashiell.bsky.social
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Just remembered when one of the guys running for president actually was president and Congress had to quietly take him out of the chain of military command. Maybe worth mentioning why in an ad or something
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Marguerite Kenner
@margueritekenner.bsky.social
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Okay US, you’re up next. The UK and France are kicking their fascists to the curb.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.
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Sarah Walsh
@bigdamnherossir.bsky.social
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Just watched an absolutely panicked local news segment about lead in baby snacks and it ended with "But will the FDA listen??" ... Yeah probably but the Supreme Court is dismantling the regulatory state, shame you couldn't mention that bit you Sinclair fucks
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Sara Luterman
@slooterman.bsky.social
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Every time someone claims immunocompromised people can’t take the COVID vaccine, more of my hair turns gray. It is the opposite — People who are immunocompromised need different, bigger and more frequent dosing than the rest of us to elicit an immune response.
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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KLM
@klm.bsky.social
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every covid infection you get increases your chances of long term health problems my long covid life sucks so much compared to my 2019 disabled life masking up during waves is worth it, I promise
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Willie Fitzgerald
@williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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rax king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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FIREWORKS: - boring - stinky - frightening for animals and babies BONFIRE - pleasant as shit - delicious campfire smell - the enterprising attendee can enjoy a weenies-and-s’mores feast fit for a king
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Please consider setting up your own lemonade stand this summer to talk to your neighbors about the value of public libraries. Everything you need to set up your stand can be found here: www.librariesforthepeople.org/lemonade?utm...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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That Loathly Lady Lump
@varlotte.bsky.social
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I hate being this person but remote work leads? Anybody? Bueller? I have medical bills and other bullshit but really I just need to be able to support myself.
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That Loathly Lady Lump
@varlotte.bsky.social
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"you have a resume gap because we can't hire you because you have a resume gap because we can't hire you because you have a resume gap" Kafka's The Trial but it's trying to pay rent somehow after being laid off.
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That Loathly Lady Lump
@varlotte.bsky.social
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Ah yes that very normal thing where we stimulate air raids all night long to fill the air with unbreathable particles the next day. You-ess-ae, etc 🙃
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@pairofclaws.bsky.social
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Judging folks for not knowing the thing "everyone knew" in your whisper network is a great way to tell the people whose safety you don't care about that you also feel morally superior to them.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Bilbo Yaga
@bilboyaga.bsky.social
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All forms of oppression intersect. Mask bans suppress protest, sicken and disable communities, and will most harm vulnerable groups: Black, trans, etc. Chevron ruling means more expensive healthcare. Bills and disability can unhouse you, which means jail to do slave labor. Resist. Do it in an n95.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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For the record: voting matters. So does turning up to school board meetings. Community board meetings. Planning and zoning board meetings. Making public comments on pending rules. Contacting public officials. Protesting. Running for office yourself.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
@susanrinkunas.com
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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.
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Andrea Junker
@strandjunker.bsky.social
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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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That Loathly Lady Lump
@varlotte.bsky.social
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Being underemployed and chronically ill after the latest SCOTUS rulings is certainly A Feeling.
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Lindsay King-Miller
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social
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The narrator in Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" is a ghost. By contrast, the narrator in Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" is a vampire.
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Cancerian wanch 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
@idabeware.bsky.social
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Even if you have a cute little garden you won't produce enough to live or feed a family in a societal collapse. You will always need other people. You will have to work your ass off every day and fight men at the same time. Y'all don't put laundry away for days.
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chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞
@m00psy.bsky.social
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also. even a single symptomatic covid infection can lead to you having a chronic illness. a great way to not become “like us,” if that’s all you care about, is to wear a respirator when in a space with shared air.
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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If it's a crime to be homeless that means buying half the properties in a town and turning them into premium short-term rentals is a criminal racket
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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If it's a crime to be homeless then paying an hourly wage that is insufficient to pay for housing means you're an accessory at a minimum
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
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The idea that in order to matter a woman's story must end in triumph is so deeply reactionary, and I think it underpins so much of this "feminist retelling" cottage industry.
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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Disabled and chronically ill people include members of *every marginalized group that exists*. If you are doing activism but not making your spaces accessible. If you are doing activism but not for disability. You are not doing activitism, you are doing exclusion. Happy Disability Pride Month!
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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"Now is the time for us to join together as a community and stand up for one another and fight the good fight because all we have is each other!" So you're gonna start masking again right? Right?
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸
@roxiqt.com
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For Disability Pride Month, one thing I'd love abled bodied people to figure out is how to speak to someone with chronic health issues without implying that if they themselves had the disabled person's health conditions, they would end it all. I promise you life goes on- even with health issues.
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
@kennedytcooper.bsky.social
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As a top, the tops who treat every single person they interact with like a potential new submissive are the weirdest fucking people and I hate what they have done to the reputation of tops as a whole
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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I know this is tongue in cheek, but the point is that the limitation is the scope of the office as the Court sees it. within that scope, it’s open season. so under the majority’s logic, for example, there’s really no limit to what the president could use the military for.
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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום
@luxalptraum.com
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Could really use some good news at some point
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.
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