AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As a descendant of Sherman, I unequivocally acknowledge his legacy leaves a bit of a squicky feeling in my gut. On the other hand, his 5th cousin 3x removed, Founding Father Roger Sherman, and Roger’s grandson, Roger Sherman Baldwin, are both much better choices if we DID want a Sherman Day… 110
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Wake me up when we get the top hat 160
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Are you even an astronaut if you don’t have Tang? 110
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Philosophical question: Which is the greater threat to society? A. Socks with Crocs or B. Crocs with Socks? 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Also, you don’t get to start shit and then say “can’t you see what a dangerous situation we’re in?” 020
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Everyone who has ever worn a uniform for any branch of the military needs to read this and understand, these people couldn’t care less about you. 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026For the 4 days before his death, he was incoherent, trembling, speaking only to “spectral and imaginary objects on the walls”, calling for “Reynolds”, unable to tell anyone what had happened. Finally, on Oct 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe muttered his final words, “Lord help my poor soul”, and died. 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026No one sure if Poe was a victim of cooping. Details of his death are lacking. There is no existing medical record or autopsy report. All we know is that when Poe was found, on election day, outside Ryan's 4th Ward polls, he was delirious and disheveled, wearing clothes that were not his own. 110
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026And oftentimes, one vote wasn’t enough. These men would take their victims from polling place to polling place, or sometimes take them to the same polling place, but wearing a hat, or a coat, or a different set of clothes entirely, and force them to vote again. And again. And again. 100
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Politics in mid-1800s Baltimore was completely unhinged. A favorite form of voter fraud at the time was “cooping”. It involved candidates hiring men to round up “pigeons” in a tavern or cellar (the “coop”), plying them with alcohol /violence, and forcing them to vote for their chosen candidate. 100
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026No one knows for sure what got him, and we may never know. Theories abound, from heart disease, syphilis, alcoholism, mercury poisoning, to even rabies. But one of the more compelling theories is related to the election being held in Baltimore on the day Poe was found, dying, in a ditch. 100
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Jan 29, 1845, E. A. Poe’s “The Raven”, was printed in the NY Evening Mirror. It was the first time it was published under Poe’s name. Oct 3, 1849, Poe would be found in a ditch, delirious, dying 4 days later. Many know that story, but did you know that it was possibly voter fraud that killed him? 134
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 29/01/2026We should crowdfund a ginormous delivery of blini to his office. Like, pallets of it. 010
Reposted by AngryTardigrade (she/her)Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 21/01/2026(Content warning: ICE violence) At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face. 81099592
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Dream casting…who would you pick, if money were no barrier and whoever you asked was required by the universe to say yes? 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Many refugees are refugees because is the service they’ve provided to the US. They are interpreters, guides and informants. Without them, our overseas troops are put in even more danger. Detaining and deporting them to countries who will imprison or kill them is a betrayal of promises made. 020
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Don’t forget “people who say ‘Happy Holidays’” The War on Xmas is real, y’all! 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 08/01/2026An asteroid the size of 240 two-slice toasters is roughly equivalent to the mass of 1,071 stoats. However, if it’s 240 four-slice toasters, you looking at ~2,215 stoats. (Rounding up, because nobody wants pieces of stoats.) 071
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I once attempted a marathon along the Thames, until I slipped on an elongated, slimy fish that had slithered up on the banks in a serpentine fashion. It wasn’t the fish’s fault, however. I was simply eel-prepared. 031
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I once had breakfast a couple tables away from Brendan Fraser. I really wanted to say hi, but he was with his wife and kid, and I didn’t want to be a jerk. Also had breakfast a few tables away from David Prowse during a convention weekend. He looked a wee grumpy so I minded my own business. 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 19/12/2025“Nobody expects the Canadian Inquisition!” 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 19/12/2025If it looks like you wrapped it with your feet, thats just proof that you didn’t pay some uncaring stranger to do it. And the worse it looks, the bigger the struggle, the more it shows your love. Or at least that’s what I tell myself when my wrapping efforts go sideways. 130
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This has big “I don’t need to know algebra to buy a pound of hamburger” energy… 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Just because the water didn’t CAUSE the problem doesn’t mean that it couldn’t have done something to prevent it. Just saying… 160
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Having a snake in the house wasn’t particular alarming. It was how my toddler son, who I’d just put to bed in the same room, nonchalantly called, “Mom, theres a snake in the room!” *note - we lived with my folks in So Cal at the time, where we also had rattlers… 140
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I once had a mouse problem. Then they magically disappeared. Shortly after I realized I hadn’t seen one in a while, I found a mid-sized gopher snake lounging in my bedroom. Potential solution? 370
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I never had the rancor, but I did have the Ewok village and Jabba. That platform opens up and lets you put some poor unfortunate inside. It was delightful. 120
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I am betting if you added Maximus Decimus Meridius, Hippolyta and Romulus to this list, they’d be rated just as high. 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Meanwhile the Admin. is working on an event at the White House itself where grown men and women will pummel each other into a bloody, concussed mess of broken limbs in front of a drunken, cheering crowd. But sure, let’s worry about folks dancing around in sparkly dresses, lip synching to Cher. 161
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 26/11/2025But planes will finally have a dress code again, so it balances out, right? 000
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 25/11/2025It just means I’ll be sitting there for a while. Hope my kidnappers have a good mattress for me. If I’m going to be there for years, it’s probably best for all concerned if I’m not cranky from sleeping on a bad mattress. No sense in all of us being victims of my foul mood. 030
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 25/11/2025You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Good news: I’m pretty sure I’m gonna be ok. Bad news: this rescue is going to take FOREVER 240
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025My grandma swore for decades that she woke up in the middle of the night, and stepped out into the hallway to see a lumberjack, glowing blue, helping her toddler son down the rickety stairs to the bathroom in their place in Chicago. No other fanciful tales, just the same lumberjack story. 050
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Wait, are they scrounging off of our welfare, or are they buying all of our houses? 020
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Absolutely this. Imagining a third party that is going to magically save all is pointless. We need to force change from within the Dem party, retire the roadblocks and replace them with real progressive leaders. There are more of us than there are of them, and we don’t have to keep electing cowards 052
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 10/11/2025No, thats raucous. Caucus was the Massachusetts Dem politician who ran against Bush in the 1988 presidential election 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Periodic (and hopefully final) reminder: James Watson did indeed co-discover the double-helix structure of DNA. He discovered it in Rosalind Franklin’s notes. P.S.- he was also a huge racist. Enjoy the rest of your day. 001
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Sending demons into pigs and watching them drown? Fine. Telling Abraham to murder his son, only to send an angel when he’s seconds away to say “just testing you! Lolz!” Sure. Saul calling a witch to summon the spirit of a dead prophet for battle advice? Why not? Mind reading? DEVIL WORSHIP!! 130
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025$4,200/yr = $80/week. For an entire household. And he thinks these people can afford crack? 1121
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025So don’t let the GOP’s lies about who is running this clown show continue. Make sure everyone knows what is at stake, and who is actually fighting for the 99%. And stand behind the Dems who are brave enough to fight with what little leverage they have. Then we primary the rest. 010
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025So, yes, the Dems could vote to stop the shutdown, and sacrifice millions of Americans on the altar of GOP greed. But the GOP could ALSO stop the shutdown by amending the appropriations bill to restore programs and benefits everyday Americans depend on for their very existence. 111
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Also at risk are your healthcare subsidies, which are set to expire this year. The GOP says “we’ll figure that out later”. The Dems are demanding that those be included NOW. If they give in and vote to approve, your premiums may double. Can you afford that? I sure can’t. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...pbs.orgHealth care subsidies are at the heart of the shutdown fight. Here's who loses if they expireMillions of Americans with Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance will face higher costs next year if Congress doesn't extend enhanced premium tax credits that have made the plans more affor... 100
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025People like Sen. Fetterman are trying to convince Dems to approve the administration’s appropriations bill to allow SNAP and other programs to resume. But that bill contains PERMANENT cuts to Medicaid and social security. But apparently that’s a price he’s willing to let you all pay. 100
AngryTardigrade (she/her) @angrytardigrade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It’s vital we share with EVERYONE, not just like-minded folk, who is responsible for SNAP going offline. It has nothing to do with healthcare for undocumented people (which was never a thing), or Dem stubbornness. It’s about tax breaks for the rich & the GOP is ready to let you starve to get them. 130
