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Inching toward 40 and still trying to figure out my life goals while I watch the world slowly burn around me.

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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
If I had died the same way, he would have called it an acceptable cost. If my child had died he would have said your empathy was a failure. If my friends died he would have blamed it on a trans woman or a black man. I refuse to be sad for him.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
American healthcare: You tell your provider you feel awful all the time and think you know why. He orders labs; they show inflammation but rule out three specific causes, not the one you said. Repeat labs are a bit better. This means no recommendations except diet and exercise. You still feel awful.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Isn't it funny how the party that spawned QAnon conspiracies that politicians were buying underage children just voted to block the release of the names of politicians buying underage children? If they had nothing to fear, this would serve only to energize their most fanatical supporters.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Using the app that no one IRL has found me on to whine that I'm having a horrible week caused entirely by my own actions and the fact that I did something I deserve no sympathy for so I can't whine to real people even though I'm dying inside.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
In case you think unreliable weather data is a one-off fluke, I'm far from TX and am being told at this minute that it is cloudy. I've been out here for three hours and haven't seen a single cloud.
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Sexual Harassment Panda @cockmagic.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
This could already be happening. There is ZERO oversight.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I found out that one of my late dad's friends was arrested for harassing and threatening people at my tiny hometown's No Kings. He's worked at the county jail for decades. He was always a funny guy and he was so sweet at dad's funeral. Fascism and hatred hide behind friendly faces.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I'm exhausted. I've been job hunting for three months. I have enough in the bank for one more mortgage payment, assuming I don't pay anything else. And outside my house is a fascist nightmare. I'm still going because my kid needs me to.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Being grabbed by unidentified, masked men and thrown into an unmarked vehicle used to be something that people came to America to get away from.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Some kids have Pokemon. My kid has the life list on the Merlin bird ID app. Gotta identify them all!
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Life in America: I was giving my child a lesson in the history of my culture (teaching him about Stonewall and the origin of Pride) and said the cops bullied gay people. He immediately asked if they were "the ICE police."
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Laid out my five-year plan yesterday. The goal is to have about half of my property actively producing food. Getting phase one of the garden (for salsa and pasta sauce) in this year. Planted raspberries and apples. Already have blueberries and currants. Goals are good.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
They care as much if a woman dies as if an appliance breaks down. We're not human, we're just incubators.
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Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medi...
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We're two days into Pride. A queer Native actor was murdered and media aren't reporting it as a targeted hate crime. The FBI has declared open season on gender affirming care providers. We need the spirit of Marsha and Sylvia now more than ever. And some bricks.
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a woman holding an umbrella is standing next to a man in front of a police line
ALT: a woman holding an umbrella is standing next to a man in front of a police line
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Sexual Harassment Panda @cockmagic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Solid advice.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
He's attacking Springsteen, aka the Boss of every white male, Taylor Swift, beloved of the girlies, and Queen Bey, probably the biggest artist of color this century. Trump might actually unite America after all...
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The right pearl-clutching over 8647 is further proof that they're completely out of touch. 86 is a kitchen term. If I 86 steak it doesn't mean I murdered it, it means it's gone. I used to yell "86" multiple times on a Friday night and amazingly no one died.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Insulting The Boss might be the thing that finally loses favor among white males over age 40.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm watching a pileated woodpecker peck at a stump surrounded by wildflowers while two baby squirrels play in the tree behind it. Sometimes rural living is very worth it.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
4th grade field trip day. My son is in a tie-dyed shirt, a clashing tie-dyed bucket hat and sunglasses on a strap around his neck. He's one fanny pack from being a 55-year old insurance broker cutting loose on vacation.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Story time: As an impoverished single mother (with three kids under age five) in WNY in the 1950s, my grandma didn't have many options. One summer she worked with the migrants picking green beans.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Always quote Discworld
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
There are going to be no other adults around this weekend, so the entirety of my Mother's Day will be the card kiddo made in school, after I remind him it's in his backpack. I'm going to love that card, but having to cook dinner and everything is some bullshit.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A new name and have you seen the hats?
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Let's just clarify for everyone that the new Pope is American, but holds Peruvian citizenship. Someone who has a foot in both the US and Latin America feels like a very deliberate choice.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What no one is pointing out is that Nancy Mace is outraged over an accessible restroom. Disability isn't gendered and carers are sometimes of a different gender than the person who has to piss, Nancy.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One more time for the people in the back:
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I have an interview today for a job I very much want (and really need tbh) so of course I've woken up feeling like 20 kinds of shit under a cloud of anxiety and depression. Wish me luck in appearing to be a functional human for an hour.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Happy Caturday to all who celebrate.
My idiot tuxedo cat falling out of the bathroom window because if it's open a crack she will try to jump up there even if there is nowhere to stand.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The song we played to pump up before a party in my college dorm was just in a grocery commercial. I'm going to curl up and die now.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Was in a discount store, manager had to be called to adjust a price. "Everything just got marked up because of that idiot we have in the office. I mean the oval one. That idiot with his stupid tariffs on everything."
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I met my child's father while we protested to get money out of government. I never dreamed that I'd be talking to my child's father about how to keep our kid safe if that same government wanted to put him on a list of undesirables.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
PTSD wasn't diagnosed as such until 1980. MRSA was discovered in the '60s. Hysteria wasn't removed from the DSM until about 40 years ago. The flu virus was discovered in 1933. Saying something is new because it was only named in the past 100 years is meaningless.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My 10-year old's reaction to his millennial mom when the Spotify mix plays Mr. Brightside...
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last night I told my ex that if things reach a point of Very Bad I will do everything I can to take our autistic child across the border and I hope he won't try to stop me. He was in absolute agreement. We're at a point where citizens are discussing when to break up their families for safety.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I know Daredevil had reshoots and rewrites, but someone in that writers room predicted 2025 better than any pundit.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Whining about job hunting seems so petty in the grand scope of what is happening in our world, but writing cover letters is seriously making me wish civilization would just collapse a bit faster.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Literally while have a conversation about self-diagnosed autism my mother called to tell me she'll be in town a day earlier than planned. Train of thought derailed, ten minutes panic cleaning, still making a list of ways this will totally disrupt my whole life.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I had The Talk with my son last night. No, not that one. The "never trust a fucking cop" talk. Now, more than ever, be wary of people following orders.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My kid's watching the episode of Bluey where Bingo tries to help make breakfast and keeps smashing and spilling eggs. This hits different in 2025 and Chilli is a better mother than I'll ever be.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
He's 78 years old. He's overweight, we know his diet is garbage, and his mental facilities are obviously deteriorating. I'm just saying, has anyone considered a good scare? Like maybe jumping out and yelling "Boo!" really loudly? Just something to make the old heart question some things.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As parent to an autistic child in public elementary school, this is chilling. The effects on my son and his education, the possibility of parents and doctors being blamed, the idea that he's being treated like a disease instead of a kid...
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Do you know how fucked up something has to be for SCOTUS to rule unanimously?
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I spent a decade in a relationship where I was constantly gaslit. The goals were always being moved and I couldn't tell from one day to the next what to expect. This administration feels horribly familiar.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Happy Rex Manning Day to everyone who was alive in the '90s.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Electric bills in my area have increased by over 30% in the last few months. Power company recommendations include taking shorter showers "ideally less than five minutes" to save hot water. The richest country in the world and people can't afford to bathe.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Why are millennials always complaining?" I HAVE BEEN ALIVE FOR THREE OF THESE CRASHES! I HAVE NEVER KNOWN STABILITY OR WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE SYSTEM!
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's impressive that Booker spoke intelligently and persuasively for 25 hours. I also want to point out, though, that there is so much bullshit that he had 25 hours worth of material and said his staffers had actually written more.
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EIC @eicol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I hope this moment galvanizes opposition. If nothing else I hope Strom Thurmond is looking up from Hell to see his precious record get smashed by a Black man talking about the legacy of civil rights.
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