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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is a real messed up thing to say on a post that's essentially about folks not being able to afford food ...in a country that has recently had a bunch of contaminated/recalled foods, including vegetables (which are also expensive)
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
some of the quotes on that article were truly despicable... posting dehumanizing, eugenicist rhetoric ~leftishly~ we've already been abandonned, isolated, violently shoved out of public society... they want us to shut up and disappear, too 🧵
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
that's exactly how I view my bisexuality - attracted to same(ish) genders and not same genders binaries & bioessentialism are not a prerequisite
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I would like to stress that Americans from marginalized groups are letting America know about these mother****ers WAY in advance specifically so we do not find ourselves in a situation where they are the only choice.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
America was told about Newsom. America was told about Platner. So you cannot keep setting down Jello with glass shards in it at the potluck and then accuse everybody else of ruining the party because nobody ate your food.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're not stupid. And we are pragmatic and reasonable. What is not reasonable is fascism or Nazi tattoos at the function. Expecting someone to vote for the eradication of their civil rights is insane. And to ask that when there are still clearly other options is wild suspect.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
When I say it’s the only question, it is because of the question underlying the question. Which is, ‘Do people deserve dignity, rights & protections?’ If a qualifier changes your answer, whether it’s trans or Black or Palestinian, you have completely failed the trustworthiness test.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I hear “separate the art from the artist” one more time I’m gonna lose it. 1) the way you are using that phrase is not what that idea means at ALL and 2) even if it was, we’re discussing MONEY. The money that goes from your pocket to her to a genocidal campaign against trans people.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I would rather open a vein with a rusty fountain pen and write in my own viscera than ever use llm bullshit
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
finding fascism more palatable than progress is not a neutral stance
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I watched my neighborhood go from being a full residential area with generations of history, to living in one of the last houses in it. Surrounded by empty lots and memory. Like living in a ghost town. But eventually... I had to leave, too. It's all gone now.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it's so illustrative of how anti-human capitalism is pushing out people in order to invite businesses & industrialization, ignoring that a town is a community first
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
that were flattened in the name of encouraging new businesses ...they've been empty for years and years
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it's sickening. also, one more choice in a long list the city gov't there has made to punish or push out poor communities in favor of letting corps do whatever tf they want in the name of revitalizing the town there are big stretches of field that used to be housing in multiple locations...
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
they're planning what's being called a "hyperscale" data center compound in my hometown taking up *1000-1300 fucking acres* the company is claiming it's going to use NO water (yeah right), while the city council is gushing about jobs... and property taxes? like it's gonna be a boon to the community
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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
that plus the water consumption, air & light pollution, land/environmental/ecological changes/losses, higher electricity bills, property value uncertainty, ugliness and public funds allocated to data centers are not available for affordable housing, public transit, schools, or community projects
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
lmao as if half the whole internet isn't dedicated to lovingly calling out cat assholery they're obnoxious little gremlins. I have six.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
as a pagan atheist who *does* mostly engage with deities as personified concepts bc it's a useful shorthand in my spirituality, I've found that most people are baffled &/or confused when I talk about it the idea that *everyone* engages with religion like that is honestly hilarious... lol wut
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this is literally *why* he feels so genuine as a survivor to me
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
some people are SO resistant to the idea of him choosing to reclaim his own sexuality/agency - it's weird! and honestly feels uncomfortable and dehumanizing to see as a survivor
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
but it does seem like hubris for those younger peaks to challenge the Sky like that... and they'll be brought back to the ground eventually
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
y'all... I am from the plains, I'm in awe of all the mountains from the jagged new fangs of the earth, to the bone-achingly ancient roll of the elders
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
has this man never heard the good word of Alf's hog? seen the glorious abomination that was Sexy Thomas the Tank Engine? shit, even recently, witnessed the reaction to the Wicker trailer lol
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
defund police (now)! how is that unclear? take away the overfunding immediately, asap that not being the end goal for abolishionists specifically doesn't change that meaning unless you're insisting defund is saying something it isn't (note how you changed the word to eliminate)
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
yeah, what this says is that - contrary to the ridiculous false framing of people looking to escape from their lifesaving meds - many of us don't have access to them when we should! these ghouls want *more* people suffering the way we do (or worse), and that fucking sucks
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
and defund encompasses both of those positions, bc it's the minimum necessary policy demand to address the problem if you're getting into the weeds about how much to reduce + implementation, you're past the usefulness of any slogan
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
so... this is admitting that it's not a "confusing" slogan at all, just one detractors don't like or agree with because it aims too far for their comfort painting it as unclear is itself a way to obfuscate that
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
why are quetzalcoatlus never depicted with their necks tucked or curved like a heron?
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bigotry sure pickles your brain, goddamn
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/07/2026
and I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
yeah, ensure is what I keep on hand as the most affordable and flavor tolerable to me solution when I'm having those struggling to eat food for (usually mental, sometimes also physical) health reasons days
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the first to come to mind for me is "Time is on My Side" used throughout the movie FALLEN
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
tbh, in part I blame the fact that "criticism" has come to colloquially mean harsh, negative feedback - which is why we have 2 different words now for critiquing and criticizing this has obvs lead some to believe/internalise that insulting someone's work is what being a critic means (no)
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
if your criticism isn't focused on growth and helping someone improve their art, and is just a litany of things that are wrong or bad about it (or worse, about *them*) you aren't critiquing, you're being an asshole and you can read Ann's 🧵 for a critique on that with advice on how to do better
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the difference is the first one isn't a critique... it's just an insult, and a lot of so-called critics can't seem to tell those apart critiques are meant to highlight areas that can be improved, how something might've gone wrong and how it could be fixed, etc
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When my Entity was in her last days, suddenly blind (after having been deaf for ~a year) bc of tumors in her head, she tried to climb onto the kitchen counter to steal the biscuits (US bread type) I'd just made... I sat on the floor and shared biscuits with her, as much as she wanted
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
it is the bare, bottom of the barrel minimum for them NOT to help out/go along with fascists?? they didn't even have to DO anything in that situation, it would've been better to do nothing at all - something they're apparently damn good at!
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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Step one blame Taco Bell. Step two blame migrant farm workers. They’re trying to “China virus” their way out of responsibility for ruining America’s food safety
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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
fuckin... muscle daddy jesus
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
tfw you're *real* eager for that second coming
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ofc we believe YOU(R silly little delusions)! like we're supposed to be glad they're humoring us, but the moment any of us step out of line and become someone they register as Not Worth the Effort... welp pisses me right off
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
for me, I think it's that it illustrates their duplicity? as soon as there's an "acceptable" target, they're absolutely *giddy* to stop pretending they actually believe transness exists, proving any acceptance on their part is an indulgence, false and infantalizing
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another anxious anti-socialite @encephalopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"shifting consumer tastes" and it's just everyone being increasingly fucking broke
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