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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 12/09/2026

it’s a good day to be alive and waking up in the best city in the world

a bright and colorful portrait shot of downtown chicago, overlooking the chicago river with the sears tower in the background

a colorful eastward view of downtown chicago in the morning

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 30/08/2026

honestly i’m proud of this to a stupid degree 🤓

an assortment of small tools: nail clippers/file, an adjustable wrench, a sewing kit, a small handle with insets for leatherman bits and a glass breaker, tick and long tweezers, tension wrench and bogota pick, tape measure and kevlar thread, and a pink skeletool with extension bar

the underside of this neatly packed bundle, showing a can/package opener and two small eyeglass/electronics screwdriver bits and a turquoise hair tie holding it closed

a small folded red paisley towel is under the closed lid of the set, topped off with a sparkly “bimbo certified” sticker with a hard hat 💅

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 16/08/2026

you may well already know about it, but on the off-chance you don’t i think you’d enjoy visualizing black america i always love seeing the creative way you visualize things, and similarly i was impressed to see so many ways of showing data at intuitive scale that ive rarely/never seen elsewhere

the cover of “w.e.b du bois’s data portraits visualizing black america” showing a graph titled “the color line at the turn of the 20th century” and instead of an exponential scale to fit a standard bar graph, the larger segments are drawn in a spiral shape spinning towards a center point that makes the difference in total scale much clearer at a glance

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 22/07/2026

pov ur an LLM and just got stumped by a question on your US history exam

a closeup of nic cage in national treasure, when he says “i’m gonna steal the declaration of independence”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 14/05/2026

before transitioning i first tried on every version of masculinity i thought i might successfully emulate, hoping one would fit i used to watch paul newman movies, pausing them and trying to figure out how he carried himself with this effortless cool truly never a better leaner, before or since 🤌

paul newman leaning on a diner counter looking pensive, wearing a wool zip-up which is totally unnecessary because he’s hotter than a thousand suns

paul newman in reclined repose on one elbow, a cigarette dangling from his lips. it’s from cool hand luke so he’s in a filthy chain gang outfit with his feet in leg irons over some kind of post situation. they locked him up for being too attractive, i guess

paul newman reading a script, slouching back against a door with his cowboy-booted feet raised and leaning against the opposite side of the doorway. a cigarillo is in his mouth but apparently forgotten, his brow wrinkled as he focuses intensely on what he’s reading. he’s so handsome i’m having a minor panic just writing the description

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 11/05/2026

biiiiiiiiiiiiiitch WHAT?! 😮😍 (day after washing and first time doing the full post-shower routine)

my hair getting wavier, me getting smile-ier

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 11/05/2026

day after washing and full routine update: biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch WHAT?! 😮😍

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 10/05/2026

i’ve always hated ending up with my dad’s side of the family’s hair: stick-straight, flat as hell. if i don’t do arcane rituals with it, i’m doing a casual cosplay of the girl from the ring but i started trying a curly girl routine because i’ve always had curlies under the rest of my hair and…?!

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 31/01/2026

believe it or not, there’s actually a cat hiding in this bookcase

a very large cat that has squeezed himself behind the books in a kallax cube bookcase

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 11/01/2026

new mix i need to make: “GIIIIIIT ‘IM”, so like… irreplaceable bust your windows silver springs take a bow since u been gone you’re so vain goodbye earl be careful hold up fuck you (lily allen) abcdefu free yourself you ought ya know hit ‘em up style these boots are made for walking what else?

tyler from gravity falls, demonstrated the universal body posture for “GET HIM”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 01/01/2026

the theme for the evening is “pink diamonds”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 29/11/2025

how many nice things could you say about yourself? this journal’s first prompt is to “fill this whole section with self-affirmations”, and there’s about 40-50 empty lines in the section. could you say FIFTY NICE THINGS about yourself?

the cover of a harley-quinn themed guided journal, it says “xoxo harley quinn ❤️” with a cutout monochrome drawing of harley showing in the space inside each letter

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 09/11/2025

breathe in. count to 4. feel your chest rise hold it. count to 4. feel the pressure inside you breathe out. count to 4. drop your shoulders hold it. count to 4. relax your jaw. let it all go. repeat. you can take one minute for yourself ❤️

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 30/10/2025

i can’t get past this part. i went back and te-read it after finishing the piece. because goddamnit, every single one of the men she wrote about was EXACTLY who i would have expected them to be

“Part of what I was trying to explore — and push back against — is the idea that a person’s identity can be reduced to a one-dimensional entity based solely on who they voted for. Now more than ever, we think we can tell everything about someone on the ‘other side’ just because they wear a red hat or a blue ‘I Voted’ t-shirt. The job I’d assigned myself (I proactively started this research long before I began writing about it for Cosmopolitan) was to dig deeper, to learn more about these men on the ‘other side’ of me — way on the other side, in most cases. And as someone who cares about bringing people together, I wondered whether it was me who had been excluding them.”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 25/10/2025

people who have been making excuses for platner as more details emerge and the vibes get ever-more rancid

it’s the “are we the baddies” meme, except david mitchell has platner’s tattoo on his cap

no wait that’s actually just the nazi skull, i mistook it because they’re exactly the same

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 23/10/2025

it was on ss officer’s caps. not a dogwhistle tattoo, only the most notorious nazi symbol behind the swazstika and maybe the imperial eagle.

a fucking nazi in indiana jones wearing an as uniform with the totemkopf on his hat

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 22/10/2025

i’m not looking to be willfully misled, so i’m gonna go by the actions of mr. sneaky team leader (and someone who worked for blackwater. on purpose!) rather than the most recent thing he said on a podcast after knowing his secret nazi tattoo was going public. you do you.

from https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/graham-platner-ss-tattoo-maine-senate/

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.
“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance.

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 22/10/2025

he knew what it was. or at least sometimes when he had enough to drink he admitted he knew what it was…

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 15/10/2025

by this logic, israel just needs to first “return” the tens of thousands of palestinians murdered prior to october 7, 2023. easy.

a graph of palestinian and israeli children killed between 1987 and 10/29/2023

there are three years with any visible israeli child deaths. most palestinian years range from about 100-500 each year, skyrocketing to almost 4,000 in 2023

a graph “the human cost of the israeli/palenstinian conflict” from 2008-2020

israeli death rates range from 61 (the only double-digit year) to 853, spiking in 2014 to 2,796

palestinian death rates range from 1,659 (the only year below 2,000) to 19,860, spiking to 31,558 in 2018

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 02/10/2025

PSA for the trans folks, this is where buddy-buddy engineer paul thinks of us. still wanna hang? this is in reply to saying i was disappointed (literally “damn dude, from you?”) so he doubled down on the CEO’s “waffles” shitpost in response to why [that fucker] is still here

a reply (that i screencapped because the playbook isn’t a surprise at this point) by pfrazee, in response to disappointment that he spartacus’d the “waffles” post by blue sky’s ceo when again ignoring marginalized people being abused on a platform that benefitted from early adoption by those marginalized people

post: “I feel the same way about the way jay was treated today - disappointed. And I still hang out with the dolls so I don't know what you're saying”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 28/09/2025

these folks blocked a whole bridge! was this not a peaceful protest?

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 21/09/2025

listen, i don’t know if i can fully put into words how satisfying the *chunKRACK* when i finally split this fucker felt it’s probably about a foot and a half across?

a large oak round, cut from a section that fell during a storm. there’s 8-10 axe marks and then finally a giant split in the middle, i was able to pull the two halves the rest of the way apart with another axe strike and then my hands 💪

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 20/09/2025

she won a race at a national championship event in her final meet of her career, the first trans athlete to do so since inclusion in NCAA eligibility a decade before the rest of what you said is all untrue.

In March 2022, Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:33.24; Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant was second with a time 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.[25][26][27] Thomas did not break any records at the NCAA event, while Kate Douglass broke 18 NCAA records.[28] Thomas was 9.18 seconds short of Katie Ledecky's NCAA record of 4:24.06.[29] In the preliminaries for the 200 freestyle, Thomas finished second. In the final for the 200 freestyle, Thomas placed fifth with a time of 1:43.50. In the preliminaries for the 100 freestyle, Thomas finished tenth. In the finals for the 100 freestyle, Thomas placed eighth out of eight competitors in 48.18 seconds, finishing last.[30]

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 17/09/2025

immediate irony that comes from having a job with a significant amount of on-camera requirements 🙃

screenshot showing a series of search for “makeup to cover up crying”

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 27/08/2025

if you gingerly tiptoe into it, yeah you need to move with intent, purpose, and position yourself eyes-on-target, always ready to pounce on an opening cut away. shift reverse, cut toward, accelerate and stop pictured: my last parking job

me (actually a black panther) crouched down in the grass and ready to attack

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 26/08/2025

figuring out the new colors that work best, so far i think my greens work better and my blues work worse than they did with my old hair

a smilie selfie wearing a periwinkle ribbed top and light makeup

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 23/08/2025

i hate advertising for free, i don’t even buy clothes with visible logos because i think they should pay me for that real estate this is 100% a portillos ad and i don’t even care because it’s also fuckin true

a meme labeled “this would fix me

below are pictures of an italian beef, fries, and chocolate shake from portillos, and an apple weather screenshot for chicago showing 79 and sunny

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 18/08/2025

wanna try one of my apples? don’t worry, i promise they aren’t poison… 🤞

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 11/08/2025

confirmed, you are not ready for this conversation providing the many, many examples that refute your claim would require a long list of replies. some themes are:

https://www.blackgate.com/2021/07/31/my-robert-a-heinlein-problem/

Heinlein’s attitude towards women is more problematic than his politics. Beneath a veneer of sexual liberation and social equality lies a patronizing paternalism that’s simply infuriating. For example, in the incoherent manifesto-cum-novel Stranger in a Strange Land (a book that is the key to all that is worst in Heinlein), the women are all completely liberated, and what do they choose to do with their liberation? Wait hand and foot on the pseudo-messiah Valentine Michael Smith and his mentor, Jubal Harshaw (who unceasingly yells “front!” and expects one or all of his infinitely pliable “secretaries” to come running up to cater to his every whim, and they do, with a patient indulgence and unfailing good humor that’s as divorced from reality as a Salvador Dali daydream). In Heinlein’s books (the later ones, especially) men often use terms of address like “little one,” “pretty foots,” “youngster,” “kid,” “dimples,” and similar infantilisms when speaking to their supposed female equals. “People lose teeth talking like that” as Humphrey Bogart said in the Maltese Falcon, but Heinlein’s women lap it up. I generally dislike language policing but a single paragraph of this sort of clueless condescension sets my teeth on edge and a whole page of it makes me want to scream and heave the book through the window.

Add to all this the undisguised goatishness of a middle-aged male writer whose idea of a well-ordered world is apparently one in which an endless stream of beautiful, cheerfully compliant young women are sexually available to him on a no-obligation basis and you’ll see why most Heinlein fans are men. Giving such inflatable women fake agency by making them protagonists, as in the late novel Friday, doesn’t change the situation; in fact, it makes it worse by laying the hypocrisy of the exercise bare, so to speak. (Michael Whelan’s cover for Friday gives the game away — Raquel Welch should have sued.)

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 11/08/2025

when goro takemura grabbed my arm and huskily said “v, wait, i need you”… i felt that 🥵

hottie takemura seated across from v at tom’s diner in the game cyberpunk 2077

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 09/08/2025

if i could tell little me downloading txt issues of ohrack and pla onto floppies to read back home that id be hanging out at defcon and getting a rad print issue like this…

a super neat phrack magazine cover with art of a cyberpunk woman with vines growing around and over her

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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 08/08/2025

what radicalized you to the butlerian johad and why was it cursed AI-generated gene wilder as willy wonka? 🤬

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