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Mahlie

@froggieweather.bsky.social
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Hi I'm Mahlon (pronounced /ˈmeɪ̯.lən/) 28/white/bi/jewish they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (♉️☀️♍️🌙♏️⬆️)

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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our turn
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Staying in my AHHHHHHHHHHH business @okoyeslacefront.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who amongst you will be brave enough to be a Chibi Robo in these trying times?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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hypuptrophy @cachorrx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
imo:
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Y @mapodoufu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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BestBoi Alex @alexdualgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course there's reactionary people in queer leftist spaces that's far from breaking news but a journalist putting a magnifying glass into a small town queer bar's petty drama for the world to see when LGBTQ rights are being stripped away is genuinely bizarre and worrying?
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BestBoi Alex @alexdualgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Idk call me too woke or whatever but that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar only went viral because it has all the ingredients needed to ragebait the absolute worst corners of the Internet and given everything else happening in the world it just feels gross to hyper focus this much on it
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🥀 @gloomix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why do men like. grunt and moan and whine when they pee. are you a fucking dog? do you need a fire hydrant?
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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
the random waves of fatigue you get when living with an autoimmune disease <<<<<<
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There needs to be more art of guys with wide birthing hips
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Popstar is kind of all over the place sonically speaking but it's still very enjoyable imo. I can rlly only see myself skipping one song
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kinda bs how shitty things are rn
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My flight to Washington DC was so overwhelming tell me why I woke up 1.5 hours in to a woman having a medical event in the aisle just behind us and the woman who sat next to me and my brother was a homeopathic "doctor" who wouldn't shut up about how much she loves AI while all this was going on
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 24/09/2026
Hannah Einbinder and Susan Sarandon were detained by police this afternoon in New York City while protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. assembly.
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hard for me not to feel misandrist when a lot of the terrible things going on in my personal sphere and the country I live in are because of predatory loser men
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dan @sanrio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LRT I saw Ted Cruz posting about the lesbian bar thing and here I am thinking okay yeah so all the people making jokes like “queers go too far” and joke about lesbians or disabled people you’re all on the same side as Ted Cruz btw lol you just don’t realize how far you’ve gone
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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/\__/\__/\__/ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
post by me on Feb 16, 2024

Learning to shut the fuck up is praxis.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm at the men's restroom I'm at the all gender bathroom stall I'm at the combination men's restroom and all gender bathroom stall
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel like a bisexual Adam Sandler I'm wearing baggy clothes and a thong while smoking weed oustside
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18/09/2026
Another battery fire erupts at Moss Landing, where some units are still charged
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Another battery fire erupts at Moss Landing, where some units are still charged
Almost two years after a massive battery fire south of Santa Cruz displaced 1,200 people and smoldered for days, the same facility is burning again.
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
First day has passed and the new housemate has already cleared two bottles of whiskey and flooded the master bathroom in a drunken stupor. And he'll be here for three more months.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
FINNEAS has withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed. I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people.”
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s tour opener, Irish singer Aaron Rowe, has dropped out of the tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.
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Niggussy @niggano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So I've been trying to stop trying to be someone who you'd still love. Maybe if i could. You already would.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026
One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Online friend and I came up with a good bit, it's a guy who says he's a visual learner but is also a cuck so whenever there's playful/flirty banter one of us will go "can you show me how that works/ can I watch you play with our friend?"
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is a pussy cuz he could've told those execs to get fucked like consider all the fans who would be furious if the concert they paid to go to got cancelled last minute. It would be a logistical nightmare & reflect poorly on the venues.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This powerpoint template I just made for October may be my best work yet
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Word of the week is chauvinist
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Niece, sister, boyfriend, and HS best friend's birthdays plus me n my bf's anniversary all fall within the same few days of September
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Literally any Muslim, even those not born yet or children at the time, are responsible for 9/11, which no Israeli person, even those shooting the guns or dropping the bombs, is responsible for the genocide in Gaza. This is a basic, across the board, mainstream opinion in the US and Europe.
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Viridian: Cinderella Green @viridianjcm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Mahlie @froggieweather.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There are too many hot guys working at my job now can they all go away already
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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