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Iris

@girlbug.bsky.social

28 followers 69 following 1 posts

Sometimes writer/worldbuilder, sometimes professional bass-baritone, always unfunny She/her

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now that The Odyssey is a hit, they have a chance to really monetize and create a Greekiverse. I need teens having opinions on the murder of Clytemnestra In the next five years

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/06/2026

centrists love to be like “when are you socialists going to win regions and states that we centrists currently also don’t win”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.

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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

No one man should have all that power.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/06/2026

its blackpilling that when you hit a certain point of wealth the economy becomes entirely fake and you gain more power than governments. something must be done

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The institutions that are supposed to protect our democracy need to wake up to the reality of 2026. Quite obviously, there is nothing to "consider" here. Quite obviously, this needs investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Elections watchdog considers looking into £5m donation to Farage

Reform UK mega donor Christopher Harborne gave the money to Nigel Farage in early 2024.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 10/04/2026

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

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matt @mattxiv.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#zucked

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Iris @girlbug.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

enrichment activity for your girlfriend: beating up your dad

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Pat Loika @patloika.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

A panel from Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan appears in a kitchen on November 10 as a circulatory system as he is reconstituting himself. Art by Dave Gibbons.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Back in 2017, conductor Sarah Hicks and I somehow convinced our supervisors to let us produce an entire Minnesota Orchestra program of protest music - orchestral works specifically written to address a political cause. My opening speech from that show is still my favorite thing I've ever written.

How do you see in the dark? How do you find a way forward when it seems as if the world itself is constructed to hold you in place? If you decide to fight back against injustice, or inequity, or inhumanity, how do you choose your battles? What happens if you lose? What happens if you win? And what does winning even look like if, at the end of your war, there is still injustice, and inequity, and inhumanity in the world?
And while we’re asking questions: what possible good can music do in the face of all the cruelty that this world can throw at a person? When the consequences to resistance are measured by the amount of violence that those with power are willing to inflict on those without, how can we justify asking each other to face down such violence with only our hearts, and our words, and our songs?

The great American songwriter, Woody Guthrie, once said this about why he felt called to write music that celebrated men and women who sought change and redress for grievances. He said, “I hate a song that makes you think you are just born to lose... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world... I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”
We have nine such songs for you tonight. They celebrate hard work and the people who do it. They rail against those who would sit comfortably by while others are harmed in their presence. They wrestle some of our darkest hours out into the open, so that we might hold them up to the light. These songs are mileposts, markers in the sand to remind us of the things we have overcome, and also of where we have failed each other. Sometimes, the overcoming and the failing are two sides of the very same story.

Let’s start there.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I think it’s tragic that John Lennon didn’t survive his shooting (giving us more years of his wonderful music) then die in 9/11 (sparing us his 9/11 tribute song)

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