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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

HAWKGIRL? KRYPTO? I'm sorry, I've been so upset about the pending gov shutdown the sight of Hawkgirl just brought tears to my eyes.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

You can successfully boycott your local deli where the owner hangs Nazi flags. You really can't boycott FB and Amazon, not in any large-scale meaningful way. It would simply be making a personal choice about what you can and can't tolerate. I don't eat at Chick-fil-A for this reason.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Unfortunately we've allowed megacorps to overrun every aspect of American life to the point where a large-scale boycott is essentially impossible. The answer is to legislate these billionaires, but the American people said "no."

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Not the same thing but every summer my friend tries to convince me to go with her to a local "lazy river" place and every time I have to tell her that it sounds vile.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm going on almost 20 years of working with the public in some capacity or another and my conclusion is that unfortunately, a lot of people aren't very smart*, and they're mad about it. *smart meaning like, basic sense and rudimentary 2-step thinking

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

the dating app edition is sending me

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not at all what I'm talking about lol

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ironically, those of us with fat white asses (some hairier than others) were specifically bred for those kinds of temperatures

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

don't ask me exactly how or why but I know that some aggro paleo-diet person just came thinking about gravy coffee

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I argued back that being poor doesn't give anyone the right to steal labor from *other poor people* but 2011 tumblr wasn't ready for that

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I once said this on tumblr about people who skip tipping at restaurants and people said I was being classist.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think COVID wiped people's memories. Trump pardoned so many egregious criminals as long as he could profit off them that it almost became a joke. He never needed an excuse! Norms and laws don't enter his mind when he makes decisions. Acting like Biden just gave him the green light is insane.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

But do you want to fight people that crazy? I don't think so.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I don't see it lasting long once hopeful self publishers see the results. I spoke at length with a woman who used a vanity press for her first novel and before they were even done with the process, she was asking for her book rights back bc their work was so subpar.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm applying for new jobs atm at every time I catch myself doubting whether or not I'm qualified, I think, "Would a mid white guy think he was underqualified for this? Absolutely not." Then I apply anyway.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I changed my voicemail to say that I don't check it, so if they aren't spam they can text or email me.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

idk how to tell you this but most people have no idea how the government works and they know there's overspending, so easily digestible dipshit-friendly "solutions" like DOGE sound fkn fantastic to the median voter.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I mean, that's kind of what I'm getting at. This is asking a ton of money for a service that exists for free/is on programs you already own. Vanity presses are BS in general, but at least there are people on the other end, justifying(ish, to some) the cost.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What I really can't wrap my head around is how they're justifying a $5k bill. When we spend that much self publishing, it's bc we're paying humans to do an objectively better job than AI could. A fully automated process that produces inferior work should be...cheaper. By a lot.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yes but also my emotions fly into turmoil when I see women in uniform wearing ponytails, braids, etc, barely any hint of hairspray, because my jealousy burns white hot that they don't have to endure the Marine-reg shellacked sock bun that physically hurts and pulls out your hair. It's incandescent.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

lol I'm glad you knew I was joking

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

There's a knock on the door, and I go to open it. A little boy says "hi, we live next door. My mom wants to know if she can borrow a cup of sugar." I say "You mom wants to know if she *may* *have* a cup of sugar." I am the world's most annoying pedant.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm frustrated bc the left is sticking with its stalwart commitment to what amounts to customs and courtesies, and that's not how we're going to win.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This right here. I DO feel defeated, but that is bc they have amassed almost unchecked power thru a total disregard of law, and our "defenders" keep crowing ab using the law to stop them. That isn't going to work. Laws only work when they're enforced, and they aren't being enforced.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

you laugh but blowing your nose after septoplasty is life altering

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm so sorry. Pain like that is unbearable.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Russia and tankies a struggling hard with the idea that NATO countries just don't like them

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I got hospitalized when I went to Germany and many things ab it were a wonderful break from American healthcare, but I did have to go to the nurse's station the next day and threaten to pull out my IV before they got around to releasing me.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I have two herniated discs in my neck and went through YEARS of muscle spasms so bad I could barely roll out of bed to get to the toilet for days at a time. I'm sorry you're going through this. Any way you can get to a clinic? They can do like tylenol injections that I found (temporarily) helpful.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

While organizing historical documents on a Marine base, I found a magazine-style point paper about why gays shouldn't be allowed to serve and it was verbatim the same shit they were saying about trans servicemembers.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The fact that cable TV will show women/girls being raped damn near unedited but bleep out cursing and wholesale cut scenes of women enjoying sex tells you everything you need to know.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's true that we are, at our core, a Puritan society and that needs to change. I didn't give a fuck about group showers/damn near public toilets and it made my life far, far easier than those who stayed fussy about it. But that's a society-level change that would take generations to be accepted.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think it would be legitimately much more difficult to get Americans past their prudishness about bathrooms than it would be to get broad acceptance for trans people using their chosen bathroom, particularly because 99.9% of the time cis people can't tell when someone is trans.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This. Just admit that you did the math and these were the costs you were willing to foist on other people in order to get what you wanted.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Norman Bates posting from the mental hospital like

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I can only speak for myself, but to me the difference is I readily acknowledge that when dems I vote for do bad things, that was a gambit I was willing to take in order to avoid something much, much worse.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Jokes on her, I'm already into cosplay.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That first sentence, oof. Some of the conversations I've had have been illuminating, to say the least. It makes me wonder how far my loved ones will go (cognitively) to avoid acknowledging their part in the fallout of their political decisions.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is why I have 0 plans to quit my day job. I simply cannot be doing 3 full time social media marketing jobs (day job, volunteer job, and marketing my book).

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I've made the unfortunate discovery that all the nice conservatives in my family don't believe this is happening, and these stories are all misrepresenting the facts.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This dipshit is making me think about the entire plot of Top Gun: Maverick and how actually, it makes sense. It makes zero sense, but he's such a dumb asshole I feel the need to defend it.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I hate that I feel the need to defend pilots now.

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I actually did meet a transwoman in a public bathroom once like 8 years ago and we're still FB friends to this day idk why it's so hard for these people to just be normal

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

People make fun of this but lemon, ginger ale, and beef broth are the only things I crave when I'm sick so I'm eager to try this next time I get kennel cough

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Marie McCurdy @itsmariemccurdy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Democrats have been trying to play chess against a guy who just sweeps all the pieces off the board whenever it isn't going his way like they're dealing with a belligerent toddler but it's not a belligerent toddler, it's a terrorist.

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