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Lava monster

@lavamonster.bsky.social
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Science (sometimes fiction) nerd • Outdoor adventure obsessive • One of those transgenders you're hearing about in the news • she/they

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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hung out with a bunch of Zoomers who were watching 15-year-old YouTube poops and it warms my heart/horrifies me to know that Millennial brainrot culture is still appreciated. Jokes aside, a big reason this stuff gets traction is that everyone can be completely sure that it’s not AI.
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just a few months ago, Tucker said: "The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated." He hasn't changed. He continues to call attention to "the wrong issues" as he promotes racist conspiracies. It is disgusting that NPR is doing this. bsky.app/profile/brit...
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NPR doing a mostly friendly interview with Tucker Carlson where they let him publicly launder his reputation as a white supremacist bigot is almost unforgivable to me. This man was too racist for Fox News, for fuck’s sake.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m hanging on right now, but only because the expectations I’ve set for what consists of a satisfying life I can feel proud of have been massively downgraded. Right now I give myself credit for just getting past each workweek.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People like this sort adult humans into three categories: the rich, people who work to make the rich richer, and wastes of oxygen.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Human Instrumentality as a concept is racist, mononormative, and Turkophobic.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My turn to post one of these and dox myself.
Map from mydialect.us showing I talk like a West Coaster with a lingering hint of my Upper Midwest upbringing.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
this is a common question and the answer is that a lot of companies actually do track piracy numbers when it comes to gauging interest in an IP so if you really want to send the message that Harry Potter is toxic: no, you should not pirate it either
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is there anything more quintessentially American than the fear that somewhere, in some small way, a persecuted minority might have less shitty private health insurance than you?
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a sadistic level of contempt for Democratic voters and what they clearly want. I swear they get off to this. A ratio like this should inspire a deep crisis of confidence, but it will instead be interpreted as evidence Schiff is willing to make “hard choices”
Post from Senator Adam Schiff calling for Republicans and Democrats to work together to bring “movie magic” back to America.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, 'Mine.'" -Anderson Dawes (The Expanse)
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Seeing people on reddit discourse about height differences in dating gives me yet another reason to be overwhelmingly thankful that I’m not straight.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I dislike right and left equally for different reasons.” -a hardcore right-winger, every time, without fail, even if they don’t admit it.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Is this why Bluesky is dying? In a couple of years there will only be one generation left here.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I made it until my mid 30s before touching anything by Virginia Woolf and holy cow I just love her prose.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
People like this often sound uber-woke when they’re talking about nonbinary transmasculine people but when they talk about binary trans women they might as well be quoting The Transsexual Empire. It’s literally the same arguments about trans women enforcing gender TERFs were making 45 years ago.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I came up with a joke about Helen, but a younger, hotter comic stole it from me.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Cowards, they should have left it up.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My alma mater is already cutting staff to the bone and reducing student services to make up for a budget shortfall caused by a sudden drop in international enrollment. This will gut both public and private higher education in the US.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/07/2026
In general, calling these interventions "gender affirming care" has never fostered any empathy for trans people. Rather, it is used to pejoratively liken cis people to us, reducing trans people to punchline, while also regarding our healthcare as both frivolous and shallow, vanity not necessity.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Depression is a real shithead sometimes.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/07/2026
You stupid motherfuckers
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The dark ritual was successful, I see.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This has been extremely clear since we all saw how "essential workers" got treated in 2020 and 2021 while everyone else got to stay home.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just saw "I'm staying skeptical because I remember what happened to Emmet Till" over on reddit. And there you have it! The worst possible faux-woke misogynistic (not to mention racist) response to this whole mess. We can pack it in, discourse over.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Predicting it now: McConnell is alive but never going to wake up and they’re hiding it because “see, you can’t replace him, he’s alive” is deeply fucking embarrassing in light of that. Honestly that sort of “akshually we technically can do this” BS is perfectly fitting with his rotten legacy.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think it looks more like Bernie, Warren, et al. lost a checkers game to a toddler
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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“i imagined a world where you got that scholarship instead of me and it was so emotionally devastating i need the government to eradicate all your wretched kind from public life so no real girl will be traumatized by hypotheticals like i was ever again”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 10/06/2026
That’s a sincere hope, by the way. Platner is obviously a dog shit liar with no real moral compass, but there’s a chance a good team will keep him in line. For the sake of American Democracy and the end of the violent imperialism he cheered for, I hope that happens.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On my fucking knees begging “leftists” to not talk about the US left being “stabbed in the back” by international Jewish money. It will surprise no one that this was a discussion about how people need to support a certain senatorial candidate in Maine.
Pair of Bluesky posts (handles censored), first one:

“All the right wing groups” big huge citation needed. There’s a huge global network funding the right wing power grab that makes use of but is absolutely not dependent on one tiny violent ethnostate.

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Fair. They aren’t funding all of them.
But they are *certainly* funding the most powerful ones in the US who wield the most influence. They literally find Nazis like Elon Musk and Steve Bannon. Not to mention every Democrat who stabs us in the back to help Trump
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This headline seems hyperbolic but my personal experience both bike commuting and riding recreationally is that a lot of drivers definitely do, even in a deep blue city in a blue state.
USA Today headline of “Do drivers hate cyclists?” above a story about a big increase in cyclists getting either hit or outright assaulted by car or truck drivers.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Conspiracy theory: there isn’t going to be the jet fuel to run these flights into the US soon anyway, and this saves face for it.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Unfortunately this story has spread to more mainstream outlets and comments are full of “I’m a liberal but people should stop moving here/this is a waste of tax dollars/why do they want special treatment.” As long as liberal cis society maintains this degree of apathy, the crisis will continue.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/05/2026
Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/
Comic. [Person who looks like a wizard, dressed in robe with tall pointy hat and with long beard, standing in front of chart, proclaiming to another person.] PERSON 1: By gazing into my crystals of zircon, I have divined the date of the hour of fire marking the limit of this world’s existence. 4.54 billion years ago, the beginning was nigh! [caption] Geochronologists are just reverse prophets of doom.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Mass Effect isn’t really an endorsement of the existence of extra-judicial super-cops because while playing as one you spend probably half your time cleaning up huge messes created by other extra-judicial super-cops.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A strap on one of my bras broke, which would be only mildly annoying if not for the fact that the dryer tore another one of my bras by twisting it into a super tight knot just a few days ago. Seriously what the heck?
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is the stuff of electoral suicide. You can kill half a million brown people abroad but that won't piss off voters nearly as much as turning up the How Much Stuff Costs dial.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I did a stint of political phone polling during Trump’s first term and unfortunately heard stuff like this on the regular. One guy once told me he opposed solar power decisions because he was worried about depleting the sun’s energy.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Starting Chapter 18 of The Persephone Effect and I’m reminded that anything I can imagine for Demeter is too good for her. That’s a fun character to hate, in the tradition of Joffrey Baratheon or Immortan Joe.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Got to the start of Chapter 3 of The Persephone Effect and am reminded of why watching Olympic-level (heh) women’s climbing competitions is hot as fuck sometimes.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
God damn rock climbing is just unreasonably fun.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What a great surprise to come across my feed!
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
So much terrible fucking news and suffering, but damn it this is unambiguously cool as all hell and no one can convince me otherwise. I can scarcely imagine what that view must look like in person.
screenshot of today's lunar flyby with a caption showing the astronauts describing lava flows they can see on the surface. 

The moon is visible in the background with the capsule containing the astronauts in the foreground.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
One Angry Man
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just finished Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns and wow, what an incredible piece of narrative nonfiction. I learned a lot -and- it made me cry at the end. That’s a precious combo, right there.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Everyone remembers that.
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Misread the room.
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