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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian

@lilbrownbat.bsky.social
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Lesbian, activist, tech worker, aikidoka, writer Pronouns she/her Located in Massachusetts I manage projects and plan to take over the world for the good of humanity I write sf/f, political essays, occasionally something about martial arts

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seen in my local pharmacy
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O🏹🌙 @ohsaidwhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The way so many men have run to social media to ASSURE the women that they in fact, are not “one of the bad guys” is so cliché and boring. Yeah yeah yeah. We get it. You like how women make you feel but you can’t be bothered to tell your guy friends to stop being creepy. Yawn. Tale as old…
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Peace is not simply the absence of immediate disorder. It is also the result of accumulated confidence, institutional practice, compromise and the gradual reduction of fear between communities."
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Dáiligh @dailigh.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Bryson a representative of OO who has said any violence won’t be caused by the OO, has now called for the PSNI to use violence against peaceful protestors, including children and the disabled who are protesting in Garvaghy Road. This is what he wants - typical loyalist. #speirgorm
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Jamie Bryson calls for PSNI to use 'proportionate force' to allow Orange walk
Jamie Bryson, who serves as an advisor to Portadown District Orange Lodge, insisted that the law must be followed.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update: The Texas Tribune identified Gregory Feathers as the ICE agent who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Foxy Gekkerson 🖤🩶🤍💜 @foxygekkerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If young rapists have their lives ruined as a consequence of their actions now, they won't grow up to be old rapists in charge of everything later. Speaking of which, there should be no statute of limitations on sex crimes like that.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would really love some kind of middle ground between the ubiquitous "family friendly" events and loud fatuous alcohol-fueled events aimed at people in their 20s.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ani 🧹 say Ah-nee @zerokijz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hell yeah. Although the post makes it sound like it's already done. It's in progress. And if you need to check, here's the official .gov outlining it. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
A post in the WorkReform subreddit
Original poster says :The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is pretty obvious. They don't want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everybody would wa to happen everywhere.
Then they share a tweet that says the following. 

 NYC Mayor Mamdani converts a city-owned office building into approximately 4,000 new homes, with around 1,000 permanently affordable and rent-stabilised At no cost to the city, the project will nearly double the number of affordable homes built in the area over the last decade
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My day is just so weird and borderline awful that I just need to listen to this on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZ...
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WIND ROSE - Diggy Diggy Hole (Official Video) | Napalm Records
YouTube video by Napalm Records
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I get exasperated by people who react to things like this with "iTs A dIStRaCtIoN!" They're right, but not the way they think. We're not the target of the distraction: Trump is. His klingons are desperate to distract him from the bloodbath coming on November 3.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This all the way. "I'm serious. I don't give a single shit about your trolley problem bullshit. You can stand for all of us - trans, queer, homeless, immigrant, black, disabled, whatever - or this society deserves to die."
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The mysterious red-state-only comorbidity that looks a lot like covid, but somehow...isn't. FREE DUMB!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If it wasn't obvious by now, trans rights are THE wedge issue for the 2024 midterms. And the Democratic Party is making the same. stupid. mistake they did with marriage equality, reproductive rights, and god knows how many other issues. This will not win elections. It will only do political harm.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some days I look at a customer communication, and I really want to say, "You realize this is the equivalent of insulting the person who prepares your food, right?"
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's just so painfully stupid. For the majority of voters, trans panic isn't even in the top issues. They're not going to win more voters one way or another by coming out as anti-trans, because the number of people for whom trans support was a breaking point is near zero.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS.
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Lazylizzie @lazypiggie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Demanding voters who don’t even live in Texas publicly proclaim they’d vote for talarico despite his stance on this issue is an actual purity test.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Morning Kitten
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(🚨|🧵) A NYT-bestselling Trump biographer has just released the largest compilation of anti-Trump political protest music of the Trump era. 30 songs. 135 minutes of music. *Many* bangers. This thread offers previews and full tracks. Please share widely!
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Greatest Releases: Protests by Hounds on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 30 Songs
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sounds of migratory geese overhead. 42 degrees when I got up yesterday morning. It's that time of year.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do straight Americans understand why queer Americans might have ambivalent feelings about this flag? Or even about being Americans?
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e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if you're opposing people like the GoP you have to have a line, because they don't. you can't shit on or kill enough of your constituents to impress the people voting for GoP because they do it more and "better" (they're actually organized). having integrity doesn't make you "single-issue."
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're wondering why I, a cis woman, am going so hard on trans rights...read this thread. My support for trans people is not situational or conditional. I'M not the issue. The issue is those who are manipulated by wedge issues to trade others' rights for illusory dreams of political victories.
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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes I feel like the "of their time" defense is this subconscious defense against the idea that future generations will find our current state of morality lacking and that we want them to understand that it's, somehow, not our fault or something.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are other ways than money to support the arts. Money is important; artists need it like everyone else. But when we start to believe that art can't exist without moneyed donors and sponsorship, we're headed down the path of making art the exclusive property of the rich.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Perhaps, as one way of combating the dangers of AI, we should develop the writing equivalent of the "slow food" movement.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This whole thread. Canaries in coal mines, y'all.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was just listening to Shirer's "Collapse of the Third Republic", the part where the politicians trampled each other in their eagerness to destroy their own constitutional democracy. Even self-proclaimed socialists. Justification: do this or the Nazis will do worse.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Even if you're completely selfish and have no empathy whatsoever...how can anyone not see trans people as the canaries in the coal mine?
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Made-up words that should be real words: poozly (adj): feeling ill in a way that combines at least two afflictions, one of which must be exhaustion. My dear old dad came up with that one.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is the heart at what's wrong with centrism.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In US-English idiom, "cheesy" means cheap, low-quality and cringeworthy. But cheese is GOOD. US-English makes no sense.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today, we remember that dark day years ago, when evil men in the name of a global anti-human ideology carried out despicable terrorist acts that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende in Chile.
This historical photograph captures the bombing of the Palacio de La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973.People fleeing right wing attacks Young democracy defenders rounded up by fascists
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 memorial services. Dozing Trump, Pentagon v cancer stricken Biden, alert, stands for hours as names are read, NYC.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm sure that there's a range of opinions among the friends and family of 9/11 victims. But perspectives like this one don't get nearly as much attention as those that express hate at Muslims.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have moved firmly into Lesbian Auntie territory and I love it. Whenever young queer people feel that they can tell me what's up with them and ask for a shoulder to lean on...that makes me happy. So happy.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Among the many things that suck about CVS, Walgreens and any other entity that dispenses vaccines: they only offer the broadest description of the vax. Can't tell if it's Shingrix or hi dose flu or what. No fucking point going to a physical store, no one working there knows a damn thing. Fuck it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nailed it
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Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 10/09/2026
We are a terror state. If you know a Republican, you know a fascist. The members of fascist parties are called fascists.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, one very easy way to see that the United States is not remotely a full democracy is that it is necessary to “have a plan to vote” & to do 👇, because one of our two major parties has made restricting suffrage the central pillar of its policy platform.
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Aaaahahahaha
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Mary the Insufficiently Grateful Lesbian @lilbrownbat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In case you had ANY illusions about where the Iran War originated... ...it was this dude manipulating Little Petey Hegseth and Donnie Dumbfuck.
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