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Megan

@mactire.bsky.social
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A lot of parenting, a little art and fandom and politics. Currently about 90% observations on the Cars universe

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I made a frame!
Digital drawing of Stede and Ed in a frame from Our Flag Means Death
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The reason will absolutely not surprise you at all
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Relaxing Sunday evening rocking out to Angine de Poitrine while my children cry and plead for Paw Patrol
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/2026
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was such a multitalented and magnetic actor; no single clip can truly represent that. But this one he did for a video game never fails to make me laugh--especially watching him try to hold it together during the pause. Just gloriously goofy and fun. Which...maybe this is the clip, then?
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Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
YouTube video by geoff EXE
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Once again, the wrong Home Alone 2 cast member. 😢
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lindsay Ellis has unlocked this video from Nebula exclusivity on the occasion of Dolly's passing. I recommend watching, it will only be available for a limited time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...
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Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Lis is deep in the pitt @ghostalservice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the process is the point THE PROCESS IS THE POINT (this is a post about AI fanworks)
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love a good MSpaint-illustrated explainer.
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme
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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
UK self employed folks. Consultation deadline August 4th. God I despise the government.
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smallest church @smallestchurch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
i love that where we landed on how the internet should work is me having to click a legal agreement every time i want to see an ice cream recipe so that food network dot com can sell my data to a defense contractor. this is good yes
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 26/06/2026
HAPPY FRIDAY TO EVERYONE WHO HATES SLOP
STOP trying to make me consume A.I SLOP I like the Garbage i consume online to be made from the minds of neurodivergent shitposters
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Someone’s life collection going free at the local Tesco.
Nine Cliff Richard VHS tapes on a shelf
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
- First 40°C summer was 2022, we keep putting it off as… - No one’s had a proper pay rise since 2008 - Among highest energy bills in Europe What aircon won’t fix - Our infrastructure wasn’t designed for this heat, train tracks buckle, roads melt - Privatised national grid struggling to cope NOW
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Why only 5% of UK homes have aircon - Oldest housing stock in Europe mine was built 1891 - 36% of people rent try asking a landlord for an install lol - Dire building regs thanks decades of neoliberalism!
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Too hot. Toddler home. Urgent work. Brain is soup.
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There are big problems with social media, but age verification and social media bans are not the answer. They'd be a cure that's worse than the disease, but they're not even a cure. This article by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social points out the privacy nightmares. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz
Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026
The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14/06/2026
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
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Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope
Researchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and...
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Ro 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 WeeCon2 @ramsaybaggins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Kids who desperately need community - trans kids, queer kids in general, neurodivergent kids, disabled kids, abused kids, etc - will suffer because of this. The Internet is often the only place they can find other people like them and realize they're not broken or alone.
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Amy L Crow 🐦‍⬛ @itsamycrow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
In the space of around ten years UK politics and media (all of it) have switched their language to normalise bigotry. They have switched from “Trans Women Are Women” (or just trans women) to “Trans Women - males who identify as women” at every opportunity, even when totally unnecessary for the point
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
we have ALWAYS had the ability to NOT make something and pretend that we did. the difference now is theres an algorithm built for convincing people whove never stepped outside the theater door for a smoke break on opening night that they actually have. they have not. there is no ai for that.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.
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Laura @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The way they asked him the question *twice*, and he was like "oh, did I not give enough examples the first time" and added more examples of how labour are not a progressive party
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Shoutout to the time I discovered a new-to-me recipe from my actual grandmother preserved in a cookbook on archive.org
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Obsessed with how some scenes in The Other Bennet Sister look as if they’re colour graded specifically to resemble a JPG converted to CMYK using Photoshop’s default settings in 1998.
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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love this essay very much!!!!
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Bsky Kreuger @lammatic.hellthread.vet · 17/04/2026
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
gentle reminder that the national theatre is streaming the importance of being earnest in about 50 minutes! (yes that performance where ncuti gatwa wears a gorgeous pink gown) ✨️🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home
YouTube video by National Theatre
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Paulette @pemerson3d.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
To the #Republicans “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -D Eisenhower 1953
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
As someone who still speaks every day with the friends I met on the internet thirty years ago, I can hardly support a ban as the solution.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 11/02/2026
Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.
theguardian.com
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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Megan @mactire.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Post a banger not in English, you say? open.spotify.com/track/2W3kEY...
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Cuccurucucù - Remastered 2021
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