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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can’t believe nobody has posted this yet

It’s a tumblr post from a deactivated account
The first person posted “open rp” followed by a picture of some anime character. The picture is captioned “feh.. It's me, Inuyasha, the half-demon. I can defeat every demon who crosses my path. You think you can take me?”
A second poster has replied with a picture of Macklemore with a somewhat neutral expression, pointing with his arm fully extended. It’s captioned, “Macklemore pointed to the door. "go away, Inuyasha" he mackled”

Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thought Wikipedia was just getting into the spirit for a minute before I realized this was a back button to the last article I was reading. Anyway bing bong

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Can’t believe I actually got to be in the same room as my hero @katharinehayhoe.com!! Thank you for coming to Duke!! 💙💚

Katharine Hayhoe and Lori Bennear sitting together on a stage

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Men can exclude women from politics and education and business and leadership and commerce and society for literally thousands of years, but the minute women wanna have something just for us, men demand that we let them in too

Duke’s Baldwin Scholars program ends female-only membership.
The move appears to be made in compliance with the Trump administration’s demands for universities to end DEI practices and comes at the heels of Duke’s new inclusive excellence initiative, which mandates University programming to be “open to all.”
Read more.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Tried to make the world slightly less shitty today

Email from the food bank of central and eastern North Carolina, thanking me for my sustaining donation

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The @wsj.com is pushing climate denialism in its newsletter today

Q: The Trump administration says CO2 isn’t a threat to public health. What does the science say?
The Trump administration’s stance on CO2 is part of a new effort to undo some of the Environmental Protection Agency’s responsibilities for regulating emissions. Ahead of public hearings on the contested rules this week, Eric Niiler breaks down the debate that is set to unfold.

A: Greenhouse gases including CO2 are considered air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, according to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said federal regulators must determine whether these pollutants endanger public health. Most climate and atmospheric scientists say increasing levels of CO2 are raising the planet’s temperature, which in turn is leading to more intense storms, rising sea levels and the risk of more intense drought and wildfires that endanger human health and welfare.

As the scientific consensus on CO2’s role in climate change has solidified, so too has the alternative view that more CO2 is good for the planet, and that it was a mistake to classify it as a pollutant. The Energy Department’s review of the science of climate change—the scientific foundation of the EPA’s effort to roll back existing emissions rules—argues that increasing CO2 levels will boost agricultural production, like a massive jolt of plant food.

Determining how much and how fast CO2 emissions will warm the planet in the future is still uncertain. Large-scale changes in the Earth’s ecosystem as the atmosphere warms are still being studied. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s move to change EPA rules is set to kick off a lengthy legal battle over whether the government will continue to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industries.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

These people have the critical thinking skills of toddlers

Yet her family says they have faith that Arpineh will be released, and believe that only hardened, dangerous criminals will actually be deported.
"I don't blame Trump, I blame Biden," Arthur says. "It's his doing for op borders, but I believe in the system and all the good people will be released and the ones that are bad will be sent back.
While many of those detained do not have criminal records, Aprineh is a convicted felon, which makes her a prime target for removal.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment about Arpineh's case.
Arthur says he doesn't know details of the burglary. They spoke briefly about it before they were married and then he forgot about what he considered a youthful indiscretion by his wife.
Instead, he focuses on his wife's good deeds over the last 17 years, volunteering with the local school district and bringing food to firefighters and police.
"We all make mistakes," he says.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Fun fact: this line in Crazy Train is actually about @samreich.bsky.social !

[Verse 2]
I've listened to preachers, l've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts, who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

No exaggeration I can’t stop thinking about this video

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Best feature of the new iOS is being able to react to messages with any emoji, leading to this great new bit my husband and I have invented:

Text message from me: “omg it snowed” which my husband reacted to with the peanut emoji
I added “it’s snowing now!” And then said in all caps “NO NUTTING” and he thumbs-downed it

Text from my husband that just says “NUT” and I reacted with the peanut emoji again

Text from my husband “it was very cold this morning!” and I reacted with peanuts
Then he said “No” and I reacted with peanuts again
I responded “It looks cold”
Then he said “NO NUT” and I reacted with the thumbs down

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

No thanks, I’m already fluent in Anxiety

Instagram ad from “ahead app” that says:
Duolingo, but for Anxiety
Created by scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard
FREE to use without a subscription

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Husband spotted a large number of emergency personnel by the river just now, anyone know what’s going on? He says they did something on the water and there were vehicles on both banks. @universalhub.com #Boston

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

*touches earpierce* I'm hearing that CNN frames headlines and articles like this because they like Trump and want him to win the election

Campaign surprises come at a dizzying pace
A composite photo of Harris and Trump
ANALYSIS
The White House is grappling with three challenges that could threaten Harris' hopes and offer an opening to Trump

The White House is grappling with three challenges that could threaten the vice president’s hopes and offer an opening to the Republican nominee’s narrative of Biden-era negligence. A month before Election Day, the US faces the grave possibility of being dragged into a Middle East conflagration; a port workers’ strike could harm inflation-weary consumers; and political pressure is rising in the fallout of Hurricane Helene.

Trump, meanwhile, was hit on Wednesday by the unsealing of a 165-page document in which special counsel Jack Smith gives the fullest picture of his case in the federal 2020 election interference case. The ex-president has pleaded not guilty, but the filing re-injected his attempt to steal the last election into the frantic endgame of a campaign partially shaped by Democrats’ claims he poses an existential threat to American democracy.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

He’s up in heaven eating God’s tomatoes now

A black dog running through a shallow creek. His tail is up and he looks like he’s smiling. His name is Oliver.

Oliver, a wonderful black dog, running through a shallow creek and looking up expectantly.

A black dog sitting on a wooden floor and looking up at the camera. His feet look so tiny and his nose, which is gray, looks so big. He’s a little cross eyed.

Oliver, a black dog, has snow on his back and face. You can see his gray hairs. He’s standing inside next to some cables and looking at the camera, still a little cross eyed. He was always dirty.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Funniest thing I've come across this week: a Korean ASMR youtuber used a beautiful violin version of the Star Spangled Banner as background ambiance for a video because she (of course) didn't recognize it and the comments are sending me

@KingOfGaymes 3 months ago
Me starting this video: aw time to sleep 😴
Me hearing 4:48 : 🫡🇺🇸🦅🗽

@kaelyn858 3 months ago
latte: making a potion
the music: 🦅🇺🇸🧨🫡💥🎇

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Best I could do on my phone but there she is!

Blurry picture of the full moon covered by thin clouds and glowing with light. The partial lunar eclipse is visible at the top where a small part is missing like a bite was taken out.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Glad to see climate change mentioned here! (Fellow Massholes, stay safe out there)

Deadly mosquito virus has Mass. towns urging people to stay in at night
The virus spread by mosquitoes is rare, but serious: about 30 percent of people with the virus die, and many survivors have ongoing neurological problems.
Image of some mosquitos with the caption: Massachusetts confirmed its first human case of eastern equine encephalitis this month. (Olivier Morin /AFP/Getty Images)
By Anumita Kaur
August 25, 2024 at 6:45 p.m. EDT

The virus outbreak in Massachusetts comes as mosquito season has lengthened across the United States, The Washington Post reported. Climate change has fueled rising global temperatures, and for more than two-thirds of the United States, increased the number of “mosquito days,” meaning days with an average humidity of at least 42 percent and temperatures between 50 and 95 degrees.

The Northeast has warmed faster than the rest of the country and experienced the biggest increase in mosquito days. In Massachusetts, there have been an average of 14 more mosquito days compared with the period from 1980 to 2009.

Scientists warn that longer mosquito seasons could heighten the risk of outbreaks of diseases carried by the bloodsucking insects, such as dengue and malaria.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Incredible unintentional PSA happening here. Use alt text, people!

Skeet by Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 42 minutes ago that reads "If you're the kind of person who does this ... please stop."
Below that is a warning from the "Bad Accessibility / Alt Text Labeler" that the skeet includes an image without any alt text.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Last-second pivot because I couldn’t resist:

Order summary of a green T shirt from the onion that reads “I just love corporations!”

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Loving the lesbian representation in these graphs from @pbump.com today www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Graph titled "Shifts in 'strong support' for Democratic candidate"
The arrows are colored pink and orange and resemble the lesbian pride flag

Graph titled "Shifts in voters who are 'extremely motivated' to vote"
Again, the arrows look like the lesbian pride flag

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Someone needs to interview the poor bastard who has JD Vance as their landlord

Vance and his wife, Usha, who met at Yale Law School, own a home in Northern Virginia that they purchased last year for $1.6 million, according to real estate records. They reported owning a D.C. townhouse that they rented out for between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2022.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

This is only a problem if you ignore the fact that most progressive policies are broadly popular with voters and have been polling well for years if not decades

NYT headline: In 2020, Harris Ran on Progressive Ideas. That May Haunt Her in 2024.
Kamala Harris ran to the left as progressive ideas dominated the last competitive Democratic primary. Now Republicans are digging up her old stances.
7 min read

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

3 of 3: this post has over 59,000 notes (likes, comments, shares).

Tumblr user enki2 posted on June 28:
An edited version of the meme where the guy is sweating because he doesn’t know which button to press, except here, he’s pressing both buttons with one hand in the first panel, and giving a thumbs up to the viewer in the second panel. One button is labeled “the system is corrupt and needs revolutionary change” and the other button is labeled “voting because it still makes a difference who’s in power”

Tumblr user the-thing-of-worms added a screenshot of someone’s tags to the post. The tags read:
#remember US people: your elections dont just affect your country #they effect the world. #if republicans win it emboldens cosnervatives everywhere #and in such a world as that there can be no revolutionary change
They also wrote, “Prev these are some good tags”
On tumblr, “prev” refers to the person you reblog a post from.

User electric-butter-slug commented on the post on July 2:
Those tags are LEGIT. Canada has gotten so bad in recent years because provincial governments are so confident overstepping in wake of Trump. I cannot stress enough how important it is that all Americans get out and vote.
I don't care how you feel more moral not voting because it matters so so so much and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is doing so to get Trump or someone like him back in power by using your non vote. It's bad for everyone.
Do not let them convince you not to vote.
User daisyinaglass added a comment on July 5, writing entirely in bold italics:
We're voting for Supreme Court appointments.
We're voting against the elimination of the Department of Education.
We're voting to at least attempt to keep the separation of church and state.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

2 of 3: this post has over 11,000 notes (like, comments, shares). Too long for alt text again so I’ve included blank images for the rest.

Tumblr user estrogenesis-evangelion wrote on July 7:
all of the USamerican people going "bbut if i vote in the election, im culpable for the unjustifiable evils of the american imperial machine!" just love to paint people who realize that you still need to vote as like, too naive to understand their oh-so-principled moral stand, when the reality is that if you live in america and you're of voting age and you're realizing for the first time just now that you live in an evil country that runs on the blood of millions and always has, and if you somehow think that you can live here and work here and earn & spend money here and somehow none of that makes you culpable for the horrors that are done on your behalf, but voting does, or would, then you are so stunningly naive that you need to shut the whole fuck up.
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like. yes, the united states is a machine that turns colonial vampirism and for-profit genocides into capital, thanks for noticing, and welcome to the conversation. the rest of us have already figured out that 1. this centuries-old machine that kills people is not gonna just go away, or collapse spectacularly all at once, it is gonna need to be dismantled, and 2. it is not gonna be dismantled by november, and 3. i don't fucking know who told you that if enough people don't vote, nobody becomes president, but that isn't fucking true.

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somebody is gonna be the president, and the president is gonna keep doing war crimes like the president always has because that's the president's job, and it will remain that way until we break the whole machine down. now who would you rather be in charge of it while we're trying to break it down: a senile old man who thinks he still needs to behave in ways that are decorous and won't cause bad press, or an angry old man who thinks cops should be able to shoot protesters with live ammo?
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you are being offered the chance to pick your opponent in the biggest hardest fight of all time, and you're bitching that you don't wanna because it would make you feel icky to act in a way that is strategic instead of emotional & performative. if you actually cared about the vulnerable people you claim you're doing this for, you'd be willing to suffer a moral injury to keep the evil destructive monster you live inside of from going extra-berserk mode, but no, you want to posture about how you can't taint yourself by "participating" in a process that you are already part of every single day. let us know when you're ready to join us at the grown-ups' table, shitheads. do not @ me idfc

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

1 of 3: this post has over 24,000 notes (likes, shares, comments). First part is too long for alt text so I’ve included a blank image for the rest.

Tumblr user inhero writes on June 28:
if i see one more article, post, or news anchor talking about how joe biden is old, i'm putting my fist through a window. i feel like i've gone through the fucking looking glass.
this is project 2025, trump's plan for what he'll do if elected. whatever you think is in there, it's worse. watch a breakdown of the highlights here. this man wants to unravel the fabric of our democracy for good - this all aside from his vitriolic hatred of poc, his determination to start ww3, and the fact that he can't string a sentence together without telling outrageous and easily verifiable lies. his administration will start their crusade to exterminate trans people on day one, and they won't stop there.
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do not talk to me about how joe biden is old, as if that could ever matter to me more than my life or the lives of my friends and family. my little sister is 14, she's trans, and i don't know what to tell her when we talk about politics, because one of these people wants her dead and the other one is old and some of you are still acting like those problems are equals.
i can't fucking stand this. i'm not hearing it this time, we are not repeating 2016. refusing to vote is not an act of protest, it is an act of complacency, and our most vulnerable will suffer for your negligence. vote like your life depends on it, because for some of us, it really fucking does.

Tumblr user the-annual-clam added this comment to the post on June 28:
It's honestly frustrating hearing people talk about how
Biden isn't the candidate for the job as if we have another option to pick besides that isn't Trump. And the lack of emphasis on how abhorrent Trump's behavior was on the debate is disturbing. I would rather an old man that should retire over a man that wants people dead.
Used short-wooloo added this comment on June 28:
I will keep saying this: Biden's age is a non issue? Why? A little office called the Vice President
That's the thing with presidential elections, you're not just voting in one guy, you're also voting in the first person who will succeed them and the cabinet they picked to administer the government
and by the way, Biden's cabinet is one of the most experienced, capable, and progressive we've ever had
Trump's will be the complete opposite I assure you

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Evergreen situation: regulators announce a weaker-than-needed rule in order to appease the right, but get sued anyway because the right will never accept climate regulations, and get sued by environmental groups on top of that for watering down the original proposal www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

The rule adopted in early March was watered down from what the nation’s top financial regulator had proposed two years ago, after it faced lobbying and criticism from business and trade groups and Republican-led states that argued the SEC had overstepped its mandate. But that didn’t stave off lawsuits. After the final rule was approved, environmental groups including the Sierra Club also sued, saying the SEC’s weakened rule did not go far enough.

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

NYT continues to print disingenous both-sides garbage. I didn't see any "partisan uproar" about the Hunter Biden verdict (other than valid general criticisms of how we handle drug addiction in the US), and literally the next headline shows how only one side was questioning the justice system!

ANALYSIS
Convictions of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump Put the Justice System on Trial
Despite the partisan uproar, two juries appeared to seriously weigh the evidence and deliver verdicts. The system seemed to work as it was supposed to.
5 MIN READ
Hunter Biden Conviction Undercuts a Trump Narrative of a Rigged System
Many allies of Donald Trump secretly wanted an acquittal, which they predicted would spur fund-raising and feed their claims of a biased justice system.
6 MIN READ

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Another data point for the "spell check is getting worse" theory

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

I will be presenting my Somerville climate ambassadors project today at the high school! Everyone is invited! This cohort of people is so cool and inspiring and it'll be such a fun evening of talking about meaningful climate action for our city 🌱

Poster that reads:
Climate Ambassadors Final Celebration
June 6th
6-8:30 PM
RSVP: https://forms.gle/cV9wwtYxepmZp2AS6
Somerville Highschool
81 Highland Ave Somerville MA 02143"

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Obligatory apology for posting about the other site but what the actual fuck is this

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

It’s storming outside but my Game Changer candle arrived and it’s time to get cozy! Thanks @samreich.bsky.social

A lit candle with a label that reads “Flame Changer” with a list of the scent of each layer of the candle: sandalwood, hinoki, bergamot, and amber & vetiver

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Unreasonably annoyed that I got a question wrong on a quiz for one of my HBS online courses because I said that this hypothetical survey question was unbiased

A red X next to the question: "Research has linked carbon emissions to global warming. Do you think the US government should enact legislation to limit carbon emissions?"

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Finally found my old banner picture, which I made so long ago that it's probably old enough to be in second grade by now

Dolly Parton smiling and raising her arms triumphantly in front of a map of the US, which is fully colored purple, showing that she has won the electoral college in every state

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Spooky Margaret 🍂🪾🎃 @margaretz.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

They fixed it today! Still looks awful but hey

A screenshot of the ESPN bracket website's summary of key players for Clemson and the University of New Mexico, showing that the stats are presented in the same order for each player: points per game, rebounds per game, and assists per game. Previously, the stats for the players on the right side were shown in the opposite order, mirroring the left side.

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