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See, this is exactly what I don’t understand. If you think that people should not matter so you can “win”, then what is winning *for* in your mind? I only want to win because I want things to be a way, not because I want to lord it over the losers. So hurting people who should be protected is LOSING

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 56m

worse, you want all of us there so don’t have to admit we don’t all agree with you. “Trending on X” doesn’t actually mean anything at all and that’s why you’re whining. Go learn some research skills and get some practice actually listening and ask people with knowledge things.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 56m

But also this is part of this insane “Return to the hell site it’s nice now!” nonsense. No bud, you just want easy access to the worst opinions on the planet back so you can pretend they’re popular, plus you really want to feel important again because 30k Russian bots re-up your posts. And even

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly! I am not the govt, I have no requirement for neutrality. You might have the RIGHT to make a choice, I can’t literally stop you, but this does not protect you from that choice being critiqued. Nostalgia isn’t an opt out either. “[Thing] was once good!” Okay, what is it now?

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 2h

I am never, EVER going to understand the rise of “I shouldn’t be judged for my own actions” people. Did you make a choice willingly and with complete knowledge? Okay, then I’m allowed to assume that choice represents something about you.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 3h

Literally me jumping up on boxes for the last several decades to shout support for this movie

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“In this screenshot we see a corner of something that looks like a curtain so obviously it’s going to include full window dressing” Everybody is Qanon reading Q drops now 🙄

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Every headline is just something subjective now. Prediction markets, trending topics, polls, and what some random rich person (usually an investor) thinks. These are not news, they are conversations at a hedge fund dinner. Please stop reporting them like streamers after a teaser comes out.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Headlines about prediction market expectations infuriate me. The media got addicted to easy data on Twitter & just reporting trending topics so they fired most of the investigative journalists who actually do the work and now Twitter is a bot & Nazi cesspool so they’re just using bookies instead.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“I’m moving to the UK to escape fascism!” - Fascists right now probably. The weird project of rehabilitating UK politics as “enlightened” while completely ignoring the absolutely rancid levels of race and gender hate there is a hell of a bit. This is not a defense of the US btw

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precision is not the same thing as righteousness Precis

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Ok, Hear me out: we release Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey and we replace Natalie Harp and Katie Zacharia with them and their only responsibility is to absolutely snow him. You know, community service. Don’t act like it wouldn’t work.

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elizabeth holmes stare

ALT: elizabeth holmes stare

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

any given group you DO empathize with and ask yourself if that would be okay with you. Then apply to everyone. See? You can do this. But, and I want to be SUPER CLEAR here, if you can’t or won’t do that? You don’t have ethics, you have favorites, and that’s exactly what is wrong with the Right.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

All of this. I truly don’t understand if you are still arguing that it’s okay to disenfranchise people in order to “save democracy”. Does that make sense in your head? I know internal consistency is work but it actually isn’t that hard. Just swap trans people with

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Should probably mention this is from Ken Russell’s The Devils and that Vanessa Redgrave is an absolute legend

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I knew they looked familiar

Woman with extreme plastic surgery and dyed blonde hair looks directly at camera

Woman with extreme plastic surgery and dyed blonde hair looks directly at camera in front of a flag

Woman with extreme plastic surgery and dyed black and red hair looks directly at camera

Man wearing facial prosthetics and black hair smiles at the camera

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Being metal means not conforming ESPECIALLY with terrible shit. You can be 100 years old and still metal if you understand that. Losing that knowledge (or never having it in the first place) means you are a sellout or a poser. Gwar? Metal AF. GNR? Apparently still metal. My 12 year old crush stands

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Axel Rose Snake Dance Concert Performance

Alt: Axel Rose does the Snake Dance during a Concert Performance, standing in front of a drumset.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The master’s tools etc

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This part right here. I’m not pro AI companies or their nonsense! But intellectual property has been used in the vast majority of cases to maintain monopolistic corporate control. It’s emphatically not a tool that protects most people. We really have to get our internal consistencies in order here

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

in the name of “fairness” instead of pretending *this* time it’s different because you care about something else more.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

go free, then this makes a kind of logical consistency, even if I don’t understand it at all. But if you’re NOT that kind of person then you really need to think about where you stand here. I’m going to go ahead & stand with the knowledge that we have centuries of evidence of race-based violence in

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

the possibility that someone somewhere *might* get away with using AI, not because that’s okay but because this is worse. It’s far too easy to make this an out for anyone to excuse their own racism. I guess if you are the kind of person who would rather innocent people be imprisoned than any guilty

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This was always going to happen, because white bias, implicit or explicit, always assumes its own quality by default and therefore views every success by a Black person as a kind of stolen valor. Every time it isn’t them, the grievance reappears. We absolutely must prioritize this above

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This right here is why I keep trying to explain that their attempts to base monetization on enclosure is a scam. Why is the AI suddenly so scary they have to eliminate open source competition & have the government assume the risk?Because there is no actual way to pay off the tulip market investors.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The law of Sophiadynamics, a new and very important discovery in social physics

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is part of why I’m so pissed off about what gambling is doing to sports. For all their issues, sports are one of the few shared experiences we have left. Remember the World Cup? But no, we must sacrifice it. Music phenomena, video games, film, all must go to make way for even more money.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A few years ago I had the awesome opportunity to co-teach a class with @phdinprogress17.bsky.social called American Political Violence & its Rhetorics. A thing I did not anticipate was how many things have been memory-holed and Oklahoma City was by far the most shocking one to me. Fully blank faces

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Best thing I read on the internet today. And coming on the heels of finding out that grad programs in the humanities department I am ABD in are being “paused” with no consultation or input from the department itself makes it feel even more apparent that we are losing things faster than we realize

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m a girl who loves a reimagined cover. Here’s ONE of my favorites

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Lo-Fang - You're The One That I Want

YouTube video by 4AD

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hmmm. It’s almost like seeing that people could leave familial relationships because of abuse, abandonment or other traumatic experiences presented people with a model they could imitate 🤔 But no, It’s definitely ungrateful kids doing a trend. 🙄🙄🙄 I’m going to sprain my eyes rolling them this hard

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As someone who has frequently had raccoon neighbors, this is an insult to raccoons 🦝

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the first question I ask in my Sex of Horror/Horror of Sex class and it is always SO FUN finding out everyone’s. A couple of common answers are Coraline, & Monster House. Mine will always be the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal 😳

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The Dark Crystal Skektsi

ALT: The Dark Crystal Skektsi

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Regardless of aptitude, desire, or interest into the trades, both diluting the perceived value of the work AND the quality. Use this argument to pay less and expect more. Balk at union contracts and fair wages. Demand less oversight and more output while lowering wages. A feature, not a bug.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

3rd, do you know what happens to good trade jobs if everyone switches to that job market? Suddenly it’s an employer’s market instead of skilled labor being compensated fairly. I don’t think this is a small part of their reasoning btw. I think it’s exactly what they want. Push everyone,

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even if I have all the talent in the world, if I have no interest in football then it doesn’t matter, does it? It’s entirely okay not to want to do a given job. I LOVE teaching, but plenty of people would hate it and that’s okay. And it’s in both our interests for someone who hates it not to do it

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like, literally not for everyone. These are real jobs with real skills and real requirements, not some kind of easy out. This treats the trades as if everyone can do them, but everyone can’t. Like, I might want to be an NFL player but that doesn’t mean I can be. It’s hard! 2nd, not everyone wants to

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people who say everyone join trades have no idea what they’re talking about. I love the trades! My partner is a union carpenter. My dad is a small contractor. I have friends in all of them. But these media/elite demands are condescending and irresponsible. First, not for everyone. 1/

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great lineup. Newer Suspiria is also good but very different. Original still has my heart.

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yepppppp. It’s incoherent otherwise, fully detached from reality

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Miranda @mcat27.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very funny watching people be bothered by Jason Kelce referring to the Eagles as “we”. He’s like the honorary mayor of Philly. He married a normal local chick. He sang the “We’re from Philly” song while wearing a mummer suit. Were you expecting objectivity from Jason freaking Kelce? 🤣🤣🤣

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Les Bowen, still @lesbowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite everything, Hurts is 10 for 13 for 111. Barkley has 11 carries for 73 yards. Devonta has five catches for 61 yards.

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