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Megan Waples

@meganwaples.bsky.social
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Lawyer | Writer | Cat Lover She/her Get my book: titles.cognella.com/rape-and-the-la… All activity on this account is in my personal capacity and all opinions are my own.

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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Colorado celebrates Frances Xavier Cabrini Day instead. www.cabriniday.com
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Cabrini Day
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Honestly, there’s a type of young leftist guy who is basically a republican who wants healthcare. They are perfectly happy to enjoy white male supremacy if they can just get rid of their health insurance premiums and maybe lift their own (but not necessarily everybody’s) wages a little bit.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Men (ie, the type of men who do this and the type of men who then write pseudo intellectual think pieces complaining that men are somehow persecuted because they won’t read books) are so fucking tiresome. Grow the fuck up.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/10/2026
I am trying to swerve this topic because of course it makes me black out with rage... But publishing has a deep assumption baked into it that I must yearn for male readers to validate me as serious. Men are the target audience we all must strive to please if we want credibility.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
And this is creating a biasing effect where people really only (genuinely) have to fear for their safety when angering the right.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
Feels pretty well established at this point that getting death threads from right wing actors is treated as just a cost of existing in this world, even though they do in fact murder people, and anyone on the left who uses vaguely harsh rhetoric is accused of "raising the temperature."
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I just set up a monthly donation and hope you’ll consider helping in whatever way you are able. Justice involved and formerly incarcerated people are incredibly underserved. This organizations connects them with culturally competent therapists and provides 10 free sessions. mtyc.co/8wkrqf
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Grateful for slow progress on this fundraiser. Any and all amounts welcome and so are shares. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I wonder where the Harper's signatories are now. Are they still alive or no?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When all these tradwife influencers start pivoting away from their alt-right branding in the next few years, never forget they were on this fascist bandwagon to line their pockets at the expense of every other woman in this country.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNN
Jane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country”
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
We should apply this ligic to every “creative act” enabled by AI.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The violence of disregard” captures so much and is going to have me thinking for a while.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good friend recently got me motivated to do some crafts again and it is remarkable how restorative it is. Sharing this wish for all of you too.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PSST
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Comprehensive sex education does reduce sexual violence perpetration. But the most effective programs are in a K-12 environment. This is a fight we should be having with public school districts and state legislatures.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some of us have used it and continue to try it and continue to have its products foisted upon and…still think it fucking sucks! And are very, very tired of boosters overselling the product while dripping in unearned condescension.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know good and damn well we want to see this fluffy little big head! Awwww.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is how conservatives value us.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As always, this goes out to that dude who hates #caturday posts
An adorable long haired cream colored cat is curled up in a lap, curled around on his side, head wedged down next to the couch cushions, eyes closed in bliss, paws crossed and belly up with a hand rubbing that sweet soft belly.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
My only comment on the latest AI bullshit to darken my skyline is this: folks who think AI is "thinking" are saying a whole lot about how they believe "thinking" works and what counts as "thinking." If you follow the implications of this belief, it's not good. Not good at all.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Democratic/leftist dudes who are mad they can’t abuse women with the same impunity as republicans are so fucking tiresome.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So on point.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We don’t talk enough about how much of our days have become entangled in determining what’s real. What’s genuine. What’s human or what’s synthetic. What’s worth our time after having already spent it. It’s a grotesque skill we’ve all been forced to master, and a waste of energy none of us can spare.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
If Mike Davis were just some asshole with a Twitter account, his racism might be a personal problem But his proximity to the federal judiciary? That makes his racism a public problem
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This account was wildly popular at Xitter and I was constantly banging my head against a wall about it. Straight-up content thief. Block on sight. [ALT text is in a later reply]
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The lefts’s misogyny and refusal to truly embrace women’s rights and equality is, IMO, a big reason we have lost so much ground in the last decade. People sleep on stuff like this, either bc they feel the same way as the right or don’t think it matters. But the right uses it all very effectively.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Biscoffs are basically graham crackers that finally committed to being cookies. (This is a pro-Biscoff and pro-graham cracker skeet.)
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Democratic Party in 2026: “we have no principles or courage and will not fight for anyone’s rights if it means making a centrist white man uneasy but you should all vote for us anyway!”
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says”
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Imagine having enough cases of bestiality in your recruits that you have to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/08/2026
Virtue is political. Kindness is political. Good works are political. So is the absence of all these things political. [from the desk of Lt. Col. Obvious]
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 27/08/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "of course I'm angry you dumb pile of fucks"
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is one of the dumbest conceits in a dumb conversation. People who say they are in love with an AI are actually basking in the AI’s lack of humanness. They “love” that the AI has no needs and makes no demands, and exists solely to flatter. They like not having to care about another.
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who ever pretended that their anti-trans bullshit was an attempt to protect women was lying, and eventually the truth does come out.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
well at least now they're being honest about the goals here
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Megan Waples @meganwaples.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
John Roberts is right up there with Mitch McConnell in engineering the destruction of our nation, and I can’t overstate how angry that makes me.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Real talk, all of this right now (in the U.S. anyway) is mostly about the fact that some people eked out the power to say, “no” and some other people lost their entitled minds over it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A lot of things have changed in the US in my adult lifetime, but I'm not sure there's been a worse change than the intentional, aggressive weakening of public faith in literally any institution. It's been 25 years of hucksters telling everyone to become a libertarian lone wolf entrepreneur or die.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you're a Democrat who's running for office and not bringing up the higher prices of school supplies as parents do shopping for the new school year, you need to take a few moments and reflect on that. I promise you this matters. It does resonate.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I maintain that consumer AI products would have been received very differently if they were launched with promises like, "You can query this to sort through your inbox of 50,000 emails" rather than "What if artists starved in the streets? :)"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026
this doesn't apply to the quoted piece, but most people who say "teach the bible" mean "give my children sectarian religious instruction" not "teach my children the literary and rhetorical importance of the biblical text"
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
he took a swing at HER? no he didn’t, he was swinging at trump. this type of revisionism tells me we won’t see much difference once the eliisons get their fashy little hands on cnn.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It really annoys me when we act like socialism or any collectivism is some strange alchemy only known to its high wizards. Marx SAW. He did not invent. People figure out collective action and class warfare by looking out their front door.
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