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Altaira 99

@melissadl.bsky.social
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Climate Change is worse than we think, long grey braid, she/her, tons of books, cat, native plants, art, trees, cooking and eating, full time caregiver. Old white lady in Massachusetts who wishes you well.

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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Voted. Even in Massachusetts there are Republicans who ran for office unopposed. I didn't vote for them. They'll win, but hopefully with dismal numbers.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I keep hoping we'll look up from our phones and wake the fuck up.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Raging Grannies. It's a thing.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No bugs no birds.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'll be interested to see how much her donations have jumped because of this. I chipped in 10 bucks.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
AI generated. No thanks.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I never knew there were pill millipedes. I'm very fond of the crustacean pill critters. Convergent evolution is always at least a little eye opening.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pill millipedes? Those aren't pillbugs, which are crustaceans?
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I hope you share and this makes people seriously think about our society!
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I like the dentata from Snowcrash better.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's a brave woman. Possibly slightly demented but undeniably brave.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Most of them are just profoundly, deeply stupid, with a sprinkling of psychopaths.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are good cops out there. No where near enough of them.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's a fine cabbage.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don't worry. Spiderbro will continue to hunt those pesky flies. And if your room spider has died, my condolences, but another will find its way to you.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now that is certifiably cool.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love comes in all shapes, all colors, all sizes, and many flavors. #LGBTQIA
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love mine. And happy octopus day!
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can thank Israel's destruction of Gaza and the deaths of Palestinian children for the rise in antisemitism. Personally, I honor Jewish history and culture and deplore all that Jews have suffered at the hands of gentiles. But Israel has turned its back on that history and performed a genocide.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Satan cheering on the anti-christ.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, but if I had a choice between strapped to a gurney and my veins filled with fire or a bullet, I'd take the bullet.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know, all this wealth concentration could be viewed as a sort of savings program for civilization. Thanks for the hoard, guys, we have health care and climate change to deal with now. Fork it over.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Caregiving is brutal. I'm 12 years in caring for my husband. And I'm lucky: he's not the same guy but still a decent guy. Caregiving for a parent who has always been abusive, especially if you're financially dependent on them, is a special hell. Check out the Caregiver Support subreddit sometime.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just what this timeline needs.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A freezing cell? In Miami?
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But those same algae photosynthesize...seems like quite a balancing act.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It surprises me that a man of color in that situation wouldn't view it as a trap.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The emails that went out advertising her vulnerability make this especially horrifying.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow, learned a new word. Very cool, thanks.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This may amuse you. I have been fighting an upper respiratory infection, which developed into a cough, just felt lousy. Older folks are warned against multi-symptom products, so I cycled through expectorants and suppressants, added Tylenol for a pulled intercostal...and realized I made Nyquil.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We can hope.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I agree we have neither foresight nor cultural introspection, nor wisdom, for that matter. What we do have is an ability to wake up suddenly and act precipitously. I have thought all along that a regime that truly put Earth First would be the most repressive in history. We may get to find out.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm still stuck on Peter Thiel being given VIP access.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why not just use fentanyl? Or heroin? Are they looking for a "nice" way to execute people? Or just determined that there be a punitive aspect...not just death, but suffering is required.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But it doesn't have to. Pigs in cafo's have very different impacts than pigs on a farm. (If it sounds like I'm grasping desperately at my disappearing cheese, I am. In reality, meat is oil on the hoof and we need to disengage rapidly from both.)
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm a part of that! Put solar panels on my house, financed by a long term lease, which was scary, but the price is stable for the whole term so I went with it. Been working a couple of weeks and my new electric bill is already about half what it was.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brilliant.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Especially beef. If we limited meat production to small scale, local operations we would pay a lot more for it, which would reduce consumption, it would contribute to regional food security, and done properly it helps with soil regeneration.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would rather learn how to ditch Microsoft completely. My next laptop will be a Linux box.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem is that Walmart and Amazon between them have eliminated the vast majority of "shop local" alternatives. I remember local department stores. My closest shopping center had an Ames and a JC Penney. Now it has a Job Lot and a dollar store. Corporate capture completed.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are two base hatreds in the US: women who aren't servile and all non-white people. The loudest men truly want us at home, on our knees, in permanent domestic servitude. I don't know how we convince them that women are people and skin color is not a threat signifier.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Striped shield bug, eh? Handsome fellows.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The multi-crow shot is my favorite.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US is an equal opportunity racist. We discriminate against anybody. They can even be white, if they're the wrong religion or from a poor country. But not "officially" white, of course. (Italians in the US in the late 19th century) That's reserved.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He doesn't say which Americans. The 1% are doing just fine.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bleak, but practical.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I still want to know what happened to the Coca Cola sign.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So George W. Bush has reportedly painted an ugly picture of the current occupant of the partially dismantled white house to express his feelings. I have two things to say about that: 1) Put country over party, George, and speak up. 2) Let's see that painting. Better yet, start a themed gallery.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, I don't get it either.
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Altaira 99 @melissadl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Redlining. After WWII black veterans were shut out of an opportunity to build wealth, while the white guys boomed. Try to imagine how much better off the entire US would be today if redlining never happened.
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