Reposted by bird millmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4huntil chicago pope i don’t think i ever truly understood that the pope is like a guy 2190465
Reposted by bird millmansouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9hMaking fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again) 13711189
Reposted by bird millmanThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12hi should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1748951884
Reposted by bird millmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16hi agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible 271930280
Reposted by bird millmanMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 13hThis is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 472677485
Reposted by bird millmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13hi mean at the end of the day that above all else is what misogyny is for. few men practice it for its own sake as true believers. they cling to it because they need it, because to men who are cynical or insecure enough it’s a huge life boost 015412
Reposted by bird millmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13hevery day i thank god that neither my one-time rapist nor my longtime abuser ever amounted to shit. also every day it surprises me a little more that *being* rapists and abusers didn’t *automatically* vaunt them into amounting to shit 346623
Reposted by bird millmanamghost @luxurycar.bsky.social · 14hI had a guy wait until I was full fucked up on heroin, fuck me, cum on my leg, laugh that I needed to clean myself up before joining everyone else, and it took years before I realized that I'd been trying to say no but he waited until I couldn't form words to get me in bed and that wasn't okay 061
Reposted by bird millmanIll_Advised_Gaming @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 13hI remember being 9 and trying to comfort my 16 year old aunt after she came back from a party where she was raped - and her parents both blamed her. I think that was the first time I experienced true hate. 152
Reposted by bird millmanMeechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 13hone thing that i think was quietly revolutionary of my mom was the fact she let me volunteer for a rape crisis center while i was still in high school. i was too young to actually go on calls but i got all the training while i waited to turn 18. its the type of training everyone should get 1112
Reposted by bird millmanStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 14hYeah. I had to be told explicitly by a hundred friends in the replies that what I experienced was sexual assault. 1544127
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of my worst memories from college was walking into a room where a friend had just been sexually assaulted and subsequently having to explain, not just all of our friends but also to her, that she was right to be upset about what she had just experienced 21415
Reposted by bird millmanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15hFor me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming 282026380
Reposted by bird millmanCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19hHaving real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us 7815171
Reposted by bird millmanmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15hawoke this morning with a Vision 4981841502
Reposted by bird millmanErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People are really mad at me being a big snob about liberal arts education but this was really a desperate plea for engineers to stop thinking every other field but theirs is for dumb babies. 1543350
Reposted by bird millmanA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 953582646
Reposted by bird millmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20452031402
Reposted by bird millmanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 343639755
Reposted by bird millmanLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91815495
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I absolutely didn’t have the skills or education to handle that situation. It’s just that out of maybe 6 or 8 of us, I was the only one who knew that consent can be withdrawn at any time and therefore knew for certain it wasn’t her fault 2643
Reposted by bird millmanJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's been nearly twenty years since I published Yes Means Yes with Jaclyn Friedman—and it hurts my heart that we're still having so many of the same conversations. How is it possible that we’re still begging for the same scraps of humanity? 121515
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So many men think sexual assault is a misunderstanding rather than an act of violence and control 030
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How are you supposed to help a friend realize that traumatic experience was in fact sexual assault without further traumatizing her? Unfortunately that’s a skill I’ve had to develop in the years since, but not one I had at the time 0582
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of my worst memories from college was walking into a room where a friend had just been sexually assaulted and subsequently having to explain, not just all of our friends but also to her, that she was right to be upset about what she had just experienced 21415
Reposted by bird millmanWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story. 2371112
Reposted by bird millmanJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 141099294
Reposted by bird millmanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard. 357666
Reposted by bird millmanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This would not be the first time the state retaliated against a victim for embarrassing them. It’s a pretty regular occurrence 357856
Reposted by bird millmanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense 201112251
Reposted by bird millmanIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you. 22188457
Reposted by bird millmanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that. 9764281087
Reposted by bird millmanIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One hundred percent. Rats from a sinking ship. They see the pendulum swinging back and want to make sure they're not in the flight path. No mercy. 1334111
Reposted by bird millmanRachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dropping this here cause itll likely be forever evergreen 🫠 123059
Reposted by bird millmanRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I never read people's handles I just look at their avatars, andI think only one person should be allowed to use a given image as their avatar. It doesn't have to be you, but nobody else can use it. Oh you want to use that Max Headroom image? Too bad, it's taken. Pick something else. 2238725
Reposted by bird millmanTea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · 28/09/2026One thing that Hearst, my former employer, did a great job of was teaching us bystander intervention— how to calmly and efficiently shut down behavior that looked like potential harassment in the workplace. Would love to see more employers include bystander intervention in anti/harassment materials. 114528
Reposted by bird millmanRuggy @ruggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My spouse has shut down so much shit with "that's creepy and weird, dude" One of many things I love about him 0423
Reposted by bird millmanCarl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing is you don't need to do like a whole monologue about why harrassment is bad. You can just say "really?" in a disappointed voice or "come on, man." 428090
Reposted by bird millmanmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube 171688244
Reposted by bird millmanMuninsdad @muninsdad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Me working on equipment that has only ever been worked on by me - what jackass worked on this thing?! 021
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Who would run cable like this I ask myself knowing full well it was probably me 270
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am the greatest monster the city of New York has ever produced 021
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Committed the unforgivable sin of leaving a dog hanging. And just to get to work. Capitalism makes us do unspeakable things 171
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Committed the unforgivable sin of leaving a dog hanging. And just to get to work. Capitalism makes us do unspeakable things 171
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Back to back guitar playing says no homo but when the closest parts of your bodies are the pelvises, you might as well kiss the homies 250
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When two guitarists do that thing where they’re playing face to face they should have to kiss 092
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026actually, i have the Mandate of Heaven i just choose not to use it because im humble like that 1195
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026No just god would allow such posts to see the light of heaven 021
Reposted by bird millmanbird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The light of heaven is reserved for those with basic public transit etiquette 0141
bird millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This worked for me in college, it could work for you too 081
