Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 26/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/margaret... the fascists won’t make it out of this eitheropen.substack.comOverthinking Historyor: parallels are just parallels 010
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 26/03/2025There’s no damnation and no salvation but a secret third thing. 010
Reposted by RomyJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist 364144863089
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 14/03/2025hello my friends for no reason at all I think you should read this open.substack.com/pub/margaret...open.substack.comInto the Demigroundor: notes on obscurity in the age of algorithmic surveillance 010
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Please don’t sue me Sting or @theonion.com I just needed to make myself laugh 030
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 08/03/2025‘…and that’s why you should be an anarchist.’ is the reply I want to give on so many political threads on my work bluesky but I simply cannot go that far… yet. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025media.tenor.coma woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above herALT: a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025hi millennial here! I worked in labor rights policy for 6 yrs! I run a community dinner in my neighborhood. I’ve organized for youth music programs. i protest, call, write, vote. I say hi to all my neighbors. I support every org i believe in via labor or money. honey, shush. Help or die alone. 1270
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG IS RUNNING AMOK IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! oh.. sorry no he’s not I thought we were all just saying completely fictional things… 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025bless any worker who decides to come forward to figuratively nail this man as they’ve already literally nailed him. I wish them much safety and much abundance. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025is outting people violent? yes. Is this man responsible for immense amounts of violence against the lgbt community? yes. When you become a homophobic public ‘servant’ bigot that’s made a career on homophobia you give up the right to privacy. 110
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/03/2025knowing Lindsey Graham is mere moments away from finally being outted as a closeted self hating homosexual is truly the cherry on top of this hump day 100
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 01/03/2025and jesus christ, people don’t deserve to die because of any of this! and many people will! 150
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 01/03/2025less than 30 percent of people voted for him. so it’s not majority of us. a lot of people didn’t vote… why? because ‘i’m not trump’ was not a strong enough platform. bc the dems have been silently killing us too. regardless even if it’s symbolic, hitler 2.0 here and saying something is necessary. 340
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 01/03/2025they could at least come out and say what is happening is horrific and bad? like trans people have become second class citizens overnight and even MORE people are being thrown in cages and medicaid and medicare are all but completely demolished which is a literal mass death warrant. 390
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 01/03/2025because it’s the right thing to do? because large swarths of vulnerable people are in legitimate danger and they didn’t vote for him and shouldn’t be punished. we shouldn’t have to go down with the ship because of a few evil people are in power. less than 30% of americans voted for him. 3131
Reposted by RomyElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr 422356875563
Reposted by RomyAlex Amadeo @alexamadeo.com · 25/02/2025The Los Angeles County Museum of Art posted this today and it’s still cracking me up 4067301914
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Just fyi if a cop (does not apply to ice) asks your immigration status it is illegal and you should report them, they can get fired. —in seattle from a trusted source. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I’m at whatever stage of grief that looking up Buddhism is. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 18/02/2025okay @aoc.bsky.social instead of just reposting this grab your colleagues and do what your constituents are demanding. Judges are salivating at the mouth for an arrest warrant. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 17/02/2025the word you’re looking for is authoritarianism. america has been and always will be an empire (think of all our territories and military bases) and may all empires fall. 020
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 17/02/2025exactly a hundred years ago hitler reignited the nazi party and mussolini established the first official dictatorship. the 20s be 20-ing. 020
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 16/02/2025This is a long read but worth it to sit with and something to chew on. I find breaking up the bits and sharing it to make it easier. America, like always, wants to do its own twisted version of things do here we are america doing authoritarianism. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comThe Path to American AuthoritarianismWhat comes after democratic breakdown. 000
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 16/02/2025This belongs etched on the exterior of my strip club. Tyranny is to be utilized by strippers and strippers alone. My club, my body, my rules. 000
Reposted by RomyRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It’s so ridiculous to have two presidents especially when one is being cucked or whatever the kids are calling it these days. 19115871
Reposted by RomyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Happy Valentines Day from the news discovering the existence of bisexuality in the middle of the 1990’s 551410221
Reposted by RomyDavid Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Massachusetts to rename Cape Cod Bay to Gulf of Gays just to piss off republicans, probably? 831958223
Reposted by RomyBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 12/02/2025We got that win! Prop 1A beat the shit out of the corrupt, cynical, rizzless opposition by a large margin and now we've got $50M/year from our wealthiest corporations to build housing! Way to go @houseourneighbors.bsky.social 440961
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Saw this at a Vietnamese spot in white center and got so happy. 💗 010
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 07/02/2025We are dealing with an oligarchic dictatorship. You are welcomed to be loud and angry. We don’t defeat evil with playing nice. We got your back. Be loud. 000
Reposted by RomyRiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025a hill i’ll always die on is the one where spice world should have won an oscar. 1718019
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Thanks so much for sharing. Glad to have something to chew on about it especially if I decide to watch it again! 010
Reposted by RomyKUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 05/02/2025Up and down the business district of Seattle’s North Beacon Hill, several restaurants shut their doors on Monday. It was part of a nationwide strike organized aimed at showing how integral immigrants are to their local communities.kuow.orgSeattle businesses join nationwide 'day without immigrants' strikeUp and down the business district of Seattle’s North Beacon Hill, several restaurants shut their doors on Monday. It was part of a nationwide strike aimed at showing how integral immigrants are to the... 1858
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/02/2025take on something like Parasite. exploitation rampant to serve the interests of those in power regardless of what class system you’re in. swers weren’t the butt of the joke, not was violence against us the plot, and we survived. 100
Romy @romyblu3.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I felt like, this was the first time a sex worker won. There was incredible analysis that we (i am a sw) aren’t of either of those classes because of stigma and criminalization (when chef tries to make her choose). very interested to here your expanded takes. i felt like it was an american— 200
