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Strixie Mattel

@strixiemattel.bsky.social
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autism + trans stuff || shitpost appreciator || antifash, BLM, etc.

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Meg Wegenke @megparsec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why do I like hunting for vintage furniture on facebook marketplace so much? Well, it's about the thrill of the chaise
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
She reminds me SO MUCH of my former cat, Godzilla, whom we described as "a Yelling Type cat."
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
autisticrealms.com/clarion-call... May I recommend this resource base and discussion by Autistic Realms? Standing in solidarity against the huge rise in racism and ableism at present.
autisticrealms.com
Clarion Call: Standing in Solidarity Against Racism and Ableism in the Neurodivergent Community | Autistic Realms
Solidarity Against Racism & Ableism in the Autistic & Neurodivergent Community
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Would you rather be a skeleton playing another skeletons ribs like a xylophone or a frog in a hat dancing vaudeville style. You can be honest with me
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
TRULY
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Colorado House Dems doing fundraisers with a corporate list like this is part and parcel of why the Republican Party isn’t needed in Colorado anymore — the soft bribe opportunities for business are ripe for the picking among Dems.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Love this for him and for them.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Honestly heartbroken to learn about this.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I appreciated it. If I did advice (I don’t) I would definitely advise women and femmes to leave the first time a male or masc partner even looks like he might maybe be considering ruining your birthday, work event, accomplishment. you don’t even have to say for “closure”. Just block him & leave.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
People just explode. Natural causes.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
JUST skimmed a piece in the Harvard Gazette that totally validates this "any little bit is better than doing nothing" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
"In a 2019 study in JAMA Internal Medicine that looked at all-cause mortality in some 16,000 older women, Lee and colleagues found that women who averaged 4,400 daily steps had a 41 percent reduction in mortality over sedentary women, and mortality rates progressively improved with more steps until they leveled off at about 7,500 steps. 

Later research has shown that sedentary adults start to rack up benefits from movement with just an extra trip around the block — 500 to 1,000 steps. 

The findings are heartening, Lee said. 

“For people at the lower end [of physical activity], people who do nothing, they see a recommendation to get 10,000 steps and they think, ‘I can’t do that, so I might as well not get started,’” she said. “But with the research, now we can tell them that any little bit is better than doing nothing.” "
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And shower chairs!! Do I *need* the shower chair? No, I’m through that recovery. Does it help me save energy for other tasks later in the day? You bet your ass it does.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
DMs can go to me! Happy to provide deets.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
DMs are open for someone who can give this good boy a home where he can be an *only* pet.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is me! Thank you, Nome! From one Aurora homie to another!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)
dannykatch.substack.com
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A bit overwhelmed this morning with my words quoted in the Metro, Standard, Mirror, Independent and even in Australia, but crickets, i’m told from the Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail. I always ruminate about how I might have said it better, because the message is too important to mess up.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
1. Why do you think this was held outside? WH wasn’t accessible. 2. Yes, the 90s weren’t some amazing time of equity, but this wouldn’t get a vote today, let alone persist for two years, which is how long it went back and forth until 3. Disabled people won this with their bodies.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being so racist against and jealous of Black people that you can't appreciate Stevie Wonder has to be a curse from God.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Ivy - "Perfect Pervert" @ivynyx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is my partner’s dog. He is an anxious boy who has made incredible strides and is very smart and trainable. He’s just not able to live with another dog right now. We would give so much support to the people and home able to take him in.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The author’s LinkedIn lists him as working at Palantir, so I am taking that with a grain of salt
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity
One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
nytimes.com
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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haunted pizza @belladonnaeyes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Getting LIVE MÁS🔔 tattooed on my knuckles
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Three witnesses were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Per their attorney: no ramming, no danger to agents & no reasonable basis to open fire Unreasonable force opens these agents to liability This is becoming another national outrage & it should be👇 -TN
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A lawsuit alleges that ICE beat a man, causing his existing disabilities to worsen and get new ones. Once he was in ICE detention, the lawsuit says, he was mocked by detention staff and didn't regularly get his medication. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abuse a disabled detainee
Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him — telling him he'd never walk again — while withholding the medication he needed.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
OH NO You might need new dogs!!
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 08/07/2026
A first-of-its-kind analysis of ICE data found that unaccompanied minors living in the U.S. are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the last time Trump was in office. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/08/u...
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Under Trump, deportations of once-protected immigrant kids have tripled • Minnesota Reformer
“Your papers are of no use to me.”
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Fabio Santana @fabiosantana79.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’ll take 7.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
when I was doing my ICE deaths tracker during Lent there were I think at least two other cases of people who died in custody that literally just got scooped up when ICE was actually looking for someone else. adds an entirely new level of rage to see how half-assed and cavalier they are
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/07/2026
Anyway, his family could use some help with the funeral. bsky.app/profile/core...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/07/2026
For your viewing pleasure, I also doodled a portrait of an unfortunate typo I made while typing up the last post.
The same portrait as before except instead of a handsome head, a mixed drink glass with a little lime slice wedged on its rim is present. This is Mr Daiquiri from when I horribly mistyped “Mr Darcy” as “Mr Dacry” before correcting it.
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Truly one of the best songs.
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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i am once again entering the replies to make sure people know that Dan Moraff is credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults as well as stalking in Pittsburgh
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I also did not know who Jack Reacher was, but I have now rectified that by reading this, uh, article, and it is PERFECT. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Screenshot from Discord conversation. 
Whit: I couldn't remember what/who Jack Reacher was other than "fictional guy"
Danielle: the show, with the large man and a book series
whit: [screenshot of google image search results for Jack Reacher, showcasing that he has been played by a fairly large man and also Tom Cruise]  
Whit: But not ONLY a large man. ALSO a small man with a large head
Guardian article text screenshots posted to the Discord conversation. 
"This article is more than 1 year old
Reacher is a show about a very large man punching his way through crime – and it’s perfect
This article is more than 1 year old

With a fourth season on the horizon, viewers might wonder how much more Amazon can squeeze from a slim premise about a girthy hero. History suggests: enough!"
"What if there was a man who was substantially larger than other men? This is the big question posed to us by the philosophers behind Amazon Prime’s original series Reacher. Based on the (many) Jack Reacher books by the crime author Lee Child, the show (which just wrapped its third season) follows the adventures of a mountain of man-flesh who uses his beefy body, brawny mind and slab of moral fortitude to kick and punch other men, and solve military crimes.
It’s hard to explain exactly what the plot of Reacher is: in the ancient tradition of shows like JAG (what if lawyers could fly jets?), it follows a retired US army military cop (what if a soldier could also solve crimes?) who wanders America with only a toothbrush. However, as he says, “wherever I go, trouble seems to find me” – usually in the form of organised crime needing to be less organised, or old grudges resurfacing, or the murder of an old pal, all of which means he has to reluctantly come out of retirement to stoically punch and kick yet again." Interspersed screenshots of the Guardian article and Discord conversation. 
"Our titular hero starts off as a recognisable trope in the action genre – a figure of terrifying efficiency who is capable of brutal violence; a John Wick or even Jason Bourne-style action man. But there is an important point of difference: roughly four feet of extra height. Famously (per Child’s books) 6ft 5in and 250 lb (113kg), Jack Reacher (played here by Alan Ritchson, still terrifyingly large at a mere 6ft 2in) is both tall and wide, qualities that may seem superficial but are in fact the heart and soul of the series."
Danielle: tall and wide... the heart and soul of the series 😗👌
whit: I like my women like I like my Jack Reacher
Danielle: capable of crumpling me like a can in their fist?
"By contrast, Reacher’s beautiful obsession with its protagonist’s girthiness shows that it’s a series that understands exactly what it’s doing: entertaining us with a massive chunk of hero who will get out of most situations by punching with his head. It’s not even just violence – there’s a labours-of-Hercules logic to the show, exemplified in a season three episode where he is forced to take off all his clothes (the nudity of Jack Reacher is a recurring plot point) and swim across a punishing stretch of icy storm-tossed water to sustain a kind of Mrs Doubtfire-style farce of being seen in two places at once. He swims as if he is punching the very ocean itself into submission."
Danielle: I should watch this"There’s also a fascinating commentary on masculinity, harking back to the wild west type of no-nonsense, no-frills, emotionally repressed archetype who takes the law into his own hands. Sometimes, he’s a Ron Swanson-style figure of noble independence, at other times a cranky old man disgusted at the existence of lavender-flavoured ice-cream. And while his motives are always based in his own brand of ethics, I cannot stress just how much murdering this man does. Sure, they’re bad guys, but even they have rights. Just not to Jack Reacher, who is too big for the law.

With season three in the rearview and a fourth slated for 2026, you may think there is a danger of diminishing returns for Reacher – after all, how much story can you really milk out of the existence of a very big guy? But there’s a wisdom in Reacher’s simplicity, and this season our huge hero faces his most terrifying foe yet: a man even bigger than himself. A perfect escalation, for a perfect TV show."
Danielle: Law small, Man big
whit: gif from Steven Universe featuring Pink Lion, Steven and Amethyst, with the text, "GIANT WOMAN [G]SUNDAY"
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Strixie Mattel @strixiemattel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have no reference for the context, but wish to state that I do not need this person to be white or a guy! Can you reach the top shelf? Lift the thing? Palm a ball? Flex your biceps? LARGE 😍🤩
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If the left even thought about blocking traffic to this extent the entire town would smell like tear gas and the NYT would already have written two op-eds about this Not Being The Right Way Instead, ambulances are creeping through at like 2mph, sirens blaring, as everyone gets soaked
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
nytimes.com
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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