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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 5h

People say it a lot but "Ukrainian drone strike on russian data centers derails global right wing net ecosystems run on russian servers, possibly aiding democracy's fight in Brazil" is a very We Live In The Cyberpunk World development.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job. n.pr/4s0WyH8

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It's taking longer to find a new job after losing one

People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 1h

Dahlia has figured out that I am using the bird videos on my iPad to distract her from the fact that the air conditioners are being taken out of the windows for the season.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The bad stuff from the week is definitely bad and nothing can really change it from being what it is, but I can get better at sewing. 🧵🪡 I can get a different sewing machine. Mine is unpleasant to thread because you can’t see the thread uptake. I never feel confident that it’s threaded.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I decided to take a shower and give it another try later. I can take the lint roller with me to get rid of the thread and crap stuck to the fabric and I can clear off the table for more room. So what if I have to seam rip? It’s a homemade bag. I can put decorative stitches over it if it looks bad.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wouldn’t you know Dahlia crawled under my blanket like a little stuffed animal and was taking a nap with her head poking out next to my pillow? She was hogging my bed. I couldn’t cry anymore after seeing that. You can’t cry about sucking when your cat does something that cute. Cats are the best.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I also didn’t really have enough room on the table to work, so I stabbed myself with an errant pin. Finally felt the weight of this whole shitty week and started *crying* because sewing was my latest stupid middle-aged fantasy, another failure, another thing that I can’t do well. Went downstairs.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s been a bad week. I bought a bag kit in August and I’ve been waiting for cooler weather to sew it and now it’s here. Sat down to do the first sewing step… forgot to turn in the seam on waxed canvas that I now have to rip out. It’s leaving a mark. Can’t hide it. There wasn’t enough room to sew…

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She has since moved to the feet, which is boring.

A 4-year-old cat with thumbs, sleeping on 40ish-year-old Laura Ashley comforter-covered feet.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In cuter news, I woke up with Dahlia snuggled up next to me and she was hogging the blanket. I wish I’d taken a picture of this, but she was also cat-grumbling whenever I moved.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone else in the habit of revealing way too much when asked questions by a person who needs to ask pre-procedure questions or is this a me thing (because I spend too much time alone)? Mouth, why you faster than brain?

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Booo, our basement flooded because of the rain, boooooooooooooo

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also my mom and I have been watching some Hallmark drama on Netflix and like out of nowhere Daniel Lissing pops up as a mountie ghost and then disappears and we were both like WTF, why are you dead, please come back and be both handsome and talented, no other man on this show is capable of both.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like I will definitely cough up for the Hallmark+ subscription when they make an attractive enough offer to cause me to re-enable the subscription I have had in the past so my mom and I can get our annual fill of Hallmark movies/TV series (there’s so much you can take & then you need to see crimes)

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seriously, I did a little delighted shriek when I saw the “Countdown to Christmas” email in my inbox because I have come to a point where I have favorite Hallmark hunks in spite of myself (Daniel Lissing, he’s dreamy) and I kind of hate myself for that but here we are. I would not go on a cruise but

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am a bitter, cynical, miserable person like 10 months of the year UNTIL it is time to find out about what kind of bullshit Hallmark is putting out for holiday movies and then I am even MORE FUCKING DELIGHTED to have my cruel, cynical heart delighted with trite, uplifting, empty garbage!!! Yay!

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wish they’d gotten to make a second season because I think it would have only improved. I’m in the minority here, but I didn’t think it was a steamer. I hope people revisit it someday and give it a second look because it was not a bad show. It’s a bummer that it failed to land.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Controversial take: live-action Cowboy Bebop was not bad and didn’t deserve the critical beating it took from nerds. Did I watch a different show? Jet trying to get a real specific doll for his kid and running into all kinds of bullshit seemed spot on for the anime. I really enjoyed that episode.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

YOUR OWN HUBRIS ROBBED YOU OF YOUR PROBABLY-SAFE CONGRESSIONAL SEAT, SETH “YOU GAVE BELOVED CHANNEL 5 SPORTS ANCHOR/STROKE SURVIVOR MIKE LYNCH SHIT EYE IN LOGAN AIRPORT, YOU SICK FUCK?” MOULTON! RUNNING FOR SENATE WAS FOLLY!ENJOY SEEING YOUR OFFICE IN SALEM TURNED INTO A SPIRIT HALLOWEEN!

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also I never doubted Ed Markey was going to win, the question was just by how great of a margin would he would wipe the floor with Seth Moulton and the answer is “hubris”

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well, I hope Mike Rush won’t ever need help straightening out a screw-up with MA unemployment like I needed from his office. If so, he can do what I did and call a future former colleague like Rob Consalvo or Bill MacGregor because I KNOW THEY BOTH RETURN CALLS & E-MAILS. @persisyu.bsky.social

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh, sweet grudge! Mike Rush was defeated by Persis Yu! I have never forgiven his office for ignoring my phone calls/e-mails when I had trouble with unemployment during COVID, ignored after MA animal lobby, & I’m not alone. Ignore Boston voters at your peril, my dude. Good luck with MA unemployment.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There I was, reading about how Alex Jones weaseled his way out of paying money to Sandy Hook parents, and I see that people are done being lied to @theonion.com @bostonglobe.com @realinfowars.bsky.social @timheidecker.bsky.social

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Only assholes don’t wish @hooverdam.bsky.social a happy birthday on Bluesky until after 9:30pm

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyone have the context for this? 🫪

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every clip of Mike Lindell looks like something they'd play on the news after he went on a killing spree

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes. Communism is bullshit for tools. Go fuck yourself, comrade.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You don’t know what you’re talkig about and I have tomatoes to pick up from the farm co-op, bye.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh my god kid America is not strictly capitalist. I didn’t even finish college or study economics and I know that. Our market is regulated by the government.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m not talking about what Marx or Engels said about it. I’m talking about it put into practice.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really, tell me how one party rule isn’t going to end up with someone not enjoying how that works out. It is inevitable that someone is going to revolt against this.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sooooooooooo which communist state isn’t an authoritarian state?

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you think people of a certain generation/ancestry from eastern Europe may seem like miserable assholes, it is because they grew up under bleak and miserable circumstances or heard the stories all their fuckin’ lives and let me assure you, it wears on you. Watch Chernobyl to see real communism.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It drives me fuckin’ nuts when younger people think it’s this fantastic fucking idea like oh wow this is going to work out so great why can’t we try this out and it’s like ASSHOLES, IT WAS CALLED THE SOVIET UNION, JESUS H. CHRIST. You were ok if your family gamed the system, else it sucked or worse.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am right now this minute the beneficiary of socialist programs: I get Medicare and Medicaid. They work damn well. I am down with social democracy. That said and I will say it five million fucking times for the back of the room, absolutely 100% *fuck communism* up its authoritarianass.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A friend yesterday: “I have embraced communism.” Me: “Do let me know what your research has shown you about how that has worked out for the people living in communist states economically, politically, and socially, because I will testify under oath that MY FAMILY WAS MURDERED FOR THEIR FARMLAND.”

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

All of this brought to you by some folks annoyed by my current state senator’s campaign lawn signs mentioning his veteran status and me just knowing one side: that they did. Now to find out the full story, lol

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Better way to come to the point: if you joined with good intentions and have a clean record that isn’t “clean” to the tune of “blew up the most children in the name of democracy,” sure, why wouldn’t you mention it?

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

True. There’s still people who join because they had no other way to get money for college or optimistically believe they’re helping and I’d not fault anyone for that. If people really do join just to go kill people, they can go fuck themselves.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

…If you were, say, a bit of a fuck-up and it provides you with structure and discipline or maybe it’s family tradition or you needed money, who fucking knows? People are dicks about the military until they need their help in a way that doesn’t involve shit foreign policy or individual toilet humans.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When politicians mention their veteran status, sure, it’s pandering to a demographic, but what the fuck are you going to do, omit significant years of your life that are frankly a big deal, esp. when you see real action? It is a big deal to be in the military. It is a structured, regimented thing…

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When my dad died, we requested that the army show up to do the bugle playing and present the flag to my mom and such because by Jove, he was entitled to it for his service making home fries & driving a tank into a house in West Germany so the world could be safe for democracy, etc. Point incoming…

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For YEARS, I been waiting for this to happen every time I watch the news

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Also, today doesn’t feel like Friday. It feels like some kind of temporal otherday, like it’s Luudesday or some kind of weird disassociative kind of thing that you’re not sure really exists oh my god I have a personality disorder don’t I?

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m very annoyed that I’m poor today because I want to own things that work and do things well, but I only have money for things that work poorly or do a couple of the things I want them to do or are very used and come with free scabies.

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@consumerreports.org In other words, they either never fixed this problem with their machines, or is this supposed to be an acceptable part of the lower-price compact washing machine life (because you can’t afford Miele quality)?

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Mara ♀ @supermeow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@consumerreports.org Hey! Doing my due diligence for tax-free weekend, discovered the LG compact washing machine rec’d by CR/was gonna buy, WM1455HWA, is subject to the same rust issues as seen in a class-action lawsuit settled recently-ish for washing machines purchased 20 years ago. Pls advise?

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