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@themichelle.bsky.social
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Sweary queer feminist and total book nerd. Talk about my cat a lot. \m/(>_<)\m/ She/her. goodreads.com/mischa76 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/misch…

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10h
Exactly as predicted: Elder abuse. This is from Danny Trejo’s son, Gilbert Trejo. Not only did Ben Shapiro’s camp trick the elder Trejo about what the movie really was, he apparently signed a contract barring him from even putting out a statement about it.
For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...
He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace"
He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.
About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.
My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.
My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.
It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.
Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 16h
Dad always made fun of my love of the F&F franchise. But he was always right there asking when the next one was coming out so he could watch it too.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 16h
So all my grandpa shows started back last week and I just watched the first episode of season 24 (!) of NCIS. With the ending I just saw, it has officially stepped up the absurdity. I imagine if dad was still alive he would have snorted, “what a load of fucking bullshit”. 🤣 (And kept watching.)
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/10/2026
What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Although, once my eyes are tested and I spend an eye watering amount at Harry Hartog’s, I will be getting the fuck out and back home to Harvey who will yell at me for lunch then go sleep on the couch after two mouthfuls.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@ben_rosen

the social network should have been called monsters university
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At Carindale Westfield for the first time in almost 4 years. It has changed a hell of a lot. For the better, I think. But I’m no longer a local so maybe my thoughts would be different if I were.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12/08/2024
You can't be mean to me I'm just a
A cat sticking out of a baby clothing of some kind, not sure what just one baby clothing but it's tag is on the cat's forehead and it reads, BABY OOOOO TINY BABY up to 3kgs
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/10/2026
Veterans sue Australian government over sharing of medical data
abc.net.au
Veterans sue government over 'mass and routine' medical data sharing
A new class action will allege the federal government breach privacy laws by sharing thousands of ex-ADF members' medical records to an Australian university.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ranked responses to winning the Nobel: 3. Anne Carson (see below) 2. Peter Higgs (Went for a walk in order to hide) 1. Doris Lessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
youtube.com
British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
YouTube video by ReutersLC
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gonna sell souvenirs as well? A few postcards for posterity? Because this is a fucking lynching.
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🎃🦇 Call from daycare to pick up your kid 🔪👻 @mnurkic.online · 08/10/2026
That’s why they sing Here Comes the Sun
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can’t say I have a fave (I love so many), but I always forget this is a cover. She really made it her own. youtu.be/0-EF60neguk?...
youtu.be
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by SineadOConnorVEVO
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Clsn @clsn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boogie Nights
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excellent, a good sign that people should do it more
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yet another brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. "Education is, in the end, an individualistic and shallow response to a deep and structural problem. And it mistakenly identifies false beliefs rather than bad desires as the problem."
katemanne.substack.com
They Didn’t Want Consent
On the fallacy of educating men not to rape
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He has stopped. Thank Christ. He sounded like I was torturing him (which, in his mind, I clearly was by not giving him any).
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I made the mistake of going outside to move the bin and Harvey realised I was right next to the cat grass and now I'm sitting in the lounge and he won't stop screaming
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
heraldscotland.com
Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
US campus rape scandals remind me of the seemingly endless, hideous history of Sydney Uni's St Pauls College. And of all the private boys' schools. And the intermittent AFL player horrors. And the perennial rugby ones. And .... and .... and ... #ReallyTakingItSeriouslyThisTimeSaysSpokesman
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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NYT really asking the important questions. What would Benjamin Disraeli think about the Eras Tour? What would Virgina Woolf say about cryptocurrency? Does Philip the Navigator have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Arguments like this remind me of how apparently GoT, a show that had dragons and ice zombies, “needed” depictions of sexual violence to make it “realisitic”. People are fucking morons.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A few years later: Trilogy of Terror.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The giant maggots in the Doctor Who episodes, The Green Death.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fuck I hate it when shows do a musical episode out of nowhere (Royal Pains penultimate episode).
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every day I open this app and have no idea what anyone’s talking about. And every night you better believe I’ve developed a strong and correct opinion on those topics
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 03/10/2026
Opposing military aid to Ukraine is not a ‘non-violent’ position, it is an explicit selection between the two available positions, both violent. You can’t say ‘we oppose Russia’, without then explaining, with what?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brave young women who understand they will have to protect each other, showing solidarity. So many of their male classmates, their university staff, cops, lawyers and local prosecutors have turned out to be rapists or rape enablers, apologists & bystanders. #waragainstwomen #cornell
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
growinguptransgender.com
Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The kids using “Brexit” and “AI” as insults makes me think the kids are pretty great, actually
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our AUKUS partner with our “shared values” Our defence strategy is making us less safe.
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michelle @themichelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“T T T T tallywhacker!”
Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson in Easy A.
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