I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Flu is not only here early, but I somehow managed to pick it up despite precautions that have kept me NOVID (afaik). I’m gonna keep torturing myself trying to figure out how the hell I caught it, you go get your flu shot ASAP. 000
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When my older brother applied to colleges, he and his best friend (jokingly?) focused on schools with a ratio of more women then men. When I applied, the first thing my mom did was look up the rape stastics at each school *and* its surrounding town. 162
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Their poblano soup is life-changing. Plus, during operation midway blitz the owner would sometimes close the doors in order to best protect her employees. I’ve only ever found upsides to giving them my dollars. 030
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard 252261
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One night in college I ended up very drunk in a sketchy situation behind a locked door in a frat house. Luckily for me, on the other side of the door another frat member raised HOLY HELL and would not rest until that door was unlocked and he walked me safely home. Thinking of him a lot today. 062
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This particular social experiment led to an argument with a purported friend who managed to back himself into a Brock Turner apologist corner. Suffice to say, we did not remain friends. But even among the men I did stay friends with, most couldn’t actually handle the *volume* of my experiences. 010
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment. 233662
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex. 31383257
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81167550
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 766286775988
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere 713066
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026One family, after the capture of a loved one, found out about it from activists and took steps to move other loved ones to non-287(g) jurisdictions. Another family still had no idea about why their loved one was captured until I told them about this and took steps to protect others that day. 013024
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5564330
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17124592615
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I had no idea about this guy.miamitimesonline.comLate Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent until her deathFollowing the death of Little Caesars founder and owner Mike Ilitch, several acts of kindness have surfaced, including his assistance toward civil rights icon Rosa Parks. 1422942
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I received an EXCELLENT education at City College where I received my MA in Sociology. And I was debt free. I attended PT while working FT. I'm a ride or die for the CUNY system. Once again, one of the best parts of NYC. 734332
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded. 23994182
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good. 160185183410
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026god this is good 375199997
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026For all that anti-AI folk get accused of "cope" (often and regularly) with regard to AI, I think a lot of the AI boosterism is cope, and much worse cope. The world is getting worse quickly and nobody wants to make hard choices. So now they're like "hey give us money and we will make magic god." 3412105
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/ 9234081258
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW 474793954
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You have to call these people what they are: Fascists. You have to call these attacks on trans folks what they are: Nazi-level scapegoating—genocidal villainy. 0366
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If I were running for office against an anti-trans Republican candidate, that’s how I’d handle it. “You’re a weird freak and a bully and I’m trying to give people healthcare and take on corporate greed and corruption.” 2479
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m just going to keep saying it: The answer to attacks on transgender people is simple: You’re bullying children. Stop bullying children, you fucking freaks. We’re trying to focus on real issues. You’re bullying kids. Shame on you. You’re an adult who is bullying kids. Do you feel big? 14812
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Trans right are human rights. There is no medical debate about transgender existence. There is no scientific or medical justification to discriminate against transgender people. Good people let trans people live. If you’re anti-trans, you fucking suck. 16118
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You can’t reason with this. You can’t compromise with it. You can only fight it head-on, make it embarrassed and afraid to be spoken publicly, and overwhelm it at the ballot box. 514351
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons. 20831248
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026we keep having this debate on whether AI is a real problem or a bunch of marketing schemes in a trench coat. but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos! 5346102
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Your academic future should not be dependent on a bizarre patronage model that doesn’t even give the benefits it once did (your patron calls someone in their network and gets you a job) 752736
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To go back to the well again, the PhD advisor model is fundamentally broken. 1266684
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Literally Chicago this week 35516
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The Actual Star is currently $3.99 on ebook. Go git it!amazon.comDeal: The Actual Star: A NovelThe Actual Star: A Novel 1152
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 31/08/2026There's this concept in Feminist Theory called Marked/Unmarked. Women are marked. Men are unmarked. In plainer English: women are the exception; men are the default. Notice they never want to preserve men's sport from trans men who are literally controlling the amount of testosterone they have. 1027760
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We will never be forgiven for what we - as a country - are allowing to happen right now. Nor should we. 000
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I haven’t seen Coyote vs. Acme yet, but this sure seems like Canada is trying to lure Trump into some sort of Looney Tunes-style trap. 000
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026my mom was going to submit this crop art for the state fair but she got her days mixed up and missed the deadline, so anyway here it is 016312
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The good news: Have unlocked new range of motion in my back stretches The bad news: Pushing myself into it uses entirely new muscles all of a sudden. And now I need to stretch more because now *those* are sore. A viscous cycle if I’ve ever seen one. 010
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026*One Seat Wander 131
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unsurprisingly, it’s, “bussin’,” as the children say.) 010
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's not KARMA, it's A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. Yes, even Milo Y deserves human rights. Once you start slicing off who deserves them, WE ALL LOSE THEM. Christ. This isn't hard. 819327
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 29/08/2026While accepting that most Midwest bagels miss the mark, Bagel places here should offer smoked whitefish spread as a cream cheese-topping option. It would absolutely dominate as a uniquely Midwestern version of cream cheese & lox. 020
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Okay pals help me out: somehow recently someone told me about a book by a trans woman author, the second book, I think, about how humans aren’t individual organisms but are actually complex multi organism systems Does this ring a bell? Who is the author and what’s the book called please? 3811
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Other side of this coin, When I first read Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk), I was *incensed* at how much drivel I had been forced to consume in high school when the curriculum could have been stacked with relatable and stunning works of art like that instead. 1112
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/08/2026Yes, your government is still kidnapping your neighbors. 315887
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wrap it up. Best one. 020
Reposted by I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah!SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026 05014
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026FUCKING PUMPED 120
I'm Margaret! I'm the beast 👹! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Do you know about crop art? You should know about crop art. Then you, too, could be just absolutely SOBBING at 5am in awe of the power, courage, and resilience of the people of the Twin Cities. (Click on “Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance”) www.cropart.comcropart.comCrop ArtCrop Art, Seed Art, Folk Art, Seed Pictures, Seed Mosaics, Seed Mosaic, Seed Pictures, Minnesota State Fair, Minn. State Fair, MN State Fair 050