Reposted by Lily Sellerslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19hthe main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise 371052104
Reposted by Lily Sellersshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry 362510366
Reposted by Lily SellersTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...queergeographies.comWhy We’re Stuck on the Last DitchWhy does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel? 214452
Reposted by Lily SellersHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134773782
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As someone who likes romance arcs in media (but doesn’t really enjoy romance as the main focus of a story) I think that the fanfictionization of romance novels started after Twilight and the ‘filing off the serial numbers‘/trope-heavy content we see today is a huge negative for the genre; 110
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Much of the casual sex discourse I think would be clarified for those participating in it in good faith (and not the femcels calling women who have sex with men vile names that I won’t repeat) if everyone googled and understood the phrase ‘compulsory sexuality’. I think casual encounters are fine 100
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 07/08/2026To my point I don’t believe in a feminism that focuses primarily on cishet women and seeks to reform heterosexuality/absolve cishet women for any oppression and abuse they perpetuate because they themselves are oppressed; there is not some innate force within men that makes them more evil than women 100
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The spike of straight women saying that they don’t want to date bi men because they’re ’sexually unappealing’ or words to that effect really drives home how patriarchal gender affirmation is for cishet people (because what is straight womanhood abstracted from relation to a man) 100
Reposted by Lily SellersHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.techcrunch.comSpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunchSpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months. 451372585
Reposted by Lily SellersMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/07/2026An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-... #Palestine #Israelmondoweiss.netHow Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to todayAn extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool... 09565
Reposted by Lily SellersWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026oh, so now they *want* left-wing infighting? somehow the unnecessary left punching isn't a favor for fascists, but allowing DSA to engage and excite voters is? huh??? 1330633
Reposted by Lily SellersBrett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism 676235295735
Reposted by Lily SellersWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/07/2026#OtD 24 Jul 1969 the Gay Liberation Front held their first public meeting in NYC. Rather than support gay rights and assimilation into mainstream US society, the GLF advocated sexual liberation and the overthrowing of that society. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e... 08131
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I will never trust the opinions of movie critics or film institutions because Slumdog Millionaire (an exploitative, poverty porn-laden, piece of garbage) was critically acclaimed and won over five Oscars. I feel the same about Marty Supreme, Emilia Perez, and the Banshees of Inisherrin 200
Reposted by Lily SellersCandice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgersgo.ted.comWhat we're getting wrong about teens and techFor years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u... 7284112
Reposted by Lily SellersMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers 158741678
Reposted by Lily SellersJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism. 873481654
Reposted by Lily SellersRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them. This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape." 12018
Reposted by Lily SellersRead More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026liberals are really just mad that the trump admin is hiring 'unqualified' oppressors and overseers. 095
Reposted by Lily SellersJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go. 6082092177
Reposted by Lily SellersMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/05/2026Saddest time *for white people* * Police killings are lower than they were a few years ago when Biden was in charge. Vigilante killings of Black people are much lower than during reconstruction, or even the 80s👍🏿 * Everything is better than during slavery👍🏿 * Homicide rates lower than under Biden👍🏿 924741
Reposted by Lily Sellersthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026imo the primary anxiety behind "boys need positive male role models" is the necessity of ensuring that boys grow up to be men rather than something instinctively felt to be worse, i.e., not a man. you know. like a woman or a queer lol 9640172
Reposted by Lily Sellersfrancis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 05/06/2026i know it's been said before but it really hurts to hear things like "they won't stop at trans people" "this will hurt more than just trans people" "trans people were just the beginning" like ok thanks for reminding me that we are the acceptable sacrifices and that the REAL people will be harmed too 151497419
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Aware of the bi women Discourse Tm and I feel like it’s reasonable to conclude that the phrase “I like women but I can’t see myself dating one” is comphet. Like we all live in a patriarchal society that does its best to enforce heterosexuality and limit our romantic and sexual imaginations thusly 100
Reposted by Lily SellersStudio89 Designs @studio89designs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"Real, durable peace" starts with admitting that you cannot treat the Palestinians (resisting colonial occupation by all justified means) and the Israelis (inflicting apartheid cruelty explicitly for the sake of being cruel and promoting supremacy) to the same standard. 1132
Reposted by Lily SellersDan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Media bias is often less about outright falsehoods and more about framing. Calling Cuba a “regime” instead of a government subtly delegitimizes it, while saying Cuba “rejected humanitarian aid” erases the possibility that the dispute was over the political conditions attached to the aid itself. 14357153
Reposted by Lily SellersJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/05/2026“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.” 1434642996
Reposted by Lily SellersHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026“You criticized this democratic official/candidate therefore you’re a wrecker who hates liberals more than you do fascists.” “No, I am critiquing them because our side can do better than this. There is no ‘critiquing’ fascism; there is only destroying it before it destroys us.” Many such cases 051
Reposted by Lily SellersLogan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 09/05/2026When people try the "product of their times" excuse, remind them that there are always abolitionists alive at the same time as enlavers & even if the colonizers didn't know it was wrong, the people they were oppressing sure as hell did. At the end of the day, morality knows no era. HFB to the GOAT 15121
Reposted by Lily SellersAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026centrist liberals invented a character (nonvoting leftist who cost them the election) to avoid taking responsibility for the inherent weakness and failure of centrist liberal politics 35686149
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Also saw smth that said true reconstruction is incompatible w/the existence of the US and they were completely right Like how indigenous religious freedom is incompatible with the existence of the US (Google oak flats Arizona) You can save the people or the country, not both 010
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Mark Kelly is a pro choice republican alongside almost all democrats at the national level; someone being prochoice does not mean they’re not a Zionist, anti-universal healthcare, big oil-funded POS Many such cases of white liberal women caring about abortion rights and not shit else 000
Reposted by Lily SellersBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Entire towns leveled; schools destroyed; journalists killed in targeted strikes; solar panels powering water stations demolished. Israel's defense minister says the approach is modeled on Gaza, where the goal was "leaving vast areas uninhabitable and preventing those displaced from returning home."nytimes.comHow Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in GazaSatellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon. 67650
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 24/04/2026He moved Mendoza to the five spot and Robbins to the one spot FINALLY (it only took like a month and a half) and shocker shocker both of them are hitting better 000
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Non-intersectional/white feminism derives from being on the receiving end of “you’re not as qualified and capable and deserving of autonomy as a man because you’re a weak silly woman (and we want to exploit your domestic labor) aka the sort of traditional misogyny for decades (if not centuries) 110
Reposted by Lily SellersChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot. 2987812329
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Shit that Schlossnagle needs to do for us to do better this season: Drop Mendoza to the eight spot in the lineup permanently Get Pack to be faster in LF or put Rodriguez out there and make Pack the DH Everyone needs to stop watching the damn ball as they run to 1st (everyone runs too slow period) 100
Reposted by Lily Sellerspumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 02/04/2026the problem is too much emotional stimulation. i can only handle seeing so many israeli attrocities in a given day, but the IDF keeps doing them faster than i can process. maybe if they took a few weeks off from terror bombing every muslim person in their vicinity, i could reset my opinion of israel 14112
Reposted by Lily SellersUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 26/03/2026the rare duck-billed platypup 251262217
Reposted by Lily SellersTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The thing about the whole “social media addiction” campaign from Heritage and all the other far right fundamentalist groups, is that they’re openly bragging about how they’ll use these “kids online safety” legal precedents/laws to censor LGBTQ ppl off the internet 14475225
Reposted by Lily Sellersnumerous rabbits 🚩🐇 @snuffbunny.northsky.social · 27/03/2026becoming a RETVRN guy but about colorful stuff 061
Lily Sellers @whinecellars.bsky.social · 25/03/2026With Dolores Huerta breaking her silence about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Cesar Chavez, I can feel my cynicism growing about men present or leading left wing/labor rights movements. Male leftist content creators ime are the ones most likely to say the phrase “no war but class war” ... 101
Reposted by Lily SellersKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore 9763151
Reposted by Lily SellersMani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Israel has killed 400+ Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the 'ceasefire' began. Israel is still committing genocide. I just took action to demand that the UK holds Israel to the ceasefire - join me: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/... 22917
Reposted by Lily Sellersjoycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Maybe the truth is even more shocking: that many of them were/are husbands & fathers & just led secret lives where their “good” selves were suspended. Human beings can compartmentalize their humanity. 537536
