Sally Strange

Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness. #SolarPunk #Climate #DeGrowth #StrawBale #YouTubeMusicGems #LivingMachine #Construction #Engineering #Crochet

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2024-09-06 16:26:15

I just learned that Afro B's massive hit "Drogba (Joanna)" is thusly named because he shouts out football star Didier Drogba, asking why Joanna is playing him like Drogba. And that Afro B chose Drogba for the shoutout because they are both from Côte d'Ivoire.
#TIL #music #afrobeat #PopMusic #football #AfroB
https://youtu.be/9YqecbxSr4A?si=Ku9VhhtogyADYuvW

2024-08-09 16:00:24

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@npub1ugh…92hc I wanted to cancel last year but Spouse said NOOOO my nephew wants to keep watching it (using our account) so I was like fine. But I don't think he even uses it that much anymore.

2024-08-09 15:56:02

Just got a notice from Netflix that they will graciously reduce the price of my subscription as they insert ads into the shows this coming September
Yeah, that's a cancellin'

2024-08-09 15:44:39

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@npub1se6…cmph That part I get, I just don't understand how one could spray the compost. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

2024-08-08 17:38:04

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@npub1ugh…92hc ha, well, it should be an OSHA violation to force people to work outside when it's >95F, but it's not

2024-08-07 01:39:36

#TIL: There is such a thing as swamp rabbits

2024-07-30 22:10:23

If you have to proclaim yourself to be a "good white person" then you're probably not a good person.
Anyway, white people, I know it's hard when you want to help but feel helpless, but DO NOT DO THIS. Do not make your feelings of helplessness about white supremacy into the problem of whatever BIPOC has alerted you to the issue.
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/877/210/214/707/607/original/d15ba39753eb0763.png

2024-07-30 20:53:06

Me: Liberals, consider taking some of the money you can easily spare and donating it to an individual in need
Liberals: Oh, no. Can't do that. Could be scammers.
Me: Fine. You could at least boost some of the requests for money so someone else could donate
Liberals: Uhhh
Me: At least stop reporting mutual aid requests???!?
Liberals: No can do. This is for your own good by the way. Hey, isn't it weird that we're unpopular? Must be Russian bots or something

2024-07-28 18:24:27

Nobody actually needed liberals to explain why they fear being ripped off by one poor person more than they fear being ripped off by a succession of rich politicians, despite the fact that the latter happens so often we just call it "politics"
#MastodonForHarris

2024-07-25 23:25:17

Some of you people have actual money, it turns out.
And yet you aren't sharing that money with impoverished marginalized folks. Shit, you don't even boost their fundraisers.
I'm not mad that Heidi smashed her political goals. Good for her. I'm disgusted that there isn't a similar urgency around helping ordinary people who are sick, in danger of losing their homes, living in abusive situations.
At the very least y'all need to fucking boost some of these #MutualAid requests.

2024-07-24 02:04:54

Take note of who said Biden dropping out would be a terrible idea vs those who said it was necessary. How many of the former are admitting any kind of misjudgment? How many of the latter are even mentioning it? There are people out there with good information and good judgment. Try to find them.
#USpol

2024-07-19 19:57:08

High school counselor: Wow, if you tried, you could be first in your class!
Me: And without trying, I'm 14th. What's the point?
https://mastodon.social/@adhdjesse/112813985757857285

2024-07-18 18:35:59

Antidote: Spouse and I are tired of not having anyone to yell at us when we get home so we're going to visit the local shelter this weekend, to meet this little girl! Her name is Topaz and since Spouse's sister's restaurant shares that name, it seems like destiny. Also Spouse says Topaz looks "classy, like she reads."
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/808/452/155/695/784/original/57468a4c9c0da59b.jpeg

2024-07-17 15:43:42

Spouse: Did you hear about the flooding?
Me: Yeah, in Toronto?
Spouse: No, in Illinois...
#ClimateDiary

2024-07-15 15:32:36

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@npub13n4…3h2h What?? No! In all honesty I didn't even think of that. Why not though. What element of cynicism am I missing

2024-07-15 15:26:34

This can't be right. I am the ONLY follower of a climate change feed on Inoreader?
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/790/724/383/063/233/original/1bac8e86c9c9fc66.jpg

2024-07-12 16:16:53

"He's been doing the job for 3.9 years and NOW you're questioning whether he's fit for it?"
No bitch. People were questioning his fitness in 2020 and y'all said STFU and the Dems rigged the primary. Pay some fucking attention for once

2024-06-25 02:41:45

Just thinking about that spate of mainstream articles about how the Hot Pot was a "victim of its own success" and obviously a company that made a useful, durable product would have to shut down due to lack of sales growth (since almost everyone who might want a Hot Pot already had one and wouldn't need a new one for years). And haha, too bad, what can you do? And not, wow capitalism truly makes life awful.

2024-06-21 20:02:37

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Right now I'm listening to the sounds of Mali in the 1970s and it's soooooo good. #music #70s #Mali #radio #Radiooooo
https://radiooooo.com/

2024-06-21 19:48:08

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It also has settings for "slow," "fast," and "weird" songs.
This is how I discovered the utterly amazing (and ultimately tragic) Cambodian rock & roll scene of the 1960s.
Oh and there's a "Jin Jiyan Azadi" station featured: "Past and Present Sounds of the Iranian Revolution."
#music #radio #radiooooo

2024-06-21 19:42:46

Hey fyi
You can go to radiooooo.com (that's 5 o's), look at the world map, select a country, select a decade, and then listen to music from that time and place. For free. No ads. No idea how or why but it exists. Check it out!
#music #radio

2024-06-18 22:21:30

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@npub1d62…tshf oh god. Scary! Glad the roofer is OK. I almost fell through a couple roofs, I will never forget it.

2024-06-18 22:16:18

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@npub1d62…tshf holy shit! Chimney looks pretty now though

2024-06-18 00:50:58

I want a button that says "if you talk to me about the weather I will talk to you about the climate"

2024-06-14 16:42:22

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@npub1k4q…3lsq He does have GREAT hair. I feel like that should have been worth more to social media denizens. Unappreciative fools.

2024-06-14 15:35:00

This is great. Disney workers, trying to unionize, created buttons and stickers featuring Mickey Mouse's raised, clenched fist. It's public domain after all! Disney tried to stop them wearing these at work, but there's a law that says companies can't do that, even if they have a dress code, so the unionizers are suing Disney.
#Unionize #Unions #UnionStrong #organize #Disney
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/06/12/disneyland-union-files-charges-over-mickey-mouse-raised-fist-buttons/

2024-06-11 22:27:35

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@npub1wfd…68tj I love that both humans have decided that pants are unnecessary

2024-06-09 14:23:35

If you reply to my funny meme with a fucking essay, the best case scenario is that I ignore you.
I think it should be widely understood that replying to funny memes with fucking essays is wack.
Say that shit on your own tl, fool.

2024-06-06 19:40:06

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@npub1c57…awu5 I mean, you just did, a little bit. So thanks <3

2024-06-06 19:23:43

Feeling very sad

2024-06-06 00:18:06

Pixie's last days. She doesn't climb up on her cat tree anymore, that's from a couple weeks ago. The outside photo is from yesterday evening. #cats #PixiePosting
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/566/306/937/613/903/original/167c5b6f0f5844d7.jpg
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2024-06-05 20:40:31

got myself a coffee and a muffin to get me through the afternoon - this blueberry muffin is at least 60% blueberries! #LifesLittleVictories

2024-06-05 18:32:08

Because they can't elope
#DadJokes
This one courtesy of a lovely older woman who was being interviewed by an NPR reporter about health care in rural areas who couldn't help giggling as she told it :blob_cat_aww:

2024-06-03 20:27:13

I know, I know: fuck the BBC. But this is a cool article about isolated populations of wildlife in New York City, like white-footed mice and northern dusky salamanders, surviving and adapting to urban life. Evolution in action.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240531-the-mutant-wildlife-adapting-to-new-york-city?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

2024-06-03 16:48:45

I vote in these "best song/band from the 60s" etc polls mainly to stick to the still overrated Beatles
https://toot.wales/@HannahHowe/112553229865280022

2024-06-03 15:01:32

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@npub1d8l…xe94 I don't disagree with your assessment of the term "degrowth." I think that your assessment applies just as well to the replacement terms you suggested, though

2024-06-02 17:40:53

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@npub1d8l…xe94 You're getting highly metaphorical--nothing wrong with that, and I don't mind the metaphor, but "transparent" isn't the word for it. Imo.

2024-06-02 00:49:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 as you should

2024-05-31 21:58:00

well I didn't finish my project but I made some significant progress on it. And I had a great time listening to @npub1yyt…t6x9's hip hop (and more) podcast, live! With chatting and real conversation! That was fun.

2024-05-31 19:27:19

They wooooooon't dooooo that
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/112536856042273834

2024-05-31 04:27:26

Mmmmm nom nom nom
#food #pickles #WildFermentation
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/533/325/085/583/098/original/0e8a0db0f5a9ad41.jpg

2024-05-30 18:24:09

wow, so, the one dude who basically organized my small town's Memorial Day and 4th of July parades moved away. So, those parades won't happen.
Leaving the local Pride parade as the only parade that really happens this year.
Heh.

2024-05-30 04:13:10

When talking about #ThickThighThursday, Frankie Adams (Bobbie Draper in The Expanse) springs to mind
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/527/577/512/109/663/original/680e320409a03666.jpg
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2024-05-24 20:20:13

I barely held myself back from petting this cow. It would be bad biosecurity
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/497/440/804/399/944/original/328e7c96830cf9f7.jpg

2024-05-24 15:37:52

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@npub19fc…ay3c Oh yeah. Ugh. I supported her though all the slut walk nonsense and now this. Anyhoo, I don't mind snark. If I'm out of pocket and you let me know, I promise not to freak out.

2024-05-24 15:32:58

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@npub19fc…ay3c Of course. He's just a youtube guy with research and interesting terminology on the subject (e.g. "the decadent veil", I didn't mean to imply anything other than that you might find him interesting.

2024-05-24 15:25:23

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@npub19fc…ay3c You familiar with Tone Talks? This is kinda his thing

2024-05-22 00:17:43

"Democrats need to--"
Bitch they WILL NOT. What do YOU need to do?

2024-05-22 00:16:06

Hot take: profit does not exist.
If you fully implement ecological accounting--that is, deducting from the balance sheet the cost of any environmental damage or degradation caused by production--then you come out even. That's the best we can hope for, because we live in a system that is, apart from the sun's daily energy input, closed.
In other words, all "profit" is exploitation.

2024-05-20 18:36:07

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@npub19fc…ay3c this would be a fun game. Challenge: sell the biggest, most hauntedest house for the most money

2024-05-17 21:22:10

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@npub10af…lkvw same, vis a vis African rock. I also only recently became familiar with the legacy of of the 60s rock scene in Cambodia and its tragic end. Beautiful music endures though

2024-05-17 21:19:02

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@npub10af…lkvw I've never listened to Thai rock music so I can't say but I'm listening right now :)

2024-05-10 21:39:33

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@npub1gnx…d5kh this is like the time I went to Dunkin Donuts and they were out of donuts

2024-05-10 18:09:50

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@npub1k7q…3lrw please also ban snowmobiles and ATVs as recreation

2024-05-10 01:06:35

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@npub19fc…ay3c I mean I was stuck in a mostly empty park on a nice day. It was oddly relaxing.

2024-05-07 21:33:03

Should I get a twitch account simply so I can give @npub1yyt…t6x9 a follow there? Of course I should.
#HipHop #Music #DJset #DJsetLive
https://www.twitch.tv/airadam13

2024-05-06 15:38:51

It's official: animals and bugs are people.
I think plants are people too, but there's no scientific declaration to that effect. Yet.
https://nautil.us/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-571584/

2024-05-06 03:41:41

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@npub1yyt…t6x9 Beans is the only thing I'd like about an english breakfast. But this guy is a professional so he does it and then asks for desert. It's astounding

2024-05-06 03:37:12

While you all watch Monsterdon, I'm watching a person enjoy, and then not enjoy an enormous English breakfast challenge. It's Beard Meats Food the "professional eater." I dunno there's just something hypnotic about watching someone eat to the point of discomfort.
I never want an English breakfast.

2024-05-05 14:10:58

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@npub10ur…ndl9 c'est la même içi
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2024-05-04 06:09:58

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#USpol #Democrats #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #Biden2024
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/380/846/718/358/470/original/23b6d8177da03343.jpg

2024-05-04 00:22:54

Saw a car today with a bumper sticker of Ted Cruz with the words "This man ate my son"
It's been around for years, it was kinda comforting to see it again. It's very faded now

2024-05-03 22:27:28

Liberals right now:
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/379/017/383/419/916/original/874898b05b6b778c.jpg

2024-05-03 16:36:24

Has anyone made a phone that you can use in bright sunlight?

2024-05-01 20:57:53

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@npub19fc…ay3c just in NYS, but yeah
because it's unfair to a rapist to have TOO many of his victims testifying

2024-04-26 18:34:24

Remember that while Joe Biden was vice president, Obama had a minor American citizen assassinated.
Biden would kill you quicker than he would pack the court, much less execute any of the justices. Liberals. Please. Stop and think. These "jokes" about what Biden could do if SCOTUS rules that the president is king aren't funny, because Biden will never use that power for our benefit. He is not on our side. He is on the side of power.
#USpol #fascism

2024-04-25 17:55:27

Making a list of newsletters/publications with which my parents should replace their NYTimes/WaPo subscriptions:
--Popular Info
-Assigned Media
-404 Media
-Capital B News
-Heated
-972
Thoughts? Suggestions?

2024-04-24 20:49:05

Just going to reiterate these helpful little bits of doggerel:
If the Naomi be Klein,
You're doing just fine
If the Naomi be Wolf
Then oof, baby. Oof.
AND
If her name is Parker Posey
Everything is looking rosy
If instead she's Posie Parker
What you've got is something darker

2024-04-20 16:28:59

Oh so when Buddha answers questions nonverbally, it's a "koan" and he's "reaching enlightenment" but when I answer questions nonverbally it's "rude" and I ”need to work on my social skills"

2024-04-16 22:43:31

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@npub1c57…awu5 no coincidence that the person with no respect for the labor of artists also has no respect for unions:
#BlockList
https://mastodon.social/@AlpineI/111092196938879563

2024-04-12 17:34:24

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@npub19fc…ay3c For sure. She seems like a genuinely sweet, passionate, and talented person. From a distance at least.

2024-04-12 16:35:32

I just wanna say, if you're not following @npub19fe…zpxy, you're missing out. Especially if you like #cosplay, #comics, #SciFi, #fantasy, and that sort of thing.
#FollowFriday #FF

2024-04-11 20:08:01

fuck William Nordhaus

2024-04-06 07:20:36

I love how Krishna was just like, "you get dick! YOU get dick! EVERYBODY GETS SOME DICK" to the gopis

2024-04-05 18:31:05

Periodic reminder that not everyone who gives birth is a woman.
#Transgender #TransMen #TransMasculine #NonBinary #GenderDiversity
https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/everything-pregnancy/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-healthy-baby-talks-navigating/

2024-04-05 16:25:44

Did we just have a tiny earthquake? Or was it a massive truck on the road outside?

2024-04-04 02:08:30

This poster has been up in a local coffee shop for a couple weeks now. Any New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians who have no cats or kids and want a dog? #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #ForeverHome
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/209/928/436/538/475/original/34c39e5feaf47b37.jpg
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/209/980/186/945/770/original/73125a458e20adf5.jpg

2024-04-02 15:26:18

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@npub1qk5…jlda oooh I love tiny bananas. They're the sweetest!

2024-04-01 16:36:30

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@npub13x3…ulww Awesome!! I was thinking about visiting NOLA to catch this, but we were already planning a trip to Jamaica in January. So might have to do it the following year.

2024-03-29 16:42:54

Headlines say "Homeless Man Arrested" but they never say "Housed Man Arrested"
#stigma #Homeless

2024-03-28 15:38:04

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@npub1gmx…atcq The boost from that was not nothing. Not as big as from reading this tho: https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant/112173813206190674

2024-03-28 15:33:50

trying to give myself permission to not be sad for a bit

2024-03-27 16:51:00

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 hmm interesting. My dad's family were Swedish and I've been meaning to read more about Sweden's history of imperialism and slavery. This is a good starting point. Thank you!

2024-03-24 14:23:47

Everyone needs to be a bit more silly.
Some of you need to be a LOT more silly.

2024-03-23 17:49:46

Stole your meme cuz your descriptive text was obviously written by a shitty computer. :blob_tea: #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #CatsOfTheRevolution #DescriptiveText
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/146/005/249/037/622/original/d8f388a58e2f0991.jpg

2024-03-22 21:15:23

Did you recently unfollow a popular lefty account that posts lots of amusing memes because you found out she was transphobic and maybe not as leftist as she branded herself? Got a cute lefty meme account-shaped hole in your feed? Follow @npub1k7q…3lrw! Bonus lewd pics. #FollowFriday

2024-03-22 00:59:53

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@npub1gnx…d5kh As a person who has often been shunned or bullied for no good reason except to encourage conformity, I appreciate the sentiment and affirm it

2024-03-20 14:22:47

From Time magazine of all places: "Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change." And it can't.
#Capitalism #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://time.com/6958606/climate-change-transition-capitalism/

2024-03-15 17:09:39

Last month, two climate advisors to the USA Export-Import Bank (aka the Ex-Im), which is controlled by the federal government and offers financing to overseas business ventures, quit in protest of the Ex-Im's proposed support for an oil drilling project in Bahrain. This month, the Ex-Im approved that project. Also on deck: natural gas export facility in Papua New Guinea and a pipeline in Guyana.
According to Oxfam, "the bank provided nearly $6 billion in financing for fossil fuel projects and $120 million for clean energy" between 2017 and 2021.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #USpol #fascismUSA
https://archive.is/ziYuQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/climate/exim-financing-biden-bahrain-oil.html
or https://archive.is/eQIFe if the above is paywalled for you

2024-03-12 19:45:35

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@npub1k4q…3lsq excellent choice, I too love orange

2024-03-12 19:43:55

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@npub1k4q…3lsq And "red hair" is clearly orange.
Stealing red's valor!

2024-03-12 14:51:13

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@npub19fc…ay3c Not to mention, it's been a decade since that fight started, and what with inflation and everything else, it should be the fight for 20 or 25

2024-03-11 20:34:27

Timothée Parrique responds to Jacobin Magazine's latest entry in its intensely anti-degrowth campaign:
"Ten years ago, this piece would have still been shameful but at least with the excuse of dealing with a new, niche topic. In 2024, however, after decades of extensive research on degrowth, such pseudo-scientific boohoos can no longer be tolerated. I would have cut some slack to a politician or a business leader, but a university scholar has no excuse for producing an analysis that superficial. In light of the recent convergence between degrowth and eco-socialism, this is a step backward. Silver lining: these anti-degrowth whimpers might actually make degrowth more popular. As Rubén Vezzoni commented: 'turns out the best argument for degrowth is the intellectual meagreness of its detractors.'"
#Degrowth
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/

2024-03-09 15:18:24

Exxon CEO: Somebody stop me!
...
Exxon CEO: ...haha, you didn't stop me! I mean, oh no, you didn't stop me!
H/t @npub1th4…cem3
https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112009009421402914

2024-03-09 00:53:35

Spent a little time at my local library today and wow. They really upgraded. Pretty sure there are two trans employees. All the staff were masked. A toddler was there, eying me the whole time. It was comforting. I used to spend so much time here as a kid
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2024-03-07 00:49:29

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@npub1tps…9rmt #Ableism kills

2024-03-06 16:38:58

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@npub19fc…ay3c For everyone who ever banged their Barbie dolls' groins together (me), this is amazing

2024-03-06 15:01:52

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@npub16sh…3ctx Did this last year for the first time and now I'm seeing lots of birds in the yard, hunting for bugs. :)

2024-03-05 00:57:12

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@npub1jce…9qgc People who are leftists tend to forget that the enemy's ideas are unpopular and that ours are popular. Lefty ideas are popular on account of how they're aimed at improving living conditions for, you know, the populace. The natural result of this situation is that people who are not leftists are constantly lying about their unpopular ideas, trying to give them a popular, left-ish disguise.
It doesn't help that the unpopular liars have literally infinite amounts of money to spend on propaganda, of course. But still. At least try to think about this, kids.

2024-03-04 22:08:36

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@npub1z2d…7yfv Historically speaking, this is the main reason we have "women's sports."