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@prayingmantis

Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE

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Lake forever, fog for now

06.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screencap from Fleabag captioned "We write to taste life twice" & I have covered up "we write" with "I post"

A screencap from Fleabag captioned "We write to taste life twice" & I have covered up "we write" with "I post"

21.09.2024 06:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"Get in loser" meme from Mean Girls

"Get in loser" meme from Mean Girls

Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

13.01.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 1585 πŸ” 344 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

04.03.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WWJB? (Who Would Jesus Bomb?)

03.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s an ICE staging center that told its queer and Black customers to go fuck themselves.

03.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 873 πŸ” 244 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

I haven't listened yet. It probably would have been OK but I didn't want to risk it when I saw it in the queue yesterday.

03.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The real test for if you're over a breakup is if you can listen to "Good Things" without crying

03.03.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

28.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 5508 πŸ” 1254 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 26

I remember when words meant things

02.03.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

with alt text

02.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

ELSEWHEN SHOULD BE A WORD

02.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI is being trained on/by its prompts, but people are not using their best language when prompting. I genuinely wonder if the companies are considering this?

Slop on slop on slop on slop on slop... talk about "garbage in, garbage out"!

02.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think they will be using Ubers. I think they will still drive. I am less concerned about them than everyone else on the road, who they might hit.

02.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

Maybe we shouldn't have created a nation so incredibly car-dependent! Especially as science has allowed people to live longer (...than their eyes & brains work).

02.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
In total, six of the Timesβ€˜ nine front-page articles about trans issues wove narratives of transition being risky, likely to be regretted, or prematurely forced onto unwitting youth (9/26/22, 11/22/22, 1/23/23), and/or of trans people threatening others’ rights, such as those of cisgender women and parents (5/29/22, 6/9/22, 7/21/22, 1/23/23). These six articles also consumed far more space in the paper than the other three, averaging 2,826 words versus 1,636, suggesting which kinds of stories about trans people the paper believes are most worthy of deep investigation.

In total, six of the Timesβ€˜ nine front-page articles about trans issues wove narratives of transition being risky, likely to be regretted, or prematurely forced onto unwitting youth (9/26/22, 11/22/22, 1/23/23), and/or of trans people threatening others’ rights, such as those of cisgender women and parents (5/29/22, 6/9/22, 7/21/22, 1/23/23). These six articles also consumed far more space in the paper than the other three, averaging 2,826 words versus 1,636, suggesting which kinds of stories about trans people the paper believes are most worthy of deep investigation.

FAIR published a detailed look at the NYT's trans coverage a couple of years ago, showing that the NYT's coverage of trans issues is unbalanced and usually implicitly includes a right-wing framing.

fair.org/home/nyts-an...

02.03.2026 07:42 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This album is forever golden!

02.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Albany Park neighbors doing real-life Community Notes on campaign spam.

02.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

fucked up that they make everyone have a social security number and then dont even offer any social security

02.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Moon forever, problems for now

02.03.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

02.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 7176 πŸ” 1655 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 71

I think the Tagalongs used to taste better.

02.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us β€œsexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

02.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 5237 πŸ” 3327 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 34

If you're reading this, whether you're having an awesome or an awful day, take a sec & push pause. Check in w/ who you are & your recovery goals for today (not your ultimate goals-- your feeling & behavior goals TODAY).

Breathe, blink, center & affirm yourself-- then carry on.

02.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

This is a gentle reminder that you can toggle the option in the settings so you never forget to add alt text ever again.

02.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
02.03.2026 05:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a whole book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, about how eviction is not just a result but a CAUSE of poverty.

02.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

01.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1642 πŸ” 224 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 92

ALL THE TIME & MORE EVERY DAY

02.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Keep these men trying.

02.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0