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Just some middle-aged Gen X'er whose primary purpose in life is to be a worthwhile homestead partner and pet parent. Also still does super amateur-level videography by request. I know how to frame a shot, but have more intuition than disciplined skill.

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♥️And that's why Alysa Liu is Oakland royalty. In 2026 in the face of rising racism, fascism, and misogyny, a woman that speaks comfortably about Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, and Abolish ICE

Gold medal is cool and all, but do you have your own stank face mural of you flexing that gold medal?

07.03.2026 15:56 👍 606 🔁 137 💬 7 📌 2
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Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill

Proceeds from ALL sales today on our Bandcamp, not just the sweatshirt, will be donated to the Trans Continental Pipeline but today will be the only day to snag one of these beauties: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

06.03.2026 17:14 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

06.03.2026 02:54 👍 5873 🔁 343 💬 315 📌 104

Mass media consumers now have the chance to do the funniest thing.

Your subscriptions, your brand loyalty, your self-imposed dependence on corporations who are now transparent about their intention to harm you, everything you value and everything you love?

You don’t need them.

27.02.2026 00:09 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 👍 10823 🔁 5231 💬 86 📌 338

It’s sobering to think that if I transitioned now, I’d probably look like Kyrsten Sinema if I was lucky.

I blame my glasses.

20.02.2026 03:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 👍 35947 🔁 16651 💬 1301 📌 2472
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Scientists may have discovered a pulsar at the Milky Way’s heart—a result that could reveal new physics If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the spacetime around the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

Love seeing my friends get well-deserved shine! Congrats to @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social on this exciting new 🔭 result 🤩

13.02.2026 00:35 👍 211 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 5

I am this old:

“RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK”
“THE BLACK HOLE”
“E.T.”
“THE RIGHT STUFF”
“RETURN OF THE JEDI”
“INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM”
“GHOSTBUSTERS”
“GREMLINS”
“BACK TO THE FUTURE”
“THE BLACK CAULDRON”
“ALIENS”
“TOP GUN”
“PALE RIDER” (first R-rated)
“PREDATOR”
“WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?”

11.02.2026 21:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Theda Bara arrives in A FOOL THERE WAS (1915). It wasn't first vamp film but it put her on the map as the queen of movie vampires. The trend was spent by 1920, with the more subtle femme fatale taking over, but what a run!

08.02.2026 23:03 👍 170 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 2
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This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

07.02.2026 13:03 👍 1299 🔁 435 💬 4 📌 71
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everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

11.07.2025 03:28 👍 4866 🔁 1345 💬 154 📌 112
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

31.01.2026 16:53 👍 25739 🔁 5695 💬 818 📌 733
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A ★★★★★ review of Melania (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

I didn't review the movie as presented. I reviewed the movie I wanted it to be.

letterboxd.com/gamookie/fil...

31.01.2026 18:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

For some reason, I pictured all of this resembling the “SIN CITY.”

Probably because Melania and That Orange Bastard see to have sprung from Frank Miller’s imagination.

Hell, that’s true of most MAGA players, isn’t it?

31.01.2026 18:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

From: which.king@angmar.gov
To: xXSauronDaDeceiverXx@angband.edu
Date: 1554 Second Age
Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)???

lmfao u totally shoulkd

31.01.2026 15:34 👍 927 🔁 234 💬 11 📌 3
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NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now.

Crowd stretching back over the horizon.

(🎥 PSL Baltimore)

30.01.2026 20:57 👍 2571 🔁 829 💬 30 📌 34

Coherent, focused, authoritarian ethnic cleansing with virtually no references to self; so, you know it’s Stephen Miller.

25.01.2026 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

25.01.2026 23:01 👍 26001 🔁 7311 💬 509 📌 220

If anyone wanted to run for president in 2028, they should be in Minnesota right now demonstrating leadership.

24.01.2026 18:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A song by late jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch has fresh meaning in era of immigration enforcement Re-released this month, the 11-minute “Prayer for amerikkka” honors a Salvadoran immigrant who spent years in a detention center waiting to reunite with her family.

chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...

21.01.2026 14:20 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills The HHS and Education bills once contained the most sweeping anti-trans provisions in congressional history. Now they contain none.

1. In a major victory, Democrats have managed to get all anti-trans riders stripped from the final appropriations bills.

This includes HHS and Ed, which had the worst provisions in congressional history.

If it passes, it will be a big win for 2026.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

20.01.2026 21:20 👍 4919 🔁 1361 💬 29 📌 104
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Photowalk with Me | GaMookie | Substack Weekly musings about photography. I am a Gen X real estate photographer who muses about art, creation, and running a photography business. Click to read Photowalk with Me, by GaMookie, a Substack publ...

I've started a Substack where I talk about photography and things that are interesting to photographers. This week's entry is, no joke, about parking garages.

gamookie.substack.com

19.01.2026 00:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hey everyone,

We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history.

Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

14.01.2026 18:10 👍 2828 🔁 1701 💬 44 📌 27

Follow-up question should be:

“What do you think the president means by that?”

08.01.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The person shot in Minneapolis was driving a Honda SUV covered in bumper stickers. She wasn't a fucking domestic terrorist. She was a resident concerned about her neighbors being kidnapped.

07.01.2026 18:34 👍 2904 🔁 477 💬 3 📌 12
aerial shot of San Francisco's Union Square, a big crowd full of little people - title card for The Conversation that reads "Supervising Editor Sound Montage & Re-Recording WALTER MURCH"

aerial shot of San Francisco's Union Square, a big crowd full of little people - title card for The Conversation that reads "Supervising Editor Sound Montage & Re-Recording WALTER MURCH"

the eight words every girl longs to hear

05.01.2026 06:33 👍 243 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 1

They talk as if they believe no one will stand up to the U.S. behaving like a rogue state.

Do they really believe that?

And if so, how are they going to handle what’s really going to happen?

And how can we as a nation process what’s happening here? The American spirit is cracking, no?

06.01.2026 01:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the books you read twenty years ago and have half forgotten are finally ripe.

04.01.2026 20:46 👍 322 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 0

A visibly coked up Secretary of State throwing out plans for more impulsive invasions of foreign countries is disquieting.

I would imagine there are some tough conversations currently going on between foreign powers about the emerging threat here.

04.01.2026 16:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0