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Kestrel Casey

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Author. Activist. Disabled. Queer. Defective manic pixie dream girl.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · Jan 21

Okay, my follower count and mix on here is now such that I need to say this:

If you know me in real life, no you don't.

If you saw me at a place I can routinely be found, no you didn't.

Thank you for understanding.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 52m

Feature Film "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" brought to you by the Torment Nexus

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8d

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2h

New folks: If you would like pronoun labels, there's a thing for that.

@pronouns.diy

Please read the instructions.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2h

I honestly don't mind she/her, either, but this is kind of about brand consistency.

Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2h

Would it be excessive to put a little blurb about gender in the press kit page of my author site?

Not a manifesto or anything, just "The author asks that the prefix "Mx" and they/them pronouns be used in all printed copy."

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 3h

Every Bluesky elder and their new followers tonight, apparently

a cat is surrounded by a bunch of ducklings

Alt: a cat is surrounded by a bunch of ducklings

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 6h

I am also now Kestrel on a new mastodon instance
library.love/@kestrelcasey

Kestrel Casey (@[email protected])

2 Posts, 304 Following, 10 Followers · Author. Activist. Disabled. Queer. Defective manic pixie dream girl.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 9h

There. I'M KESTREL, BITCHES.

a bird sitting on a tree branch looking out a hole

Alt: Small bird of prey launching itself out of a hollow tree

media.tenor.com

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 9h

All right, I think you've all had enough time to adjust to the name change. Today is handle change day.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 14h

Good on you for thinking it through.

Also, the number of dudes who are not looking and also mad about what they don't see is astonishing. The use of taxes over time is all around us.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

(Sorry for delete and redraft. I took the pain meds to be comfortable enough to sleep, so of course I'm up and posting poorly instead.)

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

It's not perfect. My taxes have paid for a fuckton of things I seriously disapprove of. Rich people don't pay in enough. The code is too complicated. But those aren't inherent things; paying and utilizing taxes is, itself, a good idea.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

People who opposes taxes are people who don't realize they're already benefiting from us acting collectively at scale.

Mostly dudes who can't conceive of their own disabled future and think that roads are facts of life instead of major ongoing human projects.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

Tweet: before I take a shower: I hate it in there, the wet world is a bad place. While in the shower: I remember now that this is a good place, it is the dry world that is the enemy

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

Let's settle for saying this: When I am talking to people about them moving to Vermont, I tell most at-risk people to avoid certain large sections of the state. Things are improving for queer folks even in the hostile areas, because there are more organizations there now, but not for everyone.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

I have so much to say about this guy, but at least some of that would mean quoting conversations had in my presence in a capitol city bar, and I'm not about to break the unspoken code on that one.

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

Next time you think Vermont is all hippie utopia, please remember that one of these guys is in our state house because there are still racist & homophobic pockets in our state and they are not small.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

It's amazing how cheap a cd burner is these days

Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

Just another nudge to delete Spotify.

Do you really want to lose access to all your music if you stop paying them every month? Or make sure the artists you like are paid as little as possible? Or support this bullshit?

Buying and owning music is better in every way.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 1d

From the assholes who gave Joe Rogan hundreds of millions of dollars we now have:

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

www.sfgate.com

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

This fucking guy

a group of men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying the worst

Alt: Parks & Rec: The Woooooorst

media.tenor.com

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2d

I think the biggest clue is that no one else would use the phrase "radical Democrats"

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2d

This weekend I went to a place and heard a thing.

Huge commercial pseudo-raves are not really my scene, but I did see some truly lovely flow artists in the back.

Massive event with screens and lasers at Under the K. Author's thumb out of focus in the foreground.

Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2d

I'm not giving Fox the click, but I do love the torn paper transition between photos, like they're a celebrity couple some tabloid claims is getting divorced

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 2d

CUOMO: I will work with the Trump Administration to impose a 45% Happiness Tax on all New Yorkers any time you feel happy. So that you won't.

ADAMS: JALAPENO POPPERS GAVE ME THE JESUS POWER I NEEDED TO FIND THE MONEY LAUNDERING IN MY BLOOD

MAMDANI: I like it here and you people deserve nice things

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 2d

...did he serve on the USS Montpelier?

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 3d

I've poked around a handful of the listed word count tools in the past year and would say that Trackbear is the winner so far

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