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@louisathelast.bsky.social

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Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Feb 8

So there is a reason I’ve been so scared for the future. And a reason I’ve also been very happy. @tekla.bsky.social and I have an announcement to make 💕

A photo of an ultrasound of a first trimester baby, surrounded by flowers on a teal velvet background. A mini marquee sign says “coming soon”

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1h

AI this, AI that. When will someone invent a robot that puts the pacifier back in the baby’s mouth while I’m driving?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

broooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 7h

I can believe it of regular people who don’t really tune in, because there are people who are unaware of an astonishing variety of information out there. But a celebrity with an agent and a publicist? Come on

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 17h

I think allowing online gambling was one of the worst mistakes of the last couple decades

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 19h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone I know who met Miss Major described her as a warm person and a force of nature. I hope she has found peace and rest.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · Sep 12

“fit check for my napalm era” I mutter as i change my shirt after my baby daughter puked on me

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Feb 11

I crack up at this image every damn time like clockwork

Squat Erry Day @implicitpower.bsky.social · Feb 11

gm

Two stills from “Cat’s Eye” (1983). Top, a woman pushes a coffee dart and the subtitle reads “Coffee or tea?” . Bottom, a man in blue glasses rocking a very thin mustache, a green suit, and blue shades looks up from his newspaper. The subtitle reads “coffer” (sic)

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, she’s perfectly fine. No, she’s not the strongest singer in pop music, but she knows her limits and does well within them.

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

He will tolerate folk music, classic Broadway, and jazz/blues if they are on when he is around

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

This is good, for him. He calls Barbra Streisand “pop music,” did not recognize Hey Jude when it came on the radio when I was in the car with him once, and has only ever professed any interest in non-classical music if it comes from Leon Redbone, who I have never observed him listening to

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

He says “very pretty” and refuses to commit more than that lol. Mostly he just wanted to find out what her voice sounds like

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve started with The Last Great American Dynasty, followed by Marjorie

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

My 83 year old, concert pianist, music professor dad has asked us if we own “any Taylor Swift recordings” because he wants to see what the fuss is about

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 3d

We have known for a long time that guy with spiky hair, girl with purple hair and glasses and a frog is the ideal group for cataclysmic times.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 4d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

I, for one, think it’s a good thing when signaling virtue is rewarded socially— or at least it’s a better thing when signaling vice is what’s rewarded. We should want to be good people!

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4d

And people wonder why she doesn’t want to run for office

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

this made me laugh so hard

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 4d

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4d

Well I think she’s probably dead by now