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Bryn @slimewave.me · 11m

The past 24 hours has been, for me, a bracing reminder of how many trans women view themselves as Temporarily Embarrassed Horse Girls.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 12h

This is basically what it’s like overhearing the @nerdjpg.com ‘s family drama conversations each week

josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 13h

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

“I’m just a girl”

Okay, good to know. Anyway, the rest of us were just talking about how we have like 5 minutes left to do something about climate change

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

🤨What’s the lower cutoff for these “old people” you’re tired of? 😒

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

*saying some vapid bullshit about Marxists and socialism, demonstrating clearly that I didn’t understand a single thing they said*

“💅They’re just mad I finally listened 🤪🤣”

No, close, though. Want to guess again?

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

I’m dead serious I’m baffled that she’s ‘hitting back’ with such a non-joke forced into a vaguely joke-esque syntax. Is her follower base so slop-fed & dead-eyed that they go buckwild for anything containing the word “tankie” and delivered as if it was supposed to be a pithy clapback?

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

Well that I can respect & understand at least but I can’t say I’m content with the results

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 15h

Can… can someone explain the joke to me? She must be making a joke here but for the life of me I cannot understand. It can’t be her trying to say “tankies” are transphobic right? Surely she realizes that’s silly when the post is getting shredded by mostly other trans women w a range of left politics

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 17h

Tankies are always telling me how much they hate me and now they’re mad that I listened lol

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

Everyone is Twelve Now Theory remains undefeated, somehow

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer • 23d
"I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve.
"I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

No yeah there’s something that feels almost sinister about how anything approximating actual media criticism has been crowded out by slop clickbait that forces all questions & engagement down to the level of What is This Character’s Power Level Tier rather than any engagement with, like, Narrative

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 18h

Goofus did not answer, staring at the window; then he could not tell if it was the actual window or the window's pale rectangle upon his eyelids, though after a moment it began to emerge. It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude--the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies.
"The South," Gallant said. "The
South. Jesus. No wonder you folks all outlive yourselves by years and years and years." It was becoming quite distinct. He would be able to decipher the words soon, in a moment; even almost now, now, now.
"I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died," Goofus said.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Look idk maybe I’m the Friend Who’s Too Woke here (I am NOT) but I literally didn’t think this was fringe shadow-jumping shit and to illustrate my point: go search the innocuous two-word term “Taylor merch” on x rn and tell me if half the results coming up aren’t doing the same hermeneutics as me

Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

I’m sorry, any design professional should know that doing the lightning bolts in that shape is playing with fire. Most cutesy charm bracelet style jewelry very deliberately uses the more thunderbolt-shape that isn’t symmetrical and doesn’t look like an S.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

Isn’t that just… a normal recession? Are they seriously reverse-engineering this from eg “vibecession” to say “whoooaa what if it was like a vibecession but for the WHOLE ECONOMY?”

Am I missing something? Who the fuck knows I’m not reading this shit lol

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

Think I’m confused now lol sorry… you’re saying that it is bourgeois?

Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

And then to have the compass rose in there for an implied 88 is crazy work. Just because it’s got plausible deniability with some tangential tie to lyrics doesn’t mean it isn’t an extremely questionable choice made by several somebodies who should have known better. This isn’t esoteric shit atp

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

I’m sorry, any design professional should know that doing the lightning bolts in that shape is playing with fire. Most cutesy charm bracelet style jewelry very deliberately uses the more thunderbolt-shape that isn’t symmetrical and doesn’t look like an S.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

8 SS-bolts and then an 8 point star for an implied 8-8? I mean it’s at the least a pretty critical failure of basic design oversight

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

Okay but the ss bolts necklace is 😬

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 20h

Yeah the bolts are the more unambiguous symbology but my first thought with the compass rose-looking pendant is that it could also be suggestive of the 8 arrows/chaos star, which is usually fash-coded online now (yeah, ik, it had stints as a warhammer thing and an anarchist thing)

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