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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 12h

me: okay i'm going to go to bed early because i'm not feeling well and i don't want to get fully sick
zelda: awesome great, i will just play with my catnip mouse toy that i only play with three times a year while you get ready for bed

aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 15h

omg same size widdle babies!!!!!

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 15h

yup lol

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 15h

you haven't met her in person but she's genuinely Actually Widdle. the first thing everybody says when they meet her is "omg she's so TINY 😍"

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 15h

i shall have to watch howl's moving castle in its honor later bandagebrigade.com/collections/...

Star Catcher Bucket Hat

Quick, make a wish! The Star Catcher design is embroidered on a black bucket hat.

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 15h

working overtime this week so i have impulsively bought a bucket hat i like on sale. i shall become a bucket hat person again as in teenagerhood in hong kong

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 16h

a widdle baby

photograph of a cat staring at the camera with a blanket partially wrapped around hee

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 16h

oh my god

photograph of a cat curled up cutely on a blanket next to a red llama pillow

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 16h

i wonder if she'd let me tuck her in or if that would wake her up

photo of a cat lying on a couch on top of a blanket, using a red llama pillow as a pillow

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 18h

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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X ΘΔ @xkeeper.net · 23h

i said this a few weeks ago, but a reminder that windows 10 being "end of life" does not mean your operating system will immediately stop working. even if the OS itself doesn't get updates, the apps you use most often (the browser.) still are. more important to have adblock + firewall these days

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23h

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

If there’s one thing about the last decade that has truly done my head in, it’s seeing how many people - including many very well educated people with power - appear to be totally incapable of spotting an obvious bullshitter in the act of bullshitting.

Airwindows @airwindows.com · 1d

How do people not SEE the extent to which this guy is an utter bullshitter? Is this some kind of autistic soul-read thing I'm manifesting? I don't understand how people aren't getting constant red flags from this guy. Every picture just trumpets bullshitter, he is like a parody of a normie-fooler.

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Nyx @nyxicemane.bsky.social · 21h

There's a reason my police abolitionism is often expressed as "I don't call the cops because I don't want someone to roll up six hours later and shoot my dog" to folks I'm trying to warm up to the concept.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 22h

this explains a lot!

aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 22h

i have discovered i have a deviated septum through your posts and wow! had no idea the amount of air i was breathing was unusually low!

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

i went to take out the recycling before my strength failed me and y'all the look of betrayal zelda gave me as i was closing the front door

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

No worries! It's good to have it out there, because I did miss it too at first

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, Elliott noticed that later, it's just in a thread that's hidden because the person in question ended up being a massive asshole

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, hilariously related to the discourse - growing up my dad didn't really use the acute e and thus I generally don't use the acute e, especially when doing Documentation, so the time that happened it happened because whoever was entering me into the system put the acute e there for me

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, even with the Chosen Just One Last Name, I *still* run into problems sometimes because some systems can handle the acute e and some Extremely Cannot (shoutout to the one time I saw my last name as P�rez)

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 1d

My dad changed his last name because double barrelled surnames weren't really A Thing when he immigrated, and *my* last name is different on my birth certificates in the USA and in Bolivia because it *still* wasn't really a thing even when I was born!

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

Even today, there are ppl whose names show up differently on different documents. This is why "no match" voter clauses are so evil and effective.

If you're Thai? Forget about it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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