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Valerie

@beezygrey.bsky.social

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♋♑♐ | bambi lesbian | ACAB | antiracist | skeets about TV, movies, lesbian stuff, Unrivaled & WNBA (Valkyries), & video games {she/her}

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · Jun 30

I just realized that I talk about the Las Vegas Aces the way most women talk about their toxic ex

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 9h

a cartoon character is laying on a bed holding a remote control

Alt: a cartoon character, Sophocles, is playing with various charjabug plushies

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 9h

Not Sophocles pretending I didn't just see him at the Festival Plaza

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 10h

brain worms

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 10h

Isabela

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 11h

Update: still no beldum, but I took a break to visit Poké Pelago and my festival plaza

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Kylie Chi 季 Eats People 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @thekyliechi.bsky.social · 1d

Besides sex with Katy, watching Chappell Roan perform Barracuda live was the sexiest thing to ever happen to me

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

This should be in Legends Z-A

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

not me going through the pain in the ass that is catching a Beldum on Mount Hokulani knowing full well that I won't keep it in my party bc I've already got Alolan Raichu and my friend Malamar in the party

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

Ugh I want a Leo girlfriend so badly

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

Way too early is very right. We don't even know if we'll have a season, and even if we do, nearly every veteran player is a free agent. No one can make any reasonable predictions at this stage, and pretending to do so is just stupid

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

That's the most common take, but hardly the only one

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

I suspect some of these people know ball are being disingenuous due to the hating

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

There are plenty of justifiable and reality-based reasons not to like the Aces. "it isn't enjoyable to watch A'ja Wilson play basketball" isn't one of them. You're just a hater.

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 13h

Very low bar, but yes it is

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 15h

This man is my dad’s age and he was arrested before I was even born.

This is not an institution that can be reformed.

When people recoil from “defund the police” it’s because they believe in a fairy tale where this doesn’t happen every day in every state in America.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 15h

Not to say that nothing has changed.

What’s changed however is not suddenly that cops are worse and more corrupt and cruel now.

It is that government surveillance technology has enabled a systematized, mechanized crack down, and they aren’t even trying to hide it from your genteel eyeballs.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 15h

The reality of the carceral system in America that liberals don’t want to acknowledge is that rounding up innocent brown people and forcing them into labour camps has been business as usual since America was Britain.

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 14h

It's amazing to me that the liberal mind will see something like this and still believe that all these 'pro-democracy' gusanos aren't just full-of-shit fascists angry about their family losing their slave plantation or local xyz monopoly.

momorijo.bsky.social @momorijo.bsky.social · 1d

It is head spinning that Rubio among others nominated Machado for her pro-democracy and anti authoritarian work in Venezuela...while helping Trump implement his anti democracy, authoritarian plan in US. And if Trump really has been a huge help to her...why?? He doesn't care about democracy

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Lise @infinitebadger.bsky.social · 1d

This ad is absolutely beautiful and should be required watching for every Dem candidate and office holder. THIS is how you appeal to voters.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

I keep watching Mamdani's video in disbelief of how good it is... centering BIPOC trans street activism, SOPHIE soundtrack, pivoting to supporting funds for trans housing and healthcare...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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dubs 💙 @dumbfun.bsky.social · 1d

they hate gays and love fascism, literally nothing to like. donate money to your local food bank instead.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 1d

Don’t heap endless praise onto the coach who is said to have discriminated against a pregnant lady challenge level: impossible

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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 1d

The Coach Award goes to Natalie Nakase.

There are other coaches worthy of recognition, but being a new head cocach to a new team and leading that team to the Playoffs is too good not to reward. Coach Nakase has proven herself right away in Ballhalla. The problem now is how to follow up.

#WNBA

2025 WNBADana Holtzbert Award
Coach: Natalie Nakase

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