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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️

@birdierappinghood.bsky.social

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l'oiseau chante avec ses doigts educated alley cat - half boho, half hobo heavy on the hoopla neither joiner nor plank

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · 2d

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · 26d

Freaking BIble Belt deep-red Kansas and Missouri voted to codify reproductive freedom in the state constitutions. Absolutely not unwinnable terrain, and too many vulnerable people there for us just to turn our backs on them.

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Aug 13

SHARIIIIIIF DON'T LIKE IT

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Relentless @relentlesspursuit.bsky.social · Jun 14

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand.

Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop over reacting

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 14

And how many of those folks were just there to see big vroom-vroom boom-boom machines?

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 14

Me: <spends less than 2min behind the mic at the Staunton No Kings protest>

Brayne: <spends ENTIRE FUCKING AFTERNOON dissecting, critiquing, and rewriting what I said like it was a manuscript up for review>

thanks for nothing, brayne...but i am proud to have spoken up

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 8

Don't forget he pardoned all the "RIOTS [sic] AND LOOTERS" who vandalized the Capitol.

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 8

"Can't go left in General Pinochet's Cadillac"

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · Jun 1

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 1

Every. Single. Time.

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Jun 1

That whole thing about unequal power creating two groups--one of which the law protects but doesn't bind, and the other whom the law binds but doesn't protect--comes to mind here.

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 23

I mean there's not much more than that level of thought given to everything in the current US administration. "Ooh, makes Teh Libs cry AND fattens my wallet? HELL YES! With sprinkles."

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 20

So much for their purported strong support of "Stand Your Ground" laws. Or any law, for that matter.

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 18

My husband has worked in local government for over 25 years and routinely has to deal with wealthy, entitled landowners who take it as read that his office is "hiding something" or trying to cheat them. The emergence of entitled MAGA was not a surprise.

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 17

TFW you have so many unmatched socks you're tempted to suggest to them that they form a polycule

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 16

Autocorrect turned this poor guy's legit mushroom question into a theme for the ages

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 16

US politics has basically BECOME a giant reality show, except with consequences we *all* feel in *actual* reality.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · May 8

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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Brent Black @brentalfloss.bsky.social · May 8

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 8

New entry in the "ruin a band name by removing one letter" game:

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 7

Been thinking about this song a lot lately. It packs just as big a punch now as it did when it was released over 30 years ago, by Charlottesville's own Terri Allard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aizR...

Terri Allard - Never Ceases To Amaze Me

YouTube video by Dream of the 90s

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Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · May 5

I learned how to needlefelt an opossum today--IJS

Birdie Rappinghood (she/they) 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏞️ @birdierappinghood.bsky.social · Apr 29

...arguing all the way that they're actually "enrichment centers" and their handlers are going to make them rich and famous.