burnlittlelight (she/her)
@burnlittlelight.bsky.social
Community care, monster theology, narrative power, hope in the dark.
Any opinions I express here are mine, and don't express the views of the organizations I work with and for.
Any opinions I express here are mine, and don't express the views of the organizations I work with and for.
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system."
100% this.
100% this.
When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...
crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...
Capitalists Were Never Going To Protect Your Healthcare When Your Disablement Is For Profit
When I first began my career in disability advocacy as a professional, I was bright-eyed, believing that I would be working with the most vocal supporters of DEI and who rallied behind diversity as…
crutchesandspice.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system."
100% this.
100% this.
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I see Discourse is still happening. I hope you are all having fun and not partying too hard with it! Remember to drink water and enjoy in moderation!
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I see Discourse is still happening. I hope you are all having fun and not partying too hard with it! Remember to drink water and enjoy in moderation!
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it'd be really great if the NYT could muster like 10% of the empathy for your average trans person as it can for wealthy cis people who grossly violate their profession's ethical standards
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
it'd be really great if the NYT could muster like 10% of the empathy for your average trans person as it can for wealthy cis people who grossly violate their profession's ethical standards
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India’s largest Hindu far-right organization, initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year. Its followers have been accused of targeting Muslims and other minorities with discrimination, harassment, and violence.
India’s Largest Paramilitary Hires US Lobbyists to Influence Congress
US firm Squire Patton Boggs lobbied lawmakers on behalf of a Hindu nationalist group linked to violence against Muslims.
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India’s largest Hindu far-right organization, initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year. Its followers have been accused of targeting Muslims and other minorities with discrimination, harassment, and violence.
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being trans can be legitimately dangerous and difficult, especially right now, and i understand why it is hard for some people to see anything other than misery in it but you HAVE to resist that worldview because its logical conclusion is that you should just give in and suffer until you die.
any time you ever post anything vaguely positive about being trans you'll inevitably get replies so intensely doomer you have to play the "troll or woman who desperately needs a hug?" game where unfortunately there are no winners
probably something to be said about doomer echo chamber online spaces
probably something to be said about doomer echo chamber online spaces
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
being trans can be legitimately dangerous and difficult, especially right now, and i understand why it is hard for some people to see anything other than misery in it but you HAVE to resist that worldview because its logical conclusion is that you should just give in and suffer until you die.
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What I've learned from this year, is that everyone needs friends who can tell them No.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
What I've learned from this year, is that everyone needs friends who can tell them No.
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As someone who hikes regularly, one of the things I enjoy about it is that I actually can’t work while doing it
From the piece about the Olivia Nuzzi book.
I am trying to remain calm.
I am trying to remain calm.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
As someone who hikes regularly, one of the things I enjoy about it is that I actually can’t work while doing it
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In addition to being unqualified and inept, these people are also completely ridiculous.
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In addition to being unqualified and inept, these people are also completely ridiculous.
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful".
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
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You been hit by a smooth hymnal
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You been hit by a smooth hymnal
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The Reifenstahl of it all !!!
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Reifenstahl of it all !!!
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I misread this and thought there was a Tim Curry board game and now that’s all I want
A remake of the Tim Curry board game murder-comedy, only all the suspects and the victim were openly in one big consensual relationship unit, called Cule
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I misread this and thought there was a Tim Curry board game and now that’s all I want
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My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
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also not to be this guy but the Heritage Foundation was CLEAR that one of their goals in Project 2025 is to criminalize "pornography," the people who make it and the people who distribute it.
And remember porn here is used VERY broadly to mean anything with LGBTQ content.
So defend porn.
And remember porn here is used VERY broadly to mean anything with LGBTQ content.
So defend porn.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
also not to be this guy but the Heritage Foundation was CLEAR that one of their goals in Project 2025 is to criminalize "pornography," the people who make it and the people who distribute it.
And remember porn here is used VERY broadly to mean anything with LGBTQ content.
So defend porn.
And remember porn here is used VERY broadly to mean anything with LGBTQ content.
So defend porn.
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It's uncomfortable for a lot of kidlit creators to contend with, but if you leave porn without defense, the censors are comin for you next THEY ALWAYS DO
(and they HAVE been in this era of book bans)
(defend porn like your freedom of speech depends on it)
(because it does)
(and they HAVE been in this era of book bans)
(defend porn like your freedom of speech depends on it)
(because it does)
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's uncomfortable for a lot of kidlit creators to contend with, but if you leave porn without defense, the censors are comin for you next THEY ALWAYS DO
(and they HAVE been in this era of book bans)
(defend porn like your freedom of speech depends on it)
(because it does)
(and they HAVE been in this era of book bans)
(defend porn like your freedom of speech depends on it)
(because it does)
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barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity."
just the same idea over and over.
just the same idea over and over.
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity."
just the same idea over and over.
just the same idea over and over.
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Look the thing is, you can personally dislike someone -- or even have serious political *strategy* disagreements with them -- while also being clear that they don't deserve to be mistreated
On a level, our enemies are relying on us to forget this
On a level, our enemies are relying on us to forget this
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Look the thing is, you can personally dislike someone -- or even have serious political *strategy* disagreements with them -- while also being clear that they don't deserve to be mistreated
On a level, our enemies are relying on us to forget this
On a level, our enemies are relying on us to forget this
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*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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no I’m not surprised, just imagining (among other things) an opposition party that took this population seriously and devoted itself over the many years it would take to make this country actually livable for them
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
no I’m not surprised, just imagining (among other things) an opposition party that took this population seriously and devoted itself over the many years it would take to make this country actually livable for them
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I feel like this whole focus on the idea that releasing the Epstein files will topple Trump gives the deeply flawed impression that rapists - especially powerful ones - frequently get punished.
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I feel like this whole focus on the idea that releasing the Epstein files will topple Trump gives the deeply flawed impression that rapists - especially powerful ones - frequently get punished.
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I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
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...and all on yahoo mail. thas the wildest ass part to me. yahoo mail. not even a private email server.
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
...and all on yahoo mail. thas the wildest ass part to me. yahoo mail. not even a private email server.