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Susan B. Spooky 👻

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · May 2

US friends: reminder that I have a bunch of clothes, accessories, & beauty products for sale, and I'm looking to offload lots more in the next few months in anticipation of an international move. now is the time to make an offer and get some dealz

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · Jun 27

on the subject of needing money: I'm selling a bunch of stuff on Poshmark (poshmark.com/closet/checa...) and Mercari (www.mercari.com/u/checarina/)

mostly women's clothes and accessories + makeup & skincare

use my referral link to get $10 off:
posh.mk/lmUy56tnMKb
merc.li/PmqJfMhdb

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 3m

The Biden administration had paused such large-scale workplace raids, and instead focused on holding employers accountable for hiring unauthorized workers. The Trump administration restarted the practice this year.

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 16h

damn, I don't remember even hearing about this case. that's crazy

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 16h

what thee fuck

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 16h

they may say they want deportations but what they really want is to remind you at every turn that you don't belong, that you're not one of us, that you're not protected. so that you're always on alert, never at ease, never sure of your place or your rights or your neighbors or ultimately yourself

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 16h

are these agents ignorant and poorly trained? maybe. or maybe they're doing exactly what they've been told to. either way, they're furthering their aim of making life harder for more and more people. the harassment IS the goal

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 17h

haha no I figured it out from context and I LOVE a fried pickle, I've just never heard anyone call them that and tbh I felt kind of cheated

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 17h

to be very, very clear, in case anyone was still in doubt, this is the system working as intended

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"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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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 17h

sorry for barging into this conversation to derail it but did everyone else know the word frickle except me??

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 17h

oh dear

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 20h

if I had a nickel for every time I was asked to give my two cents I'd make a tidy profit

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · Jul 7

if you went back in time and told Chris Columbus he'd one day be an Italian American icon he'd be like wtf are you talking about, and then he'd probably set dogs on you or sth

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · Jul 7

it's sooo funny to me when people try to make an Italian-American hero out of Christopher Columbus, a guy who existed at a time when neither 'Italy' or 'America' existed as nations

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · Oct 9

in retrospect, "you'll go down in history (like Columbus)" is a pretty sick burn

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · Jul 2

please enjoy this photo of me c. 1990 that I feel still accurately conveys like 95% of my vibe

it's me, 3 or 4 years old, lying curled up on a large hard-sided trunk with pillow and blankie, looking like the proverbial bug in a rug. I seem perfectly content to make this piece of old-timey luggage my bed. my hair is an absolute shambles, my thumb is in or near my mouth, and I'm looking toward the camera like, "excuse me, can you not see that I'm engaged in a very important nap?"

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 1d

is there a spider party in my shower and I didn't get the invitation

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 4d

[sad George Harrison voice]
there goes the sun

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 1d

similar to the promise of cheap consumer goods, what happens when a social contract, even a shitty one, no longer plausibly holds up at all?

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder how the framing of mass gun death as the cost of uniquely American freedom will change (or not) in an era of rapidly declining freedom

Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 1d

that's the price of freedom*, baybee

*freedom not guaranteed

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Susan B. Spooky 👻 @checarina.bsky.social · 1d

that's the price of freedom*, baybee

*freedom not guaranteed

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Word Salad with Cheese @wordsaladwithcheez.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, my memory was off. I'm just struck by how often I have to say, "wait, did I already hear about this mass shooting, or is this a new one?" And then I go Google some hyperspecific keywords plus "mass shooting" and find 3 or more recent mass shootings that fit the search terms...