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Diana Lucifera 🌟

@dianamcqueen.bsky.social

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I don't like labels, but if you need a few, here's a couple that can describe me on a good day: Singer 🎤 Actor 🎭 Artist 🎨 Writer 📝 Archer 🏹 Feminist ♀️ Vegan 🌱 Cat person 🐈‍⬛ 日本語話者 🇯🇵 神道学者 ⛩️ ADHD 🧠 Bi 🩷💜🩵 AI 🚫 Always Winter, Never Christmas ❄️🌨️🌬️🩵

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 7d

Joined this app to keep sharing stuff/socializing bc that seems so impossible in person these days, but honestly I'm still very depressed, have nothing to share let alone promote and I'm so tired of social media. When they stole my joy on TikTok I just let it go. Social media probably ruined my art.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 2h

Whimsical cynicism (whimsicism?) is walking around every day hoping to find a fairy ring that you can "accidentally" trespass on in the hopes of being abducted.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

That's not criticism that sounds incredibly healing and I would totally do that It's just Showgirl I would probably have to listen on repeat for 50 times to do the same thing.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Can we also just talk about how life of a showgirl is so short? Like it's fun it's winky and it's over in 12 tracks that are relatively short even for pop music.

Meanwhile the tortured poets department I could have taken an entire road trip with and never listened to anything else wo repeats 😂

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent!!

Run for Something @runforsomething.net · 5h

Good News: RFS ‘25 endorsee @shanetta4durham.bsky.social just crushed it in Durham, North Carolina’s primaries — Burris swept her ward with a 2,300+ vote lead.

This is how power shifts: bold newcomers, rooted in community. Want to make change in your hometown? The pathway’s open.

Durham Primary Results: Incumbents Advance, Challengers Take Top Spots in Wards 1 and 2

While incumbents are moving forward in all four races, challenger Shanetta Burris led by a large margin in Ward 2 and Matt Kopac had a small lead in Ward 1.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

People always say that Taylor Swift is the problem and she's never doing anything or enough of anything... And then they completely ignore when people point out what she has done and everyone's horrible reaction to it every single time she does anything.

Or how she's not the problem. Crickets.

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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, don't give a fuck that 20 war criminals were returned to their war criminal bosses. Tell me about the two million people who had their shit bombed to fuck.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

What about the people who torched that judge's house while her grandchildren were visiting? Wtf is wrong with these people.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 6h

A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor’s mansion pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges. https://to.pbs.org/475Y00z

Pennsylvania man pleads guilty terrorism, arson attack at governor's mansion while Shapiro's family slept

No one was injured, but authorities say the 38-year-old Balmer told them he planned to beat the governor with a small sledgehammer if he encountered him.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

The protesting we have the right to protest. Period. This is the same argument as like there's fraud in elections and there's fraud in Medicaid when there's like zero in both and so many hoops you have to jump through if you want to actually commit fraud that it's prevented.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes you can be oppressed and still wrong about something.

Those two things can happen simultaneously.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I'm tired of discourse online. In general but YouTube or social media is the worst place to have any connections anymore bc it's all performative and even if it's not it will seem that way to people who have no idea what you're talking about and don't care to learn.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

People will just say insane shit about stuff they have no idea about and think their arguments are valid bc they think they're fighting oppression or micro aggressions and honestly it's easy to see microaggressions if you've lived w them you're whole life like oppressed groups including all women.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

Her album is a celebration of the past year plus responding to a traitor who threw her under the bus after giving that person a professional boost.

She's a business woman, a song writer &a director. She's daydreaming about the future ahead of her with a loving partner she can trust. Not a tradwife.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

The only way that her work is feminist is that she is a woman who is working and achieving success and choosing her own path and managing control over her own work instead of being exploited by other people.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I think if Taylor spent any time online anymore she would be horrified by these accusations and it's not like this is the first time that there's been unfounded accusations about her but literally if she did anything it would just feed the toxic crap machine.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I've seen a lot of white people make these arguments purely for views and they are unhinged.

I'm willing to actually listen to black women but it's impossible to have conversations with people you don't know so they're just putting their unfounded opinions out on the internet.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

It's these kind of problems that drama farmers love to latch on to bc there isn't a result that they will ever be happy with. Even if Taylor just retired tomorrow they would still be calling her out for stuff she never did. What is she supposed to do to make it better when there's nothing wrong?

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I'm just sick of their being arguments that you cannot question bc the world has already agreed they're right without any research.

She grew up in country music surrounded by bitchy white women who thought she was a Republican like them...but her song could never be about that right?

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I would absolutely stop supporting Taylor if I thought she was harboring weird obsessions or being racist. But I just heard someone say she's the embodiment of "white feminism"... In what way? By her being white, a woman, famous and just doing her job? She's constantly advocating for equality.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

Literally nothing in her new album is remotely about Black women and the only things that are being pointed out are taken out of context and crazy people (of all races) extrapolating meanings not supported by the song alone or in context in reality.

How do people not see how harmful that is?

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

I'm so sick of racist arguments against Taylor Swift. None of them have anything to do with reality and while I'm a person who will examine something to death and really listen to people's concerns the ones I hear are so insane and cherry picking plus disinformation. It's crazy.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 5h

Is Charli xcx's catalog just contain weird shit songs about how she hates and feels inferior to other women music?! Because that really explains a lot about her reaction to her enjoying and opening for the reputation tour.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 6h

first load of laundry: absolutely nailed

second load of laundry: lost forever, unstuck in time, may your creator speed you through the great black nothing until we meet again on some far kinder plane

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 5h

As the Trump shutdown drags into its third week, it's clear Republicans are so committed to raising people's health care costs that they're willing to hold the country hostage to do it.

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