Erin 'Piggy' Marquis
@emarquis.bsky.social
Detroiter. Car writer. Editor. Three time cancer survivor.
Sometimes people interrogate me about my illnesses in an accusatory way. "How much processed crap do you eat?" "Do you not work out?" "How much do you drink?"
I got the first signs of cancer at 21. It's not proof of moral failing to get sick.
I got the first signs of cancer at 21. It's not proof of moral failing to get sick.
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sometimes people interrogate me about my illnesses in an accusatory way. "How much processed crap do you eat?" "Do you not work out?" "How much do you drink?"
I got the first signs of cancer at 21. It's not proof of moral failing to get sick.
I got the first signs of cancer at 21. It's not proof of moral failing to get sick.
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Vaccines do not cause autism, no matter what the CDC website now says 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly…
defector.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism, no matter what the CDC website now says 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Ever since I quit drinking I've gotten super into loose-leaf teas...which is somehow lamer than just being sober.
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ever since I quit drinking I've gotten super into loose-leaf teas...which is somehow lamer than just being sober.
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This is metro Detroit, right across 696 from the Detroit Zoo
I pulled the video from Facebook to post it directly on here. (Thanks to @grenadine.bsky.social for posting the Facebook link!)
Border Patrol abducted someone after apparently tasing them in the street at the corner of 10 Mile (eastbound I-696 service drive) and Roanoke in Oak Park, Michigan.
Border Patrol abducted someone after apparently tasing them in the street at the corner of 10 Mile (eastbound I-696 service drive) and Roanoke in Oak Park, Michigan.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is metro Detroit, right across 696 from the Detroit Zoo
I've been feeling better and working at my desk but it's cold out today I've been bullied by my three judgy pit bulls to return to working in bed. This is why they are called bully breeds, cause they're mean until they get what they want.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I've been feeling better and working at my desk but it's cold out today I've been bullied by my three judgy pit bulls to return to working in bed. This is why they are called bully breeds, cause they're mean until they get what they want.
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This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
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Looks like this is real. About 40% of the flight at 8k feet, then bumped up to 10k, and then finally went up higher, but only to 20k feet. Much slower than normal flight and likely burned a lot more fuel. But the view out the window was probably impressive.
www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Looks like this is real. About 40% of the flight at 8k feet, then bumped up to 10k, and then finally went up higher, but only to 20k feet. Much slower than normal flight and likely burned a lot more fuel. But the view out the window was probably impressive.
www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ www.popsci.com/science/edmu...
How the Witch of November doomed the 'Edmund Fitzgerald'
Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.
www.popsci.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ www.popsci.com/science/edmu...
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald used to make me cry when I heard it on the radio, but the Gordon Lightfoot song "Black Day In July" never played on the radio. There's a reason for that.
It's worth a listen, especially in these dark days in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T...
It's worth a listen, especially in these dark days in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T...
Gordon Lightfoot - Black Day in July
YouTube video by Crystal Dawne
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November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald used to make me cry when I heard it on the radio, but the Gordon Lightfoot song "Black Day In July" never played on the radio. There's a reason for that.
It's worth a listen, especially in these dark days in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T...
It's worth a listen, especially in these dark days in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07T...
Memorials, remembrances...I just want to know what bar in Detroit is serving 29 beers for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Memorials, remembrances...I just want to know what bar in Detroit is serving 29 beers for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
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Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late
Another beloved Halloween tradition. I also want to be just like Vincent Price
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQc...
Vincent - Tim.Burton.Short.Animation.1982
YouTube video by petrover
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October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Another beloved Halloween tradition. I also want to be just like Vincent Price
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQc...
When I was in 2nd grade my dad started a Halloween tradition of reading spooky stories. He started with The Black Cat by Eager Allen Poe. It's part The Raven, part Tell Tale Heart. It's a story where a guy gets jealous of his wife's pets so he axe murders her and all her pets save one black cat.
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
When I was in 2nd grade my dad started a Halloween tradition of reading spooky stories. He started with The Black Cat by Eager Allen Poe. It's part The Raven, part Tell Tale Heart. It's a story where a guy gets jealous of his wife's pets so he axe murders her and all her pets save one black cat.
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the beloved neighborhood bodega cat getting killed by a waymo is something I just can't stop thinking about, and it breaks me in little ways over and over again.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the beloved neighborhood bodega cat getting killed by a waymo is something I just can't stop thinking about, and it breaks me in little ways over and over again.
Between Elizabeth McGovern and Eric Bogosian AMC is really serving up the hot older people in these Anne Rice shows. Gray is the new black!
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Between Elizabeth McGovern and Eric Bogosian AMC is really serving up the hot older people in these Anne Rice shows. Gray is the new black!
This year for halloween we are giving out boxes of mac and cheese, granola bars and gold fish crackers. Growing up in Detroit, some of my classmates would trick or treat just so they could eat that night. It's going to be worse this year.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This year for halloween we are giving out boxes of mac and cheese, granola bars and gold fish crackers. Growing up in Detroit, some of my classmates would trick or treat just so they could eat that night. It's going to be worse this year.
We're going into Thanksgiving, and millions of Americans are staring down hunger. Please give to small, local organizations. They're making the most difference. My donations go right here if you're interested in helping people in one of the poorest zip codes in the U.S.
rbidetroit.org
rbidetroit.org
Redford Brightmoor Initiative
Visit the post for more.
rbidetroit.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We're going into Thanksgiving, and millions of Americans are staring down hunger. Please give to small, local organizations. They're making the most difference. My donations go right here if you're interested in helping people in one of the poorest zip codes in the U.S.
rbidetroit.org
rbidetroit.org
The Quick And The Single Pot
Make a movie food:
The French Fry Connection
The French Fry Connection
Make a movie food:
Rosemary's Baby Carrots
Rosemary's Baby Carrots
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Quick And The Single Pot
Update the ol' profile to "three time cancer survivor." Three *separate* cancers (though the last one was cause by the wholesale poisoning of my body by the second)
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Update the ol' profile to "three time cancer survivor." Three *separate* cancers (though the last one was cause by the wholesale poisoning of my body by the second)
Beautiful
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Beautiful
Merkins are stolen valor.
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Merkins are stolen valor.
When I realized my freshmen high school history prof was on the right I started writing essays to his views and started getting As. By the end of the year he tried to hug me and compliment my growth.
One teacher told us “apartheid was good for S Africa;” another lectured that FDR “ruined the country” by making Americans “lazy;” yet another wld force us to watch Alan Greenspan lectures and preface them by saying “now that’s a smart Jew” (the teacher ofc was not Jewish)
September 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
When I realized my freshmen high school history prof was on the right I started writing essays to his views and started getting As. By the end of the year he tried to hug me and compliment my growth.