Firdarrig
@firdarrig.bsky.social
Library worker, voice actor, sometime musician, artisan all with a slight twist of disability.
Earphones awards for RJ Palacio's Pony and Runaway Blues by Pete Fanning (who is a tragically underread children's author).
Earphones awards for RJ Palacio's Pony and Runaway Blues by Pete Fanning (who is a tragically underread children's author).
Non-man: Asks a question.
Man: Well, do this.
Non-man: I already said that didn't work.
Man: Oh. Well, then I'm not sure.
Men? Why are you like this? If you have nothing original, thoughtful or useful to contribute... maybe don't?
Man: Well, do this.
Non-man: I already said that didn't work.
Man: Oh. Well, then I'm not sure.
Men? Why are you like this? If you have nothing original, thoughtful or useful to contribute... maybe don't?
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Non-man: Asks a question.
Man: Well, do this.
Non-man: I already said that didn't work.
Man: Oh. Well, then I'm not sure.
Men? Why are you like this? If you have nothing original, thoughtful or useful to contribute... maybe don't?
Man: Well, do this.
Non-man: I already said that didn't work.
Man: Oh. Well, then I'm not sure.
Men? Why are you like this? If you have nothing original, thoughtful or useful to contribute... maybe don't?
86 sitting Democratic House members, including 2 from Colorado, just voted yes on H. Con. Res. 58, Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
This is why Europeans say we have NO left leaning Party in the US.
This is why I don't trust the Democratic Party as far as I can kick their gold plated Ass.
This is why Europeans say we have NO left leaning Party in the US.
This is why I don't trust the Democratic Party as far as I can kick their gold plated Ass.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
86 sitting Democratic House members, including 2 from Colorado, just voted yes on H. Con. Res. 58, Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
This is why Europeans say we have NO left leaning Party in the US.
This is why I don't trust the Democratic Party as far as I can kick their gold plated Ass.
This is why Europeans say we have NO left leaning Party in the US.
This is why I don't trust the Democratic Party as far as I can kick their gold plated Ass.
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"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
November 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
I am truly fortunate that, on this Trans Day of Remembrance, I have no Trans friends who haven't survived. I have watched some amazing people grow into themselves once they finally took that leap into recognizing their own identity and asking the rest of us to do the same.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I am truly fortunate that, on this Trans Day of Remembrance, I have no Trans friends who haven't survived. I have watched some amazing people grow into themselves once they finally took that leap into recognizing their own identity and asking the rest of us to do the same.
Ah, such fun. Once they've proven that they're unrepentant, misogynistic, classist penis pimples, a little recreational vulgarity is a nice way to pass the time.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Ah, such fun. Once they've proven that they're unrepentant, misogynistic, classist penis pimples, a little recreational vulgarity is a nice way to pass the time.
Damn it, @acwise.bsky.social, I wasn't planning on crying tonight. Not about James or Jane or Wendy, and now I'm all weepy about all three.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Damn it, @acwise.bsky.social, I wasn't planning on crying tonight. Not about James or Jane or Wendy, and now I'm all weepy about all three.
The fuckers that are the Old Guard of the Democratic Party really DO NOT GET IT. Some of them have been in office long enough that they voted for the Dems when they were the party of Jim Crow.
“trust with Republicans,” that thing all Democratic voters cherish
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The fuckers that are the Old Guard of the Democratic Party really DO NOT GET IT. Some of them have been in office long enough that they voted for the Dems when they were the party of Jim Crow.
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It really does seem like refusing to physically engage while screaming the worst and most defiant abuse you can think of at these gestapo assholes has tremendous potential to be spectacularly effective
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It really does seem like refusing to physically engage while screaming the worst and most defiant abuse you can think of at these gestapo assholes has tremendous potential to be spectacularly effective
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Let me put this simply @andrewcuomo
You're a bigot, a bully, and an asshole. Fuck you, fuck you for shaming your late father, fuck you for damaging the people of this state, fuck you for embarrassing our city, and get the FUCK out of New York.
You're a bigot, a bully, and an asshole. Fuck you, fuck you for shaming your late father, fuck you for damaging the people of this state, fuck you for embarrassing our city, and get the FUCK out of New York.
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Let me put this simply @andrewcuomo
You're a bigot, a bully, and an asshole. Fuck you, fuck you for shaming your late father, fuck you for damaging the people of this state, fuck you for embarrassing our city, and get the FUCK out of New York.
You're a bigot, a bully, and an asshole. Fuck you, fuck you for shaming your late father, fuck you for damaging the people of this state, fuck you for embarrassing our city, and get the FUCK out of New York.
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We really need to stop trying to teach the median American voter new words. "Kleptocracy," "Stochastic terrorism," all $6 words that people bounce right off of.
Go for the jugular: this is what theft looks like. He is stealing your money and building a gold palace where the White House used to be.
Go for the jugular: this is what theft looks like. He is stealing your money and building a gold palace where the White House used to be.
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We really need to stop trying to teach the median American voter new words. "Kleptocracy," "Stochastic terrorism," all $6 words that people bounce right off of.
Go for the jugular: this is what theft looks like. He is stealing your money and building a gold palace where the White House used to be.
Go for the jugular: this is what theft looks like. He is stealing your money and building a gold palace where the White House used to be.
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I heard an owl hooting outside and dhe sounded awfully close to the house. I went outside in time to see her fly into this tree, where she and another (maybe younger?) owl satn and conversed before flying off together. #owls #birds #momentofpeacr
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I heard an owl hooting outside and dhe sounded awfully close to the house. I went outside in time to see her fly into this tree, where she and another (maybe younger?) owl satn and conversed before flying off together. #owls #birds #momentofpeacr
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Why do explorers always pack extra paper towels when they go to the Andromeda galaxy?
Because it's a Messier object.
Because it's a Messier object.
July 16, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Why do explorers always pack extra paper towels when they go to the Andromeda galaxy?
Because it's a Messier object.
Because it's a Messier object.
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me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
October 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
If you want my support for you as Governor, you need to come out hard and loud against this, right now:
www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...
America is under siege. A Governor who won't fight against this would be just a Nazi stooge.
If you want my support for you as Governor, you need to come out hard and loud against this, right now:
www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...
America is under siege. A Governor who won't fight against this would be just a Nazi stooge.
ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
Roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation, NewsNation reported.
www.newsweek.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
If you want my support for you as Governor, you need to come out hard and loud against this, right now:
www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...
America is under siege. A Governor who won't fight against this would be just a Nazi stooge.
If you want my support for you as Governor, you need to come out hard and loud against this, right now:
www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...
America is under siege. A Governor who won't fight against this would be just a Nazi stooge.
Anyone who wants to be an apologist for Kirk should be asked to watch this.
youtu.be/Y6MShHqqZrw?...
youtu.be/Y6MShHqqZrw?...
Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Paradox
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Anyone who wants to be an apologist for Kirk should be asked to watch this.
youtu.be/Y6MShHqqZrw?...
youtu.be/Y6MShHqqZrw?...
Bennet is a coward and a weasel. If there is no effort to control pricing and corporate investment into private housing, our housing prices will continue to skyrocket.
ground.news/article/mich...
ground.news/article/mich...
Michael Bennet Lays Out Affordable Housing Agenda if Governor, Says Colorado Needs to ‘Move Faster’ on Its Goals
Boosting housing supply, cutting construction costs and centralizing state resources are all ways Michael Bennet says he plans to bring down the cost of housing if elected Colorado governor next year....
ground.news
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bennet is a coward and a weasel. If there is no effort to control pricing and corporate investment into private housing, our housing prices will continue to skyrocket.
ground.news/article/mich...
ground.news/article/mich...
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If anything good can come from my arrest, I hope it's that more people demand the shutdown of the Broadview ICE facility, where humans are treated like poorly kept animals. Stop the deportations. Demand the truth about Silverio's death at ICE's hands.
September 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If anything good can come from my arrest, I hope it's that more people demand the shutdown of the Broadview ICE facility, where humans are treated like poorly kept animals. Stop the deportations. Demand the truth about Silverio's death at ICE's hands.
I'm really only sticking around for my cat. After he's gone, I'm really not sure what's left.
September 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I'm really only sticking around for my cat. After he's gone, I'm really not sure what's left.
If you're more upset about the response to Kirk's murder than you were about the response to Hortman's... Ask yourself why.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Utah Republican senator faces backlash over post condemning Kirk’s killing
Only months ago, Mike Lee had posted disparaging tweets after Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If you're more upset about the response to Kirk's murder than you were about the response to Hortman's... Ask yourself why.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If Kirk's call the murder LGBTQ people (referencing Leviticus) is just legitimate debate, then so is shooting him in the neck. You really don't get to have it both ways.
I do not advocate shooting people. Or stoning people. But they are equivalent. To say otherwise is bullshit.
I do not advocate shooting people. Or stoning people. But they are equivalent. To say otherwise is bullshit.
It’s quite astonishing how many cis straight White ppl dismiss LGBTQ ppl as human, & don’t even know they are doing it. They ‘tolerate’ us they say. I’ve had to block more users on here, than since joining, for excusing Kirk’s call to murder gay men as ‘debate’ when it is, in fact, Nazi ideology [1]
One issue over Kirk was that for LGBTQ ppl, he was a terrorist inciting hate & violence.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If Kirk's call the murder LGBTQ people (referencing Leviticus) is just legitimate debate, then so is shooting him in the neck. You really don't get to have it both ways.
I do not advocate shooting people. Or stoning people. But they are equivalent. To say otherwise is bullshit.
I do not advocate shooting people. Or stoning people. But they are equivalent. To say otherwise is bullshit.
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One issue over Kirk was that for LGBTQ ppl, he was a terrorist inciting hate & violence.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
September 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
One issue over Kirk was that for LGBTQ ppl, he was a terrorist inciting hate & violence.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.
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I have had three separate conversations in three separate contexts today about how nice it would be if trans people weren't being aggressively targeted by forces in power so that we were free to have defining characteristics beyond "trans."
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I have had three separate conversations in three separate contexts today about how nice it would be if trans people weren't being aggressively targeted by forces in power so that we were free to have defining characteristics beyond "trans."