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Gail Drakes
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Bad at bios, but I’m not a bot. 💁🏽‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈 Trained as a historian, surviving late-stage capitalism by giving away Other People’s Money.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 8h
It ain’t the age that pisses me off, it’s the politics. (The age talk bothers me tbh…)

These old folks giving old folks a bad name! And we were reminded today that the young GOP is filled w/old-school hate, so…

There are old folks who are incapable of bullshit, I’d LOVE for them to be in the mix.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
I can understand why! And her running would have been one thing/bad enough…

…but the way the Dems stepped up with the support, endorsements, and enthusiasm was worse.

They tell on themselves relentlessly.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
Yup. Ain’t that the way tho’!
I understood what you were saying fwiw…

…and I understand why people are messy right now, but still it’s hard…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
Exactly. And even if they were - after the first “oh no!” that passed my lips - I realized that the timing and context were HIGHLY suspect…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
Love to hear that!

Because people today (surely not coincidentally) started mentioning Blackwater and whether he was gonna play us like Fetterman and I was shook…🫨
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
Speak that truth!

If I wasn’t busy trying to figure out how survive in this semi-demi-Democracy…

…I’d write something about why the whole “the kids are all right” claim never goes away!

The claim/phrase is meeting many needs, for sure.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 9h
This. Right. Here.
Read this 🧵

It’s as if we are all saying we read the same book, but then the actions prove that some folks read every other page, others watched the movie…

Grad school memories about signs/a signifier/a signified. It is so 21st century it hurts.

Keep mocking & BRING THE HEAT.
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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h
as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 11h
Agreed and thank you!

And do I remember correctly that Tish James was recently pushing for age-verification for social media apps?

Someone needs to let her know the deal, if so…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 17h
POINT TAKEN! 😂👍🏾
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20h
Dear Grim Reaper, I have some notes
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 20h
I get where you are going, but since the woman he divorced seems pretty damn amazing, perhaps pinning this on the divorce ain’t the move, you know? It feels like it makes it about MacKenzie…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 20h
I was already in FULL agreement with y’all about 2025…and then I checked Trudy’s TL to see what I missed…and then… 😔😔
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah, i was coming to mention that small b black bloc ain’t us…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 20h
I just saw pics of the Gaza peace plan signing. These people are so unserious.

Big signs: “Peace in the Middle East - PEACE 2025”

And Bibi ain’t signed the damn thing?!

Are they asking for more privacy as they kill Palestinians?! Wicked work.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 1d
A wrap is a culturally unappropriated burrito. 💁🏽‍♀️
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 1d
lol 😂 okay
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 1d
NOPE. She is *clearly* invoking the much beloved Vegas Showgirl. That image is about the sexy woman in her 20s - and pop culture refs often are about “aging out.”

I have absolutely no problem with Taylor Swift being 35! She’s the one that has often appeared to find her age to be inconvenient. 💁🏽‍♀️
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
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Just saw your bio! Earlier today I was in an online conference and I started a conversation in which many of us shared how much respect we have for a financial dominatrix!

Hope you are well!
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
It’s less about reinvention as it is that she allows her persona to age at a quarter of the speed of regular humans! 😏😂
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
35 is a full grown woman (who hopefully gets to keep growing/evolving).

And the point isn’t that she’s old (that horrible fate 😏)…
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
Facts! It’s all a calculation bcuz a big part of how she got here was school kid fandom.

Then she’s the edgy college girl. Now she’s a “showgirl” even tho’ she’s legit too old to be hired as one.😏

Taylor Swift and (grown woman) Rihanna born months apart - and released 1st albums around same age!
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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 2d
Taylor Swift’s whole image is curated to make her seem younger. Including hanging out with 23 year old Caitlin Clark.

Taylor is 35. That girl is probably a lifelong fan.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
Facts! It’s all a calculation because a big part of how she got here was school kid fandom. She dragged that out longer than JoJo Siwa!

Then she’s the edgy college girl. Now she’s grown! A “showgirl” even though she’s legit too old to be hired as one.

Taylor Swift and Rihanna basically same age!
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d
I knew that song was iffy when it came out, so I wrote new lyrics about the pain of police brutality on Black people.

My version has definitely held up over time, his has become gross.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 3d
The vision of you shaming these folks feels oddly optimistic to me…

…because I’m so concerned we won’t have the time or resources to revisit the sins of this moment.
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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 3d
I was in a Black women’s online event today and the casualness with which folks were talking about using AI made me wanna scream-cry.
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