Galabriel
@galalefey.bsky.social
Latina NYC-area biz/corp-lawyer, but not yours. Opinions my own. Dilettante dabbler. Profile pic is me dressed to lead an outdoor mobile silent disco, because joy makes people underestimate me. Banner is a Tiffany stained glass window at NYC’s Met Museum.
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Galabriel
@galalefey.bsky.social
· Aug 10
It’s not that Libertarians are hard working but rather too lazy and miserly to invest in their communities. It’s a moral rot that is killing America.
Tragedy of the commons? No, tragedy of the wannabe-aristocracy
We’re gonna end up with a military coup, aren’t we
Like yes, right now we want Trump and the military at odds. But like even that, do I want a military that’s maybe less opposed to war crimes than my ideal level of opposition to war crimes (total) at odds enough with Trump to, you know, do something?
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
We’re gonna end up with a military coup, aren’t we
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Posting this for no other reason than to get some Looney Tunes media floating around Bluesky.
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Posting this for no other reason than to get some Looney Tunes media floating around Bluesky.
Eso.
A minor point lost in all this is that "narcoterrorism" was nominally coined to describe people like Pablo Escobar who were literally using their drug enterprises to commit bombings/mass murder but the DoD is just using it interchangeably with trafficking
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Eso.
Dear STARS in the HEAVENS, what will it take to get my three year old to go to sleep at a reasonable hour
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Dear STARS in the HEAVENS, what will it take to get my three year old to go to sleep at a reasonable hour
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“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence
Of course, that is indeed how it’s pronounced in Spanish.
LASER would be pronounced like the first syllable were a Scottish girl.
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Of course, that is indeed how it’s pronounced in Spanish.
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
Hegseth is bad and the admiral that carried out his illegal order is also bad. I want them all punished for this, but if only the admiral, I hope it makes military types less inclined to follow such orders.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hegseth is bad and the admiral that carried out his illegal order is also bad. I want them all punished for this, but if only the admiral, I hope it makes military types less inclined to follow such orders.
This is like how I felt when I learned that as of 2018 the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is no longer the world’s longest bridge-tunnel complex.
also a classic instance of how propaganda works. the most embedded stuff is the stuff you are taught when you are a small child as 'geographical facts', in the same way that even anti-CCP PRC citizens can sometimes turn into rabid nationalists about South China Sea rocks
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is like how I felt when I learned that as of 2018 the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is no longer the world’s longest bridge-tunnel complex.
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One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
Wow
This week, Netflix will drop a western with Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as warring matriarchs of opposing clans. Not a one of the dozens of media writers I follow online has ever mentioned this show, and yet its three-week-old trailer has over 1M views. Make it make sense.
The Abandons | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Wow
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I'm not sure if she's doing it this year, but I always look forward to @janenx01.bsky.social resharing the advent calendar her mom made in the '70s!
Every year I look forward to sharing my Advent Calendar online. My mother made this by hand in 1976 or 1977. There no Velcro or glue - everything is sewn onto the panels in her tiny little stitches. Day One is a very content looking felt cow with a tiny French knot for her eye. #AdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm not sure if she's doing it this year, but I always look forward to @janenx01.bsky.social resharing the advent calendar her mom made in the '70s!
It’s evil all the way down.
The administration may well hope to use Bradley as a fall guy here, but it's important to remember that he would've knowingly gave an illegal order. He's no innocent party here.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It’s evil all the way down.
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The administration may well hope to use Bradley as a fall guy here, but it's important to remember that he would've knowingly gave an illegal order. He's no innocent party here.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The administration may well hope to use Bradley as a fall guy here, but it's important to remember that he would've knowingly gave an illegal order. He's no innocent party here.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
That doesn't change anything about Hegseth trying to dodge his responsibility, but it's important to keep in mind.
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
The Trump administration abhors compassion and sympathy. If you’ve suffered anything at all, their response is effectively, “too bad for you!”
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Trump administration abhors compassion and sympathy. If you’ve suffered anything at all, their response is effectively, “too bad for you!”
Someone pay me the big (or even mid) bucks and let me just think about policy and campaigning all day.
Accountability and Good Governance Regardless Of Wealth: Let’s get AGGRoW.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Someone pay me the big (or even mid) bucks and let me just think about policy and campaigning all day.
Accountability and Good Governance Regardless Of Wealth: Let’s get AGGRoW.
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Accountability and Good Governance Regardless Of Wealth: Let’s get AGGRoW.
I can hear the Pure Moods commercials playing
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I can hear the Pure Moods commercials playing
Holiness and Horniness: Leonard Cohen in a nutshell.
From the Wikipedia entry “Journalist Larry Sloman, who knew Cohen well and interviewed him often, described the song as one part biblical, one part the woman that Cohen slept with last night, citing an unidentified critic saying that Cohen was most interested in "holiness and horniness".
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Holiness and Horniness: Leonard Cohen in a nutshell.
That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about….
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about….
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
An example in a sentence: “I am fed up with the errogance of the Trump administration.”
Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
An example in a sentence: “I am fed up with the errogance of the Trump administration.”
I’m just going to start muting people who treat “liberal” and “centrist”/“borderline conservative” as synonyms.
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I’m just going to start muting people who treat “liberal” and “centrist”/“borderline conservative” as synonyms.