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Hillary Monahan

@hillarymonahan.bsky.social

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Spiky author person with a rad jewelry shop. They/She. Queer, AuDHD, and probably watching a horror movie. Black Trans Lives Matter. Not taking your shit today. Official cat herder of the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3h

The majority of the country couldn't be bothered to vaccinate annually but they're looking at disabled people masking like we're the problem?

Nah, bud. I don't have patience for it anymore.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2h

A third note is mainstream US news outlets are extremely limited and unreliable atm. Independent journalists and actual citizens involved in protest >>> the norms. The rot goes deep, but the work is being done. Not all rebellion CAN be advertised, either.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly why everyone needs to uniform up 🐸

Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 6h

Your country needs you!

In Antifa 🐸 uniform. Join us.

#NoKings

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2h

Any violence will result in more occupations. Chicago is similarly occupied. Note: no red state occupation despite Kirk's assassination happening in red Utah.

Every accusation, in this case of violent thuggery, is a confession. Tackling a blow up unicorn? VERY CLEARLY indicates the aggressors. 2/2

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2h

Seen intnl criticism of how Portland is protesting occupation. I understand it looks surreal. That said, the narrative is blue bastion cities are full of organized, violent antifa thugs. The mainstream news outlets are owned by billionaires propping up this narrative--they ARE the oligarchs. 1/2

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Cool. Trimming the long haired cat's butt hair again.

My glamorous life.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

... the corn has an agenda!

julieinthewoods.bsky.social @julieinthewoods.bsky.social · 3h

Flashbacks to my oldest getting a kernel of corn stuck in her ear at one of these as a preschooler (maybe on purpose?) and getting an awful ear infection, then getting into her ear drops and me having to call poison control. Decades later and I still feel defeated by the Fall festivities.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Friend: I'm just so confused.I don't know what I should do.

Me standing in underwear, dunking oreos in whiskey: Well , you came to the right place.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

It just occurred to me that someone out there is paid to hose down a whole bunch of ball pit balls.

Because children.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Can you ethically say at that point the corn was actually babysitting so you could go home.

Brian Fenton @fentie.bsky.social · 3h

I mean there's also the mold spore option as an explanation, but THAT SAID... we gave a neurospicy child the chance to fling himself into the corn pit and we were there for FIVE HOURS

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Becky has just informed me that they were proud when they were able to dismantle their own water bug and did me proud.

I don't know what the equivalent will be when we go to visit her parents in Oregon but maybe it involves inflatable costumes.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

... fecal mat--

Nonono.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

It's like a discount version of a sensory deprivation tank!

"Jimmy's hyper. Throw him to the corn. That'll slow him down!"

Perfection.

What a weird world.

Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 3h

The corn pit is where you fling your children into the corn.

It's very like a ball pit, but because the corn is so small and dense in comparison it takes more effort to burrow in.

This and apple cider doughnuts are the big things I miss about fall in Wisconsin.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Are we supposed to help these children.

Are we failing them.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

I completely understand that every part of the country has its own cultural weirdness. One of the most horrific early moments in my relationship with Becky was them watching me dismantle a lobster without needing any kind of actual tools other than my hands and physics.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Is this just a Midwestern ball pit.

What is this strange custom of yeeting your womb fruit into a popcorn bowl.

Is this how killer children cults commence.

Becky is a Farm Gay and has no input as Oregon doesn't do this.

MIDWESTERNERS, PLZ EXPLAIN.

It is a room that seems to be filled with dried corn and inside of all of this dried corn is a sea of probably unwashed children.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Reaaaaally.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4h

Those last RTs:

Schrödinger just came.

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Panic! At The Airport (ft. Punished Cat Guy) @majima.club · 5h

INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES

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Borracho y Loco @borrachoyloco.bsky.social · 5h

Guilty as all get out.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

The crime.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

The criminal.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

I think i remember liking ostrich jerky.

/shrug

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

I will eat any type of jerky you put on front of me.

And yet.

AND YET.

Don't make food weird, advertisers.

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 5h

I hate when they do this because I would be the target audience for half the stuff they make for Wilderness Dudes if they'd stop being weird about it.

It's like trying to do emergency preparedness without signaling that you're sure the poles are going to invert any day now.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

Been making spooky shit for months; I'm getting whiplash going back to the normals.

A Parisian ceramic pendant of a cat shape with roses and leaves abd coordinating pearls, copper, and Czech glass.

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