indi
@indik.bsky.social
don't leave me standing here, i can't get used to this lifestyle
Mefite. Here to talk to my friends. Posts seldom, reposts lots. Super boring.
Mefite. Here to talk to my friends. Posts seldom, reposts lots. Super boring.
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Lord, I see what you've done for others......
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lord, I see what you've done for others......
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Some little guys at work
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Some little guys at work
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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An ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, London, Wellcome Library, MS.626, f. 228r
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
An ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, London, Wellcome Library, MS.626, f. 228r
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As we are now T minus 3.5 days from Thanksgiving, if you need to deploy Operation Avoid The Boundary Tramplers, tonight is when you post where they snoop about a headache or a queasy kid, or a funny noise from your car, or your pet acting strange, or a serious work issue or an unexpected paper.
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As we are now T minus 3.5 days from Thanksgiving, if you need to deploy Operation Avoid The Boundary Tramplers, tonight is when you post where they snoop about a headache or a queasy kid, or a funny noise from your car, or your pet acting strange, or a serious work issue or an unexpected paper.
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I was out hiking and a mountain biker passed.
Me: have a nice ride!
Him: you too!
Him: *flustered realizing I wasn’t riding*
Him: *processing*
Him: *processing*
Him: enjoy your legs!
Well that settles that for my new trail greeting.
Me: have a nice ride!
Him: you too!
Him: *flustered realizing I wasn’t riding*
Him: *processing*
Him: *processing*
Him: enjoy your legs!
Well that settles that for my new trail greeting.
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I was out hiking and a mountain biker passed.
Me: have a nice ride!
Him: you too!
Him: *flustered realizing I wasn’t riding*
Him: *processing*
Him: *processing*
Him: enjoy your legs!
Well that settles that for my new trail greeting.
Me: have a nice ride!
Him: you too!
Him: *flustered realizing I wasn’t riding*
Him: *processing*
Him: *processing*
Him: enjoy your legs!
Well that settles that for my new trail greeting.
Laughing at this perfectly accurate description of hockey (and go bolts)!
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Laughing at this perfectly accurate description of hockey (and go bolts)!
Not anymore!
The only thing Bluesky has taught me is that most people are undiagnosed
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Not anymore!
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Just had the realization that 'vintage 80's' stuff now is what 'vintage 40's' stuff would have been for me as a teen and now I want to quietly go to my grave.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just had the realization that 'vintage 80's' stuff now is what 'vintage 40's' stuff would have been for me as a teen and now I want to quietly go to my grave.
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
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The worst insult men can think of is "fat bitch" because what they mean is "I do not find you attractive and deferential enough to fuck".
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The worst insult men can think of is "fat bitch" because what they mean is "I do not find you attractive and deferential enough to fuck".
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I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
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Being a Republican definitionally means being cool with child rape
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Being a Republican definitionally means being cool with child rape
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
Nah. I'm not really trying.
Aries: Is this the best you can do? Seriously?
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Nah. I'm not really trying.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Autistic women are often excluded from the whisper network, in addition to being more likely to being targeted due to the same condition.
And 'gossiping' also = 'the whisper network.' Yeah, we're sitting around warning each other not to be alone in a hallway with you, or bring teen daughters to work.
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Autistic women are often excluded from the whisper network, in addition to being more likely to being targeted due to the same condition.
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one day soon, all of the Republicans who manage not to flame out from this will be pretending the problem was always just trump, that they only went wrong because the voters let a fox into the henhouse, or some other narrative bullshit equivalent. They'll pretend they were always against him, and
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
one day soon, all of the Republicans who manage not to flame out from this will be pretending the problem was always just trump, that they only went wrong because the voters let a fox into the henhouse, or some other narrative bullshit equivalent. They'll pretend they were always against him, and
Ugh the bolts game isn't until TEN? *glances sideways at @kelliebob.bsky.social and her VGK*
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ugh the bolts game isn't until TEN? *glances sideways at @kelliebob.bsky.social and her VGK*