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Lachesis

@lalalachesis.bsky.social

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writer, knitter, long covid, long hair, long story. she-her, vengeance paladin. recovering primary physician. preferential option for the queers. i actually follow a lot more ppl; they are in my list called "news."

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · Jan 5

intro: neither a bot nor ai nor here for self-promotion. blocking those who appear to be so. i pester about alt-text. antiauthoritarian. loves: scrub pants, disaster movies, bon bons, bon mots, dust motes, dad jokes, ambiguity, destabilizing metanarratives, yoga, color pattern knitting in the round.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 17h

entartete kunst

1938: "...modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums & banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling" --wiki, degenerate art entry

Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 19h

"School administrators also took issue with an embroidery that read “Save the Children” and 'Abolish ICE' ... officials turned the fabric swatch so that the text was no longer visible and removed a sign informing visitors they could touch the artwork."

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art

Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

hyperallergic.com

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 17h

incroyable! ❤️❤️❤️

Rebecca Diamond ✡️🧶🇺🇸🇨🇦 @rebeccadiamond.online · 17h

Seriously, #KnitSky, if y'all haven't ever tried finishing needles, you're missing out! :D

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 19h

a personal fave
but
"ardent supporter of Joseph McCarthy"
yikes! wtaf (wiki)

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 19h

archived:
Coffee Is in Trouble
By Ellen Cushing
today, The Atlantic

"...coffee in the U.S. is nearly 40% more expensive than it was a year ago."

"We do not *need* coffee. But of course we need it..."

archive.ph

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 6d

It’s been five years since black squares got posted everywhere. If y’all were even halfway serious about listening & learning we wouldn’t be here.

Decolonize your mind. Decolonize your thinking. Maybe then, you’ll realize how gentle the criticism actually is.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2d

The crime the girl commits is to flee.

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

AND i also look out for my people & back them at all costs, forever. role modeling for the younger ones & the uncertain: only community/family can save us now, can save ME now, too. only community/family can carry us, when our spirits break.
circle those wagons & never give up, fams. injuries ahead.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

& that's how "x injured" can = "x homeless/ mentally ill/ addicted" unlucky bystanders who end up immersed in street violence, infectious diseases, & terror.
so. for all these "x injured" former babies, schoolkids, hopefuls, romantics, optimists... i mean

as former MD to medical indigents, i pray.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

& gun injuries can = dependence on tech like colostomy, urostomy, prosthetics, mobility aids that are pretty hard to maintain when you now live in your car or in a shelter bc you're now functionally unemployable & your governor declined to prioritize public health insurance & social service funds
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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

just a reminder. when it says, "x killed & x injured," it doesn't mean the "injured" got off easy.

gun injuries can = permanent disfigurement, life limiting disability, severe chronic pain requiring non-benign interventions, multiple surgeries +/- complications, in/adequate rehabilitation,
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 2d

Fluster Coping

United States, Social Security Death Index

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

isn't this how squid game started

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

at first i thought it said "the potty nature of who he is" & thought, right on ma'am

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

excellent jeremiad, thx u!

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · Apr 2

You should be spending every waking moment thinking about what parts of you must be sheared off in order to escape this terrible machine with which you've become enmeshed.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

honestly pretty tired of seeing man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2d

The house is surrounded on all sides by omens.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 2d

"this is normal for us. we're just being ourselves, to highlight the weirdness that others are trying to impose on portland"

click 4 interview w bagpiper

emergency naked bike ride today. wear your booties & mittens, kids, it's a rainy pnw day. short mufflers, not long scarves, please! #SafetyFirst

Chris Helgerson @chrishelgerson.bsky.social · 2d

The Carnage from the streets of Portland really is so terrible, the media is being irresponsible in not giving us warnings before posting it.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

why was link deleted? it was just to the flyer for national homelessness day.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

nat'l security directives aren't same as executive orders.

they're *actual* orders.

"...National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7)... directs the national security state [in] monitoring so-called indicators of violence, like “anti-Christianity” (!),“anti-capitalism,” & “anti-Americanism"

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 3d

With Noem suddenly talking about antifa as an existential threat to the country, I reviewed 2,600+ DHS tweets going back to May to see what they've been saying about it in recent months. The answer? Nothing.

Their first mention of 'antifa' appeared on Sep. 26, the day after NSPM-7 dropped.

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

which side are you on, boys
which side are you on

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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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 3d

Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

this symbolic violence against kobolds will not stand, man