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@louisathelast.bsky.social

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Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Feb 8

So there is a reason I’ve been so scared for the future. And a reason I’ve also been very happy. @tekla.bsky.social and I have an announcement to make 💕

A photo of an ultrasound of a first trimester baby, surrounded by flowers on a teal velvet background. A mini marquee sign says “coming soon”

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2h

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Feb 11

I crack up at this image every damn time like clockwork

Squat Erry Day @implicitpower.bsky.social · Feb 11

gm

Two stills from “Cat’s Eye” (1983). Top, a woman pushes a coffee dart and the subtitle reads “Coffee or tea?” . Bottom, a man in blue glasses rocking a very thin mustache, a green suit, and blue shades looks up from his newspaper. The subtitle reads “coffer” (sic)

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, she’s perfectly fine. No, she’s not the strongest singer in pop music, but she knows her limits and does well within them.

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

He will tolerate folk music, classic Broadway, and jazz/blues if they are on when he is around

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

This is good, for him. He calls Barbra Streisand “pop music,” did not recognize Hey Jude when it came on the radio when I was in the car with him once, and has only ever professed any interest in non-classical music if it comes from Leon Redbone, who I have never observed him listening to

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

He says “very pretty” and refuses to commit more than that lol. Mostly he just wanted to find out what her voice sounds like

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve started with The Last Great American Dynasty, followed by Marjorie

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

My 83 year old, concert pianist, music professor dad has asked us if we own “any Taylor Swift recordings” because he wants to see what the fuss is about

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 1d

We have known for a long time that guy with spiky hair, girl with purple hair and glasses and a frog is the ideal group for cataclysmic times.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, think it’s a good thing when signaling virtue is rewarded socially— or at least it’s a better thing when signaling vice is what’s rewarded. We should want to be good people!

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

And people wonder why she doesn’t want to run for office

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

this made me laugh so hard

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 2d

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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 th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Well I think she’s probably dead by now

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with trying to do budget negotiations with this tinpot regime is that it’s like the King Solomon and the baby story. One side wants to preserve the baby (democracy, a functional government) and one doesn’t give a shit if it gets carved up as long as they win

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

She does like to stare at our Star Trek TMP poster

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

So if I take my baby to a No Kings protest does she also get paid, or is it like an adults only deal with Soros

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

I often wonder what she’s going to think of all this when she’s older and doesn’t have any real memory of the process. If all goes well she could be totally done by the time she’s 4. Maybe some very early memories of wearing the brace to bed

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

The orthopedist definitely impressed on us that the only real reason this treatment fails is parents not keeping up with the braces. I’m so sorry that happened to you

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

She has to be in a brace now (23 hours a day for the next three months, then whenever she’s asleep for the next 3-5 years) but it gives her a lot more freedom and it’s a lot lighter

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Margot had her clubfoot casts removed today and the way she grinned and started kicking her little legs when she realized they were free is sustaining me the rest of the week

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case