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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 11h

Similar to rounding up free African Americans during slavery’s time, refusing to accept their freedom solely due to their race.

Regardless of the generation, there are those in the US that have long felt that to be the way things are and have their jollies beating it into others.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 12h

Name a song that probably can’t work on a different instrument.

My observation (I woke up with this on my mind, so it may have been a nightmare):

Unchained Melody on Bagpipes

Unchained Melody on Bagpipes!

YouTube video by Get Bagpipe Ready

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 19h

I know that I am far from the only trans woman to buy sexy under things early on in transition. With the just past Amazon Prime Day, I got a couple functional granny bras, a couple plain slips, and granny pants - much more practical. I’m in my 60s, so granny wear is fine.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 19h

That or the receipts for paying for two abortions, at least.

Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 19h

Which means that the cat will lead the cult, whether it is you, or the cat you get.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 19h

Understand if you ever feel self doubts,

Santa Claus believes in you.

a man dressed as santa claus is standing in front of a capital one logo

ALT: a man dressed as santa claus is standing in front of a capital one logo

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 8d

The young whippersnappers may not have heard this. I think it should be playing on loop on loudspeakers aimed at the Capitol, the Oval Office, and the news centres for each network, until they understand it.

When The Media Stood Up For Freedom

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t really get the idea of going on PornHub and feeling that you need to search “porn”, let alone “porm”. What are you expecting if you don’t include that, pretty pictures?

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 12d

Still spells significant number of words incorrectly.

Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 22d

Has the Supreme Court given #IQ45 the ability to start firing judges and justices? Isn’t that roughly equivalent to what they have done regarding any other Congressional authority to direct Presidential authority?

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 22d

Now if CBS works out a way to keep The Late Show on the air…

Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 23d

For American followers who are transgender (and please reskeet this)

This Is TERRIFYING

YouTube video by Farron Balanced

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 29d

Didn’t the Supreme Court give him immunity from dying?

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 29d

The F-35 has long been a political issue, long before Trump. The military wants them, and we need something, but the populace see that specifically as a boondoggle.

Canadian military buying in peacetime is a regular mess.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 15

In Canada, we stopped buying Florida (or other US) oranges following the 51st state rants. We now get South African ones. I got wondering where they were grown in the country - turns out up by Zimbabwe.

I did see that the Orange Free State is still Orange Free, growing grains instead.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 12

The video wasn’t coming up, but I recognised the Chumbawamba lyrics. Few people that bopped to Tubthumping knew just how intelligent their lyrics actually were.

This is a song that warrants being brought back for extensive radio airplay in today’s climate.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 12

Lasers were once a huge scientific breakthrough, now we use them to play with cats.

Computers were once a huge scientific breakthrough, now we use them to look at pictures of cats.

Conclusion: science was made for cats.

Bohemian Catsody - A Rhapsody Parody Song for Every Cat Queen and King!

YouTube video by Shirley Șerban

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 10

Passing on an editorial cartoon from The Toronto Star from April 12

FOUR IMAGES YOU'LL ONLY GET IF YOU'RE CANADIAN
Top Left - a large hand from above setting up three chairs in front of a fireplace, with for someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle
Top Right - Canadian hockey players celebrate a goal against the Soviet Union team
Bottom Left - A police car for highway safety following the run of Terry Fox
Bottom Right - Goed Downie singing his heart out at his final concert

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Which means that the entirety of the oblasts of Kursk, Kharkhiv, Belgorad, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaphorizya, Kherson and Crimea are integral parts of Ukraine and the entirety of the Sakhalin Islands are integral parts of Japan.

There are certainly other places to which Russia has no rights, too.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 2

New bloodwork, E is up 50% to 271 pmol/L, T is down to 0.8 nmol/L, dropped nearly 40%. This is six months after the previous blood work and the prior numbers had been consistent for at least a year and a half.

I do know that I have a return to a libido, now estrogen driven.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lynda’s gift to her mother Rita - with some well warranted tears.

The Most Heartbreaking Moment on Live TV

YouTube video by The Forgotten Podcast

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Aug 31

In our last Pride Parade locally, a group of 30 or so took part protesting everything but homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism. That they couldn’t at least bundle in those topics was particularly homophobic, transphobic, sexist and racist to me.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Aug 30

“May your walls know you joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility”

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Richard Nixon claimed to be a Quaker, so there’s at least one negative.

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · Aug 28

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that other planets use this planet as a lunatic asylum.

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