Lydia “Massive Prideful Female”
@petticoatshrink.bsky.social
Social worker, trauma therapist, mom, musician, nerdy Jew. Consummate pinko cuz I’m too commie for the libs and too lib for the commies. Married to @joelhs.bsky.social. Gotta remember to post about medieval food history and fun stuff to preserve sanity.
People talk about all kinds of things that make them feel old but for me it’s the awareness that I have lived long enough to be witnessing the second anti-feminist backlash of my lifetime (the first being in full swing when I was born and persisting throughout my childhood and adolescence).
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
People talk about all kinds of things that make them feel old but for me it’s the awareness that I have lived long enough to be witnessing the second anti-feminist backlash of my lifetime (the first being in full swing when I was born and persisting throughout my childhood and adolescence).
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Lol more like 600 times
Lol more like 600 times
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Lol more like 600 times
Lol more like 600 times
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Unfortunately, I agree. There are some men who are deeply, seethingly resentful of the fact that propagating their all-important genes still requires some level of cooperation from a living woman and it sure feels like we’re hearing a lot from them lately.
what drives me especially crazy is I can’t shake the knowing that this was meant to be an experiment. If the experiment had succeeded we would be hearing all about Chance & how babies can be incubated with a disposable woman, a fantasy among a subset of evil freaks. It wasn’t. They’ll keep trying.
This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Unfortunately, I agree. There are some men who are deeply, seethingly resentful of the fact that propagating their all-important genes still requires some level of cooperation from a living woman and it sure feels like we’re hearing a lot from them lately.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Okay, why does she talk like Sandy from Daria? This is not the most important detail of this excruciating clip but I do find it very distracting.
Watch til the end. How has no one asked her this before
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Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera."
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December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Okay, why does she talk like Sandy from Daria? This is not the most important detail of this excruciating clip but I do find it very distracting.
I witnessed the same thing in the same place at age 15 when I was visiting Boston with my family, the new citizens beaming as they emerged. We joined a spontaneous crowd that formed at the door to cheer and applaud. I thought “I am going to live in places where this happens when I am older.”
About a thirteen years ago I was with my family in Boston to get some documents at City Hall and we stopped for lunch at the marketplace. We saw a crowd leaving Faneuil Hall after a naturalization ceremony. They all had flags, tears, and smiles. Happiest people I've ever seen outside of a wedding.
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I witnessed the same thing in the same place at age 15 when I was visiting Boston with my family, the new citizens beaming as they emerged. We joined a spontaneous crowd that formed at the door to cheer and applaud. I thought “I am going to live in places where this happens when I am older.”
Kelly kinda channels Captain Picard right down to the bald head, meaning he might be the only guy whose ability to inspire Daddy Feels in people rivals Trump’s (but in a good way). Let’s hope!
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Kelly kinda channels Captain Picard right down to the bald head, meaning he might be the only guy whose ability to inspire Daddy Feels in people rivals Trump’s (but in a good way). Let’s hope!
I feel like there’s been a trend in recent period pieces that’s like “This is not your MOM’s period piece, there’s modern slang and modern swearing and people drink and a fuck a lot and it’s all very Manly and Raw and Relatable!” But like, I literally want my mom’s period pieces?
halfway thru episode 1 of death by lightning and these are valiant talented actors Struggling against some very bad writing
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I feel like there’s been a trend in recent period pieces that’s like “This is not your MOM’s period piece, there’s modern slang and modern swearing and people drink and a fuck a lot and it’s all very Manly and Raw and Relatable!” But like, I literally want my mom’s period pieces?
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right, and people just absolutely refuse to parse out the difference between "it's reasonable to feel resentful and uncomfortable with people who vote for really bad stuff" and "everyone is actually politically literate enough to know what they're voting for", only one of which is true
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
right, and people just absolutely refuse to parse out the difference between "it's reasonable to feel resentful and uncomfortable with people who vote for really bad stuff" and "everyone is actually politically literate enough to know what they're voting for", only one of which is true
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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It would be a lot better for my mental health if Bluesky were nothing but this. (And no. Do you really think the romance novels Quark found were the only smut he consumed? He definitely had some hard enough stuff to come up with a more realistically detailed dick.)
Late night thought: we know that Odo struggles with the details of humans in Deep Space Nine, it’s why his hair and face are like that, but he also canonically fucks. This raises a question, when he fucked did his boner look like an uncooked hot dog?
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It would be a lot better for my mental health if Bluesky were nothing but this. (And no. Do you really think the romance novels Quark found were the only smut he consumed? He definitely had some hard enough stuff to come up with a more realistically detailed dick.)
Thing is, a lot of communities do have systems to address these things and what that looks like is “The pastor or the church elders tell the wife she needs to be more obedient and pray harder.” I have yet to see a hardcore abolitionist contend with the fact that some communities are pro-abuse.
Look, if your community justice and reconciliation system doesn't have a way to address someone like Ted Bundy and domestic abuse, I'm sorry, but it's not a serious system.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thing is, a lot of communities do have systems to address these things and what that looks like is “The pastor or the church elders tell the wife she needs to be more obedient and pray harder.” I have yet to see a hardcore abolitionist contend with the fact that some communities are pro-abuse.
Yeah, but then that’s not abolition anymore, it’s reform which is very, very uncool on the internet.
I think “abolish prisons” should be focused on the current form where they are slave labor camps. Life imprisonment is meant to be the safer option to capital punishment, and that needs to stay. Lesser offenses should be focused on fixing underlying issues - ie preventing addiction or basic housing.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yeah, but then that’s not abolition anymore, it’s reform which is very, very uncool on the internet.
I did the shallowest of dives into his background and came away thinking that there are even more things about him that we should be talking about that we aren’t. Like…before he served in the Marines in the Iraq War he was…protesting that war in high school? The fuck?
Fake bluecollar Nazi failsons shouldn't get handed Senate seats. Hope that helps.
In order to move men, we have to welcome folks who have done things in the past we abhor. We have to allow folks to redeem themselves.
It’s sometimes uncomfortable, but it’s the only way we can win moving forward.
The math doesn’t math without more men.
It’s sometimes uncomfortable, but it’s the only way we can win moving forward.
The math doesn’t math without more men.
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I did the shallowest of dives into his background and came away thinking that there are even more things about him that we should be talking about that we aren’t. Like…before he served in the Marines in the Iraq War he was…protesting that war in high school? The fuck?
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Like you guys really think that the left has lingering problems with racism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and Islamophobia but is totally unproblematic when it comes to the Jews?
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Like you guys really think that the left has lingering problems with racism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and Islamophobia but is totally unproblematic when it comes to the Jews?
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If you ever wonder why any agency under HHS is doing what they’re doing, check WAPF and get your answer. Sally Fallon Morell is the danger behind RFK jr.
Raw Milk at the Crossroads. . . Again
🖨️ Print post Originally posted at nourishingtraditions.com Few of us were born when the forces for milk pasteurization launched the first major attack on Nature’s perfect food. In […]
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October 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you ever wonder why any agency under HHS is doing what they’re doing, check WAPF and get your answer. Sally Fallon Morell is the danger behind RFK jr.
I really want to watch Frankenstein but then I remember that I actually find that book extremely upsetting and I don’t know if I can handle it being mostly-faithfully brought to screen by Guillermo del Toro, a guy who has made other (brilliant) movies that I find too upsetting to watch again.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I really want to watch Frankenstein but then I remember that I actually find that book extremely upsetting and I don’t know if I can handle it being mostly-faithfully brought to screen by Guillermo del Toro, a guy who has made other (brilliant) movies that I find too upsetting to watch again.
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The headlines that have pics of Spanberger and Mamdani like "Which Way Modern Dem Man??" Come on. The answer is OBVIOUSLY (and has been, and will be) "both," "all," "whichever". What part of "gigantic diverse coalition of half the electorate" is confusing to people?
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The headlines that have pics of Spanberger and Mamdani like "Which Way Modern Dem Man??" Come on. The answer is OBVIOUSLY (and has been, and will be) "both," "all," "whichever". What part of "gigantic diverse coalition of half the electorate" is confusing to people?
Yeah, this may not be a popular opinion (or maybe it is?) but his response is way more damning to me than the tattoo itself. I can forgive a *lot* of dumb and offensive shit from people who demonstrate actual growth but this? This is…not that. In an extremely worrying way.
Platner taking his campaign in a “they’re trying to get me” direction after the tattoo is a flashing, Fetterman-shaped warning light for what he could be like if elected, and I think it’s enlightening to see who can see that and who can’t because he’s “upsetting the right people”.
"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienced within the Democratic Party.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yeah, this may not be a popular opinion (or maybe it is?) but his response is way more damning to me than the tattoo itself. I can forgive a *lot* of dumb and offensive shit from people who demonstrate actual growth but this? This is…not that. In an extremely worrying way.
All of my female cousins are my daughter’s aunts. What, she’s gonna go around saying “Cousin So-and-so?” This isn’t Downton Abbey lol.
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
All of my female cousins are my daughter’s aunts. What, she’s gonna go around saying “Cousin So-and-so?” This isn’t Downton Abbey lol.
Just found out our soon-to-be-former pediatrician of the past year doesn’t believe in Covid shots for children so don’t be dumb like us and assume you’re safe from that nonsense because you’re in a major metro area in a blue state. 😬
October 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just found out our soon-to-be-former pediatrician of the past year doesn’t believe in Covid shots for children so don’t be dumb like us and assume you’re safe from that nonsense because you’re in a major metro area in a blue state. 😬
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
Man, Catholics just have really high highs and really low lows. (This is obviously the former.)
“A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center three days ago and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.” www.ncronline.org/news/activis...
Activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions
A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Man, Catholics just have really high highs and really low lows. (This is obviously the former.)
I think the “women can always get a man” talk is another reason we don’t hear about female loneliness. It’s not just that women’s feelings aren’t valued, it’s that it’s shameful to even admit loneliness when it’s essentially an admission of profound undesirability to the point of social deviancy.
“But women can always get a man if they just lower their standards!”
Cool story bro. You lower yours first.
Cool story bro. You lower yours first.
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I think the “women can always get a man” talk is another reason we don’t hear about female loneliness. It’s not just that women’s feelings aren’t valued, it’s that it’s shameful to even admit loneliness when it’s essentially an admission of profound undesirability to the point of social deviancy.