Lisa
@queerkitty.bsky.social
They/She. Queer. Disabled. Enjoys books and cats. Would like to pet your dog.🦇 🇵🇪🇨🇱
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Lisa
@queerkitty.bsky.social
· Jul 3
A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...
Since NY is going into a mayoral election and Andrew Cuomo & his friends are still hanging around, I’m pinning this explainer of how Cuomo fucked the House for 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her.
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck?
if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere
@safety.bsky.app
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There should be a law that whenever a vehicle hits a pedestrian or bicyclist, the street should be reduced to two lanes, narrowed to 20 feet, and have speed bumps installed so that the maximum realistic speed one can drive on it is 15 mph.
Husband, father of 3 killed by motorist while biking to work in L.A.
Husband, father of 3 killed by motorist while biking to work in L.A.
A family is reeling and demanding justice after a 59-year-old husband and father of three was struck and killed while riding his bike to work last month. The deadly crash played out on Nov. …
ktla.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
There should be a law that whenever a vehicle hits a pedestrian or bicyclist, the street should be reduced to two lanes, narrowed to 20 feet, and have speed bumps installed so that the maximum realistic speed one can drive on it is 15 mph.
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"Emperor Tiddles! We have just received a report! The Earthman yet lives!"
"WHAT? GORDON'S ALIVE?"
"WHAT? GORDON'S ALIVE?"
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Emperor Tiddles! We have just received a report! The Earthman yet lives!"
"WHAT? GORDON'S ALIVE?"
"WHAT? GORDON'S ALIVE?"
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On multiple occasions, books of mine with protagonists in their 30s have been described as YA.
Occasionally I run into “Oh, but I think teens would love this!” I grit my teeth and tell myself they mean well. Just because a teen might like something does not make it YA! It’s okay!
Occasionally I run into “Oh, but I think teens would love this!” I grit my teeth and tell myself they mean well. Just because a teen might like something does not make it YA! It’s okay!
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
On multiple occasions, books of mine with protagonists in their 30s have been described as YA.
Occasionally I run into “Oh, but I think teens would love this!” I grit my teeth and tell myself they mean well. Just because a teen might like something does not make it YA! It’s okay!
Occasionally I run into “Oh, but I think teens would love this!” I grit my teeth and tell myself they mean well. Just because a teen might like something does not make it YA! It’s okay!
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Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?
SCREAMING at these headlines calling Heated Rivalry a YA series.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Has there been a Lancet study on whether everything written by or for women will eventually be called YA?
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And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
When I worked at The Wherehouse, I kept having to take "Legend of the Overfiend" out of the kids section because "It's an animated movie, it must be okay."
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
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Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
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ticked off by Pantone’s Landlord White I mean Cloud Dancer? Try Anarchic Venom purple instead
colouroftheyear.com
colouroftheyear.com
Vote for the Real Colour of the Year | Stuart Semple
Every year corporations dictate the Colour of the Year. This time, it's democratic. Vote now and see the live people's colour update in real time.
colouroftheyear.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ticked off by Pantone’s Landlord White I mean Cloud Dancer? Try Anarchic Venom purple instead
colouroftheyear.com
colouroftheyear.com
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I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.
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the horror of what ICE is doing feels like it is really really really breaking through to people, and it's opening up big overdue conversations on other topics (that prisons have always been this inhumane, that Homeland Security has always been this racist) if we wanted to wedge those cracks open
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
the horror of what ICE is doing feels like it is really really really breaking through to people, and it's opening up big overdue conversations on other topics (that prisons have always been this inhumane, that Homeland Security has always been this racist) if we wanted to wedge those cracks open
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One of the things I remember learning about in the college course I took on the French Revolution was how an important precondition for the anti-aristocratic terror was the culture of brutal public violence practiced by elites against the lower classes in the mid 18th century e.g.
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One of the things I remember learning about in the college course I took on the French Revolution was how an important precondition for the anti-aristocratic terror was the culture of brutal public violence practiced by elites against the lower classes in the mid 18th century e.g.
As someone only recently diagnosed with central sleep apnea (thanks hypermobility) all the rest of you who don’t need to strap on a machine to keep your body breathing during sleep better fucking take advantage of the luxury
“Sleeping’s underlying biological need is not a weakness to be remedied, or a limitation to overcome, but a fact of our nature that gives rise to valuable interpersonal and aesthetic activities and is also valuable in itself.”
Sleep is not just a physical need but a delicious pleasure | Aeon Essays
The idea that we should reduce sleep to an efficient minimum in our lives gets something fundamentally wrong
aeon.co
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As someone only recently diagnosed with central sleep apnea (thanks hypermobility) all the rest of you who don’t need to strap on a machine to keep your body breathing during sleep better fucking take advantage of the luxury
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Oh good*
*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work
*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work
“DARPA has funded pharmaceutical companies + researchers to reduce sleep deprivation, w/ the long-term ambitious goal of operating w/o any need for sleep in the field. And 🇺🇸 isn’t alone: militaries 🌏-wide are exploring how to keep their soldiers awake + functioning when sleep is in short supply.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Oh good*
*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work
*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work
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A new study out earlier this week in Cell suggests the shingles vaccine may slow the progression of dementia. That’s after large-scale studies have shown it may also reduce the risk of developing dementia. This is a very cool science story! Here’s more about how they conducted these studies. +
New research shows the shingles vaccine may prevent the progression of dementia!!
YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
m.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A new study out earlier this week in Cell suggests the shingles vaccine may slow the progression of dementia. That’s after large-scale studies have shown it may also reduce the risk of developing dementia. This is a very cool science story! Here’s more about how they conducted these studies. +
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Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended
Hepatitis B, once rampant in Indigenous villages, has been brought under control in the state, but a CDC advisory committee voted to drop the vaccine recommendation for newborns.
www.adn.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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Also USPS didn't loss money because it doesn't make money because it's not a business and if never makes money to begin with.
It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.
It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Also USPS didn't loss money because it doesn't make money because it's not a business and if never makes money to begin with.
It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.
It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.
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"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup."
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
"this is an unprecedented attack on voting."
just ... say anything
just ... say anything
February 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup."
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
there, i did it for you. just repeat that.
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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
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⬇️ It clearly was a bribe with the goal of getting Cuellar to take some dives (e.g., oppose an impeachment vote/Epstein release vote/policy votes), but, having drawn attention to the bribe, Cuellar is far less likely to do so. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
⬇️ It clearly was a bribe with the goal of getting Cuellar to take some dives (e.g., oppose an impeachment vote/Epstein release vote/policy votes), but, having drawn attention to the bribe, Cuellar is far less likely to do so. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/12/04/p...
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Funny how that worked out:
“Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it ‘largely consistent’ with Moscow's vision.”
bbc.com/news/article...
“Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it ‘largely consistent’ with Moscow's vision.”
bbc.com/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Funny how that worked out:
“Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it ‘largely consistent’ with Moscow's vision.”
bbc.com/news/article...
“Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it ‘largely consistent’ with Moscow's vision.”
bbc.com/news/article...
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.