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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack

@seesemily.bsky.social

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All of it matters. None of it matters. Servant/Leader. Cartographer. Conductor. The song cannot be silenced. “The experiment requires that you continue.” ♾️💖🔥 🌊⚖️🍍 🇺🇸🐕🇺🇦

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · Feb 28

“If I were an accelerationist…” is a mental exercise EVERYONE should be doing rn.
Teaming, in fact.
(Empathy cuts WAY deeper than feeling aching for others…it is doing yr all to place yrself in another’s shoes/mind. It’s not a sin. It’s a ding dang superpower.)

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 2d

New York knows how to do Halloween!

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

And EMPATHY.
And all the agonizing, somedays rly hating that I feel it, internal wrestling w/my lesser selves that absolutely comes with embodying it.
(Empathy, esp rn, is STRENGTH/COURAGE. Be brave, my siblings, countryfolx, + fellow inhabitants of our shared Planet Earth. Eees go time.)
♾️💖🔥✊🏼🕊️

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

We rise or fall together.
I’ve heard it said that optimism is the hallmark of ignorance.
Call me a fkn moron if it makes you feel better.
But mamma keeps wolfing down them 🚫 🍎s and the more I eat the gentler I become w/my neighbors.
(DGMW, I can start/end a fight. But I win most of em w/diplomacy.)

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

Surrounded by stupid/ignorance? Learn more. Live wisely. Teach the willing (iffin they inquire).
Surrounded by hate? Be firm/boundaried love. And remember the incredible power of vulnerability.
What we are rly surrounded by is mass, orchestrated suffering.
Love, knowledge, + patience are the balms.

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

Who has two thumbs, a still aching heart, and a weed whacker? This old broad.
And I have promises to keep that span far beyond today. Bare minimum is making sure the stones are clear + the sacred names remain visible. (Coins suffice when I cannot afford flowers.)

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Dia de Los Muertos to all who celebrate/honor loved ones who have crossed.
We are all at least partial products of our elders.
Iffin yah 🍀, some of em prayed like hell + sacrificed for you to be here; for you to act/choose well/humanely/KINDLY.
Drop em some 💖/🌻/tidying while the veil is thin.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

(You are not “degenerates”…not to me, anyhow. You are victims (in the case of irrevocable loss) + SURVIVORS (iffin yah still standing/getting back up/*trying*.)
FTLG, pls keep *trying*. You/yr life/yr family + friens are all worth fighting for.

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

*This post is in loving/furious memory of the human beings I knew/loved who were taken too soon by pharmaceutical chemicals that were entirely too strong for their young bodies; and in support of all those who are still trying to rebuild what manufactured addiction violently stole from them.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

And *WHY* are they walking free w/overflowing cups?
(I cannot change my party affiliation to “I” quickly enough…there is enough blame to shellac both parties hundreds of times over.)

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 2d

As you hear more + more abt kinetic war on fentanyl, I STRONGLY encourage you to acquaint yahslf w/the sackler/oxy > pharma fentanyl 💩 show > street heroin > the dead/destroyed, fully manufactured addicts that they will also seek to further demonize.
Then ask yrself: who are the actual bastards?

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 4d

My grandfather returned from Los Alamos w/a closed mouth and a jar of mercury that he used to do Formica kitchen table demos for my dad + uncles. 😬
Nvr spoke a word abt his actual job.
He’d have turned 105 nxt month + I’m so grateful he is not here to witness the frightened perversion of his service

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 4d

In a social media post Thursday, Donald Trump said he's ordered the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other countries.

The ramifications are unclear since no country other than North Korea has conducted nuclear tests since the 1990s. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)

Trump orders Pentagon to match other nations’ nuclear testing

President Donald Trump said he orderd the Defense Department to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with other countries.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 6d

the communion card one was the one made me laugh the hardest, but they're all good

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Nov 22

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
Replying to @janky jane
I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
Replying to @janky_jane
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
Replying to @janky jane
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
Replying to @janky_jane
I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 7d

This is what happens when you do 8th layer development + engineering w/o psychologists, linguists, and ppl who are generally thoughtful/knowledgeable abt hooman language + communications.

evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 7d

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 8d

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 8d

Roomba remotely bricked his vacuum without informing him after he turned off their spyware. Talk about malicious.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

Roomba should have been a warning.

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

futurism.com

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

I’m a big (possibly desperate) believer in the butterfly effect…I have to imagine that grace pays itself fwd.
(+ then I have to fist fight my lesser selves to channel that grace. 😬😂🤷🏻‍♀️)
Esp rn.
Every interaction counts/ripples.

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 8d

If current forecasts hold, Melissa will be the most powerful hurricane ever to strike Jamaica. Sustained winds at landfall may top 140 mph, along with localized rains of 40"+ and major storm surge. Here's my latest update with @drjeffmasters.bsky.social:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/meli...

Melissa leaps from tropical storm to Category 4 hurricane in 18 hours » Yale Climate Connections

Catastrophic impacts are becoming increasingly likely for Jamaica, with Melissa expected to crash onshore by early Tuesday.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 8d

Found a baby rhino in my house this morning.

(Not vicious, just yawning)

Selma the grey/white whippet wearing a knit rhino snood for Halloween that gives her little head spikes. Her mouth is open & she’s bearing her teeth like she’s roaring but really she’s just mid-yawn.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

If yr wondering why this is bubbling up so frequently w/me (and many others, I imagine…400k ppl lived below Canal)…I need you to connect the legislative + administrative dots between that day + the present mmt. V little of this infrastructure existed in the before times.
(We chose fear over liberty)

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

I wish I knew the names of the ppl who touched my life so profoundly in those weeks/months. A person whose *last name* I dk put me, my old roomie, + a total stranger up for days. (We were the UN, no joke.) A movie theater screened films for free + fed us snax. Ppl gave direct aid.
It was beautiful 💔

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8d

NHC warnings for Jamaica and Haiti are *dire*. Jamaica might get up to 40 INCHES of rain. Melissa is now up to 140 mph winds.

www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3...

1. Jamaica: Seek shelter now. Damaging winds and heavy rainfall today and Monday will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding and numerous landslides before potentially devastating winds arrive Monday night and Tuesday morning. Extensive infrastructural damage, long-duration power and communication outages, and isolation of communities are expected. Life-threatening storm surge is likely along portions of the southern coast Monday night and
Tuesday morning.

2. Haiti: Catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding and landslides are expected across southwestern Haiti through midweek, likely causing extensive infrastructural damage and isolation of communities. Although winds are temporarily decreasing on the Tiburon peninsula, they could increase again across much of western Haiti on Tuesday.

NHC map showing potential rainfall totals from Hurricane Melissa, with bright pink over eastern Jamaica and a label reading “possible up to 40””, with parts of Haiti maybe getting 16 inches or more

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

My prayer today is the same as it was then: May it not require additional tragedies for us to reveal/share our best selves with one another.
Be kind.
Give grace.
Exchange smol gifts.
Look for the helpers.
Try to be a helper yrself.
This life is short + bumpy af.
We all have the 💪🏼 to make it better.

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

Myriad moves across borough and state lines later, it remains one of my dearest treasures.
It is a reminder of the kindness we showed one another - absolute strangers - during times of reeling, aching, seemingly forever acrid, burning darkness.

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

We settled on a tshirt.
He went out to the fire truck and came back looking six shades of disappointed, “This is all I could find. It’s old, too big, and there’s a moth hole in it.”
“Brother, it’s perfect/everything. THANK YOU - for all of it. I 💖 you. Also, are you SURE?!”
“Absolutely. + TYSM”

Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack @seesemily.bsky.social · 8d

After spending a good chunk of my limited disposable income buying rounds of whatever tf they wanted for 1st responders at Red Rock West (IYKYK), a NYC FF asked me what he could do for me. I assured him he was already doing it but this 😇 wouldn’t take no for an answer. So…