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Birdie, Boo!👻

@srslymagenta.bsky.social

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Ridiculous feminist bluestocking crafter. BLM, ACAB, LGBTQIA+ fren. That ♿ chick. Nerd. Early 50's (I guess!), cishet single in SC. Dev Editor for manuscripts/dissertations. Mouth w/ no 🛑. AuDHD and PDA friendly. [email protected] for 📔 queries

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · Jun 21

For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:

Ordinary

My love, what if you
were not Nietzsche and I was not
Gloria Steinem. And I was not
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and
you were not
Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived
Ordinary lives, here and there,
foraging for mushrooms in the swamps
and children's minds and sometimes find
ing chickory root for inflammation,
poke for lymphatic tincture, honey
for mead. What if sometimes you
sang in the kitchen while making bone broth
from chicken feet, and played happy
snippets on the violin, and I
periodically baked bread in a clean
(ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and
sometimes, we held hands in the grocery,
took kids to the Asian market, watched
Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned
in bed, and weren't the next
Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic
Wunderkind, surprise New York Times
Best-selling magical fairy child.
What if we went wild: Mowed lawns.
Got mail. Refused to live
up to the potential somebody wrote
on our report cards long ago, and instead
utterly wasted our lives
on loving and living and loving
and refused to yield to the expectations
that anything less fiscally responsible
is imprudent. What if what we saved
did not end up being millions,
my sweet, but our own souls? And all along
there will be enough for the movies
sometimes, enough for croissants and
soft pretzels, and enough to sit
and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight.
What if instead of being
memorable, we make memories,
responsible to not the whole world
but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and
we are inordinately enough.

Heather Harris-Bergevin

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 14m

Oh, definitely. My stress is SO MUCH LESS than 3 years ago, or 5, or 10!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1h

Man Panics After Reaching Age Where Parents Prematurely Started Family

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1h

Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.

The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars

Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.

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PennLive @pennlive.com · 1h

Cody Balmer of Penbrook admitted to throwing two molotov cocktails at the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg while Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept inside. Balmer was sentenced Balmer to 25-50 years in prison and ordered him to pay $100,000 in restitution after Balmer pleaded guilty.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court won’t review the $1.4 billion judgment against Alex Jones, the conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist who said the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax staged by crisis actors.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment

Alex Jones, the conservative media personality who called the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax, was found liable for defamation and inflicting emotional distress.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

I can do all

Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 3h

and it really depends on the day for me

an illustration showing hello kitty on one side and a creature crouched down on all fours on the other. a line with arrows at each end and text that says "girlhood is a spectrum"

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Sitting in the kitchen, hearing snores? Apparently youngest slept on the bed there. Nobody knows why. Maybe it's because I made it and it looked so comfy.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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Pandy Fackler 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry about the mess. I'm a shitty housewife

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 1d

they actually built a dam there a few years back. it's the uncanny reservoir now

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

What a great and important thing to research! As a psychologically abusive relationship survivor, I'm still putting my pieces together and trying to help the children to do the same. It definitely changes you!

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Colorado Democrats @coloradodems.bsky.social · 12h

A Colorado caller called out House Speaker Mike Johnson’s dystopian comments about U.S. troops in American cities and his refusal to protect your health care.

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I live on a blue planet and sing to ward off evil! @missdemocracy2024.bsky.social · 8h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Impech Mike Johnson!

This obstruction constitutes an abuse of power/dereliction of duty, which are grounds for impeachment proceedings by the House under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, which empowers each Chamber to judge Johnson's qualifications/conduct.

Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 1d

Adelita Grijalva is unable to represent her constituents in Congress because Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in. Because he doesn’t want the Epstein files released.
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
youtu.be/1zLKbPMtzr8?...

Adelita Grijalva's Office Locked: Congresswoman Ansari Claims Johnson's Epstein Files Cover-Up | APT

YouTube video by APT

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 2h

It's been really, really hard to find anything that helped my kids. We figured out it's the limbic form of ADHD or something 🙃

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 2h

Hmmm. Sounds silly, but I discuss it with my shoulders and head. Like, "fam, you do not need to do this. You can relax. It's fine."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Semiotic Scaryname @mitdasein.bsky.social · 17h

I’m joining the war on Autism, on the side of the Autism.

Main cast of the Good Place standing in a line

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 19h

Trigger Warning: Footage from war torn Portland!!!

you might smile.... be careful

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 11h

She's so good at balancing!

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 11h

Incidentally, i learned today my local menards had an inflatable costume sale and they are completely sold out. So. I have a suspicion what saturday's gonna look like.

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 11h

It's true. I always didn't look old enough to be respected (well. And I'm a woman) and then suddenly was old enough? Idk life and bodies are weird!

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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 11h

“…will j6 always be a stain on our lives?”

Yes. You tried to overthrow a democracy.

itsme JD_
@its_me jd again

So l got a gig for a commercial, and was extremely excited to finally be getting back to filming. Spent half the day shooting and had a great time with the crew, they were all extremely professional. Had that.... things are finally getting back to normal feeling.
But.....
I get a phone call from my agent letting me know they will not be using my spot and that they will be having to reshoot with a new client because they can't have someone who is an influencer for J6. Then they go on to tell my agent that she should have told them about me being a J6er.
This is the unfortunate norm for us J6ers. Will we ever really have closure, will j6 always be a stain on our lives? It's a great thing I have a God that is bigger than all this. As for me, I will continue to move forward.
@yesnicksearcy @IsabellaMDeLuca @HelpStopHate @SteveBakerUSA

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Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 11h

I was dating a guy a lil younger than self, and when we started dating he had a ring of hair and a salt and pepper beard. And then halfway through the year we dated he shaved everything off and I was like omg, I'm dating a child, tho

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