the ethereal andie diane
@andiediane.bsky.social
Scorpio / 🏳️⚧️ / Cocteau Twins enthusiast.
I want to be hated by lies.
Nonbinary dyke to some, bisexual angel to others
A constant generation of ethereal nonsense.
I want to be hated by lies.
Nonbinary dyke to some, bisexual angel to others
A constant generation of ethereal nonsense.
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the LDS Church did not allow black priests, opposed interracial marriage, supported racial segregation in its communities and church schools & taught that righteous Black people would be made white after death until 1978
unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival
unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival
America is in the middle of a second Mormon Moment. For our Cover Story, Bridget Read reports on how the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into our hearts and wallets. tinyurl.com/484awp7j
February 15, 2026 at 6:06 AM
the LDS Church did not allow black priests, opposed interracial marriage, supported racial segregation in its communities and church schools & taught that righteous Black people would be made white after death until 1978
unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival
unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival
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“i’m a very weak man and easily persuaded” is both an excellent line for accepting a drink and a good mogwai song title
February 15, 2026 at 6:54 AM
“i’m a very weak man and easily persuaded” is both an excellent line for accepting a drink and a good mogwai song title
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It must be so cool to know that your congressional representative will never do a single thing to improve your life unless you already have $100 million, and sees his job as a lifetime appointment whose duties amount to getting extremely upset about TV and doing a bunch of sweaty posts about it.
February 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It must be so cool to know that your congressional representative will never do a single thing to improve your life unless you already have $100 million, and sees his job as a lifetime appointment whose duties amount to getting extremely upset about TV and doing a bunch of sweaty posts about it.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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a synthesizer is not a mech until you attach a keyboard and youre pressing the keys and the beams of your violent intent glitter as they pierce the dark
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
a synthesizer is not a mech until you attach a keyboard and youre pressing the keys and the beams of your violent intent glitter as they pierce the dark
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Might be superfluous but the "to be trans" really bothers me. My goal is not "to be trans". I am not trying to "be trans". I am aligning myself with the way I need to be and "trans" is the word for people who have the kind of need I have, a need we all have the right to pursue however we need to.
"you don't need hormones to be trans" does not comfort any trans person who has been denied access to hormones and only serves to speak over their needs and frame them as responsible for wanting to be comfortable in their own bodies
February 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Might be superfluous but the "to be trans" really bothers me. My goal is not "to be trans". I am not trying to "be trans". I am aligning myself with the way I need to be and "trans" is the word for people who have the kind of need I have, a need we all have the right to pursue however we need to.
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This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.
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This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
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Treatise from my time on cohost i feel genuinely holds true:
"algorithmic content quietly teaches you a sort of digital learned helplessness. You are taught to be passive in your own joy and your ability to make new friends and conversation partners atrophies. You have to resist it."
"algorithmic content quietly teaches you a sort of digital learned helplessness. You are taught to be passive in your own joy and your ability to make new friends and conversation partners atrophies. You have to resist it."
February 13, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Treatise from my time on cohost i feel genuinely holds true:
"algorithmic content quietly teaches you a sort of digital learned helplessness. You are taught to be passive in your own joy and your ability to make new friends and conversation partners atrophies. You have to resist it."
"algorithmic content quietly teaches you a sort of digital learned helplessness. You are taught to be passive in your own joy and your ability to make new friends and conversation partners atrophies. You have to resist it."
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New translation!
I’m happy to release proper manmade subtitles for a gorgeous piece of scientific filmmaking by one of Japan’s great documentary directors, Sumiko Haneda…The Cabbage Butterfly!
Come to learn about butterflies, leave with daydreams of the world.
Give it a watch!
I’m happy to release proper manmade subtitles for a gorgeous piece of scientific filmmaking by one of Japan’s great documentary directors, Sumiko Haneda…The Cabbage Butterfly!
Come to learn about butterflies, leave with daydreams of the world.
Give it a watch!
The Cabbage Butterfly (Sumiko Haneda, 1968) w/ English subs
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
New translation!
I’m happy to release proper manmade subtitles for a gorgeous piece of scientific filmmaking by one of Japan’s great documentary directors, Sumiko Haneda…The Cabbage Butterfly!
Come to learn about butterflies, leave with daydreams of the world.
Give it a watch!
I’m happy to release proper manmade subtitles for a gorgeous piece of scientific filmmaking by one of Japan’s great documentary directors, Sumiko Haneda…The Cabbage Butterfly!
Come to learn about butterflies, leave with daydreams of the world.
Give it a watch!
Zoomers also can't come to the local goth nite because they can't legally drink.
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Zoomers also can't come to the local goth nite because they can't legally drink.
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“People feel it in their guts, on the streets. Abolish them, because otherwise they will execute us.”
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.
Our conversation:
Our conversation:
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
“People feel it in their guts, on the streets. Abolish them, because otherwise they will execute us.”
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thinking about the absolutely feral set design in johnnie to and sylvia chang's 2012 film-adapting-a-play OFFICE (DESIGN FOR LIVING) again.
tativille meets DOGVILLE with douglas sirk sandwiched somewhere in the middle.
tativille meets DOGVILLE with douglas sirk sandwiched somewhere in the middle.
February 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
thinking about the absolutely feral set design in johnnie to and sylvia chang's 2012 film-adapting-a-play OFFICE (DESIGN FOR LIVING) again.
tativille meets DOGVILLE with douglas sirk sandwiched somewhere in the middle.
tativille meets DOGVILLE with douglas sirk sandwiched somewhere in the middle.
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Found this piece Osamu Tezuka drew and something tells me he had some professional jealousy towards the Ultraman series.
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Found this piece Osamu Tezuka drew and something tells me he had some professional jealousy towards the Ultraman series.
This is my emotional support goblin Sable
February 13, 2026 at 4:17 AM
This is my emotional support goblin Sable
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I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out
I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing
I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:48 PM
pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out
I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing
I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing
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I just learned that de Lauretis passed away two weeks ago. A groundbreaking feminist scholar and, now that I think about it, my introduction to Michael Snow. RIP.
In THE PRACTICE OF LOVE, Teresa de Lauretis discusses how dildo use decenters the phallus, since it turns the penis into a curculating commodity that can be possessed by anyone, used, then set aside.
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I just learned that de Lauretis passed away two weeks ago. A groundbreaking feminist scholar and, now that I think about it, my introduction to Michael Snow. RIP.
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It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
This is not yet a law but the quotes in this are something. That Missouri has a few trans/nb pols is encouraging but that vote tally isn't.
February 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is not yet a law but the quotes in this are something. That Missouri has a few trans/nb pols is encouraging but that vote tally isn't.
This guy's disgusting logic is behind their abortion ban too!
I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
February 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This guy's disgusting logic is behind their abortion ban too!
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This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.
FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...
FDA’s rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry
Experts say the FDA "moved the goalposts" on Moderna, creating "a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development" in the U.S.
www.statnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.