Bryn Solaris ♪
@brynsolaris.gay
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💞 “…quality of love is of the essence, not quantity. If the dance transports us, what matter the number of dancers?”
— Dibellan Sybil Augustine Viliane
🐈 Vela [she/her] ♭ Oracle
🦊 Vivix [it/he] ♯ Kineticist
🎶 queer music in PGH
💞 “…quality of love is of the essence, not quantity. If the dance transports us, what matter the number of dancers?”
— Dibellan Sybil Augustine Viliane
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This. Give me this shit carefully etched into the the leather cover of an old tome.
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be a faggot. be a pervert. enjoy life
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 PM
be a faggot. be a pervert. enjoy life
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In addition to lying about the Frank family’s legal status in the Netherlands, they repeatedly tried to get refugee status in the US, but were denied. www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j...
If not for anti-migrant sentiment in the US, it’s possible Anne Frank could still be alive today.
If not for anti-migrant sentiment in the US, it’s possible Anne Frank could still be alive today.
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
January 28, 2026 at 4:13 PM
In addition to lying about the Frank family’s legal status in the Netherlands, they repeatedly tried to get refugee status in the US, but were denied. www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j...
If not for anti-migrant sentiment in the US, it’s possible Anne Frank could still be alive today.
If not for anti-migrant sentiment in the US, it’s possible Anne Frank could still be alive today.
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Fkn exhausted having this debate with neolibs
If you want to keep picking the "lesser" of two evils (i.e. the one targeting OTHER people instead of you) I can't stop you
I maintain that "these people are allowed to die so the rest of us don't" is a cowardly & privileged take. Get out of my replies
If you want to keep picking the "lesser" of two evils (i.e. the one targeting OTHER people instead of you) I can't stop you
I maintain that "these people are allowed to die so the rest of us don't" is a cowardly & privileged take. Get out of my replies
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Fkn exhausted having this debate with neolibs
If you want to keep picking the "lesser" of two evils (i.e. the one targeting OTHER people instead of you) I can't stop you
I maintain that "these people are allowed to die so the rest of us don't" is a cowardly & privileged take. Get out of my replies
If you want to keep picking the "lesser" of two evils (i.e. the one targeting OTHER people instead of you) I can't stop you
I maintain that "these people are allowed to die so the rest of us don't" is a cowardly & privileged take. Get out of my replies
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nobody saying "this wouldn't have happened under kamala" wants to dismantle imperial violence or has a vision outside our flawed system, they can't even say no to Newsom and he'd gleefully face trans folks and the unhoused to a wall.
they mean they want negative peace and horrors they can ignore.
they mean they want negative peace and horrors they can ignore.
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
nobody saying "this wouldn't have happened under kamala" wants to dismantle imperial violence or has a vision outside our flawed system, they can't even say no to Newsom and he'd gleefully face trans folks and the unhoused to a wall.
they mean they want negative peace and horrors they can ignore.
they mean they want negative peace and horrors they can ignore.
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Me when someone way too cool to be talking to me responds to one of my posts: Oh shit oh fuck I need to reply with something witty or insightful or thought provoking....
The pawnshop owner in my brain: Best I can do is awkwardly rephrasing their post back to them.
The pawnshop owner in my brain: Best I can do is awkwardly rephrasing their post back to them.
January 28, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Me when someone way too cool to be talking to me responds to one of my posts: Oh shit oh fuck I need to reply with something witty or insightful or thought provoking....
The pawnshop owner in my brain: Best I can do is awkwardly rephrasing their post back to them.
The pawnshop owner in my brain: Best I can do is awkwardly rephrasing their post back to them.
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Hey, guess what? You can still read up on decolonization, racism, and imperialism. It’s not too late to deconstruct and unpack all the ways society has told you to live that benefit the powers that be.
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Hey, guess what? You can still read up on decolonization, racism, and imperialism. It’s not too late to deconstruct and unpack all the ways society has told you to live that benefit the powers that be.
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When posting a link *anywhere*, always remove the ? and everything afterwards. That's all tracking information.
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 AM
When posting a link *anywhere*, always remove the ? and everything afterwards. That's all tracking information.
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orders
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Omfg if you don't have a LEGO account, it may be worth making one just to have this become a reality.
"Supporting" it just requires a vote and costs nothing!
"Supporting" it just requires a vote and costs nothing!
January 28, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Omfg if you don't have a LEGO account, it may be worth making one just to have this become a reality.
"Supporting" it just requires a vote and costs nothing!
"Supporting" it just requires a vote and costs nothing!
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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Starsector has the only good gender selector in videogames
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Starsector has the only good gender selector in videogames
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Every Damn Time...
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Every Damn Time...
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ppl who think wil wheaton and nathan fillion are cool are like disney adults, but for scifi
March 3, 2024 at 12:50 AM
ppl who think wil wheaton and nathan fillion are cool are like disney adults, but for scifi
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We are suspending refuse collection through the end of the week so Public Works crews can focus on snow. Garbage & recycling pick up trucks are plowing, residential snow is on curbs, & we are expecting low wind chills.
Collection will resume as normal on Monday, February 2nd.
Collection will resume as normal on Monday, February 2nd.
January 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
We are suspending refuse collection through the end of the week so Public Works crews can focus on snow. Garbage & recycling pick up trucks are plowing, residential snow is on curbs, & we are expecting low wind chills.
Collection will resume as normal on Monday, February 2nd.
Collection will resume as normal on Monday, February 2nd.
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To be clear, we cannot just go back to normal. "Normal" is what pipelined us into this mess.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
To be clear, we cannot just go back to normal. "Normal" is what pipelined us into this mess.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
Love when neolibs are like "you can't demand perfection" at people who didn't want to vote for genocide here and abroad.
It's just so very difficult to stop killing people around the world, I guess. Accountability is just beyond their bank acco—uh, I mean their power as legislators. 🙄
It's just so very difficult to stop killing people around the world, I guess. Accountability is just beyond their bank acco—uh, I mean their power as legislators. 🙄
But they had something to vote for, it was and is called 250 years of flawed American Democracy.
They demanded a pony, and when they didn't get one, they had a tantrum, and now we are all suffering. Of course I will blame them. They failed the easiest open book civics test in history.
They demanded a pony, and when they didn't get one, they had a tantrum, and now we are all suffering. Of course I will blame them. They failed the easiest open book civics test in history.
January 27, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Love when neolibs are like "you can't demand perfection" at people who didn't want to vote for genocide here and abroad.
It's just so very difficult to stop killing people around the world, I guess. Accountability is just beyond their bank acco—uh, I mean their power as legislators. 🙄
It's just so very difficult to stop killing people around the world, I guess. Accountability is just beyond their bank acco—uh, I mean their power as legislators. 🙄
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If Democrats earnestly believed in fighting fascism, we would have seen them actually stand by their guns during the government shutdown, actually support more leftist members of their party like Mamdani, actually defend trans rights. We, by & large, haven’t seen that. They simply want power again.
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
If Democrats earnestly believed in fighting fascism, we would have seen them actually stand by their guns during the government shutdown, actually support more leftist members of their party like Mamdani, actually defend trans rights. We, by & large, haven’t seen that. They simply want power again.
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My mayor told me the snow storm keeps breaking his snowplows so I asked how many plows he has and he said he just goes to DPW and gets a new plow afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding snow plows to the storm and then his community started crying.
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
My mayor told me the snow storm keeps breaking his snowplows so I asked how many plows he has and he said he just goes to DPW and gets a new plow afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding snow plows to the storm and then his community started crying.
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"hello!"
"what's new with you?"
"nothing i'd tell you about."
"i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela."
"the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day."
"take care."
"bye."
"what's new with you?"
"nothing i'd tell you about."
"i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela."
"the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day."
"take care."
"bye."
January 21, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"hello!"
"what's new with you?"
"nothing i'd tell you about."
"i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela."
"the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day."
"take care."
"bye."
"what's new with you?"
"nothing i'd tell you about."
"i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela."
"the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day."
"take care."
"bye."
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this is incredibly prescient and spot on
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
this is incredibly prescient and spot on
To be clear, we cannot just go back to normal. "Normal" is what pipelined us into this mess.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
To be clear, we cannot just go back to normal. "Normal" is what pipelined us into this mess.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
We need to abolish cops & landlords.
We need free healthcare & UBI.
We need REAL reparations & land back.
Stop acting like this "isn't what America stands for" just because it finally affected white folks.
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You cannot sacrifice basic right and wrong in the name of campaigns.
You identify what's wrong. You press on that. And then you attach it to the opposition.
You don't just say the opposition is bad. I need to know they are on my side and not just trying to get elected.
You identify what's wrong. You press on that. And then you attach it to the opposition.
You don't just say the opposition is bad. I need to know they are on my side and not just trying to get elected.
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
You cannot sacrifice basic right and wrong in the name of campaigns.
You identify what's wrong. You press on that. And then you attach it to the opposition.
You don't just say the opposition is bad. I need to know they are on my side and not just trying to get elected.
You identify what's wrong. You press on that. And then you attach it to the opposition.
You don't just say the opposition is bad. I need to know they are on my side and not just trying to get elected.
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I am telling you my very honest belief that I no longer understand what Democrats stand for.
I feel quite strongly they put corporate interests over their constituents. And this sort of behavior tells me they think what matters is the magic words that get them elected.
I'm tired of it.
I feel quite strongly they put corporate interests over their constituents. And this sort of behavior tells me they think what matters is the magic words that get them elected.
I'm tired of it.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I am telling you my very honest belief that I no longer understand what Democrats stand for.
I feel quite strongly they put corporate interests over their constituents. And this sort of behavior tells me they think what matters is the magic words that get them elected.
I'm tired of it.
I feel quite strongly they put corporate interests over their constituents. And this sort of behavior tells me they think what matters is the magic words that get them elected.
I'm tired of it.