Manogirl
@manogirl.bsky.social
Once a librarian, always a librarian. Founding member, Trifecta of Young Evil. Fat liberation. BL person, bed person, writer of fanfic. Self-possessed cool aunt, teenager girl, rad fat lady in my 40s and tbh it's pretty fucking great.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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“The whistle says, ‘We will stand up and we will watch, and we will judge you and we will remember, and we will witness. And you will not get away with it. You may think you’re doing it right now, but you will not get away with it.’ That’s what a whistle says," @courtneymilan.com told me.
This whistle fights fascists
I print whistles now. You can too.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
“The whistle says, ‘We will stand up and we will watch, and we will judge you and we will remember, and we will witness. And you will not get away with it. You may think you’re doing it right now, but you will not get away with it.’ That’s what a whistle says," @courtneymilan.com told me.
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I really wish that non-maskers and covid is overers would take a look at the language here and ask yourself, does it really seem all that extreme to take extra precautions before an event you’ve trained your whole life for? And if not, what is reason for such charged language?
February 10, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I really wish that non-maskers and covid is overers would take a look at the language here and ask yourself, does it really seem all that extreme to take extra precautions before an event you’ve trained your whole life for? And if not, what is reason for such charged language?
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There are mostly poor people in US jails because they can’t afford to pay to get released.
We don’t have to hand it to US jails and prisons.
We don’t have to hand it to US jails and prisons.
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
There are mostly poor people in US jails because they can’t afford to pay to get released.
We don’t have to hand it to US jails and prisons.
We don’t have to hand it to US jails and prisons.
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Even the old ladies are fiercely devoted to the process and would sooner get shot than fail at their jobs
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I keep thinking about this. We have processes in place for dealing with hostile situations. One of the biggest is to secure the ballots, regardless of what's going on. The perception is that poll workers are old ladies but it's trending younger every year. We'll protect your ability to vote freely.
February 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Even the old ladies are fiercely devoted to the process and would sooner get shot than fail at their jobs
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.
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WEARING A MASK IS NOT FUCKING EXTREME YOU FUCKING ABLEIST DISEASE LOVING PIECES OF SHIT
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
WEARING A MASK IS NOT FUCKING EXTREME YOU FUCKING ABLEIST DISEASE LOVING PIECES OF SHIT
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this is injurious to moral, social, and all human life
I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
this is injurious to moral, social, and all human life
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I know it’s old news and everyone has moved on. But ICE has very much not moved on and is still terrorizing Minnesota every single day.
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I know it’s old news and everyone has moved on. But ICE has very much not moved on and is still terrorizing Minnesota every single day.
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How are we supposed to keep clocking in at work when mega concentration camps are being built
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
How are we supposed to keep clocking in at work when mega concentration camps are being built
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People on the internet get mad when they say they're lonely and the suggestions they get back are to join a club. But yeah, man. The cure for loneliness is to spend time with other people. That's gonna feel awkward at first but there's no other magic solution. Not sure what you're looking for, here.
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
People on the internet get mad when they say they're lonely and the suggestions they get back are to join a club. But yeah, man. The cure for loneliness is to spend time with other people. That's gonna feel awkward at first but there's no other magic solution. Not sure what you're looking for, here.
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Training Series: Power in Solidarity
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February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Monday, February 16, at 7:00 pm ET for the launch of Power in Solidarity — a four-part, skill-building training series designed to help you organize effectively, take meaningful action, and build lasting power for immigrant justice. actionnetwork.org/events/train...
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Bad Bunny's halftime show was such a great example that entertainment can be **entertaining** and also very intentional about saying something
For too long audiences have been fed this canard (across various media) that if TV/film/etc is doing the latter, then it's boring & very eat-your-vegetables
For too long audiences have been fed this canard (across various media) that if TV/film/etc is doing the latter, then it's boring & very eat-your-vegetables
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Bad Bunny's halftime show was such a great example that entertainment can be **entertaining** and also very intentional about saying something
For too long audiences have been fed this canard (across various media) that if TV/film/etc is doing the latter, then it's boring & very eat-your-vegetables
For too long audiences have been fed this canard (across various media) that if TV/film/etc is doing the latter, then it's boring & very eat-your-vegetables
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I am tired of giving clear-headed, patient, empathetic responses for no reason. Why am I held to exemplary behavior in front every screaming coworker, manipulative family member, angry driver, rich person with power, when the social contract has been shattered for years?
AM I RIGHT, LADIES??
AM I RIGHT, LADIES??
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I am tired of giving clear-headed, patient, empathetic responses for no reason. Why am I held to exemplary behavior in front every screaming coworker, manipulative family member, angry driver, rich person with power, when the social contract has been shattered for years?
AM I RIGHT, LADIES??
AM I RIGHT, LADIES??
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Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.
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There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses. It's very obvious, and very simple. This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses. It's very obvious, and very simple. This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.
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Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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I also can’t imagine that the somehow-still-pretty-terrible AI subtitles that NBC is using for the Olympics is *helping* with the public perception of these products
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 AM
I also can’t imagine that the somehow-still-pretty-terrible AI subtitles that NBC is using for the Olympics is *helping* with the public perception of these products
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The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
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as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce
February 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce