Nina Gooden
@nsgooden.bsky.social
I'm just a girl, caught in a tawdry affair with the written word. I bleed ink & cry whiteout. 75% GIF. Queer. She/Her.
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Nina Gooden
@nsgooden.bsky.social
· Mar 8
I have had so many conversations about how they could have taken over AND kept the population happy by just...providing for basic needs. Like Lawful Evil exists, my dude. Could have Utopia'd us into quiet subservience, but nooooo. Chaotic Evil every damn time.
I will die on this hill. The opportunity to just make sure we all had housing and food was RIGHT THERE. We're so desperate for stability at this point, we would have GIVEN away our data or whateverthefuck they want so badly. I genuinely don't understand why Evil regimes can't just be smart about it.
It's been *three days* and I feel like I'm in an old YouTube video. My mood has been in the TRASH and I just know if I have a piece of cake I'll feel so much better.
Don't let them lie to you. Drinking tea does NOT = having a Snickers.
Don't let them lie to you. Drinking tea does NOT = having a Snickers.
January 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
It's been *three days* and I feel like I'm in an old YouTube video. My mood has been in the TRASH and I just know if I have a piece of cake I'll feel so much better.
Don't let them lie to you. Drinking tea does NOT = having a Snickers.
Don't let them lie to you. Drinking tea does NOT = having a Snickers.
Been putting it off for ages, but since I feel so helpless in the world, I'm focusing on something I can control (at least a little)--my health. Actually doing the low-FODMAP diet, instead of randomly cutting things and hoping it fixes me. The girls will be thrilled.
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Been putting it off for ages, but since I feel so helpless in the world, I'm focusing on something I can control (at least a little)--my health. Actually doing the low-FODMAP diet, instead of randomly cutting things and hoping it fixes me. The girls will be thrilled.
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
I know it's ultimately not that deep, but I'm really bummed about leaving TikTok behind.
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I know it's ultimately not that deep, but I'm really bummed about leaving TikTok behind.
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People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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"Hahaha" said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the seventeeth time that hour. "Fuck".
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 AM
"Hahaha" said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the seventeeth time that hour. "Fuck".
My heart is just so fucking heavy today.
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
My heart is just so fucking heavy today.
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THIS IS A SCHOOL, WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
THIS IS A SCHOOL, WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING
"Pre-Shipment, USPS Awaiting Item" is not the same as shipped and I will DIE on this hill.
January 6, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"Pre-Shipment, USPS Awaiting Item" is not the same as shipped and I will DIE on this hill.
I would like more of this, please.
Please enjoy this tomato plant sneaking in after curfew
January 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM
I would like more of this, please.
There aren't enough fluffy creatures on my feed to counterbalance the horrors.
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
There aren't enough fluffy creatures on my feed to counterbalance the horrors.
I don't get how people dont understand this.
See also: public services--the post office was never supposed to be profitable.
See also: public services--the post office was never supposed to be profitable.
Govt is a regulator of business. That’s one of its many jobs. That’s why corporations don’t like it, that’s why they’ve maintained this ‘govt is inefficient’ for a century. Govt is not a business, it regulates business.
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I don't get how people dont understand this.
See also: public services--the post office was never supposed to be profitable.
See also: public services--the post office was never supposed to be profitable.
My question is...why is the AI doing the "apologizing?" There's zero accountability in this, no matter what tone is used.
how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem
lmao jfc
January 2, 2026 at 4:16 AM
My question is...why is the AI doing the "apologizing?" There's zero accountability in this, no matter what tone is used.
I don't... want to be a social media persona. 🥹
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don't... want to be a social media persona. 🥹
I don't know why I expected my flu-ridden family to be immediately cured after the holidays.
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I don't know why I expected my flu-ridden family to be immediately cured after the holidays.
Introduced my gender-norm-obsessed 5yo to drag queens today. Unfortunately, I underestimated how interested she'd be in make up. Now I need to study an entire language I've never understood.
Send help.
Send help.
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Introduced my gender-norm-obsessed 5yo to drag queens today. Unfortunately, I underestimated how interested she'd be in make up. Now I need to study an entire language I've never understood.
Send help.
Send help.
There's no cure for burnout. We're expected to just suck it up and keep going.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There's no cure for burnout. We're expected to just suck it up and keep going.
Working with clay. I'm realizing that I know a lot less about color theory than I thought I did.
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Working with clay. I'm realizing that I know a lot less about color theory than I thought I did.
Last Week Nina decided she wanted to get into dark romance. She also decided we needed to finally read Haunting Adeline. We hate her.
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Last Week Nina decided she wanted to get into dark romance. She also decided we needed to finally read Haunting Adeline. We hate her.
I legitimately could not make it through this movie without a whole rant because I was so annoyed by the "lessons."
My family reminds me that I lack whimsy on a daily basis. 🥲
My family reminds me that I lack whimsy on a daily basis. 🥲
In retrospect, the Lorax is the most disastrous children's book to have ever been written. The beloved book depicts economies of scale as destructive and environmental advocacy as failing to achieve any of your goals except being smug and correct in the end when industry burns itself out.
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I legitimately could not make it through this movie without a whole rant because I was so annoyed by the "lessons."
My family reminds me that I lack whimsy on a daily basis. 🥲
My family reminds me that I lack whimsy on a daily basis. 🥲
The impossible cycle of increasing daily pain levels with exercise--in the hopes of one day having less pain--only to do MORE damage, causing more pain, and increasing recovery time...to then be in pain so long you get no gains from the initial pain and have to start over.
a woman in a dress is sitting on a bed with #schitts creek on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a dress is sitting on a bed with #schitts creek on the bottom captioned make it stop
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November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The impossible cycle of increasing daily pain levels with exercise--in the hopes of one day having less pain--only to do MORE damage, causing more pain, and increasing recovery time...to then be in pain so long you get no gains from the initial pain and have to start over.
Last night I fell down half a flight of stairs. Today, I am very grateful for the physical depersonalization my therapist is trying to convince me to "fix."
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Last night I fell down half a flight of stairs. Today, I am very grateful for the physical depersonalization my therapist is trying to convince me to "fix."
Don't you do this to me, John. Don't.
I'VE TRIED THE APPLE PIE MAC AND CHEESE. It was surprisingly okay! Light hints of apple, cinnamon and nutmeg, not enough to overpower the usual mac and cheese flavor, and not unpleasant. I wouldn't buy more boxes of it, but I will happily eat the ones we have. Should you try it? Sure, why not.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Don't you do this to me, John. Don't.