Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 38🏳️🌈✡️
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Alex
@purplechrain.bsky.social
· Nov 17
to misquote @kierongillen.bsky.social: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
practically, I *know* @canadasdragrace.bsky.social is an English branch of the franchise & isn’t Drag Race Belgique or France but I wish they just let the Francophone queens speak French & subtitle properly because not getting to hear Sami Landri riff and ramble en français is depriving the audience
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
practically, I *know* @canadasdragrace.bsky.social is an English branch of the franchise & isn’t Drag Race Belgique or France but I wish they just let the Francophone queens speak French & subtitle properly because not getting to hear Sami Landri riff and ramble en français is depriving the audience
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Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
just finished Hello Sunshine and Young’s cartooning and character work are incredibly effective. definitely recommended.
Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
just finished Hello Sunshine and Young’s cartooning and character work are incredibly effective. definitely recommended.
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In case you’re wondering:
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
Leaders of Canada’s Newest Convoy Worry Police Are Trying to Sabotage a Nationwide Protest Avenging a Flock of Dead Ostriches
Convoy organizers say they are at ‘war’ with the federal government, but insist they will remain ‘peaceful’
pressprogress.ca
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In case you’re wondering:
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
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in a real world, this would be blaring across the headlines in every country. this is the scene that starts your climate disaster survival movie.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
in a real world, this would be blaring across the headlines in every country. this is the scene that starts your climate disaster survival movie.
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
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everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
The thing about Trump is that, more than anything else, he is hyper obsessed with image, popularity & power and he knows that Mamdani is popular. This entire press conference has been as full of empty praise from Trump as his meetings with Putin or MBS.
Q: Just days ago you referred to Trump as a 'despot.' Will you retract?
MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have
TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot
MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have
TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The thing about Trump is that, more than anything else, he is hyper obsessed with image, popularity & power and he knows that Mamdani is popular. This entire press conference has been as full of empty praise from Trump as his meetings with Putin or MBS.
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Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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Trump's CBP chief is a fabulist psychopath who openly takes pleasure in brutal acts of violence against civilians and freely lies under oath about the atrocities he commits and orchestrates. These are the tactics of terrorists, unleashed on our cities by our own government. slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump's CBP chief is a fabulist psychopath who openly takes pleasure in brutal acts of violence against civilians and freely lies under oath about the atrocities he commits and orchestrates. These are the tactics of terrorists, unleashed on our cities by our own government. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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the NYT referring to "scientific orthodoxy" instead of "science" or "proven facts" or "the truth" is what helps you see that this newspaper is now, & has been for some time, a critical part of the fascist apparatus in this country
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the NYT referring to "scientific orthodoxy" instead of "science" or "proven facts" or "the truth" is what helps you see that this newspaper is now, & has been for some time, a critical part of the fascist apparatus in this country
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she was 21 years old, had children aged 8 and 5, and had not, in fact, shoplifted anything
fuck the police
fuck the police
An Ohio officer who shot and killed a pregnant Black mother in a supermarket parking lot after she was accused of shoplifting has been acquitted of all charges, including murder.
https://cnn.it/49z7yUS
https://cnn.it/49z7yUS
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
she was 21 years old, had children aged 8 and 5, and had not, in fact, shoplifted anything
fuck the police
fuck the police
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🎵 Sex Cardigan
Elphaba's only fuckin' in her
Sex Cardigan
Fiyero won't stop singing that he's
Tryna get it in
And Elphaba is pulling out her
Sex Cardigan
Sex Cardigan 🎶
Elphaba's only fuckin' in her
Sex Cardigan
Fiyero won't stop singing that he's
Tryna get it in
And Elphaba is pulling out her
Sex Cardigan
Sex Cardigan 🎶
my favourite part of WICKED 2 was when they got to the song about Fucking and she pulled on the most enormous and thick sweater blanket you've ever seen
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🎵 Sex Cardigan
Elphaba's only fuckin' in her
Sex Cardigan
Fiyero won't stop singing that he's
Tryna get it in
And Elphaba is pulling out her
Sex Cardigan
Sex Cardigan 🎶
Elphaba's only fuckin' in her
Sex Cardigan
Fiyero won't stop singing that he's
Tryna get it in
And Elphaba is pulling out her
Sex Cardigan
Sex Cardigan 🎶
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
6 judges & 3 prosecutors at International Criminal Court been sanctioned by Trump administration.
In interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses impact of these measures:
6 judges & 3 prosecutors at International Criminal Court been sanctioned by Trump administration.
In interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses impact of these measures:
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
6 judges & 3 prosecutors at International Criminal Court been sanctioned by Trump administration.
In interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses impact of these measures:
6 judges & 3 prosecutors at International Criminal Court been sanctioned by Trump administration.
In interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses impact of these measures:
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Honestly, these ghouls say "we can always tell" but the amount of stories that are just "this 5'9 cis woman was yelled at in a toilet by Gen X freak yelling about large gametes" suggests that the LGB Alliance can NEVER tell.
Who does this …reptile… think she is speaking for anyone else?
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Honestly, these ghouls say "we can always tell" but the amount of stories that are just "this 5'9 cis woman was yelled at in a toilet by Gen X freak yelling about large gametes" suggests that the LGB Alliance can NEVER tell.
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And none of this should be in any sense a surprise to anyone, not simply because those links were open and obvious, but because you either believe in bodily autonomy or not. Either a person has the right to bodily autonomy or they don't, be it reproductive healthcare or transition healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
And none of this should be in any sense a surprise to anyone, not simply because those links were open and obvious, but because you either believe in bodily autonomy or not. Either a person has the right to bodily autonomy or they don't, be it reproductive healthcare or transition healthcare.
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Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
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The anti-trans and anti-abortion movements are linked (or even the same) because both are about denying people agency and control over our own bodies 😡👇🏼
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The anti-trans and anti-abortion movements are linked (or even the same) because both are about denying people agency and control over our own bodies 😡👇🏼
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
At what point does Halligan end up needing to testify under oath?
This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
At what point does Halligan end up needing to testify under oath?
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sorry for leaving this one out
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
sorry for leaving this one out
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