TheDorc
@thedorc.bsky.social
Kenyan. Proud Neighborhood Auntie. An intermittently thawing curmudgeon.
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TheDorc
@thedorc.bsky.social
· Feb 20
May our brave ALWAYS be bigger than the terror.
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Small joys.
Drawing of a banana dancing in heels.
The most expensive nephew gave me this a few years ago.
Drawing of a banana dancing in heels.
The most expensive nephew gave me this a few years ago.
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Small joys.
Drawing of a banana dancing in heels.
The most expensive nephew gave me this a few years ago.
Drawing of a banana dancing in heels.
The most expensive nephew gave me this a few years ago.
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If I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
January 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
If I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
Vertigo came knocking at 3 am
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And that emoji is 💯
😵💫😵💫😵💫
And that emoji is 💯
January 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Vertigo came knocking at 3 am
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And that emoji is 💯
😵💫😵💫😵💫
And that emoji is 💯
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Part 3 - More on your sympathetic nervous system’s fight/flight response
Learning what your body looks like and feels like when things are about to go down is key
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/04/24/connecting-with-your-intuition-body-via-somatic-work-deeper-on-that-fight-flight-response/
Learning what your body looks like and feels like when things are about to go down is key
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/04/24/connecting-with-your-intuition-body-via-somatic-work-deeper-on-that-fight-flight-response/
July 5, 2023 at 12:41 AM
Part 3 - More on your sympathetic nervous system’s fight/flight response
Learning what your body looks like and feels like when things are about to go down is key
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/04/24/connecting-with-your-intuition-body-via-somatic-work-deeper-on-that-fight-flight-response/
Learning what your body looks like and feels like when things are about to go down is key
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/04/24/connecting-with-your-intuition-body-via-somatic-work-deeper-on-that-fight-flight-response/
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You don’t have to keep watching any death videos. It doesn’t make you more empathic or connected
Atp, I’m suspicious of all these news outlets replaying the video & showing us new angles
You know what happened already. This is not for your benefit
Protect your nervous system
Atp, I’m suspicious of all these news outlets replaying the video & showing us new angles
You know what happened already. This is not for your benefit
Protect your nervous system
January 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
You don’t have to keep watching any death videos. It doesn’t make you more empathic or connected
Atp, I’m suspicious of all these news outlets replaying the video & showing us new angles
You know what happened already. This is not for your benefit
Protect your nervous system
Atp, I’m suspicious of all these news outlets replaying the video & showing us new angles
You know what happened already. This is not for your benefit
Protect your nervous system
A Black woman gave me my flowers at work. Listen… it has been summer all day over here since 9:53 am.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:50 PM
A Black woman gave me my flowers at work. Listen… it has been summer all day over here since 9:53 am.
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The number of people wearing masks on metro is so low 😓
January 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The number of people wearing masks on metro is so low 😓
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It is first a work of self to face your pieces ... to come home to your needs... insecurities ... hesitancies
and then a work of audacity to find the courage to welcome others to the joy of this work
and then a work of audacity to find the courage to welcome others to the joy of this work
January 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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But failure doesn't just lie in policy. The Handmaid’s Tale is clearly a different approach, even if the same principles hold. Margaret Atwood is, it seems, interested in cultural failure, and in the way that narratives can create and uphold political power.
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March 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
But failure doesn't just lie in policy. The Handmaid’s Tale is clearly a different approach, even if the same principles hold. Margaret Atwood is, it seems, interested in cultural failure, and in the way that narratives can create and uphold political power.
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15/
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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
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The Jesus and Mary Alice in Chains
December 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Jesus and Mary Alice in Chains
Five for Fighting the Monkees
ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
December 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Five for Fighting the Monkees
This Fani Willis testimony.
A Black woman fresh out of patience.
A Black woman fresh out of patience.
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This Fani Willis testimony.
A Black woman fresh out of patience.
A Black woman fresh out of patience.
Someone tied a whole goat to my parents’ gate.
Kenyans remain undefeated.
Kenyans remain undefeated.
December 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Someone tied a whole goat to my parents’ gate.
Kenyans remain undefeated.
Kenyans remain undefeated.
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“Violence never solves anything”
Of all possible statements, this is among the least true. There is a reason we construct moral rules around the use of violence – it’s super effective and anybody can do it interpersonally.
Of all possible statements, this is among the least true. There is a reason we construct moral rules around the use of violence – it’s super effective and anybody can do it interpersonally.
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“Violence never solves anything”
Of all possible statements, this is among the least true. There is a reason we construct moral rules around the use of violence – it’s super effective and anybody can do it interpersonally.
Of all possible statements, this is among the least true. There is a reason we construct moral rules around the use of violence – it’s super effective and anybody can do it interpersonally.
A sib got on my nerves all year round. Their kid asked for a drum set for Christmas.
Me:
Me:
a cartoon of grinch saying yes on a blue background
ALT: a cartoon of grinch saying yes on a blue background
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A sib got on my nerves all year round. Their kid asked for a drum set for Christmas.
Me:
Me:
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welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
it’s Christmas Eve morning and apparently Bluesky is in a fightin’ mood today.
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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What episodes do you tell people to watch if they want to get a feel for Doctor Who? I usually go with Blink, Vincent and the Doctor, and The Eleventh Hour.
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What episodes do you tell people to watch if they want to get a feel for Doctor Who? I usually go with Blink, Vincent and the Doctor, and The Eleventh Hour.
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I mean women’s loneliness has been a joke for decades- the cat lady with her bags. I’ve heard that threat- if ur not careful ur gonna wind up a cat lady! Since I was a kid.
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I mean women’s loneliness has been a joke for decades- the cat lady with her bags. I’ve heard that threat- if ur not careful ur gonna wind up a cat lady! Since I was a kid.
Me: can you please go bother your other auntie for a minute?
Semi-resident toddler: No, thank you!
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*She has been poking and prodding me for 2+ hours
Semi-resident toddler: No, thank you!
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*She has been poking and prodding me for 2+ hours
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Me: can you please go bother your other auntie for a minute?
Semi-resident toddler: No, thank you!
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*She has been poking and prodding me for 2+ hours
Semi-resident toddler: No, thank you!
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*She has been poking and prodding me for 2+ hours
come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
To call myself beloved
To feel myself beloved on the earth
To feel myself beloved on the earth
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
To call myself beloved
To feel myself beloved on the earth
To feel myself beloved on the earth
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
To call myself beloved
To feel myself beloved on the earth
To feel myself beloved on the earth