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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · Jan 19

We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around.

#TankGirl #ActiveHope

Panel from Tank Girl, where she's pulling on her boots while seated on a rock with a red and orange sunset behind her, a mug with a teabag on the rock next to her. The text reads, "I can't let things be this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around."

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

In. Deed.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

Pretty much LOL

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, my mom and I are estranged now (mostly because of this issue, tbh) and it's much better.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

Like, teens are human beings going through a time of intense pressure? We adults were all teens once? Why is this weird?? 😅

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

Abusers don't teach kids stuff like that. They don't teach kids to resist anyone who touches them inappropriately.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

My mom has been accusing my dad (they've been divorced for 30+ years) of sexually abusing us and it's ludicrous, because HE IS THE PERSON WHO TAUGHT US OUR BODIES BELONGED TO US. Not my physically and emotionally abusive mother.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 21h

I just saw the phrase "Feels weird reading about teens" in a StoryGraph review (they didn't finish reading it) and man, if that's too weird for you, you are missing out on a lot.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 22h

Oh nooooo! Hope you don't keep your work ID there.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 22h

Here's hoping all the rain in the forecast doesn't turn out the same.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 22h

Bouncing between rage and grief again.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that!

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

My God.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like we're not getting any meaningful precipitation from this storm. 😞

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Whew, it is a ROUGH day to be a philosophy major on Bluesky. 😅

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 1d

“Our strength is not defined by visibility in colonial spaces. Our strength comes from something much older, deeper, and more enduring.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“… we weren’t shocked when #IndigenousPeoplesDay was erased at the federal level. But we’re also not deterred. We’ve always had to fight to be seen. And we’ve never needed permission to celebrate ourselves.” nativenewsonline.net/opinion/we-r...

We're Still Here: Why It's Still a Good Day to Be Indigenous

Opinion. It’s a good day to be Indigenous.

nativenewsonline.net

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I love him.

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23d

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073

Columbus Day Celebrates an Ongoing Christian Nationalist Threat to American Democracy

The roots of Christian Nationalism reach back before the founding of our Republic to Columbus and the Christian Doctrine of Discovery.

www.whitetoolong.net

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

@ctxplz.bsky.social

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 1d

He does "apologize using a passive voice," not FOR using a passive voice.

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

😭

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

💙

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

How are you feeling?

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Legit nauseated

Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Ha!

The previous Pope Leo was known as the "workers' Pope" and this Leo chose his name for that reason.