Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Birdie, Boo!👻

@srslymagenta.bsky.social

3.5K followers 2.7K following 22K posts

Ridiculous feminist bluestocking crafter. BLM, ACAB, LGBTQIA+ fren. That ♿ chick. Nerd. Early 50's (I guess!), cishet single in SC. Dev Editor for manuscripts/dissertations. Mouth w/ no 🛑. AuDHD and PDA friendly. [email protected] for 📔 queries

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · Jun 21

For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:

Ordinary

My love, what if you
were not Nietzsche and I was not
Gloria Steinem. And I was not
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and
you were not
Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived
Ordinary lives, here and there,
foraging for mushrooms in the swamps
and children's minds and sometimes find
ing chickory root for inflammation,
poke for lymphatic tincture, honey
for mead. What if sometimes you
sang in the kitchen while making bone broth
from chicken feet, and played happy
snippets on the violin, and I
periodically baked bread in a clean
(ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and
sometimes, we held hands in the grocery,
took kids to the Asian market, watched
Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned
in bed, and weren't the next
Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic
Wunderkind, surprise New York Times
Best-selling magical fairy child.
What if we went wild: Mowed lawns.
Got mail. Refused to live
up to the potential somebody wrote
on our report cards long ago, and instead
utterly wasted our lives
on loving and living and loving
and refused to yield to the expectations
that anything less fiscally responsible
is imprudent. What if what we saved
did not end up being millions,
my sweet, but our own souls? And all along
there will be enough for the movies
sometimes, enough for croissants and
soft pretzels, and enough to sit
and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight.
What if instead of being
memorable, we make memories,
responsible to not the whole world
but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and
we are inordinately enough.

Heather Harris-Bergevin

16 53 230

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 28m

So much growth.

Recognizing it and being like, "nah, just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's ok," is GIANT growth.

1 2

Reposted by Birdie, Boo!👻

Aunt Jacqui 🟪🛩🐶🐘 @auntjacqui.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans in YRNF are 18 to 40 years old. They are all men, not boys.

Black men wouldn't be given this grace.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

3 11

Reposted by Birdie, Boo!👻

Just Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 1h

Good tips for probably a lot of us. 💜

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

youtu.be

1 5

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 38m

a man is laying on a bed with the words my spleen screaming behind him

ALT: a man is laying on a bed with the words my spleen screaming behind him

media.tenor.com

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 38m

Mmmmmmhmmmmmm. And what race and gender.

White men are men until they act badly, then they're boys.

Women are women from the age of eleven onward if they get pregnant.

But children of other races? Adults from the age of 9

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 40m

I had goals for today, my dudes

Apparently they are not getting done.

Even my dentist's AI scheduling bot is working against me. Do I want an appointment? Yes? Do I want it ten minutes after this text? No! How about yesterday at 2pm?

a man is standing in a doorway with his hand outstretched and says come with me .

ALT: a man is standing in a doorway with his hand outstretched and says come with me .

media.tenor.com

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 52m

Ope.

Nope ope

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Also, according to humour theory, I can no longer be meloncholic because my gallbladder was removed. So I'm going to have to find a whole new, non goth style. 😁

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Right? So fascinating. Like, we are still using a random phrase that they would have used in ancient Rome. That's pretty amazing.

justpublishingadvice.com/vent-your-sp....

Vent Your Spleen And The Origin Of The Anger Idiom

Vent your spleen has is origins in medieval medicine. It relates to yellow bile produced by the spleen creating anger and needing a release.

justpublishingadvice.com

1 3

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

It's almost like using an AI chat bot as your therapist isn't healthy and also men will spend a ton on money and drive a REALLY ugly car instead of going to real therapy

2 3

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Right?!?!!!??!!? Oh. Maybe the reason you were in incredible pain and sick and dealing with CFS was not that extra weight. GO FIGURE

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

When they believed in humors instead of bacteria, your spleen was one of the things they thought got inflamed and caused you to be angry. So when you showed anger, they literally thought your spleen was acting up.

No, really.

1 2

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Can't be that, because we're all fat, remember?! Even when I was a tiny college student.

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Mine includes reynaud's too. I think it's all related to being non neurotypical, also. I don't "perform pain correctly."

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Pffft. Women knowing that something is going on inside their own bodies? Like they have the ability to have nerves and stuff? What's next, believing them about assault? The whole world would fall apart. Better to just tell them they're pretending to be tired and burned out. /s

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

That rogue curl! What would we do without tiny grins?

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

It's ridiculous what women go through in the US to get perfectly normal physical diagnoses and treatment.

AND I still wasn't treated properly after I moved across country, even with diagnosis.

Because my RA factor didn't pop up until I was 42.

1 1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Sheesh, JUST TRY HARDER 🤣🤣🤣

I'M LIKE, look, I began having RA symptoms when I can was fourteen and had to be using a cane at 21 while the doctors told me I was being overly dramatic in order to see a Harvard trained specialist who immediately saw the muscle wasting.

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Have you tried Not having CFS about it? Have you tried harder? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

She'd talk about how hard it is to have that much money and make shit purchasing choices, too

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

cher is talking and saying `` i say what i want , i do what i want ''

ALT: cher is talking and saying `` i say what i want , i do what i want ''

media.tenor.com

Reposted by Birdie, Boo!👻

🌮 Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 2h

You get what you pay for

Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 3h

It’s like finally finding out who broke into your house, stole all your food, drained your bank account and left you with nothing.
MAGA: “I don’t have much but I’ll sign my house over to you and please take my 401K”

‘RUMP’: Customers upset with missing ‘T’ in Trump-branded watch that cost $640

A man in Rhode Island bought his wife a Donald Trump-branded watch as a gift, but what they got was a “Rump” watch due to an unfortunate typo on the watch face.

www.kwtx.com

2 5 10

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1h

Granted, I'm a large woman so you know IMMEDIATELY all I've been offered is "why didn't you lose weight, and magically it'll all get better," which literally led to an eating disorder trying to lose weight in college

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 2h

I wish! Does such a thing exist in the States, I wonder. That would be just... Incredible

1 1

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 2h

Freaking autocorrect.