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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · Jul 23

Posting this here for posterity.

My pinned tweet on Twitter / the bird app

Me, in a quote tweet

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Todd Lappin @TelstarLogistic • 8/11/22
Yes but the point is... everyone should loan you their cars!!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25m

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 18m

Detroit just elected its first woman and first Black woman mayor in the city's 300-and-some year history. At 49% in, she had around 44K votes and he had 12K. That's what we call in the bidness a shellacking right there.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 7m

98% thrilled for the future of our beautiful city; 2% savoring delicious schadenfreude at Cuomo getting his weenie loser ass handed to him twice in one election

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 35m

From this day forth, Dave Portnoy can never return to the five boroughs.

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · 34m

I can’t wait for all these jackasses to pack up and leave. (Anyone got a line on Dershowitz?)

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 43m

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race

Mamdani will be the youngest New York mayor in a century, NBC News projects, after a rapid rise past Andrew Cuomo and other opponents.

www.nbcnews.com

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · 55m

I worked in Union (and “lived” in Morristown 5 days/week for about half that stretch) and the biggest debates were 1) ham 2) if union was north or south Jersey (its central, duh 😂)

Bless the Union Pork Store, though. I still dream about that place

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · 1h

Also: country ham is actually where it’s at 🤤🤤🤤

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · 1h

Somewhere someone (not me, I just worked there for 10 years) is screaming at the top of their lungs:

PORK ROLL

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 6d

Alloymag.com

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 9d

Every one deserves to eat. It’s that simple.

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · 14d

I’m not on here much at all these days. When I am I usually nope out pretty quickly. That said, I’m glad the TL put this in front of me first thing. Wonderfully said (truly), fully felt, much needed.

Thank you, far away friend, and I hope you’re feeling some love and support in return 🧡

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · Oct 1

If I could tag along in my lil Mazda, I’d adore this :)

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector

As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

defector.com

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

More:
- Patrick Ness’s “The Knife of Never Letting Go” & sequels (sci-fi, but very fantastical sci-fi); highly rec going in with no prior knowledge
- Howl’s Moving Castle & the other Howl books, Jones (v diff than movie!)
- Inkheart, Funke
- The Mirror Visitor, Dabos (so good, so underappreciated!)

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

More:
- The Phantom Tollbooth (sadly not a series)
- Mysterious Benedict Society (no magic but very cartoony in a fantastical way) (tv show was terrific, too)
- all of Dahl obviously
- Ray Bradbury’s short stories
- Gormenghast is GREAT for tweens/teens

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

More:
- Tiffany Aching, Pratchett
- Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo)
- Dark Is Rising, Cooper
- His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids)
- Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that)
- Queen’s Thief, Turner

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

Non-HP MG/YA series that are rich in magic & exploration & coming-of-age, & are actually really really good, to share with kids in your life:
- Lioness Rampant, Pierce
- Chrestomanci, Jones
- Percy Jackson
- A Wrinkle In Time!!!!!
- URSULA LE GUIN’S EARTHSEA BOOKS
- Akata Witch / Akata Warrior!!!!

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Sep 3

Every single thing you like and admire and find illuminating or thrilling about HP exists in other books, movies, & series EXCEPT the birth-to-death-scale entertainment-industrial infrastructure of merch and licensing

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · Sep 3

*hugs*

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 18

People not willing to see anti trans policy as part of deeply entrenched gender and anti-bodily autonomy ideology cause they want to see trans people as separate from the “real“ people and politics

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

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michael @banovsky.com · Aug 26

aggressively friend-shaped truck

blue 1961 Goliath Express 1100 truck driving photo by Uli Sonntag at auto bild klassik

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Gidget @thegalgidget.bsky.social · Aug 27

Um…hi

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Aug 25

/11 In short, fuck these fascist shitbirds, fuck you if you voted for them, fuck you if you apologize for or countenance them.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Aug 25

/7 It’s easy to say why. Saying “you can prosecute flag burning as incitement because it makes people really mad” allows you to say “you can’t criticize Israel/denounce Trump/preach Islam/say reality TV suck because it makes people so mad.” It limits speech to what thug trash will tolerate.

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