Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.com
bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
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Flytrap Roundtable Special: The FYP Won't Save Us
There's profit in AI slop, but more importantly, there's power in community.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
Really glad @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social started this roundtable discussion on media literacy, the algorithm, AI, and ~ Is our kids conspiracying ~ with me and @nicolefroio.bsky.social. Wish I had more answers!
WHISKEY THREADING (1/? hollering)
I've nixed the user info here bc a pile-on is unnecessary but I'm so chapped by this nonsense assertion that every bit of paywalled content on the internet needs to come with a warning on promotional posts that it is paywalled or else it's a waste of time for users
I've nixed the user info here bc a pile-on is unnecessary but I'm so chapped by this nonsense assertion that every bit of paywalled content on the internet needs to come with a warning on promotional posts that it is paywalled or else it's a waste of time for users
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
WHISKEY THREADING (1/? hollering)
I've nixed the user info here bc a pile-on is unnecessary but I'm so chapped by this nonsense assertion that every bit of paywalled content on the internet needs to come with a warning on promotional posts that it is paywalled or else it's a waste of time for users
I've nixed the user info here bc a pile-on is unnecessary but I'm so chapped by this nonsense assertion that every bit of paywalled content on the internet needs to come with a warning on promotional posts that it is paywalled or else it's a waste of time for users
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At least 23 independent clinics have closed this year, according to a report released Tuesday by Abortion Care Network, compared with 12 last year. https://ow.ly/ns1Y50XGshO
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
At least 23 independent clinics have closed this year, according to a report released Tuesday by Abortion Care Network, compared with 12 last year. https://ow.ly/ns1Y50XGshO
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CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
the internet told me i could build a martini fountain and it's the first time in a long time i saw some online content and didn't immediately operationalize my imposter syndrome
i am CAPABLE AS HELL
i am CAPABLE AS HELL
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
the internet told me i could build a martini fountain and it's the first time in a long time i saw some online content and didn't immediately operationalize my imposter syndrome
i am CAPABLE AS HELL
i am CAPABLE AS HELL
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a 24-pack of natty lite
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
a 24-pack of natty lite
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This thread, and the vociferous defense and support of @theflytrapmedia.com from our community is truly giving my life during a hellishly busy day. I'm so proud of what we built and of the people who support us.
Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This thread, and the vociferous defense and support of @theflytrapmedia.com from our community is truly giving my life during a hellishly busy day. I'm so proud of what we built and of the people who support us.
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The recommended limit should be NEVER.
Hundreds of immigrant children across the nation were detained for longer than the legal limit this summer, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has admitted in a court filing, alarming legal advocates who say the government is failing to safeguard children.
About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits
Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The recommended limit should be NEVER.
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i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
i generally find the very austin bro love for this guy to be kind of tiresome but i present to y'all my texan king
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
i generally find the very austin bro love for this guy to be kind of tiresome but i present to y'all my texan king
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you just have to call them right-whingers
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
you just have to call them right-whingers
i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
"Let This Radicalize You," didn't even have to think about it for a millisecond
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"Let This Radicalize You," didn't even have to think about it for a millisecond
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Boston City Council is currently considering a resolution condemning KOSA and similarly misguided censorship legislation that would help the Trump admin suppress LGBTQ and human rights content.
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Boston City Council is currently considering a resolution condemning KOSA and similarly misguided censorship legislation that would help the Trump admin suppress LGBTQ and human rights content.
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
How can @warren.senate.gov be so wildly out of touch with her constituents and MA civil society?
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Last month, a growing coalition of Massachusetts-based LGBTQ+ organizations sent a letter to @warren.senate.gov and requested a meeting with the Senator to discuss her previous support for #KOSA given the Trump admin's weaponization of the FTC to target trans healthcare.
The office ignored us.
The office ignored us.
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last month, a growing coalition of Massachusetts-based LGBTQ+ organizations sent a letter to @warren.senate.gov and requested a meeting with the Senator to discuss her previous support for #KOSA given the Trump admin's weaponization of the FTC to target trans healthcare.
The office ignored us.
The office ignored us.
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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True, as we know, fascism is only found in the Italian region of Fasces. Anything else is just a sparkling nationalism
Nazis were not fascist. Fascism was used by Mussolini not hitler
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
True, as we know, fascism is only found in the Italian region of Fasces. Anything else is just a sparkling nationalism
This thread, and the vociferous defense and support of @theflytrapmedia.com from our community is truly giving my life during a hellishly busy day. I'm so proud of what we built and of the people who support us.
Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This thread, and the vociferous defense and support of @theflytrapmedia.com from our community is truly giving my life during a hellishly busy day. I'm so proud of what we built and of the people who support us.
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“…now it’s like the garbage owns everything, and everybody has to answer to the garbage.” @judysquirrels.bsky.social (as quoted in the @theflytrapmedia.com)
Go Girl, Give Us Nothing!: Why Hollywood Undervalues Original Storytelling
Why do studios keep pumping out sequels, reboots, and remakes of the same old IP?
the-flytrap.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“…now it’s like the garbage owns everything, and everybody has to answer to the garbage.” @judysquirrels.bsky.social (as quoted in the @theflytrapmedia.com)
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Yes, it is paywalled! And every time y'all point this out, we will reiterate that writers and artists deserve to be paid for their work. We are an independent publication run and owned by workers. Also A LOT OF OUR CONTENT IS FREE.
Plus, you can read single articles for $2. Including this one.
Plus, you can read single articles for $2. Including this one.
Paywalled
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes, it is paywalled! And every time y'all point this out, we will reiterate that writers and artists deserve to be paid for their work. We are an independent publication run and owned by workers. Also A LOT OF OUR CONTENT IS FREE.
Plus, you can read single articles for $2. Including this one.
Plus, you can read single articles for $2. Including this one.
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i really love @nicolefroio.bsky.social's essay in @theflytrapmedia.com this week about how exhausting it is to want to create really good, interesting journalism and instead be forced to work at the behest of the ~ algorithm ~ or not at all
The Current Journalism Model Isn't Working.
One journalist reflects on how easy it is to burn out in her industry.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
i really love @nicolefroio.bsky.social's essay in @theflytrapmedia.com this week about how exhausting it is to want to create really good, interesting journalism and instead be forced to work at the behest of the ~ algorithm ~ or not at all
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The first principle of this is a load-bearing English middle class belief that all mental disorders are faked, that anyone sick for longer than a week is malingering, that people who say they are allergic to things are lying for attention, and so on.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The first principle of this is a load-bearing English middle class belief that all mental disorders are faked, that anyone sick for longer than a week is malingering, that people who say they are allergic to things are lying for attention, and so on.