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Valerie

@beezygrey.bsky.social

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♋♑♐ | bambi lesbian | ACAB | antiracist | skeets about TV, movies, lesbian stuff, Unrivaled & WNBA (Valkyries), & video games {she/her}

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · Jun 30

I just realized that I talk about the Las Vegas Aces the way most women talk about their toxic ex

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 2h

And you attribute the difference to her, specifically? As opposed to the Tsais or Sandy or Betnijah or JJ or terf shoes?

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 2h

Totes down for a 3rd team

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah but you're like her biggest fan

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 3h

Here have a torch and a pitchfork, I'm leading the VB was robbed mob

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 3h

Openly aligning himself with the cheeto is a choice

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 5h

NYT is white supremacist apologia

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

The New York Times also just kind of introduces Turning Point USA as this ambiguous entity without explaining what it is, or detailing any of its dodgy behaviors as a super shady right wing propaganda organization

this kind of generous framing isn't done by accident

NYT: "In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition accusing Dr. Bray of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for him to be fired.

The petition referred to him as “Dr. Antifa.”

“My role in this is as a professor,” Dr. Bray, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, said in an interview on Wednesday, hours before his planned departure. “I’ve never been part of an antifa group, and I’m not currently. There’s an effort underway to paint me as someone who is doing the things that I’ve researched, but that couldn’t be further from the truth."

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 5h

NYT is fascist apologia

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 5h

Sab over Veronica is bullshit of the highest order

WNBA @wnba.com · 5h

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 5h

This. *punches him again*

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 5h

I like the colors but the look is so low tempo. 80s bus company is right.

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 6h

a pink teddy bear with a yellow beak and white eyes is smiling

Alt: a pink Slowbro turns and smiles absently

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 6h

I've been a console gamer my entire life, it's just what I'm most comfortable with

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 7h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10h

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 6h

"at worst legally questionable" is some weak bullshit

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 6h

Sens Durbin and Duckworth are demanding answers on the CBP Chicago River excursion, calling it “at best reckless and at worst legally questionable.”

They said sending “armed patrols down the Chicago River — one of the safest locations in the City — lack legitimacy in immigration or border control.”

Duckworth, Durbin demand feds not use Chicago Harbor Lock on river as backdrop for social media videos

In a letter obtained by the Sun-Times, the senators demanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refrain from using the Chicago Harbor Lock “as a staging area to...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 7h

A mood

they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 7h

I often worry that nothing will be all right and that I’ll never feel happiness or joy or even a brief respite from the horrors ever again. But enough about me!

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allie @kaylor.bsky.social · 7h

they think congestion pricing hurts the poor who drive and free buses help the wealthy who ride. i just can’t wrap my head around it.

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 7h

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 7h

Kalos is my favourite region, and Violet is my favourite game, but the Alola games have the best dex and it isn't close

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 7h

Pokémon really is fantastical place, imagine you're a teen and the local hotel resort will pay you $20k a day to chuck pyukumuku on the beach back into the ocean for a few minutes. Dream life.

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 7h

With conservatives and other powerful weirdos in the US, nonsensical accusations like this are almost always just covert confessions. It's a very strange phenomenon that seems to be happening more and more the longer I live here.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

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@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 8h

I don't say this lightly, because I love a lot of them, but this might be my new favourite of all your books!

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 8h

Trump sucks is not an opinion shared by that lady

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8h

The Nobel Peace Prize went to a woman cheering on the wanton murder of her fellow countrymen and expressing excitement to work with American Nazis if she gets into power. Seems a lot less of a repudiation of the spread of fascism and more like an embrace of it.

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Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 8h

The ice budgets went up every year under Biden, higher than in the first cheeto admin

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 8h

Gross!

Valerie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 9h

This is news to me, but hardly surprising