languid and bittersweet bisexuals
LightNews LightNews
bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social
languid and bittersweet bisexuals
@bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social
140 followers 130 following 290 posts
Kit. Urban birds and nature, human horrors (and joys). Also general media/fandom (fantasy/spies/period drama/women), memes/shitposting. Occasionally NSFW. | she/her | * * * *
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
untenablewhale.bsky.social
The rebuttal has always been, "well, what do you want them to do," but as soon as they get their hands on something approximating a weapon to fight with, they just hand it over like, "oops, I think you dropped this."
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social
as bad as sexism is against women, the weird knots that American masculinity gets tied into are almost more exhausting. I hate being reduced to my womb or to house maiden shit but at least psychologically I'm not constantly concerned about if I'm Being A Man.

(Weird gender shit harms all!)
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
mistermeyer.bsky.social
I don't think any politician in the past 75 years had bigger balls, and was more eager to tell you about them, than LBJ, who signed the Civil Rights Act into Law and also knew when to quit. Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump talk tough, but they're a bunch of wimps, just like Fetterman.
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
mpdeejay.bsky.social
Oops, all gender!
Instagram caption from NPR of their interview with John Fetterman In his new book, "Unfettered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized his party for losing the support of working class men, writing that President Trump appealed to them more because "he wasn't afraid to comment on things the left told us we were no longer allowed to have commonsense opinions on."⁠ ⁠ Fetterman also writes, “if men are forced to choose between picking their party or keeping their balls, most men are going to choose their balls.”⁠ “I think there's been a disconnection,” he told "All Things Considered" host Scott Detrow. “It's just this idea and just being perceived as more anti-man […] And it's just a lot different kinds of energy that comes out from.”⁠
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
watchinthesky.bsky.social
Hi Yard Bunny! This one is making almost daily visits, early morning and late afternoon.
Desert cottontail rabbit 🐇 #mammals San Diego county
A mostly brown cottontail rabbit is sitting in a back corner of a yard on a late afternoon in filtered sunlight. The rabbit is looking at the camera and its ears are pointing towards the sky.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
mskathleenquinn.bsky.social
The documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War was shown in British TV but it is doubtful it will be broadcast in the US. This review of its contents is horrifying and adds more evidence of Israel's genocidal intent based on instructions from IDF commanders.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
‘You can do anything’: Israeli war crimes in Gaza aired in UK documentary
The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.
www.aljazeera.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
augetoffmygold.bsky.social
There are going to be A LOT of misleading, vaguely-worded headlines — particularly from non-music publications — in the near future trying to drum up hysteria about the AI Music Takeover. Please try to not take them at their word. We're still a long way off from this actually being a thing.
shadowtodd.bsky.social Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 14h
I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:

1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people

2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake
The No. 1 Country Song in America is AI-Generated
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
birdperhour.net
#birdbot
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A female Pileated Woodpecker flying through cattail reeds while looking for a good tree to hammer away at.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
gettoknownature.bsky.social
It’s blustery and cold so let’s pretend it’s May 11th instead of November. Here’s a bit of warm spring serenity as I tracked the wonderful song of a Wood Thrush

#FallBack 🌿 #birds
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social
I’m sorry but this whole Noah Smith Heathrow situation is so fucking funny. Centrist thought leader with PhD from University of Michigan struggles to navigate basic airport transfer, blames it on the relative economic decline of Western Europe
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
adamserwer.bsky.social
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
greenwell.bsky.social
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
tankgorl.bsky.social
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
unraveledpress.com
It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation.

Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.
sorenspicknall.bsky.social Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d
Bovino left LA to come to Chicago and it's not like LA saw immigration operations stop - just less showboating from his crew. So even if these circulating rumors over the last week turn out real, I'm pessimistic about how much change to expect on the ground.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.
Cave art of the outline of a human hand
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
moultano.bsky.social
The existence of the phonics debate is strong evidence that English needs spelling reform. In an actually phonetic language this would be completely obvious.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
downwithdan.bsky.social
Triple labubus
Nick O'Neill 2 c @chooserich X.com I'm the best dressed on X. Total fit: $29,429 - Burberry hat: $600 - Triple Labubus: $950 - Rolex: $25k - Cartier ring: $2.5k - AMI Shorts: $1k - Crooks & Castles Shoes: $800 - Galerie shirt: $250 Single, Rich, & No Kids: Priceless Skinny lil white guy dressed like a kid who would get shoved in a locker, he's wearing three labubus, big purple clown shoes and the ugliest smile imaginable
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
taniel.bsky.social
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
matrueblood.bsky.social
It’s inarguably hilarious, to anyone who’s actually spent time in a city, to imply that the murder rate affects downtown shopping districts. Like that’s where the murders happen. But since he’s just talking to dipshits who don’t go to cities at all…..
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
djbyrnes1.bsky.social
I dunno about that.
Text excerpt from Sun Times reporter Jon Seidel's story, reading: Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote on social media Tuesday morning, “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” claiming that the feds’ campaign lowered homicides, shootings, robberies and other crimes in the city. The claims of lowered crime because of ICE/CBP activity have been highlighted
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by languid and bittersweet bisexuals
newsjennifer.bsky.social
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM