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FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE Or don't be surprised when better people commemorate your empty, torn down boots. This is a federal health/ safety/ regulatory agency appreciation account. (Formerly @axlizzie on Twitter)

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Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · Nov 12

*queues up Billy Joel*
No more invites, Alf hog
Pictures of your cat or dog
Welcome newskies with hot tips
Block all Musk and Trumpster drips!

Toggle so you write alt text,
Toggle off to see less sex.
Share a pic of your new look,
Brag a bit and skeet your book!

bsky.app/profile/brai...

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · Nov 10

You can make sure you don't forget by requiring alt text!

Go to Settings, Accessibility, and just toggle that reminder, and you're set!

Screenshot of Accessibility menu, showing the "Require alt text before posting" turned on.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 14h

I can get behind "simply do not want Elon to prosper".

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 14h

I love that story!

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 15h

Ah, but THESE Muslims gave Trump a bribe I mean plane.

So they're basically Muslim Santa.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 16h

Painfully accurate, to the detriment of the nation.

Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 16h

D leadership would rather have a dead Congress member than one they do not control.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 16h

😆😆😆 what??

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 17h

I'm delighted to be flying next to a quiet person quietly ignoring me and doing sudoku.

Airlines should allow people to select introvert vs extrovert for seating preferences.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 17h

We're not turning the battleship to attack something.

We're desperately trying to steer it out of treacherous waters full of icebergs and mines. Before it sinks, drowning a lot of its crew.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

The tragedy of any brilliant UK series is that, at any time, it may be upended by its actors being poached by a theater company.

Or Peter Jackson.

Mostly Peter Jackson.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you safe travels, a hospitable home, and a better future.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

Transphobic fash POC wishing they could transition to whiteness and finally live their best lives.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

It's like people showing AOC dancing, or Mamdani's videos, as if being fun meant not being capable of serious regard.

Now I can't look at my spices without an instant earworm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...

Young Cardamom, HAB - #1 Spice (From "Queen of Katwe")

YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO

www.youtube.com

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

I love it too... and I love that conservatives somehow thought it discredited Zelenskyy. A person can be funny and talented, and still be a good leader. And honestly, that range suggests he's capable of adapting as needed. Gotta dance in tight pants and heels? No problem.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=so2K...

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

Give hi the Pritzker "Puhleease!" prize, he won't have any idea. Have it presented by people in penguin suits speaking pig latin. Later reveal it's actually mediocre chocolate wrapped in foil.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

Updated to Windows 11.

The task bar is fixed in horizontal mode. Despite complaints, it looks like there won't be a fix.

It is deeply annoying.

*sighs in vertical*

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, the 24 hours of suck!

I lucked out this time and didn't even have much soreness. 5 vaccines, 2 sessions 6 days apart, including MMR because who he hell needs measles in this economy?

My left arm was a trooper. (Tried one in each, too stiff to fend off the dogs the next day, almost smothered.)

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP bans books but campaigns on the 2nd amendment because they'd rather have a stray bullet go through your child's head than a thought they don't agree with.

Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 1d

They banned A Clockwork Orange, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wicked, Crank and many more because free minds scare them.

So read louder.
Share harder.

Pass the stories they’re desperate to erase.
Rebellion starts on the page.
#BannedBooksWeek

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 1d

I found out my first draft thesis was due by stumbling across a classmate finishing hers (I went by the deadline in the student guide; apparently there were updates posted.... in the elevator, which I never took).

Skipped all my classes, pounded out 20+ pages complete with graphs. Adrenaline>>>AI

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

People who commit arbitrary violence against animals escalate to violence against humans. They should be flagged, and the should not be sold guns.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

I just would really like one dog-loving person to demand to know why the fuck Kristi Noem stupidly didn't keep her untrained bird dog puppy on a leash around birds, and instead blamed and shot the puppy for the obvious outcome..

Then follow up by asking if she's allowed to ever own a puppy again.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, a very solid majority did.

We need to eliminate the slaver-state appeasing electoral college, that awards majority rule to shitty low-population states.

Why are shit states, that suck so much people don't want to live there, rewarded with disproportionate control of the Senate and EC?

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

You apparently aren't familiar with JK Rowling's town, Terfchestershire*.

It's pronounced "Frank".

*(In Cissex County)

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly half her DNA is Groucho Marx.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

😮 Trying not to take that personally!

And no.

Brainmist @brainmist.bsky.social · 2d

It's been waaaay too little hee hee the past decade.

Kenzie ✨ @notknz.is.tall.fyi · 2d

Little cartoon of a pumpkin guy. On the left is a happy pumpkin guy, on the right a sad pumpkin guy. Text reads “I have two moods: Hee hee. Not hee hee.”
By @qian.dreaming on IG