Brigid Keely She/Her
@brigid.bsky.social
Chicago. Parent. Fat. Bisexual. Bipolar II. Loud. Still masking. Kind of cute if you squint. Nerdy, but in a way that's fairly socially acceptable now. I have a kid, Nikole, who is she/they and a spouse, N, who is he/him.
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Brigid Keely She/Her
@brigid.bsky.social
· Dec 30
If you post queerphobic bullshit like "Elonia Musk" or two male politicians kissing or whatever then I'm blocking you.
You don't need to make "ewww gaaayyy" jokes about these dipshits. You can simply point to the actual harm they are actively doing. You don't need to make gay jokes period, in fact.
You don't need to make "ewww gaaayyy" jokes about these dipshits. You can simply point to the actual harm they are actively doing. You don't need to make gay jokes period, in fact.
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since I re-upped my blocks on one and don't know who the other guy even is, please know I'm saying this 100% with zero context of the details of this situation...
but god is this a pattern I have seen a lot over the years, and have been thinking about even more over the past couple weeks.
but god is this a pattern I have seen a lot over the years, and have been thinking about even more over the past couple weeks.
So the fact that they feel excluded and frustrated by opsec in a feminized labor (mutual aid) network, and are now both independently calling on movement to appoint mods so the mods can cancel opsec is...
...a sign that the opsec is doing its job.
...a sign that the opsec is doing its job.
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 AM
since I re-upped my blocks on one and don't know who the other guy even is, please know I'm saying this 100% with zero context of the details of this situation...
but god is this a pattern I have seen a lot over the years, and have been thinking about even more over the past couple weeks.
but god is this a pattern I have seen a lot over the years, and have been thinking about even more over the past couple weeks.
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Like, I don't get it.
I don't get how people refuse to understand that these men are actively demonstrating themselves to be unsafe, bragging about it, but it's always the women who are the wreckers for naming the obvious.
I don't get how people refuse to understand that these men are actively demonstrating themselves to be unsafe, bragging about it, but it's always the women who are the wreckers for naming the obvious.
February 3, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Like, I don't get it.
I don't get how people refuse to understand that these men are actively demonstrating themselves to be unsafe, bragging about it, but it's always the women who are the wreckers for naming the obvious.
I don't get how people refuse to understand that these men are actively demonstrating themselves to be unsafe, bragging about it, but it's always the women who are the wreckers for naming the obvious.
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I can look at how his behavior online with women is harassing, many women and in particular Black women warn that he is a harasser, how he is gleefully bragging about how he is going to infiltrate protest Signal chats he's been kept out of and... certainly that assessment seems to track.
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I can look at how his behavior online with women is harassing, many women and in particular Black women warn that he is a harasser, how he is gleefully bragging about how he is going to infiltrate protest Signal chats he's been kept out of and... certainly that assessment seems to track.
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I'm not actually all that shocked to watch many of Old Twitter's most misogynistic and dogpile-happy "leftist" men all seem to be coalescing around the hot take of "harassment isn't as big a deal as this feminine labor network makes it out to be, actually"
Absolutely incredible that PissPigGranddad went to MPLS to checkout the RR networks, community defense work and he basically recites my entire pitch for what is happening, lambasting the fetishization of opsec, and the need for centralization if you want a politics that can handle escalation.
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I'm not actually all that shocked to watch many of Old Twitter's most misogynistic and dogpile-happy "leftist" men all seem to be coalescing around the hot take of "harassment isn't as big a deal as this feminine labor network makes it out to be, actually"
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A new chapter of Future Proof started a couple weeks ago! Everything seems to be going well…? Get caught up here: futureproof.webcomic.ws #comicoop
February 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
A new chapter of Future Proof started a couple weeks ago! Everything seems to be going well…? Get caught up here: futureproof.webcomic.ws #comicoop
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I firmly believe that everyone who is physically able should have a physical outdoor hobby.
i do think that if you find yourself spending more than a few minutes a day obsessing over what another person who's largely politically aligned with you said or did on a social media website, you gotta go touch some grass (and i am talking about a lot of people here, including myself sometimes)
February 4, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I firmly believe that everyone who is physically able should have a physical outdoor hobby.
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Hi can anyone help me identify the artist. Something I would have picked up on Tumblr circa 2007. Reverse image search freaking sucks now.
February 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Hi can anyone help me identify the artist. Something I would have picked up on Tumblr circa 2007. Reverse image search freaking sucks now.
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Astonishingly, he is at worst the second stupidest husband in horror adjacent fantasy. The hubby in The Bones dismisses his wife's warning about Occult Bad Stuff, despite having been saved from Occult Bad Stuff by her in the previous book.
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Astonishingly, he is at worst the second stupidest husband in horror adjacent fantasy. The hubby in The Bones dismisses his wife's warning about Occult Bad Stuff, despite having been saved from Occult Bad Stuff by her in the previous book.
"The In-laws" (1979)
What’s everyone’s favorite dad movie
Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM
"The In-laws" (1979)
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it's actually a really good political skill that Mamdani convinces people that this is true. I think American politicians, especially dems, really failed/forgot how to slap their names on shit and say that they did, they are why people are benefiting from X etc, even when that isn't strictly true.
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
it's actually a really good political skill that Mamdani convinces people that this is true. I think American politicians, especially dems, really failed/forgot how to slap their names on shit and say that they did, they are why people are benefiting from X etc, even when that isn't strictly true.
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This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
I was surprised by how much I liked this show and how engaged I was in it.
The characters, and their relationship, are wonderful. They're so complex in such small quiet ways. It's an intimate story.
The characters, and their relationship, are wonderful. They're so complex in such small quiet ways. It's an intimate story.
I do not get the grumbling about Wonder Man, it is a goddamn joy.
Some of the sharpest scripting and best acting in a Marvel series yet.
I was not as big a fan of LOKI and WANDA as many other Marvel-heads, but this one I adore.
Some of the sharpest scripting and best acting in a Marvel series yet.
I was not as big a fan of LOKI and WANDA as many other Marvel-heads, but this one I adore.
two men are walking down a hallway with wonder man written on the wall behind them
ALT: two men are walking down a hallway with wonder man written on the wall behind them
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I was surprised by how much I liked this show and how engaged I was in it.
The characters, and their relationship, are wonderful. They're so complex in such small quiet ways. It's an intimate story.
The characters, and their relationship, are wonderful. They're so complex in such small quiet ways. It's an intimate story.
We're watching the "Fallout" finale and my child... they skrem.
So much skrem.
There is jumping and skremming.
So much skrem.
There is jumping and skremming.
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM
We're watching the "Fallout" finale and my child... they skrem.
So much skrem.
There is jumping and skremming.
So much skrem.
There is jumping and skremming.
Most of my dad's paternal side of the family came over from Ireland in the late 1850s.
Like tracing my paternal grandfather and both of his parents, and their parents, and their various spouses, etc. it's pretty much all people who came here in the late 1850s.
IDK about my paternal grandmother.
Like tracing my paternal grandfather and both of his parents, and their parents, and their various spouses, etc. it's pretty much all people who came here in the late 1850s.
IDK about my paternal grandmother.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Most of my dad's paternal side of the family came over from Ireland in the late 1850s.
Like tracing my paternal grandfather and both of his parents, and their parents, and their various spouses, etc. it's pretty much all people who came here in the late 1850s.
IDK about my paternal grandmother.
Like tracing my paternal grandfather and both of his parents, and their parents, and their various spouses, etc. it's pretty much all people who came here in the late 1850s.
IDK about my paternal grandmother.
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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oh god what if you made a bot that scanned the site for wikipedia links and showed you the most linked to wikipedia entries every hour. you could do separate ones for every language's wikipedia so you could do a specific one for the anglosphere
February 3, 2026 at 4:32 AM
oh god what if you made a bot that scanned the site for wikipedia links and showed you the most linked to wikipedia entries every hour. you could do separate ones for every language's wikipedia so you could do a specific one for the anglosphere
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hey can y'all send me any resources on like, making bluesky feeds that you have? i have an idea i want to try out, i want to make a version of "popular with friends" that surfaces links and then drill down from there
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 AM
hey can y'all send me any resources on like, making bluesky feeds that you have? i have an idea i want to try out, i want to make a version of "popular with friends" that surfaces links and then drill down from there
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Shout out to William stancils who said this week that protesting isn’t dangerous. This dude let people use his apartment to clean off pepper spray and tear gas and now he’s on a DHS domestic terrorist watchlist
“You kids wanna see a dead body*?”
*Leader of Antifa (alleged)
*Leader of Antifa (alleged)
Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”
The list they're creating says so, anyway
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Shout out to William stancils who said this week that protesting isn’t dangerous. This dude let people use his apartment to clean off pepper spray and tear gas and now he’s on a DHS domestic terrorist watchlist
"I'm an incredibly popular and influential writer with a huge audience and adoring fans (or was), also I wrote a book about 'The Hitcherhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' Out of every powerfully placed person I know and all my fans only one "journalist" is defending me. On substack."
Wildly famous writer: anyone who’s ever said anything bad about me is a shitty journalist, I am the arbiter of good journalism, and it’s THIS:
~shows a 300000 word screed on a substack about how you can’t do anything bad to ceramicists and also VIBES~
Anyway now you don’t have to read that mess.
~shows a 300000 word screed on a substack about how you can’t do anything bad to ceramicists and also VIBES~
Anyway now you don’t have to read that mess.
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 AM
"I'm an incredibly popular and influential writer with a huge audience and adoring fans (or was), also I wrote a book about 'The Hitcherhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' Out of every powerfully placed person I know and all my fans only one "journalist" is defending me. On substack."
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this isn’t difficult:
Don’t fuck your students
Don’t fuck your clients
Don’t fuck your patients
Don’t fuck your interns
Don’t fuck your wife’s adopted adult children
this still leaves a lot of people you can fuck!
Don’t fuck your students
Don’t fuck your clients
Don’t fuck your patients
Don’t fuck your interns
Don’t fuck your wife’s adopted adult children
this still leaves a lot of people you can fuck!
Before it gets lost in the noise:
Don’t fuck your employees.
Don’t fuck your 20-something employees.
Don’t fuck your 20-something employees who are currently depending on you for a place to live.
Don’t fuck your employees.
Don’t fuck your 20-something employees.
Don’t fuck your 20-something employees who are currently depending on you for a place to live.
February 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
this isn’t difficult:
Don’t fuck your students
Don’t fuck your clients
Don’t fuck your patients
Don’t fuck your interns
Don’t fuck your wife’s adopted adult children
this still leaves a lot of people you can fuck!
Don’t fuck your students
Don’t fuck your clients
Don’t fuck your patients
Don’t fuck your interns
Don’t fuck your wife’s adopted adult children
this still leaves a lot of people you can fuck!
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I had to check and the population density of Paris as a whole (19,440/sqkm)
exceeds the population density of even the densest Chicago neighborhood (Near North Side, 14,755.22/sqkm)
exceeds the population density of even the densest Chicago neighborhood (Near North Side, 14,755.22/sqkm)
The *reason* people like Paris is that it's pretty, and that it has the entire population of Chicago in like 1/5 the area
The entire cities of Amsterdam (red), Paris (blue), and Barcelona (purple) can fit inside Chicago.
All borders use the same geographic scale (1:175000). The European cities have been rotated and/or flipped, but not resized.
All borders use the same geographic scale (1:175000). The European cities have been rotated and/or flipped, but not resized.
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I had to check and the population density of Paris as a whole (19,440/sqkm)
exceeds the population density of even the densest Chicago neighborhood (Near North Side, 14,755.22/sqkm)
exceeds the population density of even the densest Chicago neighborhood (Near North Side, 14,755.22/sqkm)
Good Things In My Life, A Reminder To Myself:
My husband gave me an electric heater that fits in our 100+ year old fireplace surround and warms up the room and looks cool and cozy.
I have a full array of spices and two enameled cast iron dutch ovens.
My birthday is coming up.
My husband gave me an electric heater that fits in our 100+ year old fireplace surround and warms up the room and looks cool and cozy.
I have a full array of spices and two enameled cast iron dutch ovens.
My birthday is coming up.
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Good Things In My Life, A Reminder To Myself:
My husband gave me an electric heater that fits in our 100+ year old fireplace surround and warms up the room and looks cool and cozy.
I have a full array of spices and two enameled cast iron dutch ovens.
My birthday is coming up.
My husband gave me an electric heater that fits in our 100+ year old fireplace surround and warms up the room and looks cool and cozy.
I have a full array of spices and two enameled cast iron dutch ovens.
My birthday is coming up.