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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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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.
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somebody asked me why i don't do hourly comics day! so, okay. here's my reasoning: i don't want to
February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Okay, it's kinda funny there's outlets claiming no song from "American Idiot" is politically charged.

The fact this album about George Bush is STILL relevant only adds to how political it is. Every year that album ages just proves its points.

But maybe I'm the faggot, America.
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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Gonna tell my kids this is Heated Rivalry
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I would consider divorcing this man, if he'd done this to me.

This is one of those big tip of the iceberg things.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Who wants to see a super cool website that's a labor of love?

floor796.com#t2r0,611,761
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
floor796.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:23 PM
LIMITED EDITION M&Ms TIME!!!!!

Lemon Meringue: white chocolate. Lemon-tasting. Crispy, like a crispy crust or meringue. A little too sweet. Not terrible.

Cherry Chocolate Cupcake: Darker chocolate than I expected. Softer not-quite-chewy dense center. Artificial cherry flavor.
February 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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4. Every goddamn piece of protest is performative. Everything about society is performative. That isn’t WRONG.
5. How do you know that the only thing these “liberals” are doing is knitting hats? Because I see these hats on school pickup duty, on neighborhood patrols, at grocery drop offs.
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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It’s more than disappointing to see people mocking the red knit hats.

1. The symbol was strong enough the Nazis banned them to stop people signaling their resistance to each other.
2. Sales of patterns have raised hundreds of thousands for mutual aid.
3. Not everyone can stand, shout, smuggle.
February 8, 2026 at 7:17 PM
We're doing our Fallout S2 rewatch marathon and have jello in the fridge.

Lucy and Maximus are both protagonists but in a lot of ways Maximus has more Main Character Energy. Like Lucy is PoV character, she has adventures, she's got more screen time than Maximus but IDK...
February 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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A group of local men are tackling the male loneliness epidemic by coming together to brainstorm ways to stop being mistaken for ICE.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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My dad wears shorts over his bike tights and his motto of “doctors can’t diagnose me with anything because I ride a bicycle” has evolved into “people can’t mistake me for feds because I ride a bicycle”
February 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Someone noted a pom hat generally does the trick; lots of people mentioned FUCK ICE buttons. Performativity takes on a whole different function when you're under occupation and your occupiers are trying to pass as locals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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They call it “persistent presence” and it’s a technique of war they have used in other parts of the world, notoriously in Somalia, which gives a new dimension to the cruelty of doing this to cities full of Somali refugees

In some cases they’re literally using the same Black Hawks even
You may ask yourself why helicopters fly over the Twin Cities so much and my best guess is it is to fuck with people.
Ugh. Looked up for a second only to see this guy buzz by my window.
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I took mine! Did you take yours?

How about you drink a glass of water, regardless?
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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cancel culture killed so many mens careers
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Forgive me
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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You ever think about how many kids could have been fed on even _half_ of the money spent building ICEstapo “detention centers”?

(The regime just bought a warehouse in Pennsylvania slated for that purpose, for $87.4 MILLION, to give you some idea)
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
My child fully screamed during the season finale of Fallout and tomorrow we're going to marathon the entire second season and I'm going to make blue and yellow jello as part of a tasty themed treat.
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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every time I do a thread like this about a good election result I get a whole lot of “don’t get ahead of yourself, we still gotta make sure people are motivated for November” replies/quotes and while I understand the sentiment you know what gets people motivated?

winning! let yourself get excited!
Dems are now overperforming the 2024 lean of red districts by, uh, 30+ points in special elections

I’m not sure “apocalyptic” is sufficient to describe how the environment is starting to look for the GOP in November
RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.

This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Bezos fired the foreign correspondents without even giving them a plane ticket home. They should be able to sue his ass for everything. In the meantime give to their fund here.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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Nothing has stopped in Minnesota.
These agents and the people who send them want nothing good for Minnesotans, just pain. They make that clear.

They cut off our state's childcare funding, small business loan funding, agriculture loan funding. Instead they send secret police.
www.vox.com/policy/47484...
The violent “randomness” of ICE’s deportation campaign
What ICE is doing in American cities is very distinct.
www.vox.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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You guys, check out these lovely Sandhill cranes!
Last Thursday evening at Bernardo WMA in New Mexico.
Nearing the end of their wintering season.
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 AM
"What's an antler count?" idk it's probably called something else that I can't remember BUT it consists of a bunch of kids and a handful of adults, often Boy Scouts, walking through a forest preserve/wooded area in a line the way that people search for missing children...
My mom was pals with folks at one of the the local nature preserves, which ran programs for kids and had taxidermied stuff and various animal parts (talons, teeth, a big deer hide, feathers). (they also ran antler counts)

If we saw a fresh roadkill bird my mom would bag it & freeze it.
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 AM