burnlittlelight (she/her)
@burnlittlelight.bsky.social
Community care, monster theology, narrative power, hope in the dark.
Any opinions I express here are mine, and don't express the views of the organizations I work with and for.
Any opinions I express here are mine, and don't express the views of the organizations I work with and for.
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Um, cocaine floats less well than an average human. It’s density is 1216 kg per cubic meter. Humans are 1062 kg per cubic meter. Water is 1000 kg per cubic meter. Less dense things float better, more dense sink.
Cocaine numbers are per Wolfram Alpha And Wikidata.
Cocaine numbers are per Wolfram Alpha And Wikidata.
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Um, cocaine floats less well than an average human. It’s density is 1216 kg per cubic meter. Humans are 1062 kg per cubic meter. Water is 1000 kg per cubic meter. Less dense things float better, more dense sink.
Cocaine numbers are per Wolfram Alpha And Wikidata.
Cocaine numbers are per Wolfram Alpha And Wikidata.
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I'll never get used to sheer, unadulterated meanness of this administration. They're completely unconcerned about lifting people up and solely focused on tearing people down. It is a movement that is absolutely devoid of a moral center. We need to present a clear moral vision in opposition.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I'll never get used to sheer, unadulterated meanness of this administration. They're completely unconcerned about lifting people up and solely focused on tearing people down. It is a movement that is absolutely devoid of a moral center. We need to present a clear moral vision in opposition.
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It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
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I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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think trans artists tend to be multidisciplinary renaissance types bc we all know that no matter what we do we’re not getting famous or even respected for this shit
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
think trans artists tend to be multidisciplinary renaissance types bc we all know that no matter what we do we’re not getting famous or even respected for this shit
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Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.
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The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.
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kinda funny the biggest and most lasting effect of the baeddel political project was reviving its use as a slur
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
kinda funny the biggest and most lasting effect of the baeddel political project was reviving its use as a slur
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
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That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
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That and too many think you're faking one if you look able-bodied.
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
That and too many think you're faking one if you look able-bodied.
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💯. The thread it's situated in is long, but worth the read.
The invisible labor of people admin, being an asst, & caretaking, is like being Penny + Brain the Dog in Inspector Gadget. The inspector never has a clue 80% of the time his ass is managed - and saved - by Penny and Brain.
He's allowed to do his job without ever needing to thinking of the details
He's allowed to do his job without ever needing to thinking of the details
a cartoon of a man and a dog on a rope
Alt: Cartoon opening to the INSPECTOR GADGET series. Inspector Gadget is crossing a rope strung between the rooftop of two buildings. But they way he crosses it: Brain the Dog has two footplates on posts that he balances Gadget on as Gadget takes each step, while Brain is doing the actual highwire balancing and crossing act.
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
💯. The thread it's situated in is long, but worth the read.
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transgender women have been banned from joining in on the reindeer games
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
transgender women have been banned from joining in on the reindeer games
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41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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ouch
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ouch
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I have seen your jokes about trans trains and they have made me giggle
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I have seen your jokes about trans trains and they have made me giggle
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Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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Really telling how we've had years of these chromosome nazis telling us what they're doing is "standing up for women's rights" and "supporting scared women" and then when their stupid shitty policies go into effect actual real women are basically universally sad about it
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Really telling how we've had years of these chromosome nazis telling us what they're doing is "standing up for women's rights" and "supporting scared women" and then when their stupid shitty policies go into effect actual real women are basically universally sad about it