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rachey

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · Dec 22

If we're mutuals, I'd like to introduce you to your new niece, Rey

Rey the cat (tortoiseshell, green eyes) laying on the corner of a red-speckled beige rug on top of a wooden floor. Rey is laying on her side, belly facing just slightly up, her legs all pointing forward. Her adorable little face is angled toward the camera. She is so sweet.

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Lila Everywhere All At Once 👀🏳️‍⚧️ @lila-satori.bsky.social · 1h

Special thoughts today to those who can't come out YET.

I know it in my bones. One day every single one of us will be out and free. 💓🏳️‍⚧️

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lynds 🎀 @folktaylore.bsky.social · 3h

even if taylor was 100% straight (lol), there's no way she would hate gaylors bc we're the only subsect of her fandom that's capable of decentering men while interpreting her music

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking about her

A black cat staring back at the camera. It's standing on a driveway with a wall of foliage in the background.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 19h

Hey quick question are we doing good as a country or

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 4h

I watched a video yesterday that pointed out that Palestinians had to *negotiate* for the end of the genocide they were suffering. How are we to celebrate the victims of a genocide having to *compromise* with the people killing them?

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 9h

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 5h

Look, I unironically listen to what has been classified as "divorced dad rock". Literally nothing could make me embarrassed about being a Taylor Swift fan.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 8h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 7h

"Why I left the left" stories are genuinely so funny because it's always "they wouldn't let me be an unabashed bigot towards x minority so I decided that human rights are evil actually"

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 7h

Based?

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 7h

Gaming is Islamophobia but we're not ready for that conversation.

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 8h

I'm wearing a cashmere sweater, laying on a flannel sheet, while my cat rubs and purrs against me

"Soft" doesn't even begin to describe what I'm feeling right now

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 18h

Just found out that my town is apparently doing trick-or-treating on the GODDAMN TWENTY-THIRD?! WHAT IN THE GODDAMN FUCK

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 23h

Okay hear me out: "Wood" is about strap

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see Franchesca getting love on this app 💞

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 2d

They should invent a way for women to have gay sex with men

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Get his ass, Ms. Rachel

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

Ms. Rachel calls out Barack Obama's statement on Gaza, highlighting how referring to 'Israeli families' while calling Palestinians 'the people of Gaza' strips them of their humanity. 'Palestinians have families, too,' she wrote.

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Honest to God the only downside to living in the town I work in (besides the light pollution that wasn't there at my parents' house in the country) is that I just got a new CD but I know I'll only be able to listen to two songs in the car before I get home

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

I think what I'm looking forward to the most about showering tonight (besides my new conditioner that smells AMAZING) is getting to shave while sitting on the edge of my tub since there's no fuckass shower door railing making the tub edge into a human-length knife

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's menu: a take and bake pizza, cheap wine, mini charcuterie plate, and a bar of dark chocolate with sea salt

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting so long at this drive thru that I'm just going to read my book, an actual book, until I get to the window

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

What the *hell* do you mean Joe Alwyn is going to be in a movie about William Shakespeare writing Hamlet

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

And like, people love to gloss over this bc god forbid they ever have to consider if they were complicit, but the the late 00s/early 10s, nazi shit was largely treated as an edgy joke. Anyone else remember "grammar nazis" being a thing? People would call *themselves* that.