Leilani (she/her)
@glittergremlei.bsky.social
Very loud, very queer, very probably Planning An Event In A Neighborhood Near You.
Professional art/mess/trouble maker.
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Professional art/mess/trouble maker.
📚🎭💃🏻👊🏻📝👩🏻🍳🗣️⚔️🌺
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Campagne de dons : De la guerre à la paix : aider ma famille à évacuer Gaza
De la guerre à la paix : aider ma famille à évacuer Gaza
www.papayoux-solidarite.com
As news that 2/5 of the “aid” allowed into Gaza is truckloads of body bags & the UN warns 14,000 babies are going to die in the next 48hrs without immediate intervention, I turn once again to social media - where thousands are begging for their lives.
www.papayoux-solidarite.com/fr/collecte/...
www.papayoux-solidarite.com/fr/collecte/...
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So turns out in the UK, it’s only a crime to sexually harass a child over the course of several weeks if she’s NOT transgender. Live and learn.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So turns out in the UK, it’s only a crime to sexually harass a child over the course of several weeks if she’s NOT transgender. Live and learn.
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Campbells was also just heavily fined for admitting to dumping ecoli filled plant waste from it’s location in Maumee, OH into the Maumee river twice a day, 7 days a week since 2018.
Campbell’s about to be out of here faster than target. This is gonna be impressive fall.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Campbells was also just heavily fined for admitting to dumping ecoli filled plant waste from it’s location in Maumee, OH into the Maumee river twice a day, 7 days a week since 2018.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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Gonna be a *lot* of inedible and dangerous dishes and at least one family annihilation as a result of people casually asking chatgpt for a recipe
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Gonna be a *lot* of inedible and dangerous dishes and at least one family annihilation as a result of people casually asking chatgpt for a recipe
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I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
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it's the same reason fox says it's coverage is "fair and balanced". It's Orwellian code for, "our goal is fascism."
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
it's the same reason fox says it's coverage is "fair and balanced". It's Orwellian code for, "our goal is fascism."
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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It was also wild to watch other Black folks, including my former colleague, take this white lady at her word that she was gonna do better
As if we hadn't all been through #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen back in the Black Twitter days
But then again those colleagues had tech jobs sooooo........
As if we hadn't all been through #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen back in the Black Twitter days
But then again those colleagues had tech jobs sooooo........
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It was also wild to watch other Black folks, including my former colleague, take this white lady at her word that she was gonna do better
As if we hadn't all been through #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen back in the Black Twitter days
But then again those colleagues had tech jobs sooooo........
As if we hadn't all been through #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen back in the Black Twitter days
But then again those colleagues had tech jobs sooooo........
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I still have an email from Joan Donovan sitting in my inbox from like 2019, when she apologized to me and my former colleague for her erasure of #YourSlipIsShowing in her NYT article about GamerGate or whatever.
Let me tell you how I never even finished reading that email bc I knew it was bullshit.
Let me tell you how I never even finished reading that email bc I knew it was bullshit.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I still have an email from Joan Donovan sitting in my inbox from like 2019, when she apologized to me and my former colleague for her erasure of #YourSlipIsShowing in her NYT article about GamerGate or whatever.
Let me tell you how I never even finished reading that email bc I knew it was bullshit.
Let me tell you how I never even finished reading that email bc I knew it was bullshit.
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No, what ended up happening instead is that racist nonBlack people turned the tech misinfo/disinfo space into an affirmative action program for white women specifically, who reveled in erasing and misappropriating Black women's work and labor
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
No, what ended up happening instead is that racist nonBlack people turned the tech misinfo/disinfo space into an affirmative action program for white women specifically, who reveled in erasing and misappropriating Black women's work and labor
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(Let alone Black trans women!!!!)
Like please, go ahead, point me towards the massive numbers of Black trans folks that have jobs in the heck industry, especially the parts of the industry I was involved in: social media/misinfo & disinfo. Go ahead!!!
Like please, go ahead, point me towards the massive numbers of Black trans folks that have jobs in the heck industry, especially the parts of the industry I was involved in: social media/misinfo & disinfo. Go ahead!!!
a man wearing a green jacket and tie is holding a microphone
ALT: a man wearing a green jacket and tie is holding a microphone
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
(Let alone Black trans women!!!!)
Like please, go ahead, point me towards the massive numbers of Black trans folks that have jobs in the heck industry, especially the parts of the industry I was involved in: social media/misinfo & disinfo. Go ahead!!!
Like please, go ahead, point me towards the massive numbers of Black trans folks that have jobs in the heck industry, especially the parts of the industry I was involved in: social media/misinfo & disinfo. Go ahead!!!
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And mind you this was all before I came out as trans in 2021. And I don't know if you know but being Black and trans does not increase your hiring chances!!!
If Black women have lost 600k jobs what do you think that means for Black transmasculine folks
If Black women have lost 600k jobs what do you think that means for Black transmasculine folks
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And mind you this was all before I came out as trans in 2021. And I don't know if you know but being Black and trans does not increase your hiring chances!!!
If Black women have lost 600k jobs what do you think that means for Black transmasculine folks
If Black women have lost 600k jobs what do you think that means for Black transmasculine folks
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In the wake of #YourSlipIsShowing I applied to multiple tech jobs between 2014 and 2022. At least one was for an org I actually spoke for. I got nothing. And I know it was the same for @sassycrass.bsky.social.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In the wake of #YourSlipIsShowing I applied to multiple tech jobs between 2014 and 2022. At least one was for an org I actually spoke for. I got nothing. And I know it was the same for @sassycrass.bsky.social.
Holy *shit* I am well known to be The Friend That Has A Story For Everything (it has come up repeatedly this week!) and this thread has taught me there is At Least One Thing I Do Not Have A Story For, Actually!
There's just. . . so much going on here??? I am full of amusement and concern?
There's just. . . so much going on here??? I am full of amusement and concern?
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Holy *shit* I am well known to be The Friend That Has A Story For Everything (it has come up repeatedly this week!) and this thread has taught me there is At Least One Thing I Do Not Have A Story For, Actually!
There's just. . . so much going on here??? I am full of amusement and concern?
There's just. . . so much going on here??? I am full of amusement and concern?
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this one broke me
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
When I was 4, I fell through a weird gap in the stair railing into the large pan of turkey drippings. It took my mom over a week to get all the grease out of my hair.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
this one broke me
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Eliminating four Salt Lake County-run day cares will force more than 250 families to find other arrangements in a state that already has a shortage of licensed providers — and save the average county homeowner only 23 cents a month.
Keeping S.L. County-run day cares open would cost taxpayers a cup of coffee a year. It’s too pricey for GOP council members.
The plan to shutter day cares that serve more than 250 families has inspired a coalition of parents to fight back.
www.sltrib.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Eliminating four Salt Lake County-run day cares will force more than 250 families to find other arrangements in a state that already has a shortage of licensed providers — and save the average county homeowner only 23 cents a month.
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imagine having strong feelings on "cream of celery" and those feelings are just racism about brown people
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
imagine having strong feelings on "cream of celery" and those feelings are just racism about brown people
I (obviously) hadn't considered or observed this but of course as soon as it is pointed out it's like being slapped in the face. Fuck.
And reminder @sassycrass.bsky.social is dead. There is no redress for her. Anti-Blackness (& ableism) kills.
And reminder @sassycrass.bsky.social is dead. There is no redress for her. Anti-Blackness (& ableism) kills.
I will say though that I noticed awhile ago that the Black women that the U.S. tech industry actually did hire were not African American, or of they were, they were light skinned + had exotic names
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I (obviously) hadn't considered or observed this but of course as soon as it is pointed out it's like being slapped in the face. Fuck.
And reminder @sassycrass.bsky.social is dead. There is no redress for her. Anti-Blackness (& ableism) kills.
And reminder @sassycrass.bsky.social is dead. There is no redress for her. Anti-Blackness (& ableism) kills.
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Local whites & nonBlacks tend to prefer non-local Black folks when it comes to certain types of jobs, tech is one of them. And that's before we get into how this like casteism (which is also antiblack and colorist) shape hiring practices in the industry.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Local whites & nonBlacks tend to prefer non-local Black folks when it comes to certain types of jobs, tech is one of them. And that's before we get into how this like casteism (which is also antiblack and colorist) shape hiring practices in the industry.
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Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
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* In the 1860s, candy-pulls were THE place for young people to hang out in certain rural communities. There are endless tales of romance and broken hearts and fights and straight-up murders that occurred in the excitement. Very "kids these days don't know how to behave" but over candy.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
* In the 1860s, candy-pulls were THE place for young people to hang out in certain rural communities. There are endless tales of romance and broken hearts and fights and straight-up murders that occurred in the excitement. Very "kids these days don't know how to behave" but over candy.
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* Pizza rolls are a potent symbol of midcentury USA culture. The guy who sold them was the son of Italian immigrants, born in rural MN, made his first fortune selling frozen Chinese food, then tried putting other things in wonton wrappers...leading to pizza rolls.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
* Pizza rolls are a potent symbol of midcentury USA culture. The guy who sold them was the son of Italian immigrants, born in rural MN, made his first fortune selling frozen Chinese food, then tried putting other things in wonton wrappers...leading to pizza rolls.
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* Pop Tarts and other toaster pastries only came about after food scientists figured out how to make *dog food* semi-moist, and then applied that technology to human breakfasts. In other words, if you like Pop Tarts, thank a dog.
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
* Pop Tarts and other toaster pastries only came about after food scientists figured out how to make *dog food* semi-moist, and then applied that technology to human breakfasts. In other words, if you like Pop Tarts, thank a dog.