Sophie
happenssomuch.bsky.social
Sophie
@happenssomuch.bsky.social
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Former journalist & current person trying to stay alive. I have an occasional substack https://www.instagram.com/selfconsciouspod/ insidetheripple.substack.com
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I’m learning there is something worse than “the sex work debate” and it’s sex work as cudgel in candidate debates
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he was also the mermaid parade king in 1999 (queen latifah was the queen)

www.coneyisland.com/mermaid-para...
ALL PARADES HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST
cutis is all fun until he drops some insane shit like "homeless children need charter schools"
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"I just need to tweet more" has never been the right answer for any circumstance
Asked why he thinks he lost the Democratic primary, Cuomo said that he just learned that he needs to be on social media more but his agenda is the same as the primary.

“I’m the Democrat, though I’m not on the Democratic line” - Cuomo
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I do believe Sliwa has the power to bring about a City of No
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The #NYCMayoralDebate questions asking about “gifted and talented” is dishonest in its framing. It should be a question of why the fuck any adult is pretending giving a test to a *four year old* means anything, let alone building a system around the parents who can pay for tutors for 4-year-olds.
curtis shitting on his own children is a move
you need trained professionals like me, a guy who rides the subway wearing a beret
honestly loving watching sliwa destroy cuomo this rules
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I KNEW MARIO CUOMO

YOU ARE NO MARIO CUOMO
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Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
everything just feels completely intolerable doesn't it
you don't have to imagine just read all the horrifying reports by +972 www.972mag.com/ofer-camp-to...
i will never in a million years stop wearing high waisted jeans
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
btw trump just effectively deported anyone on a H1-B visa who isn't extremely rich
what does it say about our society that we are always having some kind of controversy about shit written on starbucks cups
i don't even fully disagree with this, like yeah there is more conspiracy theories and misinformation than ever. but the shooters motives are genuinely confusing, i don't think this is because of bluesky or whatever he thinks it is.
jimmy kimmel officially diagnosed with blueskyism, is no one safe
i always forget that even though i am privileged i am a hell of a lot less privileged than a lot of other people
just saw someone on reddit asking if it was "feasible" for him to leave the US with half a million in investments and owning a home, just imagining how much they would panic if they lived my life for one day lol
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