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Jules Stark

@insidiouspie.bsky.social

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A Subtle Calamity. An easily distracted internet weirdo. @InsidiousPie from Twitter. linktr.ee/InsidiousPie

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · Nov 12

If you're new here, this is a thread full of my adoptee tweets. Some are about adoption generally and some are about either my adoptive or bio family (or a combination of the two). So feel free to scroll through and catch up on the hashtag Crucial Lore™️. 🥚

Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · Nov 11

I've got a feeling that a bunch of newbies just found Tony's feed/starter pack because I just gained a whole pile of new followers who all have something about adoption in their bios.

So, hi new friends! I talk about LOTS of things, not just the fact that I was bought from the catholic baby store!

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Nov 7

I’ll repeat my standing invitation to #adoptees: add yourselves to my Adoptees of Bluesky feed. The only posts of yours that show up in the feed are those that include a few terms like #adoption #adoptee #adoptees #adopteevoices and 🥚 (because we’re supposed to have fallen from some stork’s cloaca)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Expletive infixation was how my linguistics teacher in college explained the concept of infixes to us.

"You know what prefixes and suffixes are. But English has only one infix. And, although it's never been taught to you formally, you know exactly what it is and probably use it frequently!"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

grawlix | noun | a series of typographical symbols (such as $#!) used in text as a replacement for profanity

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

grawlix | noun | a series of typographical symbols (such as $#!) used in text as a replacement for profanity

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Aww! That's sweet! 🥰

Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Explain your username:

In about 2007 or so, I decided I didn't want whatever nonsense AOL ScreenName I'd chosen at like 9 years old anymore. So I went online and found a "username generator" website thing and mashed "generate" a few times until it gave me InsidiousPie, which made me giggle.

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3d

Explain your username:

Its my name.

James Mendez Hodes @lulavampiro.bsky.social · 3d

explain your username:

all capoeiristas formally receive an insulting nickname based on their idiosyncrasies. my wrestling background led to several awkward in-game grappling situations, so mine is "lula" ("squid"). b/c that username's often taken online i further specified it to my favorite squid.

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 4d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Woo! Followed and notifications on!

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned you're doing streaming stuff! How did I miss this? Hopefully I can tune in next time you're live!

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

You're so welcome! Thank you for making such beautiful things that help so many people. 💜

Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Bibi's socks are SO COMFY and SO CUTE! Legit my partner borrowed a pair of mine and loved them so much that they had to buy a few pairs of their own! Also, I don't know how @archarzel.bsky.social's drawing hand feels, but Bibi's compression gloves are ALSO top notch and they make artist gloves too!

Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Honest! I know I've said it before but I'll say it again! The regular store ones (that rhyme with Smoctor Smoles) took two or three days with added diuretics to get my ankles to stop swelling. Yours had my feet back to normal within 24 hours!

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 3d

Bibi's compression socks work better for me than the "proper" medical ones I bought at the local store. AND they're cute as hell! So if you or anyone you know needs some part of their body squished for some reason, go check out Bibi's shop!

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 7d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Wrist Braces

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 4d

The absolute cruelty to me personally that I live on the other side of the country from y'all and thus can't come in and get mochi brownies! 😭

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 5d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5d

Especially since nearly all the platforms have a little button to enable them on upload.

I realize that's probably not the case if you're using the web interface or a 3rd-party app to upload and schedule them. But if you're on that level, why not get an app to caption them anyway?

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5d

Videos without captions, knowing how so many people interact with content: as a second screen, with distractions in the background, at work, in public without headphones…

It just feels like a choice. You saying this video is SO good and important, I need to mute everything else for it?

Nah.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 5d

reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Jules Stark @insidiouspie.bsky.social · 5d

I'm just a little internet stranger, but I'm offering you all the good vibes I have to spare. And also these photos of my cats doing curled feetsies.

May you find solace in your happy memories during this difficult time. 💜

Esteban Cien Almas the black cat laying on his back on the couch next to my leg. His front feet are curled up in front of him and his head is leaned back, asleep.

Seymour Headbutts the orange cat laying half on his side in a bed. His two front feet are curled up in front of him and he's looking at the camera like he's begging for belly rubs.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 6d

🥚Fantastic research by one of our finest adoptee rights authors.

Open adoption is the bait used to convince vulnerable mothers to relinquish babies for adoption, but it’s not a legal contract and it serves at the pleasure of the adopters, who can subsequently close an adoption at will —and they do.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 9d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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