Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal
@kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social
Writer, historian, Muse, and Magician. Mama bear of all the weird kids. Rainbow witch 🌈 AuDHD, cPTSD. N95 enthusiast. My husband looks fantastic in a dress. CA and Venmo: KellySMcGonigal
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I’ll go back to my regular Kelly “Town House Cracker” McGonigal name once Link gets reinstated
Moreover, Link must be reinstated
Moreover, Link must be reinstated
Yes and, if you’re posting a gif, go ahead and go into the alt text field to edit it bc the text that auto-fills in there is never, ever accurate
Apparently evergreen ask: If there is text in your image, please include all of it in the alt text.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Yes and, if you’re posting a gif, go ahead and go into the alt text field to edit it bc the text that auto-fills in there is never, ever accurate
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"researchers have found that the relentless males are driving their population to extinction."
Well, that sounds familiar...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...
Well, that sounds familiar...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
"researchers have found that the relentless males are driving their population to extinction."
Well, that sounds familiar...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...
Well, that sounds familiar...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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I'm only $50 away from $700 rent, but have only 40 minutes left in the extension, and badly need help with LATE storage and a grocery run.
#PleaseShare, and donate ASAP if you can? Anything counts to help me stay housed, fed, and alive!
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#PleaseShare, and donate ASAP if you can? Anything counts to help me stay housed, fed, and alive!
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
February 15, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I'm only $50 away from $700 rent, but have only 40 minutes left in the extension, and badly need help with LATE storage and a grocery run.
#PleaseShare, and donate ASAP if you can? Anything counts to help me stay housed, fed, and alive!
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#PleaseShare, and donate ASAP if you can? Anything counts to help me stay housed, fed, and alive!
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
I figure it’s bc before they perfected the skeleton helmet technology, every race was a death match.
It's called skeleton because you're sledding spooky-style
February 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I figure it’s bc before they perfected the skeleton helmet technology, every race was a death match.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Thinking about the time @ashmcgonigal.com and I were buying beer at the grocery store, and our cashier was a kid so they couldn’t ring it up so they got on the loudspeaker and said “I need an adult!” and I just wonder how they’re doing today
February 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Thinking about the time @ashmcgonigal.com and I were buying beer at the grocery store, and our cashier was a kid so they couldn’t ring it up so they got on the loudspeaker and said “I need an adult!” and I just wonder how they’re doing today
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why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon
February 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon
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I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
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Accidental Wes Anderson
this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Accidental Wes Anderson
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I love how they shout "Curl curl curl!" at the curlers when they slide the rocks. No other sport does that. Imagine if Steve Kerr just stood there emphatically screaming "BASKETBALL"
February 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I love how they shout "Curl curl curl!" at the curlers when they slide the rocks. No other sport does that. Imagine if Steve Kerr just stood there emphatically screaming "BASKETBALL"
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I've reached $130, and need 3 URGENT costs covered.
Rent- $700 by 11AM TOMORROW.
Storage- $350 incl late fee, was due 2 weeks ago.
Groceries- $150 feeds me 2-3 weeks.
#PleaseShare, and help if able? My life and vital items are on the line!
#KeepFolksAlive
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
Rent- $700 by 11AM TOMORROW.
Storage- $350 incl late fee, was due 2 weeks ago.
Groceries- $150 feeds me 2-3 weeks.
#PleaseShare, and help if able? My life and vital items are on the line!
#KeepFolksAlive
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
February 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I've reached $130, and need 3 URGENT costs covered.
Rent- $700 by 11AM TOMORROW.
Storage- $350 incl late fee, was due 2 weeks ago.
Groceries- $150 feeds me 2-3 weeks.
#PleaseShare, and help if able? My life and vital items are on the line!
#KeepFolksAlive
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
Rent- $700 by 11AM TOMORROW.
Storage- $350 incl late fee, was due 2 weeks ago.
Groceries- $150 feeds me 2-3 weeks.
#PleaseShare, and help if able? My life and vital items are on the line!
#KeepFolksAlive
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
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If Stephen Miller switches parties to become a Democrat, wins the dem primary, and is the candidate vs. Trump in the next election, I will not vote for Stephen Miller.
He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump.
This is a post about Gavin Newsom.
He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump.
This is a post about Gavin Newsom.
February 14, 2026 at 4:31 AM
If Stephen Miller switches parties to become a Democrat, wins the dem primary, and is the candidate vs. Trump in the next election, I will not vote for Stephen Miller.
He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump.
This is a post about Gavin Newsom.
He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump.
This is a post about Gavin Newsom.
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Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
I’m so annoyed, our Peacock app won’t let us watch any Olympics replays; we can only watch live and idk why 😩
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I’m so annoyed, our Peacock app won’t let us watch any Olympics replays; we can only watch live and idk why 😩
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We don't have to revive the dying monster that's been canabalizing all of us for as long as it's existed. We could build something that supports everyone instead.
Look away from the spectacle and toward community and supporting one another. We have to build better than what we were forced into.
Look away from the spectacle and toward community and supporting one another. We have to build better than what we were forced into.
February 13, 2026 at 7:47 AM
We don't have to revive the dying monster that's been canabalizing all of us for as long as it's existed. We could build something that supports everyone instead.
Look away from the spectacle and toward community and supporting one another. We have to build better than what we were forced into.
Look away from the spectacle and toward community and supporting one another. We have to build better than what we were forced into.
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.
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Still, the vacuum of space is not as uncomfortable as the Danny Stevens/Karen Baldwin storyline on For All Mankind.
February 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Still, the vacuum of space is not as uncomfortable as the Danny Stevens/Karen Baldwin storyline on For All Mankind.
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next time you see a movie with too much cgi, remember that we used to be a proper country
February 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
next time you see a movie with too much cgi, remember that we used to be a proper country
This looks like a cat is wearing another cat
Everybody stop what you're doing and look at this cat I'm sitting
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
This looks like a cat is wearing another cat
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I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
“Do not take Xelzympta if you are allergic to Xelzympta” well no shit, Sharon
Why is this a thing in every drug ad? If you know you’re allergic to something, you don’t consume it. What am I missing here? Is this another one of those “don’t use hairdryer in bathtub” CYA things?
Why is this a thing in every drug ad? If you know you’re allergic to something, you don’t consume it. What am I missing here? Is this another one of those “don’t use hairdryer in bathtub” CYA things?
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
“Do not take Xelzympta if you are allergic to Xelzympta” well no shit, Sharon
Why is this a thing in every drug ad? If you know you’re allergic to something, you don’t consume it. What am I missing here? Is this another one of those “don’t use hairdryer in bathtub” CYA things?
Why is this a thing in every drug ad? If you know you’re allergic to something, you don’t consume it. What am I missing here? Is this another one of those “don’t use hairdryer in bathtub” CYA things?
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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The yell is the highlight. But the announcer's call deserves mention as well: "Oh my god: the gate to the groin."
February 11, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The yell is the highlight. But the announcer's call deserves mention as well: "Oh my god: the gate to the groin."