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Louisa

@louisathelast.bsky.social

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Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Feb 8

So there is a reason I’ve been so scared for the future. And a reason I’ve also been very happy. @tekla.bsky.social and I have an announcement to make 💕

A photo of an ultrasound of a first trimester baby, surrounded by flowers on a teal velvet background. A mini marquee sign says “coming soon”

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4h

I often wonder what she’s going to think of all this when she’s older and doesn’t have any real memory of the process. If all goes well she could be totally done by the time she’s 4. Maybe some very early memories of wearing the brace to bed

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11h

The orthopedist definitely impressed on us that the only real reason this treatment fails is parents not keeping up with the braces. I’m so sorry that happened to you

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 13h

She has to be in a brace now (23 hours a day for the next three months, then whenever she’s asleep for the next 3-5 years) but it gives her a lot more freedom and it’s a lot lighter

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 13h

Margot had her clubfoot casts removed today and the way she grinned and started kicking her little legs when she realized they were free is sustaining me the rest of the week

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...

Chicken Little

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 1d

And THIS is why every person involved in either harry potter films, tv, games or other are chosing to actively be a part in the attack on trans people

Shes openly saying her intentions are to ensure a win for the bigots against scottish government

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"SNP ministers have failed to pay their £250k bill, six months after the Supreme Court ruling. The rumour is that they’re trying to stop ⁦
@ForWomenScot
⁩ taking further action against the government, but that plan has a rather large flaw. Me."
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Current cuteness status of baby

Very cute baby grinning up past the camera

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

I want to believe

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s fine!

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

It sure is!!

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Tootsie. I think it tracks

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Well I met my wife @tekla.bsky.social on Twitter and now we have a really cute baby so I’d say things are going pretty good

Me holding my cute baby in a leafy yard. I’m dressed in gray linen pants and a colorful silk buttondown shirt. My wife, a tall non-binary femme in a black dress, purple kimono style wrap, and dangling earrings, has their arms wrapped around us both and is smiling down at us

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh that’s so cool

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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 2d

En-nígaldi-Nanna, the daughter of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire (626-539 BCE), had a museum in Ur, complete with 1500 year old artifacts and “museum labels.”

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Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum - Wikipedia

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Allegedly he said that the finest invention, though, was air conditioning. Given he was born in Oklahoma and lived most of his life in Texas, I think he’s right

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

My grandfather was born in 1896 and lived to be 90. I think a lot about how he moved by mule wagon as a child, then saw the invention/popularization of cars, phones, radio, television, airplanes, space travel, and the very beginning of the internet all in his lifetime.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

The rumor mill has over time turned this into “because they were close and Andre was too big to ride the school bus,” but the truth is there was no school bus and many locals would just drive a passel of random kids to school on a rotating basis

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

have i mentioned today that rich people have more money than they know what to do with and need higher taxes?

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

The booming IV hydration spa industry, where people pay hundreds of dollars to have vitamins and minerals dripped directly into their veins, operates with virtually no oversight or data backing up its claims, according to the first comprehensive national analysis of hydration clinics.

Hydration spas are largely unregulated, study finds

The first comprehensive research on the growing IV hydration industry finds little oversight of invasive procedures like vitamin drips.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

Right, like I think most people don’t realize that the largest contingent of unhoused people are people who do in fact have work but don’t have the ability to pull together a security deposit plus first and last month’s rent