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Maria McMahon
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US-born, immigrated to Scotland Pro #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Words/opinions my own Expect film, art, books, music, cooking, politics and general maundering
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I can't think of a single thing Reagan did that didn't entirely suck.
God I despise Matt Yglesias. Just do us all a favor and stfu, Matt.
I'll keep an eye out for those!
Happy to report the Therapeutic Baking and Eating of Blueberry Muffins was a resounding success! 🍽️ #WhatsCooking #Baking
Thanks! They're in the oven now. Hope they turn out!
Today I will be doing Therapeutic Baking. Then I will be doing Therapeutic Eating of Blueberry Muffins. 🍽️

Will report back with results later. #Baking #Cooking #WhatsCooking
Severe cognitive dissonance.
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On Monday, I will officially file my petitions to get on the ballot. But I want to take a second to highlight the work we’ve been doing to get here.

This is what a people-powered, community-focused campaign looks like: youtu.be/HUWZl22Pp3k
Summer Wins for the Campaign | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois
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Next up: David Lynch's Blue Velvet! (crowd cheering) 😆
Lot of effort to make birra tacos! Well done! Those look amazing.
She's excellent! Her new EP "Wail" slaps. Check out "I am the problem" 😊 So good
A colleague was looking for a network cable. I said, "Sure, we've got a box of cables over here." The cables were in a hopeless tangle. I was helping him untangle a cable & said, "Ha, these are a real Gordian knot. Let's hope they don't need the Alexandrian solution!"
Me: 😃
Him: 🤔❓❓
Me: 🙁
Christ on a crutch
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Trump succeeds where Al-Qaida failed
The perfect day doesn't exis....

...Oh.
At the Ren Faire today, we watched a blacksmith give a 30-minute demonstration about swords. And at the end he said, “My lecture is now over, here are some kittens to pet.”

*Proceeds to uncover 2 large pet carriers and pulls out 6 kittens.*
They seem unable to stop themselves from proving our point, over and over.

#NoKings
Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."
For dinner tonight: Vietnamese Caramel Ginger Chicken. First time making it, verdict: yum! Added in some pak choy for funsies. #Recipe in comments. 🍽️ #WhatsCooking #RecipeTinEats #Foodies #HomeCooking
After not having made this recipe for a long while, I made East African Braised Chicken for dinner last night & immediately remembered why it's one of my faves. Don't let the unappealing photo they inexplicably used put you off. This recipe is the 💣🍽️

#WhatsCooking #HomeCooking #Recipe #Foodies
East African Braised Chicken Recipe - Food.com
This is a wonderful dish I found in "Cooking Light" magazine. This dish if full of flavor and despite all the ingredients, it is very easy t
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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Sending support across the pond to those joining the No Kings protests today with this upbeat and determined ducky ✊

Your action matters!

#nokings