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Orpheus Condescending

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Rage, rage against the Lying of the Right Writer/Actress Sober 11/96 Born '68 Traverse City, MI https://www.instagram.com/maryscottoconnor/ READ MY ALT TEXT. Faites ce que vous voulez.␚

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · Feb 27

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Yeah, so... I made ANOTHER Starter Pack.

As always - if i put you in this thing & you don't want to be in it, just say so & I'll remove you.

If I DIDN'T, & you DO want to be in it, just say so & I'll put you in it.

Unless you're a dick. 😈

go.bsky.app/ActxaCN

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 6h

And Trump will be announcing them in TWO WEEKS

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 6h

In other news...

I'm seeking a healthcare solution for the physical & mental discombobulation caused by being forced to admit that a malevolent moron with no business being in Congress has made several TRUE, LOGICAL, SENSIBLE statements recently, about more than one issue.

My brain hurts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 6h

Oh, yeah, Pete?

What are those ideas? Or are they concepts of plans of ideas?

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 6h

a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod

Alt: Robert Redford as Jeremiah Johnson nods in pleased agreement. Apparently half the damned internet has spent years thinking this was Zach Galifianakis. How ANYONE could mistake ROBERT freaking REDFORD for ZACH freaking GALIFIANAKIS is beyond me... But then, I am old.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 6h

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 3d

I've NO dog in this fight.

I know Link peripherally. I may follow them.

READ the "offense" in question.

A picture of Charlie Kirk's Freedom t-shirt & CONSEQUENCES?

Wishing harm & violent or threatening speech?

If THAT post warrants suspension, HALF OF US SHOULD BE GONE.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.

The picture of Charlie Kirk in question. It was accompanied with some "Consequences of your actions" meme. I've never heard of it. Is it celebrating Kirk's death? I don't know, could be. Eye of the beholder. Is that against the Community Guidelines, now? No - the communication says this constitutes violent or threatening speech, wishes of harm, encouragement of violence, etc. THAT, the meme most certainly des NOT. It's just a stupid, snide meme. Not my cup of tea - but it most certainly does NOT rise to the level of a BANNABLE OFFENSE on Bluesky. FOr fuck's sake, people have posted far worse here. I'VE posted worse, Jesus Christ, I wish death & dismemberment upo vast swaths of the human race on an almost daily basis. I'm probably more serious about it than this MEME is, for fuck's sake.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

Read the ALT Text, Bluetopians.🦋

If you aren't reading my ALT Text, you're missing 91% of my posts.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

I'm going for my morning walk now.

The walk I'm ONLY able to take because of the medication I take.

The medication I take because I'm on Medicare.

The Medicare I'm on because it was created by people who GAVE A SHIT.

Unlike REPUBLICANS, who'd just as soon TAKE IT AWAY.

BECAUSE THEY ARE EVIL.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

REPUBLICANS did this.

I am left with no other conclusion to draw about these people, after a lifetime of witnessing one APPALLING, CATASTROPHIC thing after another that this party has done.

THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING EVIL.

This isn't just ordinary selfishness, or apathy, or ignorance.

IT IS EVIL.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

But truly poor people with nobody to catch them, no other safety net, OUGHT to have choices.

But they're stuck with the same fucking INSANE system.

The same LUDICROUS rules.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

Look - I'M disabled. I don't have many choices.

But I'VE got an amazing family that takes care of me when shit like this happens.

You want me broke? Only able to do so much & no more, able to pay for meds & Netflix & cat food? FINE.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

Don't tell me you want me to get out of poverty & then create a system deliberately designed to force me to STAY FUCKING POOR.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

Yeah... there's a little ranting today.

Maybe a WEE TAD BIT of lunacy.

But the lunacy isn't MINE.

It's the system.

Don't get me wrong; I am GRATEFUL for Medicare & Medicaid.

But the RULES put in place by... REPUBLICANS...

Are fucked.

Just fucked.

They are DESIGNED to keep you fucked.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

HAVE FUN WITH IT.

I do. 😈

Even when I’m ranting like a lunatic.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

NOTE: The PRIMARY purpose of ALT Text is so sight-impaired people (& others) may be included, so they can “see” the images through our descriptions.

Once we take care of that - the rest of the characters are ours to do with what we wish.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

How to POST ALT Text:

Upload your image, then CLICK it - a space appears and you type your text there.

Simple.

Set it up as a default in your Settings, that way you never have to think about it:

settings > accessibility > require alt-text for images.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

ALT Text: CLICK THE IMAGE.

There’s text beneath it.

(In my case, LOTS of text.)

CLICK THE TEXT - the entire text appears.

That’s how this works.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 8h

I'm dancing as fast as I can.

The rage & despair are personal, political, all of the above.

Each summer I make some extra money w/Airbnb.

Each fall I lose the extra help w/Medicare premiums & Medicaid because of it.

"KAFKAESQUE" applies here.

You MUST STAY POOR or we will MAKE you poor.

Sigh.

My floofy black cat, Fifi, is UNAMUSED at the fact that I've forced onto her the CLOWN COLLAR OF SHAME; this time, a Halloween-themed orange one, with little bells on the pointy corners. I HAD TO DO IT, Fifi. I'm SO TIRED of you bringing me the sometimes STILL-LIVING bodies of the little tiny teeny weeny birds you capture outside & drag onto the kitchen mat to torment for however long it takes for them to die... & then, dear god, you EAT THEM, leaving a pile of fucking FEATHERS for me to clean up. And, of course, a little tiny teeny weeny HEAD. Gross, Fifi. Gross. I was hoping the Clown Collar of Shame would at least slow you down, you relentless BIRD MURDERER. But no. Yesterday, in FULL clown collar regalia, in you trotted with ANOTHER BIRD. At least this one was fully alive, you managed not to damage it at all. I saved it from your vicious jaws of death, & released it into the skies. I THINK it was relieved. Why must you do this? After you & your siblings die off, my next cats will be indoor cats, you fucker. NOW. As to my own, actual complaint, the one about Medicare & Medicaid & why it seems necessary to keep disabled people UTTERLY DESTITUTE... fuck if I know. I am at a loss, at my wits' end. They won't let me work. Without Medicare I can't afford the medication that has restored me to semi-functional status as someone with relapsing/remitting MS. They have me in a Catch-22; I take the medication, I get better enough to do stuff, I can earn some money - but if earn too much, I LOSE THE HELP with the Medicare that HELPS PAY FOR THE MEDICATION THAT MAKES ME ABLE TO DO THE STUFF THAT HELPS ME MAKE THE MONEY THAT DISQUALIFIES ME FOR THE HELP PAYING FOR THE MEDICARE THAT PAYS FOR THE MEDICATION THAT MAKES ME ABLE TO DO THE STUFF THAT MAKES ME ABLE TO MAKE THE MONEY THAT DISQUALIFIES ME TO GET THE HELP PAYING FOR THE MEDICARE THAT PAYS FOR THE MEDICATION THAT HELPS ME BE ABLE TO DO THE STUFF THAT... Yeah. Yeah. Fuck this shit. Give me a clown collar, I'll eat a bird.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

This is Marc Maron.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

Anyone who isn't following the ICONIC @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social is missing out on some of the best deadpan comedic political commentary on Bluesky.

Just saying.

George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 15d

Bullet "evidence" startin' to get a little too specific and whatnot.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

She looks like Mia Sara.

Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

I seriously doubt, if we ever DO have any trials for these fucking treasonous assholes, that ANYONE will be sentenced to death, let alone actually executed.

I am against the death penalty on principle.

But for this particular circumstance...

I'm willing to set aside that principle.

FUCK THEM.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

Of those 177, 24 were sentenced to death.

Most of those death sentences were later commuted.

A total of 13 of the 177 "lesser" defendants were executed.

So... out of all those scumbags, 23 Nazis were executed.

A hell of a lot more MERCY than they afforded their victims.

I'm out of mercy.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 9h

After the big trial, the US held 12 other trials at Nuremberg between 1946 & 1949 with 177 defendants including doctors, judges, & industrialists

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