Megan
@megbrod.bsky.social
Fan, reader, dancer, feminist. As always, here for the jokes.
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· Jan 9
New 2026 reading thread!!!
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Holy hell, how the Plain Dealer has fallen.
This editor should resign from the field in disgrace, but instead, he’s whining that a job applicant saw his AI policy and rightfully ran screaming.
This editor should resign from the field in disgrace, but instead, he’s whining that a job applicant saw his AI policy and rightfully ran screaming.
February 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Holy hell, how the Plain Dealer has fallen.
This editor should resign from the field in disgrace, but instead, he’s whining that a job applicant saw his AI policy and rightfully ran screaming.
This editor should resign from the field in disgrace, but instead, he’s whining that a job applicant saw his AI policy and rightfully ran screaming.
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This oil painting on board (sold) was painted directly in the garden in 2011 and shows an azalea in a pot, some pansies and a couple of decorative wooden birds. Also (hard to see) halfway up on the right our cat Millie paused to be included.
#oilpainting #garden
#oilpainting #garden
February 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
This oil painting on board (sold) was painted directly in the garden in 2011 and shows an azalea in a pot, some pansies and a couple of decorative wooden birds. Also (hard to see) halfway up on the right our cat Millie paused to be included.
#oilpainting #garden
#oilpainting #garden
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God bless the Dutch for this
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
God bless the Dutch for this
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do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
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Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist!
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book)
Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley
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What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.
i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
What Peter Thiel did to Gawker proved that you can’t have billionaires and a free press at the same time.
I did not seen Elon nonsense but as an Irish dancer this pisses me off, Scottish dancing is VERY different!!!! I don’t think England even has a whole country dance style?? Ugh just so bad and I know that’s their whole deal but BOOOOO
Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
February 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I did not seen Elon nonsense but as an Irish dancer this pisses me off, Scottish dancing is VERY different!!!! I don’t think England even has a whole country dance style?? Ugh just so bad and I know that’s their whole deal but BOOOOO
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It is at base just white supremacy but for the love of all things good and holy please just recognize that these people are losers who don't know a single damned thing about the so-called white culture they claim to venerate.
February 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
It is at base just white supremacy but for the love of all things good and holy please just recognize that these people are losers who don't know a single damned thing about the so-called white culture they claim to venerate.
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Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
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Note: Allegations of racial profiling aren’t just coming from congressional Democrats.
Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...
Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Note: Allegations of racial profiling aren’t just coming from congressional Democrats.
Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...
Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...
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it's very strange to me to see guys like this blathering about how america has no common culture. america has so much common culture. we are drowning in american culture. what are they talking about. it's like he saw quesabirria once and thought "this is the end of the republic." psychotic
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
it's very strange to me to see guys like this blathering about how america has no common culture. america has so much common culture. we are drowning in american culture. what are they talking about. it's like he saw quesabirria once and thought "this is the end of the republic." psychotic
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yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die
As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.
February 15, 2026 at 3:33 AM
yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die
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On the day that it finally happens, people are going to ask us to be all somber and respectful. lol
February 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
On the day that it finally happens, people are going to ask us to be all somber and respectful. lol
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Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
It's just evil.
February 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
It's just evil.
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
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Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.
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45 minutes for an apple update seems insane??
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
45 minutes for an apple update seems insane??
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If you just got rid of all of your arts and culture editors and all but one of your critics and three reporters, maybe phrase that differently
From today's @washingtonpost.com front page:
"Abruptly terminated": harsh, contentious, negative
"Sunset": natural, pleasant, the circle of life
h/t @alecmac.bsky.social
"Abruptly terminated": harsh, contentious, negative
"Sunset": natural, pleasant, the circle of life
h/t @alecmac.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
If you just got rid of all of your arts and culture editors and all but one of your critics and three reporters, maybe phrase that differently
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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
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I have seen national Dem consultants engaging with the post Norway Platner comeback effort (pretty right leaning ones btw!). It's not just Maine Dems who are pushing him. It's all so wild after so much of his own staff quit after being horrified!
It's nuts that these are the two candidates the respective wings of the Maine Dems have coughed up. I am positive there are, somewhere in the state, a moderate who's not 97 years old and a progressive who doesn't have nazi tattoos.
February 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I have seen national Dem consultants engaging with the post Norway Platner comeback effort (pretty right leaning ones btw!). It's not just Maine Dems who are pushing him. It's all so wild after so much of his own staff quit after being horrified!
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Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise
Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
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TBQH if I could eject that thing through sport I'd have done it a long, long time ago ...
I continue to be fascinated by a man’s belief in a sports ability to eject a uterus.
www.melissaludtke.com/blog/2018/2/...
www.melissaludtke.com/blog/2018/2/...
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
TBQH if I could eject that thing through sport I'd have done it a long, long time ago ...
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ON DAY 9 OF THE OLYMPICS, CANADA FINALLY WINS ITS FIRST GOLD
February 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
ON DAY 9 OF THE OLYMPICS, CANADA FINALLY WINS ITS FIRST GOLD
I have so many questions about those BTS love song playlists 😂 HSM and RM??? Hobi and Taylor Swift?? Mr. Brightside?????? Not entirely surprising from suga but also……🤔
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I have so many questions about those BTS love song playlists 😂 HSM and RM??? Hobi and Taylor Swift?? Mr. Brightside?????? Not entirely surprising from suga but also……🤔