Marie from the PNW
@pnwsw.bsky.social
She/her | Social work | Raging against the machine | General nonsense | Oregon
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There’s a lady on TikTok who’s making a whole dinner set worth of dishes by taking all her Hinge dates to Color Me Mine and women stay winning
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There’s a lady on TikTok who’s making a whole dinner set worth of dishes by taking all her Hinge dates to Color Me Mine and women stay winning
Yesterday someone told me they were attending an "AI and HI (Human Intelligence)" conference in a few months and all my other villain origin stories disappeared because this is the one. This is how I lose my mind and become a villain are you kidding me how is this real
December 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yesterday someone told me they were attending an "AI and HI (Human Intelligence)" conference in a few months and all my other villain origin stories disappeared because this is the one. This is how I lose my mind and become a villain are you kidding me how is this real
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…I'm so goddam tired. Ppl are increasingly in their city halls about "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & literally all Dems would have to do sew up up that bloc is *Vibe With That Energy.*
It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!
It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!
Hakeem Jeffries' AI Commission is littered with corporate and tech-friendly Dems. AI is wildly unpopular, yet too many national Democratic leaders are rejecting that reality in favor of wooing back Silicon Valley. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...
prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...
Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
prospect.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
…I'm so goddam tired. Ppl are increasingly in their city halls about "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & literally all Dems would have to do sew up up that bloc is *Vibe With That Energy.*
It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!
It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!
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Problems that were overblown:
• quicksand
• people offering me drugs
• getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Problems I was not sufficiently warned about:
• arguing with robots about unexpected items in bagging areas
• remembering all my passwords
• existential dread
• quicksand
• people offering me drugs
• getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Problems I was not sufficiently warned about:
• arguing with robots about unexpected items in bagging areas
• remembering all my passwords
• existential dread
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Problems that were overblown:
• quicksand
• people offering me drugs
• getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Problems I was not sufficiently warned about:
• arguing with robots about unexpected items in bagging areas
• remembering all my passwords
• existential dread
• quicksand
• people offering me drugs
• getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Problems I was not sufficiently warned about:
• arguing with robots about unexpected items in bagging areas
• remembering all my passwords
• existential dread
Amazing but also once again, kids are demanding that the adults just do the right goddamn thing.
Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Amazing but also once again, kids are demanding that the adults just do the right goddamn thing.
Getting older is so weird. Supervising a social work student this year and they were saying how how wild the war on drugs was, they'd never heard of it before, just learned about it in class and I had to stop for a second and remind myself that this person wasn't born until the '00s.
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Getting older is so weird. Supervising a social work student this year and they were saying how how wild the war on drugs was, they'd never heard of it before, just learned about it in class and I had to stop for a second and remind myself that this person wasn't born until the '00s.
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
I am late to Hayley Williams new album and it's so good I've listened to it approximately 27 times in the last week oof
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am late to Hayley Williams new album and it's so good I've listened to it approximately 27 times in the last week oof
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Friendly reminder that on top of everything else, SpotShotter tech doesn’t even do what it claims it does.
It’s inaccurate, easily misled by errant noises, and very expensive.
It’s inaccurate, easily misled by errant noises, and very expensive.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Friendly reminder that on top of everything else, SpotShotter tech doesn’t even do what it claims it does.
It’s inaccurate, easily misled by errant noises, and very expensive.
It’s inaccurate, easily misled by errant noises, and very expensive.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
Glorious thread
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Glorious thread
The people at my new agency really missed the memo that one doesn't work much during a holiday week. Stop with all the emails!
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The people at my new agency really missed the memo that one doesn't work much during a holiday week. Stop with all the emails!
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i think about this every single time that i flag a cop on waze. funniest brand interaction i've ever had
April 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
i think about this every single time that i flag a cop on waze. funniest brand interaction i've ever had
I'm proud of everyone in this thread 😭
Actually in the spirit of this conversation, what’s a decision you made about a past Thanksgiving holiday that really paid off? I think people often feel trapped by their lives. Sharing our experiences can liberate us from that sense of claustrophobia.
On the most recent episode of VIBE CHECK, we answer listener questions about Thanksgiving, most importantly “do you go celebrate with the family members you don’t even like?”
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm proud of everyone in this thread 😭
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The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
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Everything stop being on fire for one fucking minute challenge.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Everything stop being on fire for one fucking minute challenge.
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If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
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"Teaching the holocaust was bad because now young people can draw direct Paralells between it and the genocide in Gaza" is a wild thing to say outloud when you're made of flesh and blood
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Teaching the holocaust was bad because now young people can draw direct Paralells between it and the genocide in Gaza" is a wild thing to say outloud when you're made of flesh and blood
lol to this desperation
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
lol to this desperation
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MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.