Meg
@prayingmantis.bsky.social
Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE
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Wow, remember when putting something behind a minus sign meant Google would exclude it? Those were the days.
Enshittification is going to make me turn into the Joker.
Enshittification is going to make me turn into the Joker.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Wow, remember when putting something behind a minus sign meant Google would exclude it? Those were the days.
Enshittification is going to make me turn into the Joker.
Enshittification is going to make me turn into the Joker.
Stop asking if you want to have kids. Start asking if you want to be a parent.
I absolutely hate childcare. When my two children were young, friends and family would tell me to "cherish every moment because in a blink of an eye they'll be grown." No and no. It was hard, tedious work 24 hours a day and I thank God it's over.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Stop asking if you want to have kids. Start asking if you want to be a parent.
"No one wants to work!"
"Why aren't people having kids?"
"Why aren't people having kids?"
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"No one wants to work!"
"Why aren't people having kids?"
"Why aren't people having kids?"
Probably Christian Slater. I liked Pearl Jam, but not that much by 1994.
Or else the Magic Eye one! 👁️
Or else the Magic Eye one! 👁️
It’s 1994
You only have eight bucks in your piggy bank
You can buy only ONE poster from this ad
Which are you choosing
You only have eight bucks in your piggy bank
You can buy only ONE poster from this ad
Which are you choosing
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Probably Christian Slater. I liked Pearl Jam, but not that much by 1994.
Or else the Magic Eye one! 👁️
Or else the Magic Eye one! 👁️
Literally begging everyone to stop conflating tactics with strategy.
Please, please begin with the end in mind on projects of any kind.
Please, please begin with the end in mind on projects of any kind.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Literally begging everyone to stop conflating tactics with strategy.
Please, please begin with the end in mind on projects of any kind.
Please, please begin with the end in mind on projects of any kind.
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THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
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~1 yr ago we sent a Giving Tuesday email to our tiny mailing list shortly after starting our own publication.
In the time since, we have been overwhelmed by how many of you find our work worth supporting.
No email this time around. But if you'd like to support indie media today, here's how:
In the time since, we have been overwhelmed by how many of you find our work worth supporting.
No email this time around. But if you'd like to support indie media today, here's how:
Support Unraveled
unraveledpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
~1 yr ago we sent a Giving Tuesday email to our tiny mailing list shortly after starting our own publication.
In the time since, we have been overwhelmed by how many of you find our work worth supporting.
No email this time around. But if you'd like to support indie media today, here's how:
In the time since, we have been overwhelmed by how many of you find our work worth supporting.
No email this time around. But if you'd like to support indie media today, here's how:
Post your warning label. This is mine:
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Post your warning label. This is mine:
"Most déjà rêvé experiences are harmless and linked to stress, tiredness, or strong emotions." Oh. Kay.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Most déjà rêvé experiences are harmless and linked to stress, tiredness, or strong emotions." Oh. Kay.
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Here are ways to support trans rights:
A) Trans, women's and gay rights are human rights.
B) Anyone who wants to restrict human rights should be nowhere near legislative power.
It really is that simple.
A) Trans, women's and gay rights are human rights.
B) Anyone who wants to restrict human rights should be nowhere near legislative power.
It really is that simple.
I support Trans rights as much as anyone but it's an electoral loser. It helps Republicans who are ok with shooting trans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Here are ways to support trans rights:
A) Trans, women's and gay rights are human rights.
B) Anyone who wants to restrict human rights should be nowhere near legislative power.
It really is that simple.
A) Trans, women's and gay rights are human rights.
B) Anyone who wants to restrict human rights should be nowhere near legislative power.
It really is that simple.
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Have you told your top few people you love them?
Get those hugs and compliments in!
🤍🩵💙🧡❤️🔥❣️
Get those hugs and compliments in!
🤍🩵💙🧡❤️🔥❣️
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Have you told your top few people you love them?
Get those hugs and compliments in!
🤍🩵💙🧡❤️🔥❣️
Get those hugs and compliments in!
🤍🩵💙🧡❤️🔥❣️
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My friends and I were featured in Wired magazine today! (cc @tacticoolgf.bsky.social @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social @inrange.tv etc etc)
www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My friends and I were featured in Wired magazine today! (cc @tacticoolgf.bsky.social @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social @inrange.tv etc etc)
www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
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A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
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It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
I'm on an Amtrak train next to someone clearly sniffling & sneezing. Did they even THINK to wear a mask?! I was going to pull mine down to get bites of food, but now I daren't.
I hate it here (Earth).
I hate it here (Earth).
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm on an Amtrak train next to someone clearly sniffling & sneezing. Did they even THINK to wear a mask?! I was going to pull mine down to get bites of food, but now I daren't.
I hate it here (Earth).
I hate it here (Earth).
Evergreen.
So tired of old white men and their dumb opinions
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Evergreen.
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Malicious failure to provide livable conditions is often an attempt to get rid of tenants so the building/land can be sold to developers. This makes me think even more that the owner called ICE on the tenants.
NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there.
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...
thetriibe.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Malicious failure to provide livable conditions is often an attempt to get rid of tenants so the building/land can be sold to developers. This makes me think even more that the owner called ICE on the tenants.
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And those 5% still shouldn’t be detained and deported
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And those 5% still shouldn’t be detained and deported
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Joining the war on Christmas on the side of drugs
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Joining the war on Christmas on the side of drugs
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One reason to primary them all, every single one, is that you *know* they would look at the mangled corpse of medicaid and trans healthcare left after today and go "that's just the way it is, what you're asking for is a big change, a huge increase in budget and labor" etc.
A cool thing about the Dems being absolutely useless institution-fuckers is that if they did gain control again, they'll look at the mutilated, broken remnants of the FDA and NSF and such as sacred and reject out of hand any suggestion they need to be changed.
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
One reason to primary them all, every single one, is that you *know* they would look at the mangled corpse of medicaid and trans healthcare left after today and go "that's just the way it is, what you're asking for is a big change, a huge increase in budget and labor" etc.
Anyone who doesn't know about enshittification yet, should. It's clear that eventually LLMs will go the way of Google & start accepting money from companies to recommend things to you... (1/2)
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone who doesn't know about enshittification yet, should. It's clear that eventually LLMs will go the way of Google & start accepting money from companies to recommend things to you... (1/2)
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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