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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚

@thegeekyknot.bsky.social

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Queer leftie living in the Midwest for reasons I don't fully understand. #booksky #horror #FiberArt #crochet #sewing Shop: thegeekyknot.etsy.com

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Jan 25

A little intro post!

I'm Tess (they/them) 💛🤍💜🖤
🧶fiber artist
📚audiobook reader
🩸Horror fan
✡️Jewish and for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
Black lives matter
Progressive politics (duh)

I want community, not followers. I follow back if you seem cool and not a bot.

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 6d

This October remember that wearing pink doesn't offer breast exams to at-risk populations, but Planned Parenthood does.

Support Planned Parenthood

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot say enough good things about this book, it is easily my favorite read of the year so far.
I expected it to be depressing, given the current state of things, but it was actually uplifting.
Like the author said: "once we know how the card trick works, we stop falling for it"

#booksky

A screenshot from the libby app showing Cults Like Us by Jane Borden

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 14d

This reminds me of what Colbert said in his acceptance speech for his Emmy: sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get the sense you might be losing it...my friends, I never loved my country more desperately.

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 14d

The only reason I never do this is the back is slightly higher, and thus touches my neck and makes me feel like I'm choking. I'm very normal 😆

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 14d

Most importantly, go experience queer joy. It is because of the people who came before that we are where we are today. It's our job to further define that path for those will walk it after we are gone, and learn the history we make today.

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 14d

🏳️‍🌈Happy LGBTQIA+ history month!🏳️‍🌈

While we wait to see if our right to marry will be stripped away from us, I hope everyone -especially allies- will learn about our history, and support those of us who are still here however they can.

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 15d

I can say very little about this book without spoiling the plot, so I'll just say it went PLACES, and I was happily buckled up for the ride the entire time.

#booksky #horror #audiobooks

A screenshot from the libby app showing Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 15d

It is not my job to "just push them left", it's your job to not vote for candidates who refuse to respect my basic human rights, simply because they're rude to a terrible politician and that amuses you.

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 15d

Or we could support candidates that are already hip to supporting our most vulnerable citizens

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 17d

All governor Newsom had to do was tweet like Trump and everyone forgot he's more than willing to throw trans people under the bus to attempt to further his political career.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20d

Honestly, a really good article.

It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.

It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.

www.thenation.com

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 20d

A huge shout out to those still masking in public. I see you, i appreciate you 💙
It always makes me smile when someone buys one of these from my little shop.

A starburst shaped sticker with a red outline rests on a brown paper envelope. Sticker has an image of a face mask and reads "Masking Is Punk"

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 20d

Finlay stresses me out, but it's such a good story, I can't quit reading 🤣
#booksky

A screenshot from the libby app showing Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 28d

It is a pretty slow roll to begin with. It gets you in a super sad state, then when you're down, it kicks the living daylights out of your emotions.

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 28d

I just fished the most recent prequel, they are all really good books

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · 29d

I never read either prequel before this year, but I eventually got curious with all the chatter.
If you enjoyed the original trilogy, it is worth reading the prequels. Maybe especially now.

#booksky

A screenshot from the libby app showing Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 14

Personally, I think good informative books should point to accurate sources for further learning on the subject, but maybe that's just me 😅

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 9

I enjoyed it a lot, it felt like it firmly held the pace of the others

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 9

Apparently the best time to catch a horror movie in imax is 10AM on a Tuesday. My wife and I were totally alone in the theatre for a screening of The Conjuring Last Rites today.

#horror

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Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · Sep 9

From Ants To Zombies 🐜🧟‍♂️

A showcase of horror gaming across six decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s.

Coming soon if there is enough demand, sign up here: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/...

#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #gaming #horror #fromantstozombies #booksky @alexanderhad1.bsky.social

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 6

The very biggest same.

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 6

The amount of people whose kids will be subjected to terrible "treatments", when they could just be loved and accepted 😭

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · Sep 4

My big problem with the phrase “granola fascism” is that granola is delicious as hell, granola does not deserve to be catching strays like this. “Raw milk fascism” is more appropriate. Thank you.

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Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 4

I waited months for this one, and it fully lived up to the hype.
#booksky #horror #audiobooks

A screenshot from the libby app showing The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Tess (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈📚 @thegeekyknot.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have an irrational fear of this, so everything is named innocuously 😆