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Feral Cat Lady

@trinityvixen.bsky.social

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Childless cat lady. Will bite. It's all there in the name. Also a leftist but the biting thing seemed more important to emphasize.

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Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · Apr 12

Stolen from my buddy. Had tod after we had the exact same answer for the first day!

Eugene vs. Evil Deadline 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · Apr 7

This looks like fun, and we can all use some more fun right now, yes? 30-Day Anime Challenge, copied from @esperdreams.bsky.social, with added ALT text. All my answers will reveal how old I am. Let's see if I can remember to do this every day...

30-Day Anime Challenge
Day 1 - Your first anime
Day 2 - Most nostalgic anime
Day 3 - An anime that made you cry
Day 4 - Favourite anime movie
Day 5 - Favourite opening song
Day 6 - Favourite villain/antagonist
Day 7 - Most recent anime
Day 8 - Favourite sports anime
Day 9 - Your go to anime couple (official or not)
Day 10 - Favourite horror anime
Day 11 - An anime you've rewatched more than once
Day 12 - Favourite protagonist
Day 13 - Favourite supernatural anime
Day 14 - Favourite ending song
Day 15 - The most episodes you've watched for one anime
Day 16 - Worst protagonist
Day 17 - Worst ending
Day 18 - Favourite drama anime
Day 19 - Most shocking ending
Day 20 - An anime you dropped
Day 21 - Favourite romance anime
Day 22 - Weirdest anime you've watched
Day 23 - An anime you recommend
Day 24 - Newest released anime you've watched
Day 25 - Favourite post-apocalyptic anime
Day 26 - Longest time on the "to watch" list
Day 27 - An anime you also read the manga for
Day 28 - An anime that you want another season for
Day 29 - Worst anime
Day 30 - Your favourite anime

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Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 18h

It's their season!

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 18h

Can't have people keeping track of who is hurt or killed by the 3+ pandemic-level viruses we are allowing to circulate unmitigated in this country, now can they? The same day Trump goes in for his own vaccines. If only hypocrisy were fatal.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 20h

I wished I lived in the city still so I could vote for him. It's been so refreshing, his vision for how the greatest city* in America could be.

(Some folks won't agree, but New York will always be my #1.)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Chere 🍒 @cheredenee.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a post that said “Reparations isn’t a debate. It is a debt.”

I still haven’t stopped thinking about it.

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Sis. Petty Shabazz @deelo502.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being the first artist in history to have your rap battle L cemented in a federal court opinion. 😭

Judge Vargas literally wrote that “‘Not Like Us’ dealt the metaphorical killing blow.”
Bro didn’t just lose the beef — he made it legally binding.

Take his shoestrings. 💀👟

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Prosecute Lindsey for lying to the court then.

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 2d

Oopsie

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Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Man does NOT mince words, and he calls our Shapiro on his BS, bless.

Jeremy Ogul @jeremyogul.com · 2d

Simon also said this in the same interview:

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Always one of the best responses to AI.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Distrust of nuance? Serves the fascists. The only way I see this getting fixed is to strike the names of the fascists and grifters from the rolls. Literally, not "Former director of the NHS X," but just "X." Refuse to give them the respect true of the folks who deserved the titles they've stolen.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

The layperson wants authority, clear answers. Nuance is for the granular events of their day-to-day, but for the big questions, they want authority. When it gets controversial, they want conclusions that support their preconceived notions. We all do! Lack of nuance leads to further polarization.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

What does nuance look like to the layperson? Cherry picking. Another term that the responsible folks used to use to try to shut down bullshit that right-wing grifters that is now being weaponized by the ill-informed against the well-informed.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Because now it's not just some influencer. It's the guy running the EPA who says clean water is unnecessary. Now YOU sound like the crank to be ignored when you say you can't trust the director of the EPA. But you *CAN'T.* Now you need nuance to say this guy, not that guy, is the expert.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

And now, forever, we're going to have to do the two-step with every agency the fascists have ruined. "No, you can't let pharma sell directly to the public, you can't trust them to act ethically" while also "but the vaccines work and can be trusted." We were already exhausted doing this. IT IS WORSE.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

It's exhausting to have to come up with new terms/movements because the right ruined the last one. They do it on purpose. If you have to explain to detail that "global warming" doesn't mean everywhere always warming, you're not taking time to explain what is ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENING.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

The right uses leftist terms incorrectly, "safe space," "actions have consequences," "FAFO" to strip them of their power and the confidence in their righteousness. It's like when corporations do memes--they kill the fun. Fascists do it to change the shared language of their perceived enemies.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

It's why TERFs in the UK (looking at you, Wizard Lady) use the language of "protecting women from predatory men," when it has only ever been progressive/left folks who gave a shit about making a difference for people suffering sexual and domestic partner violence.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the fascist right (in the US/UK at least) co-opts the language of the progressive/left spectrum. Bondi/Noem can rant about "not tolerating hate speech," when efforts to enforce social consequences for hate speech has been a leftist cause the right has always vehemently loathed.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Conversely, if you're not plugged in enough, you might just go, "hey this guy was the Surgeon General, he must be right about [insert quack or racist or both theory here]." All of it, the distrust of the institution and the theft of the institution's good name, benefits fascists.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

It engenders distrust of institutions among the folks who are savvy and plugged in enough to follow what's happening. There will be lack of trust that "Attorney General" is a fair, impartial litigator acting in the interest of the state (which, well, lol, but people do think that.)

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

They'll get the honorific, "Medal of Honor winner X," immediately loaning them clout they don't deserve, which redounds to the favor of fascists. At the same time, it diminishes folks who earned the title because "Christ, even X got that award/job/title/degree." Also to the benefit of fascists!

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

It means they're always, for the rest of their lives, in the in-group to which their authority, title, respect, or honor resides. In elevating the unworthy, you ruin the reputation of the worthy while giving the unworthy incredible power. They can ALWAYS say they were part of some illustrious group.

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

For the rest of their lives, the people who don't deserve title and honors keep them, by convention. Obviously, you CAN strip these things from them, but we don't. We still call old presidents "President so and so," in person address even if we add "former before that."

Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 2d

This is part of the goal. The fascist movement is all about co-opting and ruining previous institutions' power and prestige to undermine their authority as neutral arbiters so they cannot be used against you. You rant about how terrible HHS is, say, until you get Sec RFK Jr.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

This isn't about honoring them so much as making the title meaningless for previous winners

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Trump hints that he's going to give Andy Ngo, Pizzagate Jack, and others at the antifa roundtable the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"You have been amazing, you have been brave. You are real patriots. At some point, we will look into rewarding you with very important medals and honors."

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Feral Cat Lady @trinityvixen.bsky.social · 4d

Whether you like Dracula's Daughter or Dracula better depends, I suppose, whether you like your vamps as simple, domineering fiends or sympathetic, tortured demi-victims. Both can be fun. 30 Days of Night is good, but so is Byzantium. YMMV, even day to day. Mine does! Next up: Son of Dracula....