Paula Michelle
@avidalectrix.bsky.social
(She/her) Coffee addict, book lover, amateur Classicist. Probably listening to a podcast while tackling another pile of laundry.
"And to make the world a worse place while I'm at it."
May 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"And to make the world a worse place while I'm at it."
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Personally, I've moved on from caring about breaking Joe Biden news, prayers to his family, but I'm more concerned about the foreign concentration camps and outright policy of ethnic cleansing that is being carried out by this administration.
May 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Personally, I've moved on from caring about breaking Joe Biden news, prayers to his family, but I'm more concerned about the foreign concentration camps and outright policy of ethnic cleansing that is being carried out by this administration.
Fuckfuckfuckfuck...
April 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Fuckfuckfuckfuck...
Wanna atone? Wanna repent? Think maybe you've been on the wrong side of things?
Your penance is shutting up forever and getting a real job, and working without fanfare for a better world for *everyone*
Anything less is mere performance.
Your penance is shutting up forever and getting a real job, and working without fanfare for a better world for *everyone*
Anything less is mere performance.
"I have a lot of my work over the past decade to repent of. The Nazis used me, and I knew for a long time they were using me, or at least glimpsed it."
James Lindsay and longtime collaborator Michael O'Fallon are having a reckoning over Claremont Institute and other "ministries and organizations."
James Lindsay and longtime collaborator Michael O'Fallon are having a reckoning over Claremont Institute and other "ministries and organizations."
April 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wanna atone? Wanna repent? Think maybe you've been on the wrong side of things?
Your penance is shutting up forever and getting a real job, and working without fanfare for a better world for *everyone*
Anything less is mere performance.
Your penance is shutting up forever and getting a real job, and working without fanfare for a better world for *everyone*
Anything less is mere performance.
My family is not broken or sick or damaged or anything this heroin-addicted, worm-addled, geared-up nepo baby (who is in desperate need of a therapist) says.
Scary nazi shit, but hey, price of eggs, amirite?
Scary nazi shit, but hey, price of eggs, amirite?
RFK JR: By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.
TRUMP: Maybe it's a shot.
(Not hard to see where this is headed ... )
TRUMP: Maybe it's a shot.
(Not hard to see where this is headed ... )
April 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My family is not broken or sick or damaged or anything this heroin-addicted, worm-addled, geared-up nepo baby (who is in desperate need of a therapist) says.
Scary nazi shit, but hey, price of eggs, amirite?
Scary nazi shit, but hey, price of eggs, amirite?
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I’ve been increasingly pissed off by the rhetoric of autism being talked about like it’s a disease and not simply a way of being a human.
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’ve been increasingly pissed off by the rhetoric of autism being talked about like it’s a disease and not simply a way of being a human.
All that Oregon Trail and being rewarded with pizza for reading might actually come in handy...
As an elder millennial, I'm super excited to experience my fifth "once-in-a-lifetime" event since high school.
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
All that Oregon Trail and being rewarded with pizza for reading might actually come in handy...
I really like The Ghost and The Darkness, and I haven't seen anyone else mention that in the reminisces 😕
April 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I really like The Ghost and The Darkness, and I haven't seen anyone else mention that in the reminisces 😕
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.
I strongly suspect my prescription was approved via AI, and I do not like this suspicion. At all.
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I strongly suspect my prescription was approved via AI, and I do not like this suspicion. At all.
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[GROK] if you go to war with Canada, a great empire will be destroyed
The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.
March 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
[GROK] if you go to war with Canada, a great empire will be destroyed
This is unconstitutional and just wrong. Fuck Trump. Fuck MAGA. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is unconstitutional and just wrong. Fuck Trump. Fuck MAGA. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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Real talk. I’ve lost all belief in American exceptionalism. There is no secret Liberty Sauce that makes us inherently better. We’re just human beings (derogatory). But it also means we’re human beings (laudatory), so I refuse to believe Republicans won politics forever and can rule as god kings.
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Real talk. I’ve lost all belief in American exceptionalism. There is no secret Liberty Sauce that makes us inherently better. We’re just human beings (derogatory). But it also means we’re human beings (laudatory), so I refuse to believe Republicans won politics forever and can rule as god kings.
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If they do what I’m afraid they’re going to do I hope they don’t even think of emailing or texting me for money because unlike them I can actually say NO
March 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If they do what I’m afraid they’re going to do I hope they don’t even think of emailing or texting me for money because unlike them I can actually say NO
I wish I knew 🙄
So let me get this straight, Gavin Newsom desperate to platform MAGA, Chuck Schumer is defacto supporting the CR.
What’s the point of an opposition party again?
What’s the point of an opposition party again?
March 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I wish I knew 🙄
I suggest a new motto for the State of Iowa: "Our bigotries we prize and our whites we will maintain."
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I suggest a new motto for the State of Iowa: "Our bigotries we prize and our whites we will maintain."
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We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
February 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
Just because it's small doesn't mean it can't exploit workers. In fact, the exploitation, I would argue, is slathered in a whole lot of virtue-signaling that it helps the poor widdle entrepreneur just trying to make his dream.
February 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just because it's small doesn't mean it can't exploit workers. In fact, the exploitation, I would argue, is slathered in a whole lot of virtue-signaling that it helps the poor widdle entrepreneur just trying to make his dream.
Too good to be true, but I still stand by what I told my mother--his behavior would be no different if he were an asset.
This story about Trump having been recruited as an agent of the KGB in the 1980s seems pretty unlikely to me. Casual gossip about the identities of assets is not the way things usually work in espionage organizations. I consulted with someone with… 1/2
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Too good to be true, but I still stand by what I told my mother--his behavior would be no different if he were an asset.
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Back in 2021, @jbf1755.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social did an episode about the postal service on their much-missed podcast “Now & Then.” I suggest you have a listen to understand the USPS and the implications of privatization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Back in 2021, @jbf1755.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social did an episode about the postal service on their much-missed podcast “Now & Then.” I suggest you have a listen to understand the USPS and the implications of privatization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Calling yourself a king doesn't make you king. Calling yourself "princeps" definitely doesn't make you king. Really. I promise.
Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you king. Killing your brother and marrying his wife only to be haunted by his ghost and poisoned by his son before you manage to kill him with the poisoned blade and no one is left but some bloke named Horatio is how you become king
Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Being crowned at Car Paravel with your three siblings by Aslan does.
February 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you king. Calling yourself "princeps" definitely doesn't make you king. Really. I promise.
Oh FFS
"working to swiftly rectify the situation..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Oh FFS
Alright, American Evangelicals, now is your moment to shine! All those farmers who now are worried about their farms because the money they were promised is axed? Pay out. Those families who need rent help, food help? Pony up. Oh, you're feeling the pain too? Guess it wasn't about charity was it.
February 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Alright, American Evangelicals, now is your moment to shine! All those farmers who now are worried about their farms because the money they were promised is axed? Pay out. Those families who need rent help, food help? Pony up. Oh, you're feeling the pain too? Guess it wasn't about charity was it.