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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

If you see me on the internet tomorrow, remind me I have better things to be doing.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Very

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Also once you see the flashback it's quite clear that one of the reasons Abuela clashes so much with Mirabel is that they are way too similar

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn't excuse the way she takes that trauma out on her children and grandchildren, but it is still sad (and very well-portrayed)

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Also Abuela is so clearly still 19 years old and terrified inside

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

"You hug your sister! That's great!"
😭 Bruno hasn't hugged his sisters in 10 years 😭

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

And once Antonio was born she probably wanted to stay with him but still

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

I love that Mirabel's parents clearly stand up for her but that definitely should have included getting her out of the nursery by now

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure there are! But in terms of archetypes, "carrying the weight of the world" is a classic oldest kid thing, and I think Isa being the middle child would work perfectly except for the fact that siblings in Disney movies always get married in age order.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Luisa's arc and song def belong to the oldest child, not the middle child

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, fuck that guy into the sun, report and block.

bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I've ever received one of these before.

Screenshot of a series of replies. The key one here is "men will commit to civil war before going to therapy." I replied with "yeah, that's not aspirational. Go to therapy and get drugs while the VA still offers that."

I unironically recommended BEACON at the VA to this person. They responded "I can't wait until you're one of the 22"

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

The full faculty also voted this spring to stand up for DEI. Garimella needs to locate at least one of: his guts, his spine, or his testicles, because so far he's handing all of them to Trump and fascism.

Tucson Sentinel @tucsonsentinel.com · 1d

Faculty Senate calls on President Garimella to reject deal that would 'endanger the independence, excellence & integrity' of University of Arizona

UA profs oppose 'academic compact'; Trump admin gives school until Oct. 20 to submit 'limited' feedback

The White House has given nine universities—including the University of Arizona—until Oct. 20 to send "limited, targeted" feedback on a "compact" for higher education, agreeing to suppress campus crit...

www.tucsonsentinel.com

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck that motherfucker

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatching Encanto and wondering if Abuela encouraged Pepa and Felix to have another child after Mirabel's gift failed so they wouldn't have to wait for Isa's children to be born and come of age to test the magic again.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

98% of people doing this aren't doing it consciously. They're still doing it, and I'd really like them to knock it off without anyone accusing me of defending the slimy jackass who happens to be MOT.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Really don't like how often Stephan Miller is the only named villain in an administration overflowing with fascists and assholes of all varieties. He's frequently mentioned without Trump. He's the shadowy power behind the throne, pulling all the strings, oh wait this is starting to sound familiar. 🙄

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

This is hazardous - being hogtied like this makes it difficult to breathe, because all your weight and pressure is on your chest, and it’s hard to expand your lungs. I’ve seen people pass out from being hogtied, and without QUICK intervention, bad things happen. Positional asphyxia is real.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1d

Chag Sukkot Sameach, friends.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Me to [redacted]: "I am specifically reminding you not to do [X] until you have done [Y]"
[redacted], 10 minutes later: "I have done [X]." (has not done[Y])

Only so much I can do to keep you from stepping on the clearly sign-posted rake, [redacted].

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

We don't talk enough about anti-brown racism.

It is still framed as "immigration," "activists," "crime" etc, which further entrench the racist framing.

And now we are seeing how that plays out, with pundits crying over a white racist while hardly feeling the brown lives being destroyed every day.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

I'm taking tomorrow off and I have no meetings today, this has not been the most productive Monday ever 😆

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

So to me this seems to indicate this incident might be a brigading scenario.

The alt-right has been trying to get to me for years. They orchestrate attacks on me regularly.

It’s possible the timing was coincidental.

But it still calls into question why a human mod would make this particular error

I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 1d

Like…?

A post by Aaron Rodericks: that second was a mod error and [Erin] has been released with an apology already. Mods make errors continually with hundred mods reviewing tickets in 30 seconds or less.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

I mean if there's a Homo erectus still around and typing in English I know a lot of people who would very much like to know that.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder to self: T&S is imperfect, insanely difficult, and error-prone *at baseline*, let alone when it's under extremely heightened scrutiny, like when a site's CEO is having a very public tantrum.

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