Megan Waples
@meganwaples.bsky.social
Lawyer | Writer | Cat Lover
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Get my book: https://titles.cognella.com/rape-and-the-law-9781516536191
All activity on this account is in my personal capacity and all opinions are my own.
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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As the picture of what happened yesterday comes into focus, I think the proper analogy is a country bombing us, whisking Trump and Melania away for trial elsewhere, declaring that the Democrats have no hope of governing, and leaving Vance in charge as the guy they believe they can work with.
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
As the picture of what happened yesterday comes into focus, I think the proper analogy is a country bombing us, whisking Trump and Melania away for trial elsewhere, declaring that the Democrats have no hope of governing, and leaving Vance in charge as the guy they believe they can work with.
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TV news was never exactly great, but the day we decided that "the news" meant "people arguing about the news" instead of "reporters producing stories about the news," I lost all interest in ever consuming it again.
December 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
TV news was never exactly great, but the day we decided that "the news" meant "people arguing about the news" instead of "reporters producing stories about the news," I lost all interest in ever consuming it again.
Since I live in an area with good abortion access, I like to try to help people living in other parts of the country have access too.
Today I gave to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, for people in the southern US who need abortion care. If you are able, let’s see if we can help meet their goal.
Today I gave to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, for people in the southern US who need abortion care. If you are able, let’s see if we can help meet their goal.
We are behind schedule for hitting our end of year goal, making it very likely that we’ll be starting 2026 off with a closed intake line.
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
Palmetto State Abortion Fund: End-of-Year Fundraiser | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
Give for freedom. Give for care. Give before December 31st.2025 tested us — and our community showed up.Because of people like you, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund helped more than 1,500 Southerners ...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Since I live in an area with good abortion access, I like to try to help people living in other parts of the country have access too.
Today I gave to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, for people in the southern US who need abortion care. If you are able, let’s see if we can help meet their goal.
Today I gave to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, for people in the southern US who need abortion care. If you are able, let’s see if we can help meet their goal.
Fuzziest beans EVER
December 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Fuzziest beans EVER
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I did the same in Jan 2025 with some comrades from @nycplan.org - we distributed a bunch of kits to local public libraries. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do this in 2026 but I will make some myself as per usual to hand out to people I see on the streets.
Got a group of friends together to make winter kits for #Warm4Holidays2024 (but in early 2025, lol) and distributed them to a local library.
This initiative was started by @prisonculture.bsky.social:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This initiative was started by @prisonculture.bsky.social:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Warm4Holidays2024
#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I did the same in Jan 2025 with some comrades from @nycplan.org - we distributed a bunch of kits to local public libraries. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do this in 2026 but I will make some myself as per usual to hand out to people I see on the streets.
I made this for the family today (with the pecans and just a touch of whiskey, cause that’s what I was drinking) and it was a huge hit. Thanks @violanorth.bsky.social for sharing it!
It's this, but I swapped the pecans for almonds and the brandy for rum.
cranberry pecan frangipane tart
I am the first to admit that I do not create nearly enough of my *own* recipes. Oh, I tweak, I adapt. I skip some things and add others. But I don’t often enough decide that I want something …
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December 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I made this for the family today (with the pecans and just a touch of whiskey, cause that’s what I was drinking) and it was a huge hit. Thanks @violanorth.bsky.social for sharing it!
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had a fascinating exchange about immigration with an Englishman who seemed rather taken aback that my response to "so you don't think England should be able to maintain its own borders" was "correct", when you spend half a millennium not respecting anyone else's border you don't get to have one
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
had a fascinating exchange about immigration with an Englishman who seemed rather taken aback that my response to "so you don't think England should be able to maintain its own borders" was "correct", when you spend half a millennium not respecting anyone else's border you don't get to have one
This little guy had an ultrasound about a month ago, and there is something so tender watching the fur grow back in on his sweet belly.
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This little guy had an ultrasound about a month ago, and there is something so tender watching the fur grow back in on his sweet belly.
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A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.
This really is lovely - we just saw the movie on the big screen this afternoon and were all moved to tears by it (as we always are). This essay on Mary really adds a nice nuance to Mary’s part of the story.
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This really is lovely - we just saw the movie on the big screen this afternoon and were all moved to tears by it (as we always are). This essay on Mary really adds a nice nuance to Mary’s part of the story.
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oh we're really gonna Streisand Effect this, aren't we?
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
oh we're really gonna Streisand Effect this, aren't we?
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”
Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”
None of the hand wringing has ever been about protecting victims and survivors. We have only ever been pawns in their playbooks.
I thought the purpose of the redactions was supposed to be to protect the victims. So why are the adult men's faces covered rather than those of the young girls? 🤔
December 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
None of the hand wringing has ever been about protecting victims and survivors. We have only ever been pawns in their playbooks.
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Here's a link to the collection, if you're interested. There are also some really beautiful necklaces by a Ukrainian jewelry maker made from Russian shrapnel, although the pieces are a bit more expensive, as they're more intricate.
article22.com/collections/...?
article22.com/collections/...?
SHARDS
ARTICLE22 jewelry transforms weapons into symbols of love. Each piece of history is handmade by artisans in Laos from Vietnam War shrapnel and other scrap and is finished with precious materials that ...
article22.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Here's a link to the collection, if you're interested. There are also some really beautiful necklaces by a Ukrainian jewelry maker made from Russian shrapnel, although the pieces are a bit more expensive, as they're more intricate.
article22.com/collections/...?
article22.com/collections/...?
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Article 22 is a jewelry company that repurposes Vietnam War shrapnel and battlefield debris. A portion of their profits goes to the Mine Advisory Group, which works to remove landmines still left in Laos (they've removed more than 300k mines!). I like the company's "Shard" necklace collection.
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Article 22 is a jewelry company that repurposes Vietnam War shrapnel and battlefield debris. A portion of their profits goes to the Mine Advisory Group, which works to remove landmines still left in Laos (they've removed more than 300k mines!). I like the company's "Shard" necklace collection.
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I love his attitude to being asked if it’s mean not to airbrush Karoline Leavett’s face
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I love his attitude to being asked if it’s mean not to airbrush Karoline Leavett’s face
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America, you do not like home break-ins. But what if selling stolen goods is the way to restart the retail industry?
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
America, you do not like home break-ins. But what if selling stolen goods is the way to restart the retail industry?
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
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The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The trend precedes this but in the 90s when every sitcom started depicting marriage as a relationship between a hypercompetent, long-suffering, overburdened woman and the overgrown manchild whose antics she has to sighingly indulge … that probably wasn’t great.
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able.
As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important.
Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.
As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important.
Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able.
As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important.
Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.
As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important.
Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.