Elizabeth
nightshaderose.bsky.social
Elizabeth
@nightshaderose.bsky.social
—Failing to meet expectations since 1977–
Political refugee from Texas. She/her.
Mostly looking after house and family. Very pointedly avoiding restarting an art business. I just want to make stuff.
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“It is more obvious how to get out of a trunk than it is the back seat of a Tesla after a crash.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
How the Cybertruck's design may have trapped crash survivors in flames - Washington Post
In at least a dozen cases since 2019, people have struggled to access or exit Teslas during life-threatening emergencies, fueling lawsuits alleging the company’s futuristic features have caused injuries and deaths.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Bipolar thread: Ebenezer Scrooge!

• insomniac
• hallucinates 3 ghosts
• goes on a spending spree
• gives gifts to a ton of strangers
• crashes another family’s dinner
• complete 180 on his opinions

I see you, Scrooge
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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My newest creations are these mushroom magnets that I sculpted and painted. Hopefully my family will enjoy them.
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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my baby cousin got me a biography of Lord Byron for Christmas, and the intro is like "through no fault of his own (it was the publisher's fault), the last major Byron biographer could not include any of the gay stuff, BUT I SHALL" thank u 4 ur service, Fiona MacCarthy, very excited to get into it
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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They actually linked to the tags for the 10 most popular ships, so if you write hockey rpf you might want to lock your ao3
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OUT MAGAZINE NO NO NO
December 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions.

Apple doesn't recognise unions.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

The big corporations are not on your side.
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It is the annual Making Of The Soup. If you want to feed some folks sleeping rough, I got me two hundred takeout quart containers. And a metric fuckton of tomatoes. And a Vitamix.

Chip in:
Venmo linda-tirado-3
PayPal [email protected]
Chime $linda-tirado-3

Happy Christmas to every one
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Happy Wintertide from me and all the creatures.
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The overwhelming message of the New Testament is that the deity sends to Hell those who oppress the poor, the orphan, the widow, the imprisoned, the sick, the stranger; those who discriminate and hate; those who use power to make others worse off.
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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I do now
do you ever think about how landlords are just house scalpers?
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today I want to wish my cats a very merry GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY KEYBOARD YOU GOOBER.

Also a very merry GODDAMNIT STOP EATING FUCKING PLASTIC YOU GREMLIN.
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Government services aren't businesses. Delivering mail to citizens is something we pay for.

But if these are businesses, you won't believe how much money the military loses.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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happy holidays pals x
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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These are people trying to help others with food. This era can fuck right off.
“This is Hillsboro, Oregon, in the year 2025. For Shirley and Jasmine, and the people they serve, it’s an era of code names, secretive deliveries, encrypted messages, and concerns about government surveillance.”

From Alejandro Figueroa & @hbarth.bsky.social:
Underground mutual aid group helps feed Hillsboro’s immigrant families in hiding
As federal immigration officers fan out across Oregon cities and suburbs, some immigrant families are opting to stay inside their homes. These Hillsboro neighbors are helping those in hiding by delive...
www.opb.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict,

the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
December 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The creepy Joshua Project is an evangelical group with Pence connections with a huge database of "unreached peoples" "prime for conversion to Christianity." They have tons of language data from missionaries that nobody else has.

Anyway, I stole all of it. Here's one off-putting visualization
Phyllotaxis - Souls
dr.eamer.dev
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful!

it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄

poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Thanks Corey. Also here to support any artists, especially those engaged in science.

Here’s the SciArt Starter Pack, including the popular SciArt Feed🐡.

Let me know if you’d like to be added as a SciArt Feed contributor. (No AI/NFTs).
December 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM