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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 16h

*cis men

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 18h

Lol. Lmao

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine believing this 😅

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

I bite the heads off men after they fuck me

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your user name:

Our original last name had no vowels so we chose a more pronounceable (but still Jewish) one when they let us in here. And that’s my handle because I need to be findable online for professional reasons.

🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 1d

explain your username:

I started going by “Miss Kitty Fantastico” online when I started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a teenager, but that was often too longer for a username on a lot of sites, so I shortened it to “misskittyf.” It’s stuck for nearly 20 years now.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, tell your friends

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

In my liver when I drink to cope with the current events I read on it

Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 1d

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Universities are in deep shit & also ultimately this likely means higher costs for US students.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 2d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so gl

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

BOYCOTT CBS

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Hello from O'Hare where I am the only person amongst hundreds in an N95

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

When I see people in cloth face masks

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a suit .

Alt: Fresh Prince of Bel Air "He a little confused, but he got the spirit"

media.tenor.com

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

If I saw that... Allah be a fence!!!

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Trump called Chicago a warzone then turned it into one.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

👏Bal👏kan👏ize! 👏Bal👏kan👏ize!

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

Thiswildandpreciouslife post:
he said "u up?" but Dostoevsky said,
"...she tortures me, tortures me with her love...in the past it was only that infernal body of hers that tortured me, but now I've taken all her soul into my soul and through her I've become a man."

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

"They're perfect except for ____!" Yeah I got news for you, nobody's perfect so it's not happening

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

Why do people marry people they don't actually like

Dear Abby: My lazy husband’s lack of ambition is wearing thin

If my husband has free time, he’s either napping, playing video games or watching a movie.

www.mlive.com

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Reposted by Meg

Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 3d

The FBI just cut ties with the ADL.

Jonathan Greenblatt’s appeasement of fascists didn’t stop them from coming after the ADL—it empowered them to do even more damage.

Appeasement is death. Resistance is survival.

🎥 Watch & read: onoffense.substack.com/p/why-adl-ca...

Why Won’t the ADL Learn That You Can't Appease Fascists?

The FBI just cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League. Under Jonathan Greenblatt’s leadership, appeasement hasn’t protected the ADL—it’s empowered the fascists attacking it.

onoffense.substack.com

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to start writing on bathroom walls

Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 3d

"i'm going to mastodon" ok yeah and i'm going to threads i guess we're all just saying words now

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

😂

Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

Shoutout to websites that work poorly on your phone because they want you to download their app. Instead I'm navigating away, bye-bye

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 3d

Hackers, SLC Punk, Empire Records. I don't know why, I just haven't!

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 3d

This one? archive.ph/2025.10.05-0...

archive.ph

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a photograph from Friday night of a cop handcuffing a little Black toddler 💔

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 3d

Ok but where are the reparations for everyone whose rent went up, directly AND INDIRECTLY?!?

America's landlords settle claim they used rent-setting algorithms to gouge consumers nationwide for $141 million | Fortune

Greystar, the nation's largest landlord, would pay $50 million under the proposed settlement agreement, with 25 others also settling.

fortune.com

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