Megan "Weird" Contrails
@weirdcontrails.bsky.social
Late 30's in Seattle, she/her. Works in tech. Mostly PG, occasionally R. 💉 11/07/2025, 🅾️➖
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I'm 36, said "dealio" in a work meeting today. I am now dust. 90's Cheeto dust.
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Y2K is returning as an "aesthetic" and I'm not sure Gen Z know how little they'd enjoy visiting the era. R-slurs, racist slurs, queer slurs, "smear the queer" on playgrounds, severe anorexia as a model behavior, like--
Kids, it's a lost past for a reason.
Kids, it's a lost past for a reason.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Y2K is returning as an "aesthetic" and I'm not sure Gen Z know how little they'd enjoy visiting the era. R-slurs, racist slurs, queer slurs, "smear the queer" on playgrounds, severe anorexia as a model behavior, like--
Kids, it's a lost past for a reason.
Kids, it's a lost past for a reason.
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I know everyone is saying AI is doing this but I think it's the entire economy sucking shit that's doing this and they're just using AI as an excuse.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I know everyone is saying AI is doing this but I think it's the entire economy sucking shit that's doing this and they're just using AI as an excuse.
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man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
You know, even given inflation and price gouging, still tend to feel this way. The demand to incorporate generative AI, though—
I work for a big brand, at least in my industry, but if anything I'm a little under median pay for Seattle. But would I give up relative anonymity, a good team, a steady work pace, AND now deal with "ideas guys" more often for a $30K raise?
Gotta admit, these days? Probably not!
Gotta admit, these days? Probably not!
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
You know, even given inflation and price gouging, still tend to feel this way. The demand to incorporate generative AI, though—
Life lately has all been work, and my industry is small enough it’s probably easy to triangulate who I am based on the release schedule
All I know is I wish I had more time to screw around in fandom
All I know is I wish I had more time to screw around in fandom
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Life lately has all been work, and my industry is small enough it’s probably easy to triangulate who I am based on the release schedule
All I know is I wish I had more time to screw around in fandom
All I know is I wish I had more time to screw around in fandom
Fun thing about cognition post-COVID:
Eventually you recover just enough to accurately grasp all your minority stressors
But still not well enough to deal with it, rationally at least
Eventually you recover just enough to accurately grasp all your minority stressors
But still not well enough to deal with it, rationally at least
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Fun thing about cognition post-COVID:
Eventually you recover just enough to accurately grasp all your minority stressors
But still not well enough to deal with it, rationally at least
Eventually you recover just enough to accurately grasp all your minority stressors
But still not well enough to deal with it, rationally at least
💉 - Saturday’s injection day. Still a little odd to swap out bore needles on the syringes, but estrogen valerate is so damn thick.
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
💉 - Saturday’s injection day. Still a little odd to swap out bore needles on the syringes, but estrogen valerate is so damn thick.
Life update: finally started HRT
Why yes I did psych myself out for 5 years about it
Yeah, see, DON’T do that
Why yes I did psych myself out for 5 years about it
Yeah, see, DON’T do that
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Life update: finally started HRT
Why yes I did psych myself out for 5 years about it
Yeah, see, DON’T do that
Why yes I did psych myself out for 5 years about it
Yeah, see, DON’T do that
Sometimes I take offence on behalf of my past selves. Overheard, “weirdos who’d be werewolves if you’d let them.”
Who among us were not weirdos online at 13? Back off, they’re cool and take on outdoors time, it’s,,, aspirational
Who among us were not weirdos online at 13? Back off, they’re cool and take on outdoors time, it’s,,, aspirational
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Sometimes I take offence on behalf of my past selves. Overheard, “weirdos who’d be werewolves if you’d let them.”
Who among us were not weirdos online at 13? Back off, they’re cool and take on outdoors time, it’s,,, aspirational
Who among us were not weirdos online at 13? Back off, they’re cool and take on outdoors time, it’s,,, aspirational
I’m a grumpy old Millennial, but “actually” and the gang is overplayed.
“It’s actually lowkey fun how this weird cookie recipe is good” — it’s not surprising a cookie with pistachio might be good! Nuts and chocolate go well together! Who are you trying to convince?!
“It’s actually lowkey fun how this weird cookie recipe is good” — it’s not surprising a cookie with pistachio might be good! Nuts and chocolate go well together! Who are you trying to convince?!
September 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I’m a grumpy old Millennial, but “actually” and the gang is overplayed.
“It’s actually lowkey fun how this weird cookie recipe is good” — it’s not surprising a cookie with pistachio might be good! Nuts and chocolate go well together! Who are you trying to convince?!
“It’s actually lowkey fun how this weird cookie recipe is good” — it’s not surprising a cookie with pistachio might be good! Nuts and chocolate go well together! Who are you trying to convince?!
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Well there was a Buzz Lightyear movie that implied lesbians existed so now I hope you understand
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Well there was a Buzz Lightyear movie that implied lesbians existed so now I hope you understand
We’re just Russia with hot dogs now.
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We’re just Russia with hot dogs now.
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T'Pringle
September 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
T'Pringle
Starting S2 of “Wednesday.” On one hand, yeah, she does strike me as queer, and there’s something about things with Enid.
On the other, the core evidence as of S1 comes to, “You’ve made out with, like, two attractive white boys and you’re unimpressed?”
On the other, the core evidence as of S1 comes to, “You’ve made out with, like, two attractive white boys and you’re unimpressed?”
September 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Starting S2 of “Wednesday.” On one hand, yeah, she does strike me as queer, and there’s something about things with Enid.
On the other, the core evidence as of S1 comes to, “You’ve made out with, like, two attractive white boys and you’re unimpressed?”
On the other, the core evidence as of S1 comes to, “You’ve made out with, like, two attractive white boys and you’re unimpressed?”
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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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The knowledge that a prosecutor might well get sacked if they don’t find incriminating evidence in matters deemed politically important by Trump really makes you wonder about the incriminating evidence in ongoing matters deemed politically important by Trump
"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources."
Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources
President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia after he was unable to find evidence of mortgage fraud against NY AG Letitia James, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The knowledge that a prosecutor might well get sacked if they don’t find incriminating evidence in matters deemed politically important by Trump really makes you wonder about the incriminating evidence in ongoing matters deemed politically important by Trump
Been thinking a lot about queer spaces and organizing, in light of everything going on lately
Real talk: Are your ~queer spaces~ actually safe for any large subset of people, or just let Dina “work things out” for the 234th time? And then to what end?
Real talk: Are your ~queer spaces~ actually safe for any large subset of people, or just let Dina “work things out” for the 234th time? And then to what end?
September 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Been thinking a lot about queer spaces and organizing, in light of everything going on lately
Real talk: Are your ~queer spaces~ actually safe for any large subset of people, or just let Dina “work things out” for the 234th time? And then to what end?
Real talk: Are your ~queer spaces~ actually safe for any large subset of people, or just let Dina “work things out” for the 234th time? And then to what end?
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Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
August 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
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CNN's "exclusive" of "new" Trump & Epstein photos was literally just their reporters looking through old materials they had sitting there for 20+ years. The legacy media has been complicit in the cover-up.
The media finding new Trump/Epstein stuff now truly underscores how much they DID NOT LOOK back in 2016, because he was making them money.
Screw the American legacy media.
Screw the American legacy media.
July 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
CNN's "exclusive" of "new" Trump & Epstein photos was literally just their reporters looking through old materials they had sitting there for 20+ years. The legacy media has been complicit in the cover-up.
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really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
I wrote about venture capitalist Shaun Maguire, his accusations that Zohran Mamdani is a "secret Islamist," and his emergence as a leading right wing voice in the tech industry.
www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
The metamorphosis of Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: 'Never back down.'
Shaun Maguire's posts about Zohran Mamdani shocked many. Not the people who know him.
www.businessinsider.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
“Psych ward dumpy is unreal” is one of those forbidden truths
June 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Psych ward dumpy is unreal” is one of those forbidden truths
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Reuters: U.S. JUDGE REINSTATES DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, SAYS FIRING BY TRUMP WAS ILLEGAL
March 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reuters: U.S. JUDGE REINSTATES DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, SAYS FIRING BY TRUMP WAS ILLEGAL