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@whatdivawants.bsky.social
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Muse, Atheist, Eldergoth/Fairy Gothmother, Singer, Writer, Comedy Nerd, & Tiki Enthusiast
Trust the science.
Do no harm, take no shit.
Kindness ≠ Weakness
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What to do? Here's a list.
Screenshot from the article section titled What We Must Do Now 1. Demand a Special Counsel – none of this internal Pentagon “reviews” bullshit; we’ve had enough cover-ups. 2. Demand subpoenas for Hegseth, the chain of command, and every officer involved. 3. Amplify and defend the Democratic veterans’ message about refusing illegal orders. 4. Push for UN/ICC observers if the U.S. stonewalls. 5. Suspend all personnel connected to the order pending independent investigation. 6. Keep this story alive - war crimes are not a 24-hour news cycle.
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"We can't fix it all at once/it won't get fixed in my lifetime, so why even try?"

Ok, doomer.

JFC 🙄 🚫
Post from AaronD12 on Bluesky: We doomers are seeing way more than just one issue. We are seeing systematic issues that aren't going to be resolvable for years, possibly decades. Yes, it's nice to see a light in the darkness sometimes, but until everything is back to "normal" or better, we doomers are still gonna doom. [hashtag]doom
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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My 60th birthday shenanigans next year will kick off at this wonderful #goth #darkwave #industrial fest, followed by a combined birthday/tiki house party in June, then run through various summer events, travel, and end with my 24th consecutive year at #DragonCon

Consider yourself warned 😂
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Getting a lot of use outta this one the past few days 😅
A cartoon titled NEEDY by webcomicname.com An orange character sits atop and partially inside a giant pile of money as a pink character looks on from the ground First panel: orange character says, "I have so much money" Second panel: orange character says, "I have more money than you can possibly imagine" Third panel: orange character leans out of the money pile toward the pink character and says, "I also want you to like me" The pink character responds, "Oh no"
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Paperback cover of Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference.
At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged, the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect people against.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I seem to be an overachiever 😂

theinnocencetest.com
Results of The Innocence Test saying "Devil Child (82), idk what you're doing on the weekends, but all the more power to you. Lucifer would be proud."
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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A cartoon titled NEEDY by webcomicname.com An orange character sits atop and partially inside a giant pile of money as a pink character looks on from the ground First panel: orange character says, "I have so much money" Second panel: orange character says, "I have more money than you can possibly imagine" Third panel: orange character leans out of the money pile toward the pink character and says, "I also want you to like me" The pink character responds, "Oh no"
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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🎶I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world🎵
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Top frame: two yellow hands are holding a map to Dino World, shown as planet Earth Bottom frame: the yellow hands turn out to be a comet wearing an "I heart dinos" hat Nathan Pyle is the artist
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The @camanpour.bsky.social interview with Tilda Swinton is magnificent and, for me, a reminder that grief isn't linear. It can still hit you square in the face, even after 30yrs 💙
A literal screenshot of my TV showing Tilda Swinton during a discussion of grief with the caption "In 1994, I went to 43 funerals." The 90s were still at the height of the AIDS era and I, myself, made it to as many funerals as my job would allow at the time. I wasn't even on the front lines, as so many of my friends were. 💙
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We love Long Drink, the tasty, gin-based seltzer from Finland, and recently found a multi-pack with peach and pineapple options. I happened to have a Colorado peach whiskey on-hand, so voila: a delicious peach seltzer boilermaker 😋

Next time: pineapple with Absolut mango. Cheers! 🥂
On a kitchen counter, from left to right: a can of Long Drink peach, a bottle of Fireside peach whiskey, and a glass with the mixed drink in it 😋
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover of The Golden Age of Wireless by Thomas Dolby
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

🤗
Steve Rogers/Captain America on the left and Mr. Rogers on the right with the caption "The Two Rogers Rule of Humanity: if Steve or Fred wouldn't do it, neither should I
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Two pertinent snippets from the above link
These emails prove there really is a global cabal of the world’s most powerful and wealthy elites, linked to the most repulsive child sex-trafficking operation we know about. No, it doesn’t involve pizzeria basements or blood-drinking rituals — at least as far as we know so far. But these missives do reveal the evil banality of the world’s most rich and famous, whose vast pursuit of money or teenaged blondes or whatever knew no bounds, or, at long last, any sense of decency. The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans. When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Next up: voting with our collective wallets 💵 💳

Eat and shop at small, locally-owned businesses only and USE CASH whenever possible (credit card companies/pay apps are big billionaire biz, too!)

LFGOOOO
We're not asking. We're shutting it down. Mass Blackout November 25th through December 2nd. The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th! We ain't buying it: your wallet, your power. Hold your money - no Target, no Home Depot, and no Amazon due to their support of harmful policies; delete shopping apps; donate to mutual aid; support small businesses. Scan (the QR code) to access the full toolkit, petitions, and resources #WeAintBuyingIt
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Another entry in my ongoing (lifelong, really) series: #thrifting never lets me down on the weirdness.

Alt text contains my impression of the tableau 😅
A shelf showing a row of five inch high, brightly colored ceramic clowns, with a much taller pink one to the far left and a white Easter rabbit behind them all. They're supposed to be jolly and cute, as clowns are wont to do, but each one's lips are painted bright red and tightly pursed closed as if in agony, each being forced to grin by some unknown force. Maybe it's the Easter bunny, with it's red eyes and vacant stare 😂
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Hang on, when did reading become performative?
A black and white photo of Vincent Price reading a small book titled Fright Effects Induced by Injection of Lysergic Acid
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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This is nice. Life is good. Hope y'all are having moments like these - the ones of contentment - semi-regularly. It's important to rest between battles 💜
Two Belgian beers on a bar with taps, a chalkboard, and related decor on the walls behind
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Represent!

Well, ok, mine's blurple, but 50% see purple and 50% see blue 😅
Selfie of goth me at DragonCon in September with mucho cleavage
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#Austin still has the juice, despite Rogan et al - the original punk rock comedy fest going strong 👇🏻
Flyer for JT Haabersat's 10th anniversary Altercation Comedy Festival, in Austin, TX, this Wednesday thru Saturday at Kick Butt Café. Headliners include Neil Hamburger, Ben Roy, a pair of very secret guests too badass to reveal, and ALL my favorites from the fests I've attended over the years, some of whom I've followed around like a comedy Deadhead 😅
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Post a vampire that's not Dracula.
Silent film actress Theda Bara as the original vamp
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful November
A red hot-air balloon with black devil horns and a face which displays a single, sharp fang hanging out of deep, black lips
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Hell yeah! Comfort *and* style! (Pics from the Mrs Roper photo shoot at DragonCon in September)
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I'll be 60.

Can't believe I got this far, but also: spite is a great motivator. I take immense joy in potentially outliving my haters. 🖕🏻
Selfie taken in September 2025
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM