lightlybirdy.bsky.social
Intentional failure to optimize for late stage capitalism. Reads too much, laughs too loud, snarks too often. Puts a bird on it.
Current project: radically giving a shit about other people
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Next stage: backyard habitat improvements and squirrel wars. If you develop a Nemesis Bird, you've gone too far and your chances of recovery are slim.
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Don't let your middle schooler listen to 5-4, people! They'll radicalize on the back catalog! And argue with their social studies teacher about Marbury v. Madison! And then ask for an Antonin Scalia is Dead hoodie for their birthday! Slippery slope!
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Jen Arnall-Culliford's Something New To Learn About covers helical knitting, lace, and cables, while Modern Daily Knitting covers fair isle, brioche, mosaic, sequence knitting, marling, and log cabin in the Field Guide series. Mosaic Knitting Workshop by Ashleigh Wempe also.
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"Savvy" from guys who never stopped venerating Jordan Catalano as the pinnacle of cool, for whom the idea of being a sincere and good-hearted Cher Horowitz captaining Pismo Beach disaster relief is a fate worse than death.
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This listener feels extremely seen by @notalawyer.bsky.social's authentic representation of the "bitching about small irritations as an essential personality trait" community. Let us!
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Shows how wellness grift is a pipeline to fascism - all the necessary ideas about control, authority, and a hierarchy of humans are right there.
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Lynne Olson's Those Angry Days has tons of cites proving the existence of historical reply guys (and gals!). People wrote to Lindbergh and FDR about the isolationist/interventionist debate and they read just like an unmoderated comments section
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As rallying cries go, "keep your head down and hide under a blanket like a puppy during a thunderstorm" is even lamer than usual for Dems
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I've won this one before - this was my prize:
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I'm pitching my lady voice lower in hopes that you will be able to hear my fervent plea for Illuminati Feminist merch
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Took great delight in applying the "look at who the journo's sources are" advice to an article in the NYT today recommending something in my area of professional expertise. Went 4/4 on sources being people whose business is profiting off the thing being recommended. *bball swish*
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The bullet didn't so much miss as lodge directly in the party's hippocampus, destroying the memories of their numerous failures contributing to our present condition
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This is what happens when your entire social circle is indistinguishable demographically from a continuing care community in Scottsdale
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This is the mugshot of a man who has spent at least as many hours curating his gym mirror selfies as he has actually working out. Like, he knows exactly what % of duck lips he can get away with
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*waits for examples of radical reforms brought about by the people asking the powerful very nicely and bringing the good cookies*