megbrothers.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I just wanted a happy little life. Instead we get dystopia and trauma. I just want to eat fresh bread and drink coffee and live life without the fall of gov't or fear of nuclear disaster. I just want peace and chocolate and for all people to be treated with dignity & respect. And humanity. Not this.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Before having kids, I had no idea I would be in a perpetual state of just trying to keep them alive. From infancy and toddlerhood, to a global pandemic, now to the collapse of democracy, to impending global warming doom. So many years spent just trying so hard to keep them alive.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Same.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is a staggering statistic: The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people. PLEASE vaccinate. Via UNICEF: ...This makes measles around 12 times more contagious than influenza, six times as contagious as Ebola, and twice as contagious as Covid-19 and chickenpox.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been home from my trip for a week and I still can’t stop thinking about the sheer number of Teslas I saw on the roads in California. It was shocking. And I live near Boulder.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I posted on another app yesterday about how it was uncommon to have rain in Colorado in February. That’s all I said. Dumbest post I’ve ever had go viral. People said I was crazy, I got corrected by a meteorologist, & got told to cry harder. Because I said rain in CO was uncommon in February. Fun!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

RFK confirmed as health secretary. Peak insanity. Just so much grief now and ahead.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I keep having a similar feeling in my gut that I had before Covid shut everything down in the US. That same kind of feeling like when we knew it was hitting China hard but we didn’t quite understand it fully yet. Or how it would impact us. February 2025 feels a little like that vibe to me. 🫣

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

6 plane crashes in 23 days of the "making us great" insanity.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Most of us have used Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation & we can thank Gladys West for creating the foundation for GPS. She used her mathematical & programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth. She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame.

submitted 11 days ago • 201 comments

🧡

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I really want someone to just tell me “it’s all going to be ok” in regard to this political and climate crisis we are in. Except I also want to be able to really believe it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

YES! Thank you federal judges.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

California is my favorite place to travel to for a vacation. I love the pacific coast. But coming home to DRY Colorado sucks every time. Feels like turning into a raisin. We went from 86% humidity in CA last night to 13% humidity in our home tonight. Brutal. My throat and sinuses are angry.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Dear @bsky.app Could we please have a save/bookmark function?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I've spent the day talking to many of my white friends & family re: the half time show. I missed it live but saw it today and have been reading many posts about it. I've been sharing lots of information about Kendrick Lamar and posts about the show. Conclusion: we really lack art education & culture

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

So he's clarifying that Musk has presidential privileges. So, he's ALSO the president.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Heart medicine.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes you have to get your Colorado kids to the ocean. It really knits something together in your heart like nothing else can: the sound of the waves, the smell of the salty air, the humidity on your skin. There is breath in our lungs and their laughter in my ears. Today I have everything.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

My parents are dogsitting for us for a few days. Every so often my dad texts me a photo or a little update about if she ate her food or how she’s settling in. It delights my kids. It’s pretty funny to contrast it with the number of updates they send/don’t send when they keep my kids over night. 😆

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I never imagined the amount of anxiety my kids would grow up with in this timeline. On top of therapy + meds, I have one that still loses sleep. (Off & on sleep deprivation going on a yr now for us both) A global pandemic, active shooter drills, and now gestures all of this. Devastating as a mom.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I just read a thread from people around the world voicing clearly that they see exactly what’s going on here in the US and how they feel about it. And I can’t stop thinking about how many of his voters don’t actually understand what’s happening or think it affects them. I’m so damn tired of his base

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

I appreciate social media reminders to pace, take breaks from doom scrolling, and protect peace... It's needed. But today I felt rage. And we have to feel that pendulum, too. Let yourself feel the way this cracks open your heart. Your humanity also needs that. We need the fire and the fight, too.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Moving to dismantle the dept of education, the most opportunistic data breach and intrusion of individuals’ privacy of unprecedented proportions by a compromised billionaire, and RFK advancing his nomination to be HHS secretary is nauseating. What's worse than abhorrent? Odious? More than I can bear

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law. Follow @democracydocket.com for full details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 20 days ago • 487 comments

So. Do we still have to file taxes in a dystopian fascist dictatorship? Or was that just for when it was a democracy? Are there even people employed to receive those now outdated forms? Or give me the money they owe me? Or was that money frozen, too? Asking for a few hundred million people.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to stay grounded and be in action in ways that feel productive and valuable. Resisting the overwhelm hard. Maybe I need a new tattoo. Because yolo or something. How are you?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments