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Cantras many other places. Bookish, anxious, autistic, full of anecdotes. Any pronouns. The squirrel was named BooBoo.

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it's really depressing to me that a lot of AI marketing is about devaluing ordinary people's work and life experiences and opinions. it's ok if your steam user review isn't "good writing." it's your personal experience. you don't need to use AI to punch that up. like... at all

17.02.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

not the point, but for the record: the very existence of trans people completely disproves this argument?? if overwhelming social pressure to present as a certain gender could really override intrinsic knowledge of the self... trans people wouldn't exist. yet all through history, there we are

16.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

been a minute since I’ve posted The Manifesto so: trans and disabled rights are human rights, abolish ice and defund the police, free Palestine, fuck antisemitism, give the land and artefacts back, sex work is work, abortion is healthcare, join your union, get your vaccines, corgis are perfect

16.02.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 523    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7

Having to clean the dishwasher food trap sounds like something you'd make up to haze the new guy.

16.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And taking some things out of the pot and putting them... Where, exactly?

16.02.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are plenty of people who lived in precarity growing up and associate that with abject poverty.
But precarity in the 80s and 90s was not as close to starvation and homelessness as it is now.

And means-testing poverty itself is doing fash work for them.

16.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The proliferation of mobile games where your character opens a small business with almost no money and quickly becomes a millionaire is a capitalist tool to devalue labor and promote the myth that low-income workers can easily β€œpull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In this essay I will

16.02.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

Today in alternate universe ponderings, what if politicians were always under oath

16.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Jennifer
@JenYetAgain@beige.party
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM
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Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

16.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11702    πŸ” 2672    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 30

The fact that the response to Hasan saying β€œI’ll vote third party over Gavin Newsom” is to try to harass/shame him into voting for Gavin (implicitly treating Gavin’s candidacy/views as inevitable) instead of saying β€œmaybe we should change to convince him” is everything wrong with electoral politics.

15.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 855    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 6

this is why vote blue no matter who doesn't work btw

16.02.2026 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

fuck modern day seinfeld, give me modern day golden girls. i want blanche to complain about performative men on tinder. i want sophie to ragebait people on twitter. i want dorothy to complain about having to learn about 6 7 from her students. rose get ipad.

15.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I have read this story to my husband today and he says that plastic lines are supposed to have a metal wire with them for purposes of that metal detector/electrifying thinger. Which evidently was not done. So there's a vote against it being a pro job.

15.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My mom: "Yeah, you used to do everything with your left hand, but around kindergarten you mostly stopped."

:|

15.02.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the first post and a half of this thread. The account label tags of "posts a lot" and "she/her" are directly under Madeline's name, with a tag for "Y'all" alone on the next line below, immediately above each skeet.

Screenshot of the first post and a half of this thread. The account label tags of "posts a lot" and "she/her" are directly under Madeline's name, with a tag for "Y'all" alone on the next line below, immediately above each skeet.

The pronoun labeller makes it look like you're addressing these posts to Y'all and that is on theme.

15.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 40980    πŸ” 13864    πŸ’¬ 659    πŸ“Œ 591

British Mandate for ... Totally Empty Land That Became Israel Yay

15.02.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have a curry lentils recipe with "avoid fumes" in it. Maybe next time we are sick we should try the fumes.

15.02.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not typically the β€œburn it all down” sort, but if something can only be saved by looking the other way on crimes like this…it shouldn’t be saved.

15.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Forecast says Fool's Spring ends Friday. Hoping to do outside chores today because other plans got cancelled.

15.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One whole thing with Platner stans is this idea he is the only one who can win and framing it as a Dem vs GOP thing. This is a *primary* his presence has deterred other candidates who ... don't have Nazi tattoos.

15.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 338    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5

Can confirm: My game buying has been dramatically throttled by an inability to cover basic expenses w/o going into debt.

And more besides, it's been shown that on a consistent dollar basis, games cost *less* now than they used to. So the idea that AAA games cost too much seems illogical to start.

15.02.2026 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant si...

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends.

www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

14.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 218    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 33

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

14.02.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1950    πŸ” 486    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 7

If you can remember a world before β€œThe Santa Clause 2,” you can remember the world before DHS. If you can’t, well, imagine you can imagine it.

www.startribune.com/minnesota-im...

14.02.2026 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
An old trading card showing a drawing of the syphilitic, tubercular racist Captain James Cook about to be righteously killed by the people of the island of Hawai'i

An old trading card showing a drawing of the syphilitic, tubercular racist Captain James Cook about to be righteously killed by the people of the island of Hawai'i

Back of trading card, text reads: 
Death of Capt. Cook

Among England's syphilitic, tubercular scumbags wasCapt. James Cook. He voyaged all over the Pacific from tropical islands to the icy shores of Bering Strait spreading death & disease and racist colonialism to the mighty continent of Australia. On Feb. 14, 1779, he visited Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There, on the shore, he was killed while trying to kidnap Kalani'Γ΅pu'u.


MAN'S PAST is stained with BLOOD; His FUTURE can be bright with PROMISE - if in the PRESENT he will wage PEACE. 1950 Bowman Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa., U.S.A.

47- in the Second Series of 36 Wild Man Picture Cards

There's also a logo with stars that says Picture Card Collectors Club

Back of trading card, text reads: Death of Capt. Cook Among England's syphilitic, tubercular scumbags wasCapt. James Cook. He voyaged all over the Pacific from tropical islands to the icy shores of Bering Strait spreading death & disease and racist colonialism to the mighty continent of Australia. On Feb. 14, 1779, he visited Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There, on the shore, he was killed while trying to kidnap Kalani'Γ΅pu'u. MAN'S PAST is stained with BLOOD; His FUTURE can be bright with PROMISE - if in the PRESENT he will wage PEACE. 1950 Bowman Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa., U.S.A. 47- in the Second Series of 36 Wild Man Picture Cards There's also a logo with stars that says Picture Card Collectors Club

Happy Death of Captain Cook day! May all would-be kidnappers be handed their arses! Strength and solidarity to all indigenous peoples standing in their sovereignty against agents of oppressive racist colonialist states!

14.02.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm assembling a team

13.02.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6542    πŸ” 1018    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 9

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

14.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5144    πŸ” 2000    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 19

Oh nooo I wouldn't have even thought to measure that. D:

14.02.2026 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They have a very big good zoo (my preferred place to soak up daylight); a fast-ish food chain called "salad and go" where during breakfast you can get a breakfast burrito, fancy lemonade, and salad-for-later for $12; and citrus trees -- the sense I got was to take fruit freely bc there's SO MUCH.

14.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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