SamMe (they/xe)

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

Soft launched bi at 30/31? Then told friends and sibling at 34.
Nonbinary at 38, friends and direct family (and some cool cousins) at 38/39, extended family three days ago (who didn't know?) at my cousin's wedding

I'm 42

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

"I'm at work"

All you have to do is look at how many contracts Microsoft has with the federal government to realize that Microsoft aren’t gonna say shit. Cause Trump will just cancel billions of dollars of contracts.

All executives are cowards .

If the Dems were a real opposition party, they'd seize the moment of SNAP being defunded and push to make it universal so that it can never be attacked again.

But no, they enjoy fighting over means testing forever because that guarantees that they can either lose fast or lose slow, but never win.

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Is that Shit My Pants!Barbie getting ragged on by these old ladies?? 🤣🤣

Also one of my cousins is MAGA. Which makes sense about him. Not sure how many others possibly are, but there's definitely one according to sis.

Anyway it was a fun wedding, I looked cute, people were probably jealous because I wore a dress better than them 💅💅💅

I'll get the picture of it soon 3/3

Though apparently two of them asked my sister and especially rude question about herself (one immediately realized she was being rude), and my sister yelled at both of them for that.

My cousins didn't say anything, at least the gen z ones since they probably saw my enby heart pin. They're smart. 2/

Okay it went well? My dad and sister kinda ran interference for me (sis unprompted, dad after brief convo), and while I heard things secondhand, no one directly said anything to me. It was my aunt's too being the issue (I'd been referring them as my dad's sisters in texts with my spouse) 1/

My cousin is getting married today and I'm in my grandmacore outfit for the first time in front of my extended family (dress, cardigan, hat, boots). Wish me luck?

(Also in front of my dad and sister too?)

Two panel comic of a person with glasses looking down at an open book. First panel reads: I think I might be bad at this. In the second panel they are scribbling in the book with a pencil. Text reads: I’m gonna do it anyway

Nothin else for it

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

just looking around at politics everywhere and a HUGE advantage Mamdani has is that he isn't obviously a fucking freak

There is so much cool stuff in this thread to check out, gonna spend so much time reading, watching, and listening to them.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

That's awesome dude, I love the internet and being old.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

*deep breath*

The term Judeo-Christian is somehow both antisemitic and Islamophobic: it reduces Judaism to Christianity's predecessor on the one hand and implies only two Abrahamic religions on the other, when there are (at least) three

Picture of a large mass of people outside of Rep. Fitzpatrick's (PA) for No King's protest

Went out to No King's with my sister and nephew and there are a lot of people here today, so glad to see so many people protesting against this president

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

This was very hard

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Chappell Roan
Ethel Cain
The Beaches
Deafheaven
Calva Louise
Lowen
Tool
Pink Floyd

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad.

most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.