Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll
@eris523.bsky.social
Radical romantic mystic cynical idealist. Minimal expressionist postmodern neosymbolist. Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Cranky old autistic migraineur pretend roboticist.
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Y'all need Spider Jerusalem and it shows.
Text messages I don't get to send every day:
July 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Text messages I don't get to send every day:
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He walked into a shelter to pick a cat. The cat had other plans, climbed right up, and picked him instead.
July 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
He walked into a shelter to pick a cat. The cat had other plans, climbed right up, and picked him instead.
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Struggling to plug my phone in to the charging cable, I scream aloud "Damn it, Sherlock, I am not an alcoholic!"
July 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Struggling to plug my phone in to the charging cable, I scream aloud "Damn it, Sherlock, I am not an alcoholic!"
The Kiddo: Let's watch this video essay together about why Paw Patrol is disgusting copaganda!
Me, twenty minutes in and an hour to go: Have I ever told you about the time I accidentally adopted a wolf who turned out to be a former police dog?†
† (this is a completely true story)
Me, twenty minutes in and an hour to go: Have I ever told you about the time I accidentally adopted a wolf who turned out to be a former police dog?†
† (this is a completely true story)
July 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The Kiddo: Let's watch this video essay together about why Paw Patrol is disgusting copaganda!
Me, twenty minutes in and an hour to go: Have I ever told you about the time I accidentally adopted a wolf who turned out to be a former police dog?†
† (this is a completely true story)
Me, twenty minutes in and an hour to go: Have I ever told you about the time I accidentally adopted a wolf who turned out to be a former police dog?†
† (this is a completely true story)
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Fix This First,Then We Celebrate...
June 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Fix This First,Then We Celebrate...
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The biggest mistake women in America ever made was not burning the country down the day Roe v. Wade was overturned.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America
The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate
qasimrashid.substack.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The biggest mistake women in America ever made was not burning the country down the day Roe v. Wade was overturned.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
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Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices
June 30, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices
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Every time I teach a group of male players about roleplaying safety tools they'll joke about how ridiculous it is that someone could be so traumatised by spiders that they can't handle them being described during a session.
Every time I teach them to female players they say "Sexual violence".
Every time I teach them to female players they say "Sexual violence".
July 1, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Every time I teach a group of male players about roleplaying safety tools they'll joke about how ridiculous it is that someone could be so traumatised by spiders that they can't handle them being described during a session.
Every time I teach them to female players they say "Sexual violence".
Every time I teach them to female players they say "Sexual violence".
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Huge shoutout to my former colleague who, the day after the decision came down in 2010, told me Citizens United was going to be the end of this country. I did not believe you, but you were 100% right.
June 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Huge shoutout to my former colleague who, the day after the decision came down in 2010, told me Citizens United was going to be the end of this country. I did not believe you, but you were 100% right.
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The Venn Diagram of people who are cheering the decision to ban trans girls from playing sports, and people who frequently bullied classmates by yelling "you throw like a girl!" shows a single circle.
June 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The Venn Diagram of people who are cheering the decision to ban trans girls from playing sports, and people who frequently bullied classmates by yelling "you throw like a girl!" shows a single circle.
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I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.
It's unhinged that so many people are digging out Pete Buttigieg's comment about how he didn't want to be gay as a teenager, but that he's glad now that no magic pill exists to make you straight, and twisting it into something completely divorced from what it was like to be a queer kid in that era.
June 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.
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“GET BACK HERE AND LET ME PLAY WITH YOUR PRIMORDIAL POUCH!”
thing I actually just screamed at my cat
thing I actually just screamed at my cat
June 23, 2026 at 12:43 AM
“GET BACK HERE AND LET ME PLAY WITH YOUR PRIMORDIAL POUCH!”
thing I actually just screamed at my cat
thing I actually just screamed at my cat
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just saw a bumper sticker reading
Born to Craft
Forced to Mine
and if that's not capitalism in a nutshell
Born to Craft
Forced to Mine
and if that's not capitalism in a nutshell
June 22, 2026 at 10:44 PM
just saw a bumper sticker reading
Born to Craft
Forced to Mine
and if that's not capitalism in a nutshell
Born to Craft
Forced to Mine
and if that's not capitalism in a nutshell
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com
June 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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If conservatives are so sure being a tradwife is what makes women happiest, then why are they hiding the middle aged tradwife? Why not show young women what their life would look like 20 yrs from now?
Where are they hiding the 47 year old tradwives??
June 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
If conservatives are so sure being a tradwife is what makes women happiest, then why are they hiding the middle aged tradwife? Why not show young women what their life would look like 20 yrs from now?
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This photosynthetic organism is your friend. He fights for freedom.
June 23, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This photosynthetic organism is your friend. He fights for freedom.
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🎉🎉🎉 pretty cool to be part of this.
So you know how the Obama Presidential Center just opened in Chicago on Juneteenth? How it not only has a library but a specific President’s Reading Room featuring books personally chosen by the Obamas?
NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT is one of those books.
@tvayyyy.bsky.social
NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT is one of those books.
@tvayyyy.bsky.social
June 23, 2026 at 1:39 AM
🎉🎉🎉 pretty cool to be part of this.
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Yes yes yes. I'd go a step further and say that in addition to ego and narcissism, sadism - the active joy in hurting people under your power - is a big factor as well.
Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.
Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)
It’s all about them.
nyti.ms
June 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Yes yes yes. I'd go a step further and say that in addition to ego and narcissism, sadism - the active joy in hurting people under your power - is a big factor as well.
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Putting Trump back in the White House will turn out to have literally gotten people killed.
Medicaid and ACA enrollment falls by more than 5 million, new report finds www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Medicaid and ACA enrollment falls by more than 5 million, new report finds
The decline over the last 12 months stems in part from President Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts and the expired enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
www.nbcnews.com
June 23, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Putting Trump back in the White House will turn out to have literally gotten people killed.
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27 years ago today, the Supreme Court decision Olmstead v. L.C guaranteed disabled people the right to live and receive services in their communities. These rights are now under attack, but we will keep fighting.
June 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
27 years ago today, the Supreme Court decision Olmstead v. L.C guaranteed disabled people the right to live and receive services in their communities. These rights are now under attack, but we will keep fighting.
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Something people still don’t grasp—in the US or the UK—is that getting an appropriate wheelchair is not as simple as a doc going “you need a wheelchair, here’s a scrip, go pick it out”.
For one thing, ableism and the bogeyman of “deconditioning” means some doctors would rather you fall.
For one thing, ableism and the bogeyman of “deconditioning” means some doctors would rather you fall.
June 22, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Something people still don’t grasp—in the US or the UK—is that getting an appropriate wheelchair is not as simple as a doc going “you need a wheelchair, here’s a scrip, go pick it out”.
For one thing, ableism and the bogeyman of “deconditioning” means some doctors would rather you fall.
For one thing, ableism and the bogeyman of “deconditioning” means some doctors would rather you fall.
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Being Midwestern and explaining to Europeans that "yeah, when the sky turns green that usually means you have to get inside a basement expeditiously" is always fun
I stole this from the Worldcup subreddit because it makes a very good point.
June 23, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Being Midwestern and explaining to Europeans that "yeah, when the sky turns green that usually means you have to get inside a basement expeditiously" is always fun
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it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in
June 23, 2026 at 1:12 AM
it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in
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All this to say if you decide someone is “faking” needing a wheelchair—
Nobody subjects themselves to this for fun. This is just the bullshit you deal with ACQUIRING it. The everyday frustration and the really egregious behavior when you’re out and about is another level.
Nobody subjects themselves to this for fun. This is just the bullshit you deal with ACQUIRING it. The everyday frustration and the really egregious behavior when you’re out and about is another level.
June 22, 2026 at 11:38 PM
All this to say if you decide someone is “faking” needing a wheelchair—
Nobody subjects themselves to this for fun. This is just the bullshit you deal with ACQUIRING it. The everyday frustration and the really egregious behavior when you’re out and about is another level.
Nobody subjects themselves to this for fun. This is just the bullshit you deal with ACQUIRING it. The everyday frustration and the really egregious behavior when you’re out and about is another level.
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Sometimes disabled people hold back talking about our experiences with ableism because we get called complainers or malingerers or fakers because nondisabled people with no experience have no idea. They genuinely think if you get disabled, it’s sad, but at least you’re taken care of.
June 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Sometimes disabled people hold back talking about our experiences with ableism because we get called complainers or malingerers or fakers because nondisabled people with no experience have no idea. They genuinely think if you get disabled, it’s sad, but at least you’re taken care of.