Julie
@splashikins.bsky.social
In no particular order: artist, mom, feral crone, exhausted, death fat, space princess, craft goblin, elder fangirl, bog hag, nerd, all out of fucks
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You read @marisakabas.bsky.social, right?
New — I wrote about Republicans beclowning themselves heading into the midterms with clearly bullshit narratives about James Talarico and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and how the favorable conditions for Dems have produced a noticeable shift to nipping deranged stories in the bud.
Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight
Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
You read @marisakabas.bsky.social, right?
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Stigler doesn’t get you everywhere but it gets you a lot of places a lot of the time
www.jstor.org/stable/3003160
www.jstor.org/stable/3003160
October 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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This is identical to the old complaints that children were getting abortions without parental permission. It's projecting the anxiety of control from fascism and the patriarchal family onto the places where children become individual persons.
the school nurse can't give my kid a Motrin for his headache yet there's a significant amount of Americans convinced school nurses are doing bottom surgery on kids
October 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
This is identical to the old complaints that children were getting abortions without parental permission. It's projecting the anxiety of control from fascism and the patriarchal family onto the places where children become individual persons.
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I'm always baffled by a certain type of liberal Democrat who just openly goes "Muslim voters didn't vote for Kamala because of a specific political stance, and as such I won't vote for a Muslim simply out of spite" and somehow thinks this is justice and not just them being a racist
October 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I'm always baffled by a certain type of liberal Democrat who just openly goes "Muslim voters didn't vote for Kamala because of a specific political stance, and as such I won't vote for a Muslim simply out of spite" and somehow thinks this is justice and not just them being a racist
The kid just sent me a tiktok referencing Regan and asked "What did he do? 😭" Oh boy, kiddo, BUCKLE UP.
October 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The kid just sent me a tiktok referencing Regan and asked "What did he do? 😭" Oh boy, kiddo, BUCKLE UP.
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Daaaaaaaang
Ribbons and pearls 🎀
Ribbons of gas & dust wrap around the pearly centre of the galaxy NGC 1398.
NGC 1398’s spiral arms do not begin at its very middle, but stem from a straight bar instead. How many spiral galaxies share this feature?
Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1801a/
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Ribbons of gas & dust wrap around the pearly centre of the galaxy NGC 1398.
NGC 1398’s spiral arms do not begin at its very middle, but stem from a straight bar instead. How many spiral galaxies share this feature?
Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1801a/
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October 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Daaaaaaaang
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Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
mississippitoday.org
October 7, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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This was the first abortion rights march I ever attended. I made the trip from Montreal to DC to attend: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
People were already saying that Roe was NOT ENOUGH and that it would fall. This was in 1992.
People were already saying that Roe was NOT ENOUGH and that it would fall. This was in 1992.
Abortion rights advocates march on Washington | April 5, 1992 | HISTORY
A march and rally in support of reproductive justice for women draws several hundred thousand people to demonstration...
www.history.com
October 8, 2026 at 11:51 AM
This was the first abortion rights march I ever attended. I made the trip from Montreal to DC to attend: www.history.com/this-day-in-...
People were already saying that Roe was NOT ENOUGH and that it would fall. This was in 1992.
People were already saying that Roe was NOT ENOUGH and that it would fall. This was in 1992.
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This Cornell 7 are the children of Cavanaugh , Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate , streamers , left podcasts made of screaming dudes , and soft bois
Men grown in the crucible of DL republicans and Reddit
We are about to hear some things
Men grown in the crucible of DL republicans and Reddit
We are about to hear some things
October 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
This Cornell 7 are the children of Cavanaugh , Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate , streamers , left podcasts made of screaming dudes , and soft bois
Men grown in the crucible of DL republicans and Reddit
We are about to hear some things
Men grown in the crucible of DL republicans and Reddit
We are about to hear some things
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remarkable thing to admit
October 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
remarkable thing to admit
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"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
October 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
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I hate the dismissive way politics-heads talk about lefties having “purity tests” as an insult. It’s such a sneer.
But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests.
E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why?
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But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests.
E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why?
[cont]
February 26, 2026 at 6:21 AM
I hate the dismissive way politics-heads talk about lefties having “purity tests” as an insult. It’s such a sneer.
But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests.
E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why?
[cont]
But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests.
E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why?
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I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:
September 30, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
September 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
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My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation.
The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
September 30, 2026 at 12:47 PM
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation.
The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.
www.themarginalian.org
September 30, 2026 at 2:24 AM
In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
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“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
September 30, 2026 at 3:02 AM
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7:
www.thecut.com/article/what...
www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
www.thecut.com
September 29, 2026 at 11:11 PM
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7:
www.thecut.com/article/what...
www.thecut.com/article/what...
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Never sell anyone out.
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports.
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
September 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Never sell anyone out.
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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as @joshstein.bsky.social has argued, a good way to make this point would be for the Pope to excommunicate Vance.
Alito too.
Alito too.
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
September 28, 2026 at 12:49 AM
as @joshstein.bsky.social has argued, a good way to make this point would be for the Pope to excommunicate Vance.
Alito too.
Alito too.
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"At Cornell University, it turns out that protesting genocide is a removable offense. But meanwhile, drugging, trafficking, and raping a woman is a writing assignment."
This article is for men. Women already know this.
This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell U for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced criminal charges.
Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...
This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell U for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced criminal charges.
Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...
Cornell University, Systemic Sexual Abuse, and the Men Responsible
Content Warning: This is a post about men, rape, and women
www.qasimrashid.com
September 28, 2026 at 12:42 AM
"At Cornell University, it turns out that protesting genocide is a removable offense. But meanwhile, drugging, trafficking, and raping a woman is a writing assignment."
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Get in, loser. We're going Trekkin'.
September 27, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Get in, loser. We're going Trekkin'.
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think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern”
Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
September 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!