Paula Michelle

Paula Michelle

@avidalectrix.bsky.social

(She/her) Coffee addict, book lover, amateur Classicist. Probably listening to a podcast while tackling another pile of laundry.

322 followers1K following327 posts

Wanna atone? Wanna repent? Think maybe you've been on the wrong side of things? Your penance is shutting up forever and getting a real job, and working without fanfare for a better world for *everyone* Anything less is mere performance.

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

"I have a lot of my work over the past decade to repent of. The Nazis used me, and I knew for a long time they were using me, or at least glimpsed it." James Lindsay and longtime collaborator Michael O'Fallon are having a reckoning over Claremont Institute and other "ministries and organizations."

My family is not broken or sick or damaged or anything this heroin-addicted, worm-addled, geared-up nepo baby (who is in desperate need of a therapist) says. Scary nazi shit, but hey, price of eggs, amirite?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK JR: By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures. TRUMP: Maybe it's a shot. (Not hard to see where this is headed ... )

This is unconstitutional and just wrong. Fuck Trump. Fuck MAGA. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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Replying to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.

Just because it's small doesn't mean it can't exploit workers. In fact, the exploitation, I would argue, is slathered in a whole lot of virtue-signaling that it helps the poor widdle entrepreneur just trying to make his dream.

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Too good to be true, but I still stand by what I told my mother--his behavior would be no different if he were an asset.

This story about Trump having been recruited as an agent of the KGB in the 1980s seems pretty unlikely to me. Casual gossip about the identities of assets is not the way things usually work in espionage organizations. I consulted with someone with… 1/2

Alright, American Evangelicals, now is your moment to shine! All those farmers who now are worried about their farms because the money they were promised is axed? Pay out. Those families who need rent help, food help? Pony up. Oh, you're feeling the pain too? Guess it wasn't about charity was it.

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Folks outside the United States - if you want to help the Americans who didn’t vote for this nightmare, please petition your governments to place their most severe sanctions on Elon Musk and all his companies

Making my regular phone calls to my reps this morning, and made one outside my usual roster to register opposition to Rep. Stauber's proposed mining of the Boundary Waters for Cu & Ni. His intern tried to pass me to my regular rep, tried to mansplain which person I should talk to. I replied 1/2

I'm aware who my rep is & have already made that call. But I'm calling Rep. Stauber because my family spends money annually up in his district, so I figured he might want to know I can't be alone who will choose to spend elsewhere. The patronizing tone did nothing to reduce my blood pressure 🤬 2/2

No. I told my own parents that this wasn't a difference in politics but a difference in morals, and if they regret that, then they have some real hard work to do. I'm not going to coddle them. I'll be here if they want to join me later.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

I strongly agree with Leah here 👇

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Remember, Biden kept Guantanamo Bay open/funded. He endured the tools for a concentration camp were maintained & ready for Trump. Fascists always use the implements of liberalism to exact their violence on marginalized people with terrible effect. We must destroy the system that creates these tools.

Weird. Little there that's targeting Evangelicals and wealthy Americans.

Leah Gremlinberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Everything is extremely chaotic but the best info we have so far suggests that Trump’s “stop funding” EO would cover: Medicaid ESSA funds IDEA Snap School meals WIC Head start grants Child care block grants Pell grants Student loans Higher Ed grants Housing vouchers CTE Devastating beyond words.

Social media helps to find like-minded people and friends and support, but it doesn't take the place of real people and therapy. Cope however you can, but please, be aware that your words have power, and under fascism/oligarchy, *everything* matters.

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

If your depression and cynicism are telling you that nothing matters, that’s a sign that you should be talking to a mental health professional instead of the whole world

And all this just makes me wonder why the people complaining loudest about the "loss of masculinity" or something such are often the cruelest anti-trans crusaders. So, is there a gender/spirit that transcends mere biology or not?

Christopher Deutsch@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social

Bouncing off this idea, I've long been fascinated by the idea of "progressive masculinity," as expressed here. I find this particularly striking in punk rock, which might be thought of as, not a crisis within masculinity but a conflict over masculinity.

Must be nice to have a level of wealth that one can do this. This is something we all deserve, not just those who are lucky enough to afford it.

This! What I do know, I have learned through books and life, but I do wish that I had had some of that built into my education. I went to a school that centered the liberal arts, and idolized capitalism, but without practical applications to life, it was just indoctrination.

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Just report and block. Please. There's enough stuff to laugh about without giving malicious disinformation air.

Jennifer L. Pozner@jennpozner.bsky.social

Media and digital literacy are key to disrupting disinformation. --clapping back/arguing just helps to amplify bad faith accounts & false material --don't share "funny" disinfo to dunk on it; some will still believe it --BLOCK, REPORT, and tell others to do same *without* sharing disinfo content

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"The CDC burned all of their credibility during COVID-19! People will never trust them again" ~charlatans who have been attacking the CDC since 2020 and are primarily responsible for people losing trust in the organisation

AI has been dropped into the social stream like cholera, and the longer it's around, the more putrescence grows 🤢🤬 Please, also check your local library. Every system I have ever been a part of has had a free language learning program available through their website.

Japanese Talk@japanesetalk.bsky.social

The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!

Easy. It's not about education, but indenture. It's still uncouth to say out loud that you want labor that will work without giving trouble about such fluff as wages and QOL, so you talk BS about "smarter" employees.

Boricuabc2@boricuabc2.bsky.social

The same people saying that AMericans are not smart enough to work at their tech firms. ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DISMANTLE THE DEPT OF EDUCATION. SQUARE THAT FN CIRCLE