Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
Met up w an old college friend
Aging hippie chick, trans, leftist with only a sliver of hope for a peaceful way out of this. ☮️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Pronouns: she/her Endearments/Emphatics: Girl/babe/bitch HRT: November 2024 Name & gender order: August 2025 Warning: I cuss, drink, and smoke pot
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Met up w an old college friend
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
Even after miles of hiking, still plenty of excitement left in her
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
The gf and I took the baby up to Donner Summit and Truckee for an outing
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
And by the time he got there his personal space had doubled, yes
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
your write, of coarse
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
@ctxplz.bsky.social
Sophie Molly (@sophiemolly.co.uk) reposted
One for you to report on @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social Please share to expose him.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Same, girl. It was a very unpleasant awakening.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Uuuuugh
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you mean 2024? Because if so, ME TOO
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is this never the party I'm at?
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
W!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I would have thought bodice-ripper was from the 70s!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
We had one in the family for quite a while, until he did the therapy and got better.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
And now we have all the rest of the "vote blue no matter who" people telling both groups of people that they have to put the good of everyone else ahead of their own, and vote for whatever Democrat gets nominated. I'm through encouraging the Democrats to move their tent to the right. (4/4) -30-
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
The straw that finally broke my back was having all the party spokespeople talking about how the Democrats lost because they supported identity politics, and specifically blaming the loss on Muslims and trans people. (3/4)
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I even voted for her after the DNC made sure that everybody knew that Republicans were far more welcome on the platform than anyone from my community. None of that caused me to vote third-party, and in fact I railed against friends who said they were going to vote third-party. (2/4)
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
I did. I didn't feel great about it, particularly after she told the people protesting a genocide to shut up and sit down until after she got elected, after which time she would continue to support the genocide. (Short 🧵)
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Good grief, what an absolute loser
Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) reposted
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
moby dickgirl 🏳️⚧️ (@epistemophagy.bsky.social) reposted
The implication in aggressively foregrounding "biological" as a term of distinction of gender is that trans people aren't biological, and thus, implicitly, are not human
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Had + sappy = heaven
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Grieve, and remember. We let the grief mellow and try to keep the memories fresh and bright ❤️🩹
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe inside Good Vibrations?
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
✊🏼
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣🤣🤣
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
They obviously need to just keep moving that tent further to the right
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I would go to this film festival based on those two choices alone
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
ICE agents “don't deserve to be hunted online by activists using AI,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). Well, sure. But we're not allowed to hunt them offline. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you remember that for many years they were continuing to use tallow while promising that they were not? My two vegan friends were fucking furious.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
NOBODY over the age of 5 wants this. This is freaking dystopian.
Mx. Saturn (@quattrobajeena.com) reposted
so I guess I'm goin down to New Mexico for my next vax if i can't get an Rx. fuck Colorado
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
What the what?
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Quite.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
@oliviajulianna.bsky.social has not once seen fit to even mention trans people. The DNC and its shills have made their lack of concern for our welfare abundantly clear.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
"Just so we're clear" @oliviajulianna.bsky.social glossed over the fact that the Texas Republicans spent the session passing segregation laws for transgender people.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not great that @oliviajulianna.bsky.social kinda glossed right over that.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
By the time I got my paperwork everything was closed for the holiday weekend so it'll be a bit longer for me. That had been my intention, to go straight from there to Social Security and then to DMV
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
It's amazing how much the pattern on the fly looks like the digital camo pattern in modern camouflage uniforms
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
😍
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!!!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
No, indeed.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
"One size fits none", as my gf says
Gail Carriger (@gailcarriger.bsky.social) reposted
The Book That Changed My Life gailcarriger.com/2013/09/27/t...
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh do you not subscribe to any of the block lists? Like a very British bigotry and so on?
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope. They may be blocked by one of your block lists that I don't have, but I can still go to their page and see their shitty content
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but this face-eating panther tried to eat our face instead of someone else's face!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
It's on the other hand! I'm sorry, I'll see myself out
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah! Tall grass is a fire hazard around here and the neighbors would be sure to have something to say to me. And I've decided that I can share the rest of my plants with them
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
Screenshot for the inevitable block. Telling someone that they can vote for their own epistemicide or they can go ahead and die with everybody else sure is a common sentiment these days.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
If you won't vote for Mussolini, it's your fault that you get Hitler! And they say it with such absolute sincerity
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Buck, naturally!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
It's wild, but I think there might be something to this theory.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Mating season for these guys isn't until sometime in November or December!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the only place I go that still plays music is Trader Joe's, and their library must be huge
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Accurate!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
tf?? That is obviously a shitty decal on the back of a truck whose owner definitely put trucknutz on the hitch.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes it's great when I get to talk to them often enough that they no longer run out of the yard when I go out to empty the garbage
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I love it so much
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
The intern knows that his apprenticeship is about to be up :(
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I love pop songs and that one is just awful. So awful.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
The same playlist? Every day? I'm almost positive that violates the Geneva Accords!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
😍😍😍😍😍😍
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh that's a beefy boy!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Great shot!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
😊
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the ones in my neighborhood are spoiled! I never see them eating grass, only decorative plants that we would really prefer that they did not! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Or getting rid of a crappy Halloween costume that never fit
Jamie Delaney L. 🏳️⚧️ (@ljamied.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
All people come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures including trans women. They’re all capable of beauty, because beauty is mostly attitude. That light shines from inside and it starts with self-acceptance.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely gorgeous shot
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, my as-yet-theoretical grandkids are in for a shitty time. (the article is saying 50 years between collapse and the impact)
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah more then once a deer and I have given each other mutual heart attacks by surprising one another
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you! 😊
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Rofl
Typhaneyb 📚aka sourdoughriot (@typhaneyb.bsky.social) reposted
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” — Oscar Wilde
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Whereas my labrador looks at the deer and the turkeys and anything else in the yard, and you can see her shrug.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, my sister-in-law lost control of her little dog and it ran and tried to attack one of the bucks. The dog lived, but there was quite the vet bill
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol, no. There's no hunting near here. Hence all the animals.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Than youuuuuuu!!!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
No notes
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I have to start planning out what I'm going to wear to the biggest block party of all time
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Well played
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
DON'T YOU PLAY WITH MY HEART
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Bonus annoyance: Following the pattern of "gay people" -> "the gays", "the trans" implies we are "tran people". We should be The Transes, which is so painfully awkward to say I would allow it as self-punishing.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
TRULY!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, if that happened inside the chamber it was a very bad day for the person holding it, and possibly for people nearby
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
@ctxplz.bsky.social
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!! 😊🥰
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
My brother is the gun fan in the family and he said you might possibly get something like that if somebody tried to use that 45 round in a zip gun or 3D printed gun and something went very badly wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!!
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the amazing thing is that the same brain dead bigots loved to talk about how if you put all the gay (or trans) people on an island there wouldn't be any babies. And yet somehow at the same time they talk about queer people over running the country.
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
What has two thumbs and certified copies of her name-change court orders, freshly signed by the judge? 🥳🎉🎊🎈
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
Sure glad Gavin gave Charlie Kirk a platform. It's important to hear cutting-edge theory like "We will outbreed them".
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social)
ACAB. (Which, btw, I had to explain to a 63 year old Bay Area resident, recently.)
Mari 🏳️⚧️ (@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social) reply parent
If I remember right, Shatner and Nimoy said that it was also an excellent Star Trek movie!