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Spence

@unaspenser.bsky.social

singer, songwriter, storyteller, knitter, lover of whimsy & little joys anti-authoritarian. pro-bodily autonomy. collectivist. self-defense is not violence. tend to the most vulnerable and we tend to everyone. https://www.youtube.com/@unaspensersings

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

they need to hire Newsom's PR team for their fake posts. Whoever they have isn't able to replicate his style.

1/9/2025, 10:16:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he’s forgotten that he’s the president.

1/9/2025, 6:27:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pops (@pops131.bsky.social) reposted

www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u... This isn't going away like the Epstein files.

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31/8/2025, 12:21:17 AM | 681 346 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Because then he has that one person who was nice to him back then, when he was 7, who must be the love of his life. There are no other possibilities for romance!

31/8/2025, 9:54:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Watch Taxi Driver. There's a whole genre of righteous revenge.

31/8/2025, 9:46:24 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

they may also believe that if they help get rid of the "bad ones", they will be more accepted. they don't see it as racism, they see it as purifying.

31/8/2025, 9:30:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

the majority of USian VOTERS, not a majority of USians. Not even close. And its even questionable if they actually got a majority of votes. See cases in NY and PA. Swing states appear to have been tampered with.

31/8/2025, 8:59:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

I thought it was obvious, but studies show.... "if a given ideology is fundamentally about one group’s malevolent domination of other individuals, then we should ask ourselves if this is the type of (uncivil) society we want to live in."

31/8/2025, 8:58:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

I thought it was obvious, but studies show.... "if a given ideology is fundamentally about one group’s malevolent domination of other individuals, then we should ask ourselves if this is the type of (uncivil) society we want to live in."

31/8/2025, 8:55:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

if none will, the courts can deputize someone to do it.

31/8/2025, 4:28:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

he is brilliant at evoking people's fear and giving them authoritarian solutions. they don't care if it's irrational. they rejoice that someone is validating their dark side.

30/8/2025, 11:36:09 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

if you know a gamer, check out the tokens!

30/8/2025, 11:22:18 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

The US continues its long streak as a monster.

30/8/2025, 7:07:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

It's about time that the mainstream media started talking about how the sputum being used as political rhetoric is not normal and we need to stop normalizing it. It's all white racist patriarchal psychopath lingo and it needs to be called out every single time.

30/8/2025, 6:00:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

all those vacations have been how he has trained.

30/8/2025, 5:33:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

this idea that they don't have a choice. is this a conscripted army? they have a choice. they weren't born in a uniform. leave the Guard, if they know its going to be used like this.

30/8/2025, 5:16:25 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

he'd cough out nothing, though

30/8/2025, 4:56:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

they're calling a mulligan on the first go at a civil war.

30/8/2025, 4:53:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

proudly waving his fascist flag. I've noted before that he isn't fighting Trump's fascism, he's fighting to be the fascist leader himself.

29/8/2025, 6:26:04 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

wtf? is the Monty Python administration?

29/8/2025, 6:23:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

But, Palestine Action is still a terrorist organization?

28/8/2025, 9:31:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

@motherjones.com , why is your headline giving credence to the notion that people are "addicted" to anti-depressants? Anti-depressants aren't a cure, so, of course, people need to keep taking them.

28/8/2025, 9:28:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

holy shit

28/8/2025, 9:13:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Admittedly I don’t know about that. But are you using a “not all cops” argument here? Over the entire globe you name one group. That doesn’t negate my point.

28/8/2025, 6:18:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

They don’t care about consumer protection. They’re capitalists.

28/8/2025, 6:14:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

Why aren’t they rounding up all the cis white boys who commit 98% of these atrocities? Solidarity with our trans comrades!

28/8/2025, 6:09:33 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for opting out of the tragedy porn.

28/8/2025, 5:59:27 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

They won’t be arrested because the DC Mayor is collaborating.

28/8/2025, 5:54:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Burning the flag is not a against the law. Executive aren't laws. They are instruction to executive branch employees.

27/8/2025, 10:21:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Piyush Mittal (@piyushmittal.bsky.social) reposted

Please support the veterans’ sit-in at Union Station in Washington DC. Here is a link to the GoFundMe: linktr.ee/Jolly_good_g...

26/8/2025, 6:30:02 PM | 853 326 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

A message from a veteran who is participating in the sit-in at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

26/8/2025, 11:59:46 AM | 881 373 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

spreading the joy that the fascists are trying to suck out of our lives.

27/8/2025, 7:54:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

Everything they say and do suggests a return to the Civil War. Slavery. Subjugation of women. Gathering of Confederate states troups into a federalized national guard.

27/8/2025, 7:47:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

seriously. the denial of imperialism runs deep here.

27/8/2025, 4:52:53 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what the Philadelphia DA was saying, today. That if they come and commit crimes, they are going to be arrested and charged with state crimes.

27/8/2025, 4:52:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

I feel like this isn't news, in that we all knew this was exactly what was happening.

27/8/2025, 3:47:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be exquisite to see Kelce become a stay-at-home dad while Swift keeps touring. Or, he could tag along with any kids in a tiny home bus.

27/8/2025, 3:43:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

maybe the plan is to bankrupt the country via all the lawsuits filed against the feds.

27/8/2025, 3:40:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

so, they're going to issue everyone new SS#'s, right? ;-)

27/8/2025, 3:35:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

capitalism is always more about the product and profit than it is about people or principles. there are no stated ethics in capitalism, other than protection of private property and maximization of profit. (MBA here. I actually studied this stuff and ended up as an anti-capitalist.)

27/8/2025, 3:26:09 AM | 28 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

People need to respect the fact that they don't get a say, when the decisions have no impact on them personally.

27/8/2025, 3:22:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

you need to live in a city before you have the right to make commentary about life in a city. this is akin to all the men who don't even know basic female anatomy, making medical laws about women's bodies. patently patriarchal and absurd.

27/8/2025, 3:22:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

so, maybe the kids are alright.

27/8/2025, 3:19:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

the kids are alright

27/8/2025, 3:19:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

those aren't US military. The US military don't go to other countries and walk the streets preventing crime. Actually, police of any form don't prevent crime. They step in afterward.

27/8/2025, 3:11:59 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in a big blue city. Have raised my daughter here. We're safe. Keep your fascist police state to yourself.

27/8/2025, 3:09:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

our military does not "walk the streets trying to reduce crime" in other countries. ever. what a load of crap.

26/8/2025, 11:51:47 PM | 415 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

we need to see a lot more of this. and it actually happening, that these racist violent kidnappers get arrested. I look forward to it. Don't fucking come to our cities.

26/8/2025, 11:48:53 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Do they have drool bags for all the slobber they're slathering?

26/8/2025, 7:24:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

square dancing. and they'll make it "the national dance."

25/8/2025, 12:04:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

they never should have to begin with. we've never honored a single treaty we've every signed and we've back countless authoritarian regimes, even helping them kill their own people in order to gain control. at home, we never ended slavery. we never codified human rights. we're the global monster.

24/8/2025, 11:58:42 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

omg, that's awesome. and a great way to teach people the linguistics of dialects.

24/8/2025, 8:10:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I have often been asked why I'm not more psychologically damaged than I am, given how much abuse and trauma I've survived. In my head, the answer is, "it was the 'shrooms I did with friends back in the 80s." I felt safe each time and each time was exquisite. The setup is important and can be done.

24/8/2025, 8:01:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

because he doesn't care enough to be bothered at crafting good lies. he just figures that if he says it, enough people will go with it, for it to be a useful thing to say.

24/8/2025, 7:58:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

this is why they think about invading Canada or Greenland: if you start a war, it end with "negotiation", so you get what you want. It's never bad to be the aggressor.

24/8/2025, 7:56:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

Trump's DOJ didn't meet with the victims – they met with the convicted child rapist and trafficker. Ask yourself why. They seriously expect what she says will make you think it absolves Trump from any association with Epstein's and Maxwell's crimes. Ask yourself why.

24/8/2025, 6:38:51 PM | 673 254 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

and ongoing

24/8/2025, 7:34:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

Remember: every lit bit helps. An opportunity for some concrete solidarity.

24/8/2025, 7:30:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

insurance companies should not be controlling what is prescribed to a patient. It should be the sole purview of the attending doctor. In general, insurance should be outlawed. But, the specific case of them overriding doctors is particularly heinous.

24/8/2025, 12:00:15 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

ACAB

23/8/2025, 4:20:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

“Domestic army of red states” Just call it the Confederate Army, already. They are relaunching the Civil War.

23/8/2025, 7:59:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Why, yes, they are illegally pursuing that campaign promise.

23/8/2025, 3:25:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

This cute little seahorse needs a name! #crochet #amigurumi

a crocheted pink seahorse with green mane and fins, propped up on a phone stand. a crocheted pink seahorse with green mane and fins. Propped up next a computer with an upside-down Apple logo in the background.
23/8/2025, 3:13:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

"handling of classified files" that's rich.

22/8/2025, 6:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

fascism.

22/8/2025, 6:37:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I rarely ever sell things that I make. Also, I’m a beginner crocheter and these take longer than they would with an experienced crocheter. Let me think about it. DM if you’re really interested.

20/8/2025, 9:21:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

Meet Ingrid Frergman. Survivor of inter-generational trauma. Her birth mother didn't raise her. The mother who raised her wasn't a frog, so she didn't always get the assignment right. Ingrid may feel a bit like a misfit, but she always felt loved. (a knitter trying crochet) #crochet #amigurumi

crocheted frog amigurumi - green with white belly, black eyes and a black mouth formed into a smile. Sitting on a brown table.
20/8/2025, 7:01:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

the us marshalls link goes nowhere

20/8/2025, 6:10:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Gifty (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) reposted

Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.

20/8/2025, 12:44:48 PM | 3941 1412 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

the inimitable. she's so much more than a voice, which is more than enough in and of itself.

20/8/2025, 6:00:21 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I wrote a hat pattern that I use for teaching. Will figure out how to share, if you'd like. A simple hat is a great project to take with you anywhere. Once you know how to do it, you can make one in a few hours, without a pattern.

20/8/2025, 6:25:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

also, a tip from someone who owned a yarn store and has taught knitting for 30+ years: don't start with a scarf. takes a long time, teaches very few skills. a large percentage of beginners don't finish and don't continue knitting. A simple hat gives you a solid set of basic skills and is quicker.

20/8/2025, 6:25:42 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

studies have shown knitting a most therapeutic crafts. something about using both hands, asynchronously. and having the needle points cross in your view rhythmically, iirc. I knit & crochet. not sure why some say its easier to pick one back up than the other. I don't have an issue with either.

20/8/2025, 6:17:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

thank you!

20/8/2025, 6:11:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

that's adorable! do you have a pattern?

20/8/2025, 6:00:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

why did they even return to TX? Shouldn't they have stayed away until it was too late for the gerrymandering to happen in time for the midterms?

20/8/2025, 12:26:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

"some" of the files. gotta wonder who's curating what is release and what the criteria are.

20/8/2025, 12:24:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

performative trial balloon for civil war

19/8/2025, 11:59:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

so, I guess they didn't "redouble their efforts"....

19/8/2025, 11:52:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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19/8/2025, 8:31:09 PM | 16318 7278 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

we thought all those dystopian stories were meant to be cautionary tales, when, in fact, they're "how to generate dystopia" guidebooks

19/8/2025, 11:37:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

this. why would they ever sign that? and why would they abandon their comrade? it amounts to collaboration.

19/8/2025, 5:11:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michelle (@michelleroy78.bsky.social) reposted

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19/8/2025, 4:36:57 PM | 6 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not upset. I'm confused. Wondering if there is a purpose. Seems like a waste of resources, if there isn't. But, no skin off my nose.

19/8/2025, 12:50:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

One solution to the demand that Ukraine not join NATO is for the European nations to create a new alliance org, which does not include the US, but does include #Ukraine.

18/8/2025, 9:50:54 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

who would ever trust the US? Ukraine already had a supposed guarantee, when the US convinced them to give up nuclear weapons. Has there ever been a treaty or agreement that US has NOT breached?

18/8/2025, 8:59:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

being called a loser by him is a badge of honor that every journalist can aspire to.

18/8/2025, 8:49:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

are these even edible? what's the point, if not?

18/8/2025, 8:43:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Um, the USA was built on genocide. It has been supporting the Zionist genocide of Palestinians since the inception of the Israeli state.

18/8/2025, 8:42:14 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 6:10:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

wtf is he talking about?

18/8/2025, 3:20:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

but, Trump doesn't represent Ukraine and it's people. They've fought against an invasion for years. And Russian is paying a huge price. They'll just keep fighting. There is no way they'll agree to give up their land.

18/8/2025, 3:12:53 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

I have noted that 10 years ago, when I would say I was anti-capitalist, people scoffed. Now, people engage. I feel the shift.

18/8/2025, 2:59:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

That's exactly the point of Newsom's tweets.

18/8/2025, 2:58:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

The Ukrainians might have something say about that.

18/8/2025, 2:57:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

also, codify rent as earning equity in the building. rent is just subsidizing ownership. if someone can't afford a building without renters, then the renters are buying the building.

18/8/2025, 2:51:21 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

Further proof that they're all in the same party.

18/8/2025, 2:47:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

also, there is no way Ukraine will accept this. They've fought all these years to keep their land. They'll keep fighting. Peace happens when Putin ends the invasion. Period.

18/8/2025, 2:46:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social)

squeezing the knee to get the foot to tap. and the dog at the end. exquisite.

18/8/2025, 2:44:38 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Spence (@unaspenser.bsky.social) reply parent

but, also, remember when the Nazis were the bad guys? they were seen as so evil that the evil alien in the mountain seemed good in comparison. what a concept!

18/8/2025, 2:32:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view