CJ

CJ

@hookedbycj.bsky.social

She/Her 💁🏻‍♀️ Maker 🧶 Artist 🎨 Writer ✒️ Loud Mouth 📣 “[You're] kinda a bitch sometimes.” - someone on my MySpace in 2005 https://linktr.ee/hookedbycj

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Stop trying to put every situation and everyone into neat little boxes. It will never lead to progress. A little graphic I made a while back. Even more relevant now. #tyranny

#Reddit is pulling an X and forcing people to download the app instead of using the site on a browser. So, yeah it’s time for this version of the Internet to die. In the meantime, I think I’ll start pirating everything again just cuz FUCK CAPITALISM.

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AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Okay this is a really stupid hang up that isn’t important at all… but I can’t get over the non-rhyme of “the people united will never be defeated” when “divided” WAS RIGHT THERE. Yes, yes, yes it changes the meaning, but it trips my brain up everytime and I don’t like it! Anyway, go #vote!

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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the US Postal Service can't be sued for intentionally withholding and not delivering a person's mail, for any reason! So, if the USPS just decides not to deliver your absentee ballot because you're a suspected democrat, you have no recourse.

"[...] We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers. We will do radio astronomy. We will found companies. We will bolster industry. We will inspire, but ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other." - Mission Specialist Christina Koch

This is a great read. It made me think, not just about rattlesnakes & their place in Texas folklore vs. the reality of them, but about how Texas in general seems to just attract tall tales that often completely obscure the reality of this land and its people. Great writing, @asherelbein.bsky.social

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org

Our top story: Increasingly, the folkloric entity and the living animal have little in common. What, then, are these snakes? And what does their legendary rattle truly mean?

Anyone know if any org is compiling a list with the names of those killed in #IranWar since 2/28? Especially names of the 160+ students and staff killed in the airstrike on #Minab? Putting names, & if possible, photos to these numbers is essential, I think. We do it for our service members killed—

—as we should and it’s the least we can do for these lost lives. But I also understand that there could he privacy, security, or cultural concerns that keep such a list from being compiled. My DMs are open if you’d rather not post a response publicly.

DRAIN THEM DRY.

Ryan Nobles@ryanobles.bsky.social

BREAKING: NBC News Projects the Texas Senate GOP Primary will advance to a runoff featuring incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A message to my fellow TX Dems post primary: CUT THE IN FIGHTING. It’s time to hold the line and pull hard for our nom. Do not let the mirage of moral perfection steal this opportunity from us again.

He was never gonna survive Mamdani’s sheer amount of charisma. Trump cannot resist the lure of a handsome charismatic man. It’s his Achilles heel. That is the face of a man who is head over heels in love. 😭😭😭

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It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Remember how Abbott redrew four congressional districts in Texas to make them predominantly Hispanic?

Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social

No one has figured out the exact scale of the Hispanic vote collapse yet, but I tried to get my arms around it. Read the rest here: www.thebulwark.com/p/2025-elect...

Donated what I would have spent on #spotify in November to the Houston Food Bank. SNAP is getting shut off tomorrow. Consider donating and/or volunteering at your local #FoodBank - they will need funds and hands. #CancelSpotify

Man, if I were Iceland I’d immediately demand reparations for this from China, the U.S., India, the EU, & Russia (at the very least) and consider starting a generational blood feud with all of ‘em. And as a South Texan, they have my full support. Let me know if y’all need some citronella candles…

npr.orgIceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warmsThe discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

Demanding perfection and moral purity from everyone in the movement is asking for the death of the movement. Keep the boycott up no matter how that looks for you.

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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

huffpost.comA 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

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Thou shalt not claim to be a champion of free speech out of one side of your mouth whilst crushing free speech out the other.

Still processing all my very complex and very nuanced thoughts over the past 24 hours or so, but I think these words capture some of what I’m thinking about: