beckylunatic

she/her, queer/non-monogamous/demisexual, white, aging punk, emo trash, social justice worrier; poetry, pop culture and pattern recognition

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

I'm feeling really self-conscious about this, but these are things I've written and published that I can still find online.
https://t.co/evRx15ZzdC

[𝔏𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 @InsaneMistress]

conservatives don’t like tattoos on women because you have to be an adult to get them

[AFAB NB TRADE 👀 @bandagedeunuch]

@que_pasa_punto “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” until shes a trans woman, then its just “male aggression”

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@gains_tweets If the uppers are solid, can you get them re-soled?

[Chelsea Dingman @ChelsDingman]

My new poem in The Los Angeles Review (@LAReview ) today:

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

one of the things that irks me whenever our quarterly "this contemporary good poem is bad, actually" discourse occurs is how almost uniformly ppl criticize that the language sounds everyday, normal (like a text message). and, like, did you know beauty can sound like anything

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@giordkat Why would I ever allow myself to see anything but the Following tab?

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

Egregious.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

ben & jerry (ben cohen & jerry greenfield) tried to boycott their ice cream from being sold in israel, so unilever went behind their back and sold a portion of the company to an israeli licensee against their wishes. israel is selling ben & jerry's through corporate domination

[Life Grips @ptrkbrn]

Put it in a shoebox and give it to a stranger who claims they're in the FBI

[Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪 @polypocketknife]

from No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@StevesLoveTarot Thanks, Steve!

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@bimbotheory I just sourced a relevant Roger Ebert quotation to a movie review "Fandom Menace", but I doubt it's what you were looking for

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

🚨For over a year, I've worked with a small team of researchers to clinically document evidence of the role Big Tech platforms play in encouraging Hindutva Pop music.

We found a total of *523 SONGS*, encouraging violence against Muslims, stoking hate. YouTube, Meta, Apple and Spotify, were all found complicit in not just amplifying but even *funding* these songs. #HPop

For @csohate @raqib_naik

[🔻 @uncle_authority]

crazy how the "counterculture" shifted from Islamophobic anticommunist western chauvinism to Islamophobic anticommunist western chauvinism.

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@giordkat Re: "be brave enough to be kind"
https://t.co/ngaHVFicu4

[Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa]

used to do a specific tweet every night when i went to bed in case i died in my sleep and it was the last thing i got to say (catholic brainworms)

when Kestin died and had it put on his grave it felt important not to let it cheapen, so I stopped so it would still mean something

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@teleteddweets Damn, that's awful

[George Michael @GeorgeMichael]

I HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER APOLOGISE FOR MY SEX LIFE ! GAY SEX IS NATURAL, GAY SEX IS GOOD! NOT EVERYBODY DOES IT, BUT.....HA HA!

[beckylunatic @beckylunatic]

@bimbotheory omg SAME

[Frannyfanny @proud_penelope]

“What we call ‘personality’ is, in many ways, the residue of a child’s best efforts to manage the impact of another’s mind.”