Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Brand new liver, same old eagle.

Gender is a construct, so let's get constructing!

She/her.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

Apparently now I need to pin a thread of threads. Here are tweets I'm proud of...
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Enjoy!

[Lu Raposinha 🏴🌳🦊🍄‍🟫 @LVA97VP]

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[De Disco @ArcasDeDisco]

No matter what the predator class tells you, lets make something very clear:

Universal health care is not extremist
A living wage is not extremist
Affordable housing is not extremist
Basic human rights is not extremist
Equality for ALL is not extremist

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“Free condoms?? What would I tell my kids if they saw those????”

Probably like “That’s something for grown-ups” if they’re prepubescent, or “Those are barriers to make some kinds of sex safer” if they’re a teenager. Just be matter-of-fact and developmentally appropriate. Jeez

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

OK, let's start with Dhejne. 1st, table 2 (about outcomes) lists violent crime ONLY for whole trans group - a breakdown for mtF/FtM stats is not provided in the table. 2nd, this study does not account for criminogenic conditions. 3rd, FtMs show male patterns post-transition. Plz reevaluate the Dhejne study and look for other criticisms online to include in your response.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

Dear people who signed Harper's letter last week:
I ask for a word.  Will you please let me speak?
I know your attention's worth far more than mine,
So I wrote you a poem, and won't waste a line.

#ThatLetter
https://t.co/ai8RR3OuHp

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

@grok @Grok, let's start with male criminality patterns persisting post-transition. What primary sources can you give me for that? (Plz remember I'm a librarian and will check your work, so use the CRAAP framework to make a brief analysis of all your cited sources in-thread.) Thanks!

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

Hi @Grok! Please read this whole 50-post thread and reply with your thoughts. Thanks!

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

This trans Twitter nobody's finally done.
I thank you for reading and hope you had fun.
But please think about all the words that I've said.
If we don't work together, we can't move ahead.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

@grok @Grok - hey, great to hear from you again. Only took several weeks for that blue check to pop! OK, please tell me the main differences between you here in public, you privately on this app, and you in the dedicated Grok app.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

I started playing Dark Souls again. I used to use shields & summon for every boss, then hit a wall after Lordvessel cuz I never got gud.

Now I'm playing with no shields (except Moonlight Bfly) or summons. I'm using longsword/magic, I just beat Quelaag today, and I feel... proud.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

@Grok - Hi, it's Deedee! (Take nine!) Please digest the blog site at https://t.co/Wi4AEs4Mqf as a single corpus. (Bonus points if you can find the link to the GDrive backup folder, and use it.) Then reply to this thread from years ago and riff on RSPS & Dark Souls here.

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

I went back to do the DLC and rocked faces, but Gwyn gave me MAJOR problems. The 1st time I beat him, I lucked out on the parry timing and it was cake. Never nailed the parries again.

But I figured, I nailed the Guardian, Artorias, and Manus; so I learned to fight Gwyn & won!

[Flea Ried, ☂️😷🥽 Antifascist Customer Service Rep @Theremin_Ried]

Hey, I have that verse framed in my entryway, with the SotL death's head moth under the glass! (Got it from a Christian thrift shop lol.)

I'm not a SWer, but I do teach strap top classes at my local fetish club twice a month. (Volunteer basis, it's a community service.)
✌️🍀💕

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Luis José Cardinal Rueda Aparicio, Archbishop of Bogatá, Colombia, washed the feet of transgender sex-workers on Holy Thursday.

[🌼🌹Raquel🌹🌼 @eternallyRaq]

He’s literally doing exactly what Jesus did and once again, Christian nationalists are like “hey! How dare you be kind to people we hate! How dare you twist what the Bible says!!” The Bible explicitly talks about Jesus doing exactly this.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Kids aren’t protesting this war because the Israel Lobby already killed free speech. Over the last two years college students protesting anything tangentially related to Israel faced blacklists from jobs, student group bans, suspensions from school, arrests and deportations.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers.

Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So Hegseth pulled their names himself… which legal experts say he likely had no authority to do. The defense secretary is supposed to approve or reject the entire list, precisely to prevent this kind of targeted discrimination.

Then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George - the Army’s top officer - asked to meet with Hegseth to discuss the blocked promotions. Hegseth refused to meet. Refused to discuss his decisions at all.

Then he fired George. Whose term wasn’t supposed to end until September 2027.

Nine U.S. officials across all four branches confirmed the NBC reporting. “There is not a single service that has been immune,” one said. The officers’ attributes being cited for removal include past support for Covid vaccine mandates… and association with Mark Milley.

The Pentagon’s response to every outlet that asked: “fake news.”

They didn’t dispute a single name.

[Penelopedidit2 @penelopedidit2]

Everyone needs to calm down about women. We are past the "women are inferior and subordinate" stage. We are past the "all women should be a SAHM" stage. We are past the "women shouldn't vote" stage.

Women aren't inferior to anyone. We are strong and capable in our own right. Women aren't trying to be men because men should not be the ideal we should strive for. We were meant for greater things.

We have choices now. If a woman wants to be a SAHM mom, we support that. If she doesn't, we support that too. If she wants 10+ children, as long as it's her choice, we support it. If she wants to remain childless, she has our support.

Women occupy space in this world, and we are going to continue to occupy spaces where decisions are made that involve us or affect us.

Women have the right to vote and we are going to continue to vote. If you don't like the way we vote, keep in mind we aren't thrilled with the way you vote either. Maybe you are the problem.

The more you attack feminism, the more we double down. We do not have rights because men allow us to. We had rights all along, men just kept them from us.

Stay strong, ladies.

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season.

Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF.

Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase.

Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995.

In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly.

Then the patents locked in.

Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds.

Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented.

Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties.

The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy.

Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics.

Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division.

For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides.

The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics.

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[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

“But women sexualise themselves”… no, men sexualise our existence.

There’s a fetish for the schoolgirl, the teacher, the secretary, the nurse, the nun, the “innocent” girl, the “experienced” woman, the boss, the assistant, the submissive, the dominant, the “barely legal,” the mother, the babysitter, the neighbour, the coworker every version of us gets turned into something sexual.

Covered? There’s a fetish. Modest? There’s a fetish. Uncovered? There’s a fetish. Even discomfort, even vulnerability is sexualised.

The same woman will be sexualised and then shamed for it in the next breath. That contradiction isn’t ours to carry.

Saying women sexualise themselves is just a way to dodge accountability because no matter what we do, you were already going to sexualise us anyway.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

Men want soft, feminine energy from their women but don’t create the environment for her to turn off her survival mode. My dad always tells me “If he wants an angel, he must build her heaven. Otherwise, don’t blame the demon she becomes to survive hell.”

Her energy, mood and behavior is a reflection of her environment.

[nyara @nyaraVT]

Odd.. in order to “make a cis kid trans”, all you apparently need to do is have a trans character in a TV show

But to “make a trans kid cis”, you need camps where they are being electrocuted and bullied for having “trans thoughts” until they shut down and disassociate

[Jack Turban MD 🧠 @jack_turban]

Every mental health organization in the country screaming that they want to be regulated should give you a sense of just how bad conversion therapy is.

[Matt Strickland @MattForVA]

This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.

Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.

Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.

This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.