Meg

@prayingmantis.bsky.social

4241 Followers 958 Following

Anticapitalist, abolitionist, 🏴, queer. She/her. Chicago. #WearAMask + #BlackLivesMatter + #FreePalestine + #ProtectTransKids + #FuckICE

a tweet that looks like it's from the FBI but it's actually jaboukie that reads: Just because we killed MLK doesn't mean we can't miss him.

old @jaboukie tweet:
me @my unhealthy thought/behavior patterns after consistent therapy: I can see you, bitch

Mel Brooks huffing Perri-air in Spaceballs

I'm no expert but, I feel like between the concentration camps and the guns and the unaffordable healthcare and the using all the water and the diarrhea inducing produce, the government is like, trying to kill us.

Giant clown emoji

The "are ya winning, son?" meme but the son is staring at a wall of phones device farm

This is my pill. It is round. It is pink. It makes me not care. Watch me take my pink pill...and not care

Me holding a green cocktail with blue fruit leather hanging off the side

"two buttons" meme where one says "Read Tarot" & the other says "Read Pema Chödrön's Comfortable With Uncertainty"

😭+🤢 combo emoji

A tweet with a link to a Money magazine article that says For the first time in history, the average pound of ground beef is higher than Federal Minimum Wage. Everything is not fine.

A NYT op-ed headline reading We Ran the Numbers. Remote Work Is bad for Us.

A black & white photo of a trans man & 3 trans women

Vintage LGBTQ badges, reading Don't Hide Gay Pride, Gay Pride 1981, Queers Bash Back Anti-Racist Action, Gays Against Nazis, Homophobia Can Be Cured With Education, Lesbian Liberation, Trans Pride Trans Power, Bisexual Pride!, Trans rights are human rights

A tank top reading Life is better with my boys

A Wired headline reading To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

A storefront but the sign says HAHA! Happiness was hiding in the last tear! I wept it! Ha ha ha!

🫠+😩 combo emoji

The letters M E G made up of landscapes, in photos taken from the sky

😬+ combo emoji 🫡

A marquee sign reading what if nobody was president and we all promised real hard to just be cool

I just need to have six million dollars

A gratitude app prompts me: What might your emotions be trying to tell you lately?
I have typed in response: Bitch get a grip

"two buttons" meme where one says "Read Tarot" & the other says "Read Pema Chödrön's Comfortable With Uncertainty"

Picture one: A photo of Marco Rubio with the text "Rubio: This is a favor to the world because it's their ships that are stranded. It's their fertilizer that's stranded in the Gulf right now—not ours."
Picture two: An illustration of four people in a rowboat. Two people are at the bottom of the boat frantically bailing out water, while the other two are comfortably on the side of the boat that's up in the air, one saying "Sure glad the hole isn't at our end."

Skyler from Breaking Bad in a diner

Aaron & Meg, both smiling. Her arm is around his shoulders & her shirt says Reparations Now!

Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. (continued)

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, smoking a cigarette

A photo of Yoko Ono's sculpture Sky Landing on Chicago's South Side outside the Osaka Garden, with the new Obama Presidential Center looming in the distance

The wax figure of Trump, looking a lot like Hillary Clinton

Tom Cruise & his son Connor, looking extremely alike.

High five drowning meme

A drawing of the Teletubbies staring at a cat sticking its face out of a hole

Me singing "Superstar"

Mads Mikkelsen, hands out weirdly in a suit with the words "i am no longer mentally ill"

Marquee sign reading WHAT IF NOBODY WAS PRESIDENT AND WE ALL PROMISED REAL HARD TO JUST BE COOL

Marquee sign reading WHAT IF NOBODY WAS PRESIDENT AND WE ALL PROMISED REAL HARD TO JUST BE COOL

🫂+🗑️ combo emoji

Joe in a pink Bikini Kill shirt with light blue & white letters a la the trans flag, with a mic in his hand

Me on the street in Chicago, wearing an N95 mask, holding a sign that says WE WILL STILL
BE QUEER
BE TRANS
HAVE ABORTIONS
HELP EACH OTHER

Tweet from @DrSprankle: If you think sex workers "sell their bodies" but coal miners do not, your view of labor is clouded by your moralistic view of sexuality.

A deep pink & purple sky & leafless trees on a Chicago street

🥰+😍 combo emoji

Tweet: My mom was like “I accidentally took a Xanax this morning but I feel ok” and I’m like yeah that’s what it does

Two middle-aged white people smiling. The woman is in a tee reading STOP KILLING BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS; the man is in a sweater featuring a US flag on fire.

Liminal-ass space

Booty shorts that read WARNING IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS, BUT NOT UNALTERED

Google home page with "how to get a fucking grip" in the search bar

😩+🫠 combo emoji

Still of Michael Bolton from Office Space saying "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

Idris Elba as Luther

"Grandma let's get you to bed" meme that reads "And if you refreshed the page, you wouldn't have to watch the ad before the video"

Tweet from @rachdele: It's 2030, do you make $400k/year writing code that enables billionaires to commit heinous anonymous financial crimes, or do you make $5/hr doing hard labor in the gig economy at Amazon Coal

The protagonists of Sid & Nancy kissing next to a dumpster in the 1986 movie

A photo of the Beastie Boys in the 80s looking appalled, captioned "The Beastie Boys watching you get ready for bed at 9pm after they fought so hard for your rights:"

Sign says
"WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY
the most effective way to prevent the spread of coronavirus" & beneath that I have edited the photo by scrawling "is a mask"

Elon Musk on twitter: Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about 😞