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Bergamot Jones

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Making #art #scifi and #problems. Former dog inventory specialist. Edging 40. Icon by me.

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · Jun 15

A beginning is a very delicate time. Know, then, that the year is 10,191.

Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · Jun 15

You can just skeet Dune (1984). Nobody can stop you.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4h

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 15h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 4h

As the Salvation Army's enabling of ICE is drawing more attention to them, read our piece on their long record of anti-queer/trans hatred, classism and abuse of the poor.

@davidforbes.bsky.social wrote this when Asheville city hall gave the SA over $1 million. ashevilleblade.com?p=4827 #avlnews

No salvation |

ashevilleblade.com

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. Queer people warned y'all.

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spam, The Sublime Dip @spammm.bsky.social · 4h

they've had instances of turning away queer people from shelters or services, and rumors of supporting conversion therapy, so for years i've seen them as a charity strangled by an evil set of values

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Detrea @detrea.bsky.social · 9h

"You're going to have to live with them when its all over."

homie you can observe which side clearly doesn't believe that, think just the one critical thought in your vapid fucking life right now. for real.

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile, the fucking Salvation Army is feeding ICE

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 15h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 9h

0.000001% of teledildonic infrastructure has been built. I dream of a world where you can fuck someone across the world via a public phone booth

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 16h

Reboosting. Behold the first person to win a Space Invaders contest. Ever. A gamedev legend who happens to also be trans, and one of those who fought so us trans #gamedevs could make the breakthroughs we have.

I know we aren't cashed up, but we are legion. A buck from all of us would help.

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 5d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...?

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

www.gofundme.com

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gryme @gryme.bsky.social · 19h

aria #counterweight

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 15h

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VitzyPie @vitzypie.bsky.social · 23h

Lesbian lizard

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 16h

If you left your Funko at my table and are at NYCC tomorrow I have kept it somewhere safe

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 21h

If you bought something from me and left your Funko at my table, please come collect it 😘

#NYCC

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 17h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 20h

The problem isn't that making up a slur is offensive to the computer—it's not alive, you're picking a fight with a photocopier—it's that you WANT it to be. You want so bad to have a good slur that it's fine to say

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 21h

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 21h

the perfume meme

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CqcNorthFish @cqcnorthfish.bsky.social · 1d

Old work

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Mel 🎭⚖️ @potatocrisp.bsky.social · 26d

saw a post i liked on tumblr today.....didnt see that they'd posted it on their account here but i wish they would its a sentiment that resonated w me more than making "good" art it's just important to make art....thanks man

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 4d

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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Riko! @rikochan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, it's my Moving Sale! New & returning OF subs are 50% off all week long!

It's just in time for my new 22-minute clip: Flapper Vibes 2! I've already posted 56 minutes of porn this month and there's plenty more to come! Link in the comments!

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 1d

"Simpson, you don't like me and I don't like you."
Homer *in a hurt tone*: I like you...

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 1d

Hee hee! The original joke is a reference a friend's post:
bsky.app/profile/ztul...

michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Nov 26

Fantastic luck follows me where ever I go, thanks to my velvet drawstring bag full of dead pirates' teeth!

Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 1d

Setting a Sage on fire is how I got IN to this pickle, Riko

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