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C. A. Bridges

@cabridges.bsky.social

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I write things that explain other things for USA TODAY NETWORK Florida. I also take pictures, mostly for me. My opinions are my own and I only agree with about half of them. He/him.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · Nov 16

New followers, hi! I’m a trending writer for the USA TODAY NETWORK in Florida, which means I try to explain what’s going on, from hurricanes to politics to pop culture to health threats. Sometimes it helps.

I’m also a photographer for local performers, a dog dad, and a thrifter on weekends.

Me, a white-bearded bald dude, on a couch with my black lab mix dog Hawke noticing that I have stopped petting him to take a picture and looking up disapprovingly.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t ask me. I still use punctuation.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3h

Mostly I learned, again, that strips don’t have to have backgrounds or even make any sense at all as long as you can draw thighs longer than torsos and heads combined.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3h

Justified.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 5h

For that matter, too many episodes fall prey to the “we HAVE cell phones but we lost them/can’t get a signal/inexplicably forgot they exist.

But the shows that work, work REALLY well.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 23h

I assumed between takes it’s being steam cleaned, possibly with one of those fumigation tents.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 23h

And of course, your political action committee would be the Greg Pak Pak PAC

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

Based on the last, what, 20 years, I suspect this is a far superior method of choosing a NYC mayor.

Although even if I am a runner-up, if nominated I will not run, yadda yadda.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

Depends on my hunger level.

Hungry: bacon egg and cheese on plain toasted bagel

Not so hungry: plain or wheat toasted bagel with cream cheese

Middle of the night and I just want something: toasted whatever bagel we have in the house with too much butter

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Chron.com @chron.com · 2d

The lie just won't stop spreading.

Fake story puts real Texas woman in Olive Garden breadsticks hell

The lie just won't stop spreading.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

I am not surprised that men believe they can predict how a menstruating woman will act and perform when a) many of the men clearly don’t understand women or periods and b) not even the menstruating women know for sure.

These are the same guys who think they can defeat gorillas.

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

Several of the comedians said they believed comedy could open communication. If they had attended a comedy event held by Saudi citizens where they spoke out against the regime, rather than a controlled PR event from the royals, I might have believed them.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the traditional opening salvo, a mandatory measure to alert passersby that saxophone music is about to commence.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

Latina woman fighting autocracy in Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize.

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the committee said.

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president.

www.usatoday.com

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

I searched Google trying to find an article I’d written about a legislative bill only to have it explain that I had in fact written and sponsored the bill.

Reader, I had not.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Lehrer.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

I first saw "Plan 9" at my first comics convention in the early 80s. I had never heard of it, and wandered into a movie room with a friend to find someplace to sit down for a few minutes.

That was... an experience. Pretty sure I just sat there staring with my mouth open till the credits.

Space Leech @spaceleech.bsky.social · 3d

Saw Plan 9 at the Metrograph and the reel only broke once! An earnest mix of “let’s put on a show” and a fixation on death. Criswell prophesies what we dare not dream!

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

If you haven't yet, also check out Landis Blair. VERY Gorey-inspired, especially "The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes," but also some serious work with amazing art.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

I have! Big Tom Gauld fan.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

Why, did the money have something on it

Something red maybe

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3d

whew

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

Alert! The massive Edward Gorey tribute book "E is For Edward" (ebook version) is on sale for just $3.99 right now at Bookshop.org!

Now you have no excuse and the winds will haunt your heels should you fail. Also, dead kids, or something.

bookshop.org/p/books/e-is...

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been years since I entered one of the @nycmidnight.bsky.social script, short story or 250-word Microfiction challenges, but they were fun and while I never won I often got through several heats. So what the hell, let’s inflict my fiction on the world again. nycmidnight.com/250

The 250-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight

The 250-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 48 hours.

nycmidnight.com

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever pop up ad you have coming up a screen or two down in Chrome on my iPhone is hosing your page, over and over. Just FYI.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

Hands up if your job as a kid was to paste the stamps in these books.

C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

This is the subtext of everything I post.

A polished box on a shelf in an antique store with the sign “I’M A FOSSIL! LOOK AT ME!!”

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 3d

Clearly this typewriter has read my work.

A baby blue typewriter with a note on top reading “PLEASE!! DO NOT DEPRESS KEYS. THANK YOU”

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