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C.A. Petrified 🎃

@capetrov.bsky.social

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she/her. aka FullMetaDuchess. Naturalized ✡️, absent most Saturdays. Learning every day if I'm lucky. On the downside of middle age and drifting ever leftward. Header from 'Dreams' by Melton Fisher. Please don't follow me unless you like reading my skeets.

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · Feb 21

If accounts like this can do alt text you can copy and paste the text from your article excerpt or social media post.

Whether or not you're willing to consciously admit it, not doing it is says you think disabled people don't need to know the things you think are so important that you have to post.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Feb 21

street fighter II, print ad, snes (1992) archive.org/details/mean...

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 29m

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 41m

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25m

So weird to be on a text-based social media with people who have atrocious reading comprehension but are also very longwinded

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 23m

🗣️🎙️ “3-2-1 Contact…is the secret…is the moment…when everything happens.”🎵

Need it.

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🍂 fall firmstival 🍂 @ind3fatigable.online · 24m

"Disassociate" is equivalent ATM machine.

It's dissociate.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 6h

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 5h

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 3h

On the way home from the barn I heard a This American Life piece by a guy who had an AI clone of himself call his friends to have conversations and I would just like to state now that if anyone ever does this to me, we will no longer be friends. WTF is this world where we outsource all interaction?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3h

Very interesting example of non-sound words appearing in sound effect like ways in a comic. Japanese comics do this a lot more than Anglophone so it’s neat seeing this early one, before much cross-influence.

Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 3h

Beano #1148, July 18, 1964

Biffo and Buster grimly saw and hammer at something in their camper as piss rains from the heavens.
CAPTION: So Biffo and Buster work late into the night--

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3h

No mugshot. Lol

Thad Ochocinco, Active Listener @thadochocinco.bsky.social · 5h

From the people that repeatedly shoot at the Emmitt Till Memorial Marker comes Brent Jones, who was arrested for pissing in the reflecting pool and destroying the eternal flame at Martin Luther King's burial site www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 54m

It's the same programming: there is only one correct belief and anybody who doesn't agree with that is wrong and bad.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h

THISSSS THIS THIS THIS!!!!

Daisy!!!!!! @oopsalldaisys.bsky.social · 3h

Atheists like this unironically make the fundamentalist Christian Right's job so much easier. Almost like they inexplicably promote Christian Hegemony by treating other faiths and ethnoreligious groups as if they have the same structural power as the Christian Church 🤔🤔🤔

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3h

Conversation with hotel front desk after a few days of New York comic con:

Me: Hi, could I get housekeeping on my room today?

Clerk: Sure, was your room set to D&D?

Me: …Sorry, what?

Clerk: “Do Not Disturb?”

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Daisy!!!!!! @oopsalldaisys.bsky.social · 3h

Antitheism is a fucking cancer to political and religious discourse and I am not joking

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h

Hey remember that time an Atheist spent an entire week on here calling for the ethic cleansing and complete elimination of Jews because they said it was the only way to fight Israel?

Atheists refuse to account for the ethno-part of Jewish ethno-religion when they whine about ending all religions.

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Maybe. But behind the annoyance of the atheist there is typically much less bigotry, authoritarian tendencies, tax evasion, science denialism, closeted sexuality, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Adeninsola @eyilanke.bsky.social · 6h

Imperial boomerang booming like a mf

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6h

It was inevitable that, without needed change and reform, the War on Terror would swing back to America

It’s the march of capitalism and its reliance on hidden and then overt authoritarianism. We can see where this is going by looking at what we did to others, and so we must band together with them

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 6h

An armed man sets slumped over in shadow against a support beam in an abandoned warehouse. Narration: “Sidebar – – isn’t it amazing how many abandoned warehouses, et al, seem to be in Manhattan? Sometimes it seems like no one lives or works there. Lucky for us there ARE so many abandoned buildings or these stories would just get REALLY MESSY! Just a thought.“

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 5h

I hope your brother has as easy a recovery as possible.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 6h

Jared Leto may have a toxic reputation, he may have a wildly unappealing screen presence, but say what you will, he also can't open a movie either.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 9h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around #Antarctica

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,”

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www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.ctvnews.ca

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 11h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 6h

Extreme heat will just get worse, and its threat to public health will keep growing. Meanwhile we have a nation lead an administration that denies climate change is changing the planet and impacting the health of us all.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Someone did something stupid but not malicious and then logged off. Then a popular account led a dogpile.

Why did you delete your callout post Shaun?

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 3d

Behind this mask is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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