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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 14h

Reading Shakespeare's plays is 10000 times less funny & witty than seeing them performed. English teachers should at least have students read the plays aloud & teachers should tell their students how many dick jokes there are!!! Don't leave out the innuendo, ffs!

(Read the sonnets, see the plays!)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kaciart @kaciart.bsky.social · 18h

Whumptober Day 12 - Finger under chin
#whumptober2025
For Ellay

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 1d

Overcooked has me running to collect a pizza from the oven and then the oven moves to the other side of the map, thus burning my pizza while my wife cries in despair

I love it

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

bit.ly

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Lobotomy Princess (lizzy) @straybimboroadk1ll.bsky.social · 1d

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wuffen @wuffen.bsky.social · Feb 29

leap day #sheith

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 2d

"what did you actually do other than have money and serendipitous timing and why does that mean we should listen to you on what counts as a good idea" -- something I wish journalists would ask more

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 2d

There's something so rotten about seeing this shit be perpetuated not just by the usual suspects but by people in creative spaces and kids teehee haha-ing their fuckass OCs it makes me feel insane

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Lutra (WIP) @lutraluna.bsky.social · 3d

Sup fam! I'm live with @ciciluna.bsky.social playing through FFXV. We're finally doing Chapter 3 plot!
www.twitch.tv/lutraluna?sr=a

LutraLuna - Twitch

FFXV Replay: Chapter 3 (cont)| Many spoilers, 100% completion

www.twitch.tv

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 4d

night sea

digital illustration of the sea at night. it’s in shades of blue except for the yellow moon and stars reflected in the water.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 9d

calling fiction 'escapism' has never felt more disconnected as I'm marathoning a game about a privileged few slowly going crazy casually genociding the world over class and money when I live in a reality with a privileged few slowly going crazy casually genociding the world over class and money #FFT

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 4d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 5d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 4d

me but with school ;3;

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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 4d

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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SexyAlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 5d

Why are all the bad things "here to stay" and all the things I love up for constant debate until they're eroded out of life altogether?

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 5d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 5d

In a funny aside, one of my classmates came in and I was sitting by the door and he IMMEDIATELY was staring down at my tits as he walked by and like, he was clearly 18-19 and honestly, I've done the same when I've seen some nice cleavage but come on guy, try and be a BIT more subtle about it.

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 5d

My outfit of the day! I bought this cute lemon wrap dress from a consignment shop and I like how it looks, it emphasizes what I like about myself (my tits) and hides what I don't (my belly) and I felt pretty today!

A pencil sketch of a woman with greying hair in a ponytail, and a wrap dress decorated with lemons, black leggings, and sneakers.

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