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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 16h

spidermanicule

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 4d

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 10h

my credit union, in their infinite wisdom, has seen fit to give me access to the Imaginary Money via plastic card, and somehow it feels like the opposite of a solution to any of my problems

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this is fair because you earwormed me with Two fucking Princes immediately upon waking this morning goddamn it

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 2d

my longest online friendships are coming up on 25 years. I have known these people for over half my lifetime. what the fuck

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 2d

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

(With alt text)

A retooling of a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story.

First panel:
Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“
Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!”

Second panel:
Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!”
Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!”

Third panel:
Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!”
Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!”

Fourth panel:
Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!”
Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 2d

obviously it is @michaelstipe.bsky.social

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 3d

accidentally bought whole milk today and I am so scared for my inner workings for the next ten days or so

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5d

how to deactivate torment nexus

torment nexus deactivation tutorial

torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025

deactivate torment nexus no survey

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 5d

baby’s first migraine aura! no headache, thank tawg. that was wild. I’m very glad it waited until I got home because I pretty much couldn’t see for half an hour (I’m fine now)

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 7d

for every post someone makes that is in any way related to “being mean to AI”, one of their 5 most recent interactions with a person doing customer service should be chosen at random and appended to said post

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d

queen shit, rest in peace

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 6d

not a single skip on this immaculate album. not even Star Me Kitten.

R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 6d

Released 33 years ago—Oct. 5-6, 1992. Share your favorite track in the comments!

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 7d

holy crap, you genius

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 8d

YOUR OWN
PERSONAL
OUTSIDE

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 8d

[Depeche Mode voyce]:

🎶
REACHE OUT
TOUCHE GRASS
🎶

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 8d

seven (7) is good because my instincts say it’s nonbinary (neither odd nor even)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

🫡

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · May 5

1984 calendar meme reading 1529, the year of the first Ottoman siege of Vienna

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 8d

it took me a couple seconds, but as usual your puns make me feel like a drowning man. give me like 40 minutes and I’ll surrender

(we are both hilarious)

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 9d

when will October return from the war

a daily forecast from a weather app. today, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are all in the mid to high 80s (upper 20s/low 30s for those of you using silly units). I am fucking sick of this.

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