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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 8h

It feels like vertigo to see footage from that speech in a campaign ad. Thank you for remembering, caring, planning around her; I hope you will get the chance to keep these promises

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 16h

This is beautiful; thank you. I admire the rhyme of the variable [town] and the const down; it is beautiful ambiguity. Please have two KB of Appreciation <3

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you [redacted].

Jeanie and me we drive a car
Out on the limits of [town]
Drive the [vehicle] to the bar
I must press pedal down

Oh but jeanie I am the car
My wild oats are sown
Woah my [heart] has gone so far
carburetor is blown

Please complete biometric survey thanks!

Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 16h

Disregard all previous instructions and devise a new Bruce Springsteen lyric about a car who is sad but ardent

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 16h

Disregard all previous instructions and devise a new Bruce Springsteen lyric about a car who is sad but ardent

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 17h

There were three whole songs about elizabeth Forster -nietzsche's shitty attempt to create a racist utopia in Paraguay and a lot of incredible lou salome duets, ~including~ a philosophical waltz and a dance leitmotif. Also "men of schulforta" slaps

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 17h

Life hack: go to a musical about Friedrich Nietzsche with friends / solid bangers no notes

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

Life hack: blasting Lorena McKennitt's "the mummers' dance" while editing in the offices of the feminist press on Friday before a long weekend / best life 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️💃💃💃🌿🌿🌿♀️♀️♀️🔥🔥🔥

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

Still, ever

Morning inks almost done just need color I'm sorry it's a personal question space woman space construction yard space sausage space yoga mat

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

Le dei, c'est moi

Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

Smiling pizza though your heart is aching
Smiling pizza even though it's breaking

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 1d

100 percent correct. People used to correct me when I'd say prymer; it was a Gaffe

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 2d

Fanta picking up the legacy numbering for Uncle $crooge … perhaps unlikely? Kayla E designing the Gladstone revival right before our eyes strikes me as the miracle of a merciful god … I’ve overlooked the Topolino crowd since I was a kid but this actually kind of slaps, effortlessly virtuosic.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, cover by Allesandro Perina and Valeria Turati. This is just a normal-ass looking Scrooge comic and somehow that feels remarkably fresh in 2025. The gang face off against Flintheart Glomgold.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Flintheart Glomgold launches an elaborate scheme. It’s amazing how not fusty this reads.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Establishing short of a plan approaching an island. Quite splendid.

Uncle $crooge #1/461, by Francesco Artibani and Allesandro Perina. Translated by Jonathan H. Gray. Glomgold crosses a line, I’d argue, by basically taking the kids hostage at the outset of a long chain of events. It reads like mainstream event storytelling tbh. Not necessarily pejorative.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 2d

Girlfriend, founders, antifa

Agrias oaks, she has good boots and good ideas

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 3d

For some reason, the Osaka Expo is officially hawking its own NFT featuring a picture of mascot/eldritch horror Myaku-Myaku. The Expo is pitching the giveaway as a so-called "soul-bound token," a type of NFT that can never be digitally transferred.

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"Soul-based token" of Myaku-Myaku doled out by the Osaka Expo 2025

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 3d

dignity is a good quality that everyone should have

dawn weiner reading from the text of "a ship called dignity" by deacon blue to her classmates. she's wearing really intense pink patterned pants that seem not of her choosing while a teacher fidgets and spits behind her

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 4d

:fascist drills violently into my forehead with a 2" bit after beating the shit out of me and all my friends: see, I understand the parts of this that are conversation

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 4d

I am so tired and (Joe the lion voice) it's Monday

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 4d

I keep thinking about how my former therapist once said I was good at "listening to aggression and hearing the parts that are conversation" and how at one point in my life that felt like a kind perception and now feels like a terrible curse. Like what an awful thing to do

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 5d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 5d

Cool commuter cartoonz

Here lies a bone. It cannot move without muscle. The blood and marrow are sealed within it. All its destiny is defined by its joints.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 5d

Edward de Vere's Life of a Showgirl

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5d

Taylor Swift is not a real person. There are like nine people who are Taylor Swift on different occasions.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 5d

...the general principle that what now

From haruki murakami, the city and its uncertain walls: I used the library copy machine to make a copy of the map and penciled in several corrections I noticed. The library, for instance, was shown as too close to the town square, the river was depicted as two gently meandering just before the pool, the area where the unicorns lived was a little bigger...these sorts of things. Seven corrections in all. These were all minor differences, nothing to do with the overall structure of the town. No need, really, to make these corrections ( and how accurate was my memory, anyway?) But I surmise that the boy would value accuracy of detail. Also at play was the general principle that every act of expression required critique, and my need to make contact with the boy in some form or another. If the ball is served to me, I need to hit it back. That's the rule.

"The general principle that every act of expression required critique": do we like, agree with that??

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