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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇

@rackletang.bsky.social

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Big butter and egg woman. Burnt out. Neurofunky. Annoyingly political or annoyingly light-hearted. Everyone gets full human rights without exception or GTFO. Weenie was my sweet jerkface tabby.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · May 8

Hug your kitties while you can. RIP Weenie Bean 2011-2025

A fat brunette woman is cradling a beautiful tabby cat in her arms.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah right now I've got DDG as my default search engine but I'm still using Chrome for tab-hoarding reasons. We'll see what the future holds!

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

It's so much better. You can just tell it not to give you AI! And then it doesn't, unless you changed that for some reason!

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

It's been quite a time recently, and there's a lot that's scary and disappointing. But there are still a lot of mostly-good ones, and I try to operate on that assumption when I safely can. ❤️

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 8h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 5h

kid rock as porta potties: thread

Kid Rock wearing pink and looking stupid.

A porta potty that matches the pink of his ugly ass shirt.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 4h

Understood, and understandable. There's a lot of weirdness around, between people believing lies and people doing the lying. Then there's the stuff that sounds crazy but it's true!

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

There are a number of cats, even more humans, but still too many undeclared bots

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah it was not a great alternative, as it happens 😬

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

𝒊 𝒂𝒎 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 (ⁱ ᵖᵘᵇˡⁱˢʰ ᵃʷᵃʳᵈ-ʷᵒʳᵗʰʸ ʷᵒʳᵈˢ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵀʰᵘʳˢᵈᵃʸ)

𝐌𝐄𝐆 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄, 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐄𝐒 -- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭

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“I got into blues in my late teens. I knew about Robert Johnson from the bands that covered him. And when I heard him, I thought it was OK. Then I heard Son House’s a cappella song “Grinning in Your Face” [from the 1965 Columbia album Father of Folk Blues]. That was a transformative moment. There’s nothing there, just that voice. And what he was singing made so much sense to me.”

— JACK WHITE, Rolling Stone, 2005

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16h

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

Totally made sense to me, as someone who has been this particular flavor of tired a time or two before. Hoping for a fast and full recovery!

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

If you find out you could be at least a millionaire, but my bets are on its impossibility

The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I wasn't looking to try it even before I found out that slugs tend to harbor nasty parasites

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

"All those people protesting against our cruelty must be on someone's payroll"

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 10h

It's true. I met a woman out in Neah Bay who said that when she was a kid the boys used to dare her to eat them. She did not have good reviews.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 7d

Heya, Łink, and everyone else. Just an artist and writer trying desperately to make rent at this point with about 1350 left to go. I'll gladly take donations here: paypal.me/tormentedart...

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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 22h

Less than a week until court.

Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 2d

I have only about 200 of this which leaves about 3.1k and need to knock as much of this out before court on the 16th so I don't lose my housing.

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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 7d

Okay somewhat decent news.
I actually only owe 3.3k in total and they said they're going to let the courts know I've made payments and we will reach on some kind of payment plan.
So still urgent but slightly less urgent

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

703) Midnightbot. Appears in the corner of the room at midnight and stands motionless, staring at you for exactly 47 seconds before vanishing again. We don't know why. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A wedge-shaped robot with banded legs, standing expressionlessly in the corner of a room, dimly illuminated from the front and slightly below its eyeline.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 16h

Oh Molly, this is how I found out. I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing Fergus with us, and for giving him such a wonderful life. ❤️

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 16h

Banana sluuuuug

mimi (caffeine biased) @coffeerow.bsky.social · 17h

another nanner

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 17h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 17h

Thank you!

I’m just incapacitated physically right now and I have to be out of this apartment in twenty days. I have no money, I live gift to gift off of Venmo. I don’t know where I should even look to go now that there’s fascism and I’m trans and going on the unperson list eventually.

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 20d

Ok so I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no prospects or savings or social circles.

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · Aug 13

While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year.

Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕

#mutualaid #crowdfunding

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 17h

$410 still needed bsky.app/profile/pope...

Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 1d

needs $460 to pay the rest or the rent and $685 by EOW - she got one payment to get it out of repo but they sant another by Friday. getting closer. #UrgentNeed #BlackCrowdFund paypal.me/MsSoniaD or cashapp $spunkylilminx

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