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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 13h

I was in a restaurant tonight with CNN up on the wall, and I glanced up as someone was interviewing Rev. Black, the minister that was shot in the head with a pepper ball. The footage is long distance, so I hadn’t realized before…

oh no, he’s hot 🤣🤣🤣

It’s gonna be Luigi Mangione all over again.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo, now that's where it crosses the line from "clumsily eager to participate" to "rude and not worth the conversation," at least for me. That's a helpful distinction -- everyone in our household will step back if called on an interruption.

Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 1d

So... what is the reason for their suspicion?

*insert angry goose*

Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

Spouse's love language is showing me variations of the Woman Yelling at a Cat meme. I still laugh every time.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

Previous re-skeet: hey @ricktick.bsky.social 😂

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

this is very very funny, but I think my favorite part is the implication that Keanu Reeves got suckered into saying yes to a bad play

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like musical instruments. I wonder if gifted conversationalists were also band members?

My family are interruptors, and I do get frustrated when I can’t finish a thought. It’s conditioned me to do it, too, more than I should. We’re all working on it.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I'm going to do SOME of this tedious thing I've been avoiding, just to get some momentum going for later, I'm not committing to anything but setup, okay, and maybe this one important part, oh, wait, it's all done.

Rude, frankly.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

Some days I can get behind the idea of prison abolition, then other days I’m all…

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 4d

I'm very close to being a one-issue voter and that issue is Follow the Goddamned Law and Put Those Assholes in Prison.

eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social · 4d

"Willing to go full criminal charges" is probably the most important policy issue for 2028. :/

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 2d

If it helps any, he’s been pretty quick to sign off on progression legislation throughout his stint as governor. But yeah.

Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 3d

I do love a circular firing squad.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller is neither excellent to anyone, nor does he party on, dudes.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, wow. Dear Ceiling Cat, please protect this judge.

Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 3d

There is a not insignificant part of me that wishes he could call up the IL National Guard and sic them on ICE. Have a real armed force that's actually loyal to their oath and home state say, "okay, that's enough of that, we have actual training, sit the fuck down." *pops another gummy*

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6d

my cousin had the family over tonight for a party whose theme was “everyone make a cake and then we will sit around in the backyard and try all the cakes” and honestly like, we should do this once a month

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6d

but I do think that’s part of why we can’t give an inch here. they’ll put air conditioning in Amazon warehouses if the robots need it but not for the safety and comfort of human workers. that’s the kind of shit we normalize if we get sucked into the inevitability arguments

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

Dammit, Timer is a regular earworm to this day. I’ll be singing this all week. AGAIN. 😂

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

The accuracy

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 6d

If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.

Time for Timer on a red background. Next to him, the phrase "When my get-up-and-go has got up and went, I hanker for a Hunk O' Cheese!"

He looks at you with this blank stare, daring you to tell him you tried to make sunshine on a stick in the freezer but the toothpicks never stayed up straight. He knows you won't say anything because you're embarrassed. You know he knows. He knows that you know that he knows. And yet, he just stands there, hankering for a hunk o' cheese like it isn't fucking impossible to get plastic wrap to stay taught on an ice cube tray.

You want to ask him for a wagon wheel, from his stacks of snacks, but you can't bring yourself to say the words, because now you, too, are hankering, hankering for the last hunk-o-cheese, and you both know you'll have to fight for it.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

Pritzker is absolutely blowing this moment. “If they come for my people, they’ll have to come through me” my ass.

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

Couldn’t he call the bluff and call up the IL National Guard to defend the protesters against ICE and LEOs, who aren’t subject to posse comitatus? I’m probably naive, but I have more faith in the morals of the NG. It would be so dangerous, but things are so dire. If it’s a terrible idea, I apologize

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

NO, THE HELL THEY HAVEN’T

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

Star Wars Rebel Alliance symbol, red on black background

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 6d

Carry on, my wayward theybies 🎵

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

2 Oct 2025 -- Kansas (!) Supreme Court delivers big on trans drivers' license changes, declining to hear an appeal of a district court ruling made by anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Kris Kobach, who is trying to call a special legislative session on the matter. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers

“I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Ashes to Ashes 👻 @ashincorn.bsky.social · 7d

Just took “tries not to doomscroll” out of my profile description because whomst are we kidding

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