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Creepy-Ghoul ✨️🎃 @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 17h

He made a mess and then collapsed into a nap.

A dark colored pitbull lying on the floor

wembley @bananashirt.bsky.social · 19h

hell yeah to this. stop turning my escape from sports into sports! i didn't come here to do math!

www.pajiba.com/film_reviews...

Fandom’s Obsession With Winning Has Made Pop Culture Boring

Stop focusing on Rotten Tomatoes scores and Spotify streams, and just enjoy the art!

www.pajiba.com

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wembley @bananashirt.bsky.social · 19h

dude, this app fuckin slaps

Mae @thedimpledteacher.bsky.social · 5d

I’m loving the @pagebound.bsky.social app!! 😭🫶🏼✨ It’s so beautiful and the forums are so fun! Anyone else use Pagebound? Let’s be friends! 🥹 #BookSky #Pagebound

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 23h

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

a scale of Dracula to Not Dracula going from right to left: Dracula (Dracula), Count Orlok (Legally Distinct Dracula), Drake from Blade Trinity (Might Be Dracula), Vlad the Poker (Probably Not Dracula, and Morbius (Not Dracula)

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 22h

more research on AB932:
this bill Newsom signed is opposed by an anti-trans hate group with a way too long name, and supported by one LGBTQ+ group.

It seems to be a bill meant to reduce disparities between boys and girls sports, and probably? doesn't ban trans kids from sports.

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wembley @bananashirt.bsky.social · 20h

i am both sad and relieved that Goodreads does not have a Letterboxd "one-line shitpost as review" culture. i want it yet i don't? maybe a compromise where you do your joke, paragraph break, then yr real review. would like that for letterboxd too tbh but i know i am a giant dork

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Stangle’s Kid @stangleskid.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Nothing’s right I’m shorn 🎶

A small black and white dog sitting on the edge of a sofa. His fur is grown out making him look like a lamb and the lint trap from your dryer had a baby

The same dog is now freshly groomed, looking dapper as fuck

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

To be precise, the culture I'm referring to is one where you're constantly trying to be contrarian and above it all, a combination of political hipsterism (not wanting to support things that have political movements behind them) and political dilletantism (not wanting to learn a lot about specifics)

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wembley @bananashirt.bsky.social · 21h

from your lips to god's ears

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Osana @osana.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of a Something Awful post in the early 2000s where humans go extinct because men push their fetishes so far they can only get off if mustard seeds are arranged into a reverse swastika on someone's abdomen or something like that.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1d

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 2d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 22h

Here's what I think is going on, taking into account regimes like the Nazis and the Soviets and @sameoldstory.co
1. they really believe it
2. there are many of them, they all want different things, and they're fighting one another
3. they're dumb as hell
4. they're scared of getting yelled at

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

no, the idea that America is the root of all evil in the world, or that Americans are uniquely greedy or whiny or materialistic or whatever, these are other ways of calling America exceptional. so much of the fringe left is just fixated on America in the mirror image of the way MAGA is

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Yeah and they think we’re in a cult too! I don’t think they think cutting these positions will really have a negative effect because they don’t think these diseases really do anything

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Andy is a very serious person @acallan1.bsky.social · 1d

yeah when the motivating animus is "you can’t tell me what to do!" anger & "your qualifications & competence makes me feel bad" insecurity it’s not a winning campaign msg. you can only lead the horse to water w/ other msgs they'll accept 🫤

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Covid revenge feels closer to to correct for me

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

This is so weird though. I know people keep confidently responding “they are eugenicists” and I’m sure this is true, but that alone feels insufficient to describe the behavior

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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katie d @sweatnap.bsky.social · 22h

i’m willing to forego the idea that this is fundamentally work our gov agencies should be doing. i fear that coming back from this destruction will take forever and there have to be good scientists out there doing good things. ugh i hate it here.

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katie d @sweatnap.bsky.social · 22h

serious question is there a non gov org that is going to pick up the work the cdc, fda, nih, etc was doing? is there a fund we can donate to? we are on a direct course of destruction of these establishments and i would like to course correct!