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tinfoil witch burning under a bridge

@brookass.bsky.social

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obsessively consuming media & having feelings about it since 1988 aka ☠️ arby_m on IG /LJ/DW ☠️ arby on AO3 my band is Lucky Witch & the Righteous Ghost: http://linktr.ee/lwrg Seth Gibbs stan (RIP!!!) see also: https://perfectdiypunkhair.com

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 2h

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 10h

(I know it's not called that just doing a bit haha) anyway turns out he's watching Death of a Unicorn (?)

tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 10h

earlier he was watching Knives Out which immediately annoyed me because I thought i might watch it someday and then something gross happened onscreen and I was like okay maybe not and just now I asked if he was watching Knives Out 2: Knives Even Outier

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colors.bsky.social @colors.bsky.social · 14h

#5F56AD

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14h

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 22h

Bluesky liberals - heavily influenced by libertarians and right-wing Democrats - love to treat the economy as a distraction from Trump's attack on democracy.

Look how Mamdani ties them together. He gets it.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 16h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 13h

also my husband is in the seat next to me and we have a divider but only i can raise it from my side so I'm enjoying tormenting him 🤣🤣🤣

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tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 13h

well it's possible it's just me, I'm larger than the average bear and need to sleep at strange angles with a lot of room. though I do not think I am making it up that the seat material is hard as a board even with the "mattress pad" i.e. thin piece of cloth with two fibers in the middle

tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 14h

also I just farted and it smelled really bad, thank God everyone else is sleeping 🤣🤣🤣

tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 14h

I'm on a red-eye plane to France! the "bed" option on the seat is so fucking uncomfortable it's like a medieval torture device lol

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20h

UK readers, we got a coupon thing!

A Waterstones ad featuring Nine Goblins, which you can preorder for 25%! Neat!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 21h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 1d

This means-testing fixation is such a rightwing canard—divide the working class between the have-littles and the have-leasts to distract from the have-alls robbing everyone. No one should care if a millionaire’s child gets free transit, college, or healthcare, so long as they’re taxed accordingly.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

The Catholic Church requires bishops to submit their resignation to the Pope when they turn 75 and the Pope chooses whether to accept it or not and as much as I hate having to hand anything to the Catholic Church, they are kinda on to something

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20h

Dems building a bench of senators younger than 75 challenge fail

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Janet Mills's campaign account just posted this video of her saying that she just announced her campaign against Susan Collins. #MESen. Mills, 77, is expected to jump in the race against Collins. She would face Graham Platner, Jordan Wood and Dan Kleban.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, I’m aware building robots that can do your chores is insanely hard, as compared to making a genAI tool that can make pictures of five-boobed-ladies - which is why all those techbros who constantly masturbate to their own genius should stop fucking around and do something actually impressive

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 20h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 19h

It would be great, wouldn’t it? But this is an alternate universe version of the Democratic party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 20h

the famous Twitter screenshot from Dr. Naomi Wolf saying, "No! No!!"

tinfoil witch burning under a bridge @brookass.bsky.social · 21h

I am listening now and this is dope 💖💖💖

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 1d

Hello friends. Today, I'm releasing my first Duckspeak album in 5 years. Bones & Skin: 2012 - 2022 is a double compilation pulling together a decade's worth of my rarities, unreleased demos, and covers. It's a vulnerable, messy project that means a lot to me.

duckspeak.bandcamp.com/album/bones-...

An album cover for Duckspeak's Bones and Skin: 2012 - 2022. It shows an abstracted circular texture that looks like skin under a microscope on a faded purple background.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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