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C.A. Petrified 🎃

@capetrov.bsky.social

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she/her. aka FullMetaDuchess. Naturalized ✡️, absent most Saturdays. Learning every day if I'm lucky. On the downside of middle age and drifting ever leftward. Header from 'Dreams' by Melton Fisher. Please don't follow me unless you like reading my skeets.

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · Feb 21

If accounts like this can do alt text you can copy and paste the text from your article excerpt or social media post.

Whether or not you're willing to consciously admit it, not doing it is says you think disabled people don't need to know the things you think are so important that you have to post.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Feb 21

street fighter II, print ad, snes (1992) archive.org/details/mean...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

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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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2h

My favorite part of social media is getting deeply invested in things I knew nothing about 27 minutes ago just because it is fun to experience big events with other people 😂

Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

flipped over to the following feed and basically my entire timeline is losing their minds about this game, even the people who don't normally watch sports

good job, sports bluesky, we made it

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dbstewart_tn @adavelikeanyother.bsky.social · 3h

#Caturday #originalcontent #photographerlife #photography #shareyourparadise #samsung #S23Ultra

The distillery cat is enjoying the season in the barrel jack-o-lantern. Whiskey Thief Distilling Co., Frankfort, KY USA.

A disused whiskey barrel has a jack-o-lantern face cut into its staves. The barrel is upright. Its staves are weathered grey. All of the barrel hoops are heavily rusted.

Triangular eye holes sit atop a gaping three-toothed smile, less one tooth on the viewer's right. A whole cheek is missing as the stave pieces dropped out.

The black cat, however, has dropped in and lurks in the darkness of that smile. Safe in the wooden mouth, he's peeking toward the cornfield (unseen in the photo) to the viewer's left.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 19

“At some point we are going to move from ‘laws were broken’ to naming those who broke the laws and demand they be brought to justice. DOGE is a criminal gang, and should be treated as such.” @simonwdc.bsky.social

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DOGE is now led by Mr Project 2025:

WIRED @wired.com · May 18

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 2h

Trauma doesn’t just stay in your mind, it sits in your body for so long that if left unhealed, can impact your cells and change your DNA. When we say that wounds are inherited, we literally mean it. So learn to breathe, rest, and let go of what doesn’t deserve your attention before it consumes you.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Blinding Rage 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @twistedfate.bsky.social · 3h

A brief timeline cleanse and reminder to stop and take a breath. #Embroidery

On a gray surface against a marble background sits a mini easel holding a square embroidery. A light blue and white river runs diagonally top to bottom, the left side has stitches sand and a pile of driftwood, the right brown grass and scattered shrubbery.

The same embroidery, in the dark, the river and some of the sand on the left glow in the dark.

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 1h

Sherman is a good boy who doesn't deserve this!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

“Best regards”

A letter from STANLEY KUBRICK
August 27, 1970
James T. Aubrey, Jr.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
245N Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Dear James,
It has come to my attention that you and your
studio are considering producing a sequel to "2001:
A Space Odyssey" over my objections. My attorney informs me that you hold the option and, legally. there is little I can do to stop you.
However, I'd like you to know that I own the tapir bone prop from 2001 - the one "Moonwatcher" throws into the sky. If you attempt to make a sequel, I will cram that temur up your ass so far, it will take an as yet undiscovered alien super-intelligence to figure out how to dislodge it. Seriously, don't fuck with me.
Best regards,
Stanley Kubrick

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3h

*slaps top* this bad boy can hold so much useless bullshit

A man who looks like a salesman has his hand in a brain with a thoughtful looking customer next to him

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 1h

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 1h

This was already posted where you would have seen it, but here's another chance for you to see that it's been a frequently used reference since then, so the age you were when the first one happened is completely fucking irrelevant.

Idioms, what even are they?

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 3h

The point is that it's a frequently used reference. I can find a multitude of news stories just this year that used the same language. A handful of them are linked below.

So apparently you're not into reading, period.

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 3h

It's a frequently used reference.
www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kas...

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2h

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 4h

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Oh I forgot this golden oldie

Gothic Faith and Monstrous Religion

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17h

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2h

Yes we won but who cares it's really over

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks, yes, I'm looking forward to investigating both perspectives more!

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 2h

Oh goody, (polite, respectful) academia fight!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 4h

Ok so I really disagree here and have written and worked on this extensively. There are a lot of issues woth Hoeveler's work on anti-Catholicism. I recommend the work of Maria Purves (don't agree with it all at all but a useful counterbalance), Robert Miles (europhobia essay), Alison Milbank and 1/

C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 2h

TIL

The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 8h

Anti-Catholicism is pretty much the animating energy for the entire Gothic genre. If you like screeds against papists, it's the genre for you!

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 9h

literally this weird anti catholic rant has taken up more space than the shipwreck, evil painting, and madhouse scene combined. this author really hates monasteries

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

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Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 4h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

1200+ reported/documented rapes by ice agents over 7 years from obama to first year of trump btw

Too Swift for Human Rights: The Catastrophic Cost of Eliminating Government Oversight over Immigration Enforcement | Women's Refugee Commission

The Women’s Refugee Commission is gravely concerned about the administration’s decision to terminate vital oversight over human rights standards in detention, precisely as it seeks to dramatically inc...

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

You dont get rapes of this scale without an official blind eye

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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