Captain Awkward
@captainawkward.bsky.social
Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down.
Fame costs, Charlie Brown. And right here is where you start paying.
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
Second prize is a set of steak knives, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Fame costs, Charlie Brown. And right here is where you start paying.
I finally made it to Den Den (Eritrean place in Rogers Park) and it is so, so, so delicious.
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I finally made it to Den Den (Eritrean place in Rogers Park) and it is so, so, so delicious.
Donning my plaid flannel shirt-jacket like my father before me
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Donning my plaid flannel shirt-jacket like my father before me
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Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
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Eleanor Powell was the only dancer to intimidate Fred Astaire. Thrill to her tapping – and drumming – with Buddy Rich (and the Tommy Dorsey orchestra) in Ship Ahoy. The ease, energy, wit, antics, acrobatics, athleticism: there was no-one like her.
n.b. There are just six edits.
youtu.be/UoQim3N84XI
n.b. There are just six edits.
youtu.be/UoQim3N84XI
Unbelievable Tap Dance and Drumming Routine - Lido Deck - 2 Legends - Eleanor Powell & Buddy Rich
YouTube video by Skro's Nest
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Eleanor Powell was the only dancer to intimidate Fred Astaire. Thrill to her tapping – and drumming – with Buddy Rich (and the Tommy Dorsey orchestra) in Ship Ahoy. The ease, energy, wit, antics, acrobatics, athleticism: there was no-one like her.
n.b. There are just six edits.
youtu.be/UoQim3N84XI
n.b. There are just six edits.
youtu.be/UoQim3N84XI
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All of Bluesky this morning:
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Sexual assault, femicide, domestic violence, etc. stories are all over the news these days and it can make us feel really overwhelmed and powerless.
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
@julieslalonde | Linktree
Come learn bystander intervention with me - It's free!
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November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sexual assault, femicide, domestic violence, etc. stories are all over the news these days and it can make us feel really overwhelmed and powerless.
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
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I’m tearing up a little. Recognition from someone as amazing as Dan feels good.
Also, BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT! Come to my whistle kit assembly event tonight at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball), 5:30-8 pm!
Also, BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT! Come to my whistle kit assembly event tonight at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball), 5:30-8 pm!
Shoutouts within to @marc-fischer.bsky.social who was the first person I saw distroing whistles and inspired me, to @bibliogrrl.bsky.social who has been 3D printing like a madwoman, and @lefttheprairie.bsky.social who has been responsible for literally tens of thousands of whistles getting out.
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m tearing up a little. Recognition from someone as amazing as Dan feels good.
Also, BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT! Come to my whistle kit assembly event tonight at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball), 5:30-8 pm!
Also, BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT! Come to my whistle kit assembly event tonight at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball), 5:30-8 pm!
Nostalgic mixtape discourse reminds me of the time my housemates made a massive mix of Portishead, Enigma, Everything But The Girl, the Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack, Elastica, Maxwell, Terrence Trent D’Arby, and other 90s makeout music icons and then hosted a party 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Nostalgic mixtape discourse reminds me of the time my housemates made a massive mix of Portishead, Enigma, Everything But The Girl, the Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack, Elastica, Maxwell, Terrence Trent D’Arby, and other 90s makeout music icons and then hosted a party 🧵
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With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
@suesswassersee.bsky.social we had chili dogs for dinner last night & thought of you
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@suesswassersee.bsky.social we had chili dogs for dinner last night & thought of you
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This made me cry at my desk
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This made me cry at my desk
When the robots try to kill us, I freely acknowledge that the hatred I feel right now for the CVS phone-bot and every single human who inflicted it on me is extremely mutual.
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
When the robots try to kill us, I freely acknowledge that the hatred I feel right now for the CVS phone-bot and every single human who inflicted it on me is extremely mutual.
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It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
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Please do submit a comment if you live in Illinois. This is a practice that causes active harm to inmates, separates them even more from external support systems, and even makes it harder for U.S. attorneys to communicate with incarcerated clients
NEW — Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies.
Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...
Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...
Criminal justice advocates are urging Illinois residents to ‘say no’ to mail scanning in Illinois prisons • The TRiiBE
Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies. Criminal justice a...
thetriibe.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Please do submit a comment if you live in Illinois. This is a practice that causes active harm to inmates, separates them even more from external support systems, and even makes it harder for U.S. attorneys to communicate with incarcerated clients
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WHATEVER JOB HE WANTS HE SHOULD HAVE IF HE KEEPS THIS ENERGY
“I believe the crime is not what we were doing. The crime on that day was on the other side of the 10th floor door, where ICE agents are keeping our neighbors in cruel detention conditions,” Lander said outside court
He could face a 30-day jail term, if convicted
He could face a 30-day jail term, if convicted
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
WHATEVER JOB HE WANTS HE SHOULD HAVE IF HE KEEPS THIS ENERGY
🚨PEEVE ALERT 🚨
Threat level: PEEVED
Had 2pm appointment at the urgent care for a (likely) ear infection.
Arrived at 1:45 to check in and fill out paperwork, like you do
They put me in an exam room & took vitals around 2:10
It’s now 3:14 and I’m still waiting for someone to look at my ear
Threat level: PEEVED
Had 2pm appointment at the urgent care for a (likely) ear infection.
Arrived at 1:45 to check in and fill out paperwork, like you do
They put me in an exam room & took vitals around 2:10
It’s now 3:14 and I’m still waiting for someone to look at my ear
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🚨PEEVE ALERT 🚨
Threat level: PEEVED
Had 2pm appointment at the urgent care for a (likely) ear infection.
Arrived at 1:45 to check in and fill out paperwork, like you do
They put me in an exam room & took vitals around 2:10
It’s now 3:14 and I’m still waiting for someone to look at my ear
Threat level: PEEVED
Had 2pm appointment at the urgent care for a (likely) ear infection.
Arrived at 1:45 to check in and fill out paperwork, like you do
They put me in an exam room & took vitals around 2:10
It’s now 3:14 and I’m still waiting for someone to look at my ear
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"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place
🚨PEEVE ALERT🚨
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚨PEEVE ALERT🚨
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
I have not the stamina nor the sangfroid for crime but Democratic Leadership Wallet Inspector seems like it would be a fucking cakewalk
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: Lucy from Peanuts holding a football for Charlie Brown and yanking it away just as he kicks so he flies up in the air
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I have not the stamina nor the sangfroid for crime but Democratic Leadership Wallet Inspector seems like it would be a fucking cakewalk
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2025, a timeline…
1) this is gonna be our year
2) fuck
3) Thanksgiving
1) this is gonna be our year
2) fuck
3) Thanksgiving
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
2025, a timeline…
1) this is gonna be our year
2) fuck
3) Thanksgiving
1) this is gonna be our year
2) fuck
3) Thanksgiving
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taking down AO3 but not my job: Cloudflare confirmed homophobic
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
taking down AO3 but not my job: Cloudflare confirmed homophobic
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Me:I really thought by mastering a musical instrument in 4th grade I’d be killing it by now
Hubs: It was the recorder
Me: IK right. Weird
Hubs: It was the recorder
Me: IK right. Weird
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Me:I really thought by mastering a musical instrument in 4th grade I’d be killing it by now
Hubs: It was the recorder
Me: IK right. Weird
Hubs: It was the recorder
Me: IK right. Weird