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@curdie.bsky.social

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brontëpunk - a fine fellow - the inciting incident - Skyrim is a cozy game — em dash — blind/visually impaired - ND - panromantic asexual old theydy I don’t get out much so I read a lot good at sorting, bad at hashtags

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 19

Even my cats check in over my shoulder like “is the bad bloviating poopsack man dead yet?” in the mornings now

Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · Apr 19

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 19

For me it’s tardigrades. I can be just walking home from work or waiting to pay for groceries and it’s like “OHHH what even are they for?”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 18

The last person to notice the building is on fire doesn't deserve a prize. Especially if he's been excusing arsonists for decades.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Apr 18

reeling about the prospect of having to apologize to david brooks

cyber professional @permadeath.com · Apr 17

i am going to Lose My Fucking Mind if the seed crystal for an antifascist general strike ends up being david fucking brooks

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 17

Y’allllllllllllllll GREEN LINE!!!!!!!

A photograph of a bikepath with a painted green line extending into the distance. There is grass to the sides of the path and a few trees are just coming into leaf.

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 15

Buy them a whole pub—I’d be a regular

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Apr 14

Whoever did this—buy them a drink. ☠️🤣

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 13

or die (just sayin)

Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · Apr 11

If Trump wants a big parade in his honor all he has to do is resign

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 12

ooooh I can’t read about other folks’ spider encounters without remembering grasping what I thought was a dried leaf caught in a chain link fence when I was a kid and it was a big dusty beige moth

I will tackle everyone’s spiders as long as I never have to cope with moths

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · Apr 11

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is.

Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 11

Always note who the empathy is for--and who it isn't.

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Apr 10

What we are up against. Women who think this need serious help.

Text saying: People aren’t perfect. Cuomo needs help not vilification. The me too movement goes way too far. There’s a difference between a rapist like Weinstein and someone who is rough with women. Having empathy is a beautiful thing. None of us are perfect in any way.

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

it should not need stating but alas apparently *does* so here (repeat until you understand it ‘cause it isn’t a difficult concept):

this would be wrong and abhorrent even if he *were* an activist

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · Apr 11

Overheard on the train in DC today:

Person #1: I don't want to talk about that. You know I don't do politics.

Person #2: Yeah, but politics is doing you right now so we are going to talk about it.

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Y'all. If you can be anyone, be Person #2: my new hero. 🫶🏼

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

s2g I just shivered at the truth in this

Smallsmallwitch @smallsmallwitch.bsky.social · Apr 10

When a nasty horse dies its soul is reborn into a printer

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

I just stay in my little cluttered cottage with sweet rolls and random stuff like blue mountain flowers or netch jelly or nirnroot for free just when you need them most: “help yourself just don’t touch the books”

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

this was a really good prompt for a dark spring morning. Here’s what I’ve got in reply

Image is a snip of a poem by the poster:

prayer

the old women come to -
the serious sea
plumbed obsidian
fat with weather
makes a rectangle
of late afternoon -

they narrow rheumy eyes
raise taffeta hands
chant deep changes -
bodily they move together
belling wool coats
bare feet blue with cold

a mirror wave sun prinked
the old women cry out
and throw him to the surf
the old women come to the sea
with wings with wings with wings

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Alt text matters! knowing you’re including someone otherwise left out is worth the extra minute

breathe & have fun with it - it’s not a graded assignment <3

just tell us what you see

I’ve heard #alttextme helps if you’re unable to write your own

#blind #visually-impaired #accessibility

Photograph

a gray cat white collar paws
sprung rhythm

caught on a mantelpiece
absolutely not allowed

to her left clutter
tiny books pastel hardcover
spin of spiderwebs

she hunts something not visible

in view a wooden placard:
“no admittance except
on party business”

open door in background
to a small room
butter bright light

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 11

From age 27 I’ve struggled & drowned in day jobs because I internalized what a relative said to me about #writing when I left academia (for which I was unsuited):

“if you were really any good someone’d be paying you to do it”

it’s not true - you can be great and unrecognized <3 keep writing

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 10

I reread Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy regularly. It can still make me howl.

Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom struck me as riotously funny in a dark and messy way.

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 10

Saw a big self-narc in the work server while waiting for The Basso Profundo Criddler to finish throwing shit outside Red Apple & sang “not it not it not it” & another shopper also waiting for an angry-tweaker-free journey said “I’m always it” & I literally felt like an extrovert for a second #Eugene

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Apr 9

Around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world

Headline: Scientists hear mushroom 'thoughts' for very first time. There was one phrase they kept repeating.

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curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 10

perfect

Eric @ejmaron.bsky.social · Apr 9

Seymour! The economy's on fire!

No, mother. It's just negotiations

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 9

lmfao I called my electric bill “my PG&E bill” and I haven’t lived in the Bay Area in 29 years - the kids at work are doing the faces like “is that an old people bill?”

Short answer: yeahhh it is

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you for not using a tool that pillaged the work of artists and writers so that it could be used to hurt us

ps I love this drawing

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 9

Several books I thought I’d love I really truly loathed recently; I try not to skeet about art I know others hold dear.

But Kate Lebo’s The Book of Difficult Fruit is *not* on the loathe list & I want to recommend it: it’s intricate, sapid, & incandescent & full of good things. #booksky

curdie @curdie.bsky.social · Apr 8

What the high fructose fuck did I just read? How am I still surprised by willful ignorance?