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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 1d

it is nighttime so now you can buy every one of my bookmarks for $20 ✨ that’s 40 bookmarks for twenty incredible dollars 📚 frankly that is one of the best deals I have ever heard in my entire life 🫡 shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/product/ever...

Photo of two bookmarks, left features the neighborhood watch silhouette criminal and reads

YEAH I STOLE THIS BOOK FROM THE LITTLE FREE LIBRARY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

right bookmark features orange tulips against a blue sky and reads

Go to hell if you don’t like books

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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ethel cainhurst † @nyetalia.bsky.social · 13h

letting our friends order off our pronouns secret menu

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

Frog and Toad Are Gonna Fuck Shit Up

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 1d

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23h

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 5d

KRISTI NOEM: public opinion is cratering. we're seen as violent, bigoted brutes with no legitimacy. quick, pepper ball headshot that priest. no not that one, the handsome and telegenic one

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 1d

what happens if you reverse the polarity of big dick energy

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 1d

one of those little pistols that slides out of your shirt sleeve but instead it's an emergency snack hotdog

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 2d

HOT DOGS TUESDAY

NANCY AND A ZOO KEEPER ARE WATCHING AS A HIPPPOPOTAMUS IS AMAZINGLY CALLING FOR HOT DOGS

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve given up on existential hope so my main worry lately is I’m super concerned that our post-apocalypse isn’t even going to have an aesthetic. As it is we are already firmly in our cyberpunk era & look how shitty it all looks because nobody anticipated how boring our capitalist overlords would be.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 2d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 2d

The Nighthawks demo has arrived!

During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts.

Your second life begins tonight!

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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willow @witchfuneral.quest · 2d

is anyone else getting tired of the victorian / middle earth aesthetic discord has been using? guilds were fine but this is a little excessive

discord context menu that lists

"send to the gallows
enroll as royal guard
stop the tomfoolery
behead postehaste
seize this user
inform of a malicious plot"

as available options

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9.

there will be no other substantial changes

thank you for your attention to this matter

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punch crotching robot🔞 @kobybeef.bsky.social · 2d

random reminder that most people are too busy worrying about their own insecurities to notice yours

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2d

The list of books from this era that will be considered classics in 100 years would probably horrify you.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 2d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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moon @moonhotel.bsky.social · 2d

I was on the most recent Sonic Weekly podcast (about Bonanza Bros.!) with @dtlurker.bsky.social , @grantpardee.bsky.social and @rvr67michael.bsky.social ! I hope people enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed participating :>