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Extinct Thing

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Dodo (she/her). Artist, dinner guest, spherical Earth advocate. extinct-flightless.blogspot.com

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 3d

Currently i have one small piece, Moon Box, in the “Women of the DMV” show, at McLean (Virginia) Project for the Arts. mpaart.org
Until Nov. 1.

Wooden box assemblage with pieces of rusty metal, bone, melted glass, etc.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 8h

Tom Waits

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

Wet the line! wet the line!

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 11h

Mr India is also following the standard of previous Mr India's in the contest of just wearing something traditional and immaculate and I think this is possibly my favourite traditional look of the year. It's just breathtakingly gorgeous.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 11h

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 13h

My whole adult life I can never order raspberry sorbet normally.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 13h

It is the Raspberry Beret of our era.

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 13h

Oof. Hope you got some rest eventually!

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 13h

Teach small children to goth dance?

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

stop asking me to review things!!! "tell us how we did" it was a dentist appointment. I cried and bled from the mouth. the maintenance of this decaying flesh vessel is tedious, humiliating, and ultimately in vain. bathroom very clean. four stars.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d

this is the judgmental guardian of doomscrolling, share to be released from compulsively picking up your phone forever

a small calico/tabby with her paw firmly set on a smartphone. she has a judgmental look in her eyes, like she knows what staring at it eight hours a day is doing to you and is staging an intervention

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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 1d

Behold the Best Giant Skeleton of the Season So Far - Just Incredible: www.popville.com/2025/10/beho...

Behold the Best Giant Skeleton of the Season So Far - PoPville

Thanks to Laurie for sending the giant skeleton that wins Halloween. So it is written, so it is so.

www.popville.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with trying to do budget negotiations with this tinpot regime is that it’s like the King Solomon and the baby story. One side wants to preserve the baby (democracy, a functional government) and one doesn’t give a shit if it gets carved up as long as they win

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 1d

Concussed Sapsucker is my Pynchon character name.

Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d

did not expect to be escorting a concussed sapsucker to the upper west side today but tis the season for finding stunned birds on the sidewalk and schlepping them up to wild bird fund (migration season)

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 26

the most annoying thing about living here is tourists asking to meet She Who Slumbers in the Lake. buddy, we all want to meet her. that’s why we lure the tourists

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

A+ headline, no notes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh. This is very good.

Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 19d

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 3d

Bloödcheëp shirt preorder! Want a metal-style shirt with a terrifying bald cardinal? Preorder here:
topatoco.com/collections/...

Blöödchëëp Shirt

Blöödchëëp Shirt - merch by Rosemary Mosco and Bird and Moon at TopatoCo!

topatoco.com

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2d

And yet, INSIDE the National Gallery you have an uncanny sense of direction & I get lost!

Nature clearly just needs more fancy Colonial furniture.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2d

You know, it’s right off Civil War Criminal Avenue.

Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 2d

I think people think that i know where way* more things are than I actually know, because i smile vaguely and nod. But if your town does not share its name with a metro stop?… 🤷‍♀️

*WAAAAY

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is doing it right!

This regime is a rickety treehouse full of bullies who want to force respect rather than earn it. Clowning on them strips all that posturing down to the weakness at its core.

Creative and joyful resistance is their kryptonite.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Extinct Thing @flightless.bsky.social · 3d

Judishuary Square?

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Lynda Pendent Clause @lyndapendentclause.bsky.social · 4d

Cheers to everyone who will hear “I love how you’re already dressing in the Halloween spirit” when you’re just wearing your everyday clothes

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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