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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 22h

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate."

I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 1d

It was Dear Bill, wasn't it? Just comes out of nowhere and oops, there are the tears!

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3d

Regularly think of this all timer

Ayah
@carmela1161
Why do so many people romanticize the 1950's? Like calm down we still have milkshakes and racism
2/12/16, 10:01 PM
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

doomscroll break

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4d

The one that always gets me is that the last American born into slavery died the year John Lennon released “Imagine.”

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 5d

this is what my brain pictures when you tell me that you’re generating AI content

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 5d

A video tour of the pile of weasels sleeping around my legs rn

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/jWzqcele1tY

He's always excellent as a pirate!

Tim Curry as The Pirate King - 'The Pirates of Penzance -1982 - Royal Variety Performance

YouTube video by Tim Curry

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 5d

I found this playlist a couple of weeks ago. Not the best quality, but looks like full episodes!
I was trying to work out if I'd watched this actually on TV, I would have been very small.

Screenshot from YouTube: "Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates" playlist, 64 videos, listed by the Cartoon Archive

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 9d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 7d

Y'all did it!! Thank you so much for your help!! Rent is paid and utilities are caught up! 😭😭😭💜

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gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 8d

Hey y'all, we're $1694 short covering past due rent and utilities. I know a lot of us are in the same waterlogged boat here, but if you're in a position to pitch in or even simply share these asks, it would mean a whole lot to me 💜 Thank you so much for all the ways you help make a difference!

gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 13d

Hey folks! I'm coming out of the woods of being laid off and starting to get paychecks again, but I am in a shortfall cycle that is only going to get worse as we head into fall/winter with heating bills and food costs rising and, you know, literally everything being more costly.

I need some help.

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 9d

💔 May their memories be a blessing.

White text on blue background:
"To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: You are not alone.
We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you."

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gin. @showupforthis.bsky.social · 13d

Hey folks! I'm coming out of the woods of being laid off and starting to get paychecks again, but I am in a shortfall cycle that is only going to get worse as we head into fall/winter with heating bills and food costs rising and, you know, literally everything being more costly.

I need some help.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 12d

I was just reminded that the first ebooks I ever gave away were Spider-Gwen comics by @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and I did so because she was *so excited* to do them and was asking people to buy them.

I doubt she realized how much I would enjoy doing so...

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 13d

Doing the "Doctor hands"!

Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 13d

David Tennant and Billie Piper on the stage at "FanX" in Salt Lake City, September 2025.

#DoctorWho

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 15d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 13d

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 14d

One of the other nuns looked at them when we got back, covered in mud, hands full of bone, and was like "where have you been???" And I was like "I've been leading them into sin, Sister."

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 14d

Took some nuns mudlarking, then watched as they wandered around, hands filled with vertebrae and shards of bone, showing people their finds.

I'm a good influence.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 14d

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 14d

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15d

I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within

Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread

Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 15d

Oh my god, it's him! The gar that licked the bread!

A text post from cattycattitude on tumblr. It reads "You're telling me a gar* licked this bread?
*a North American freshwater fish of the family Lepisostieidae"
The poster replies to their own post with a picture that's labelled "A helpful visual" and contains a gar (A long thin fish) licking a loaf of bread. An arrow then points to a small pile of garlic bread.

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Nicola Dimmer @flutterkit.bsky.social · 16d

Alex Kingston dancing to "Cry Me a River", love it!

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