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@follypersist.bsky.social

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Juliet L'mous. they/them. borges, hamlet, teaching, christmas, and friends at the table. making a new home again and again

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · Dec 19

four times a year, I'LL BE POD FOR CASTMAS comes to you with a heart full of light, a book full of research, and a podcast full of cheer.

this winter we're mixing it up, covering disney's FROZEN (2009) and ursula k le guin's THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (1969)

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I'll Be Pod for Castmas advertising its Winter 2024 season, discussing Frozen, the famous Folgers' commercial, and The Left Hand of Darkness

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 35m

ohhh it's because you can keep "quest"ing for"ever"

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 12h

i *think* it's Trix? one of the fruity ones with shapes, where it can have multiple colors in one shape

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 12h

that 2am craving for a breakfast cereal you haven't had in twenty years

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 22h

he's sooo good and the fact that his role in Wu-Tang is still "the goofy stoner one" and not "the greatest rapper ever who accidentally ended up friends with a bunch of weirdos" is an astounding display of being chill

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 23h

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Warriors Two, Cooley High

YouTube video by Wu-Tang Clan - Topic

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 23h

"i bet him one that's next to nothing i'm top ten"

- the number one is "next to" no one (no one is better than the number one)
- the number 1 is always already "next to" both the numbers 2 (two) and 0 (nothing)
- the number 1 (one), "next to" 0 (nothing) is how you spell the number 10 (ten)

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 23h

method man has the benefit of both intricately rhymed and referenced lyrics and an incredible flow, but just to sample a single couplet from one song (Warriors Two, Cooley High) from this year, 2025:

My arms strong, I handle bars, let y'all pedal
We not friends, you can't relate, we not kin
I bet him one, that's next to nothin', I'm top ten

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 1d

hello — i'm nb and a co-host on Beacon of Creation, a weekly podcast about game design through the lens of magic the gathering! we review custom cards for our design challenges every month and it's been a joy to see an ever-increasing number of trans folk submit designs beaconofcreation.libsyn.com

Beacon of Creation

A show about design in Magic: the Gathering. Each week we cover both official cards and custom cards made by the community. The weekly design challenge gives you the opportunity to make it on the show...

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 1d

wild that five years ago sufjan gave us "don't do to me what you did to america"

juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 2d

industry veteran assures you that face-eating leopards have their uses, and that a turning point will surely be reached soon

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 2d

pang tong foretold a kingdom cut in thirds

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 3d

instantly 100x your short story writing prowess by asking yourself these 50 questions every time you write a short story joylandpublishing.com/fiction/50-q...

50 Questions to Ask About Your Story

Does my story have a big enough concept? Does my story have interesting characters? Does my story have interesting set pieces? Does my story have an interesting conflict? Does my story have big eno...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

The state is not a personal slush fund for the monarch, but Trump is absolutely determined to use the tools of the 21st century along with the economics of the 19th to rule like it's the 17th century

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 3d

there *should* be a random chance of encountering a muppet in your day-to-day. like, .1% of the population should be muppets, minimum

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 3d

This small-town numismatic became a self-taught expert in identifying coin-clipping and debasement through the long, hard work of holding plenty of coins in her hands. As her vision started to fade at twenty-five, her dream became clear: to follow the currents of forgeries upstream to their mints.

juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 4d

watching the @jonbois.bsky.social scorigami videos with my bf this weekend! it's so cool to see someone make art out of the math of sports. like three things that seem disparately different coming together to tell the story of history, of the future, of human rules creating human behaviors

juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 5d

vertiginous futures don't cushion the fall but you will still be living in one of them

juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 5d

the best path is the one that is walked, the best meal is the one that is eaten

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 6d

tonight i'm thinking about the five times Estragon asks "we're not tied?"

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The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 7d

Riley, Marn, and MK are BACK tonight to bravely march deeper into the horrors of Silent Hill F! See you at 7:30 EST / 6:30 CST on moonshot.mov!

Riley, Marn, and MK peek around an open shoji door at the shadow of a Silent Hill monster with a sickle. Text reads:

Silent Hill Friendship Fridays
7:30 EST / 6:30 CST
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 7d

A lot of people are being almost willfully dense about this, including Jay et al, but like... it's not purely about Jesse Singal, it's about Singal against the backdrop of incredibly ban-happy moderation. It's about how seemingly there's one rule for normal people and another for transphobic freaks.

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Megan Carnes @magmacranes.bsky.social · 7d

My day is off to a bad start, and also it’s Bandcamp Friday! You know what that means: buy my music so I’ll be less sad and have more money for little treats

Megan Carnes

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 7d

hooray!!

juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 7d

i often wonder if timelines were slightly shifted. if it began six months later and closed six months later, would it have closed at all? would the xitter exodus have buoyed the user numbers above certain thresholds? so many better worlds were narrowly in reach but not in this one's grasp

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 8d

f's in chat. my favorite breakfast protein shake now has entirely unnecessary monkfruit added