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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 12h

good lord 😵‍💫

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 13h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 14h

🫂 I'm feeling it this morning too. Hope you manage to shake it off 💗

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 1d

THE BEASTMEN BRAY.

Illustration for MONSTER CONDO by @tidalwavegames.com!

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 3d

It's just twitter. Bsky is just twitter. Everyone was put off by the actually decentralized platforms and went to Twitter 2 instead. And now Twitter 2 is rapidly collapsing into Twitter 1 and we're all gonna act surprised even though it was literally made by the same people.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 3d

me when i turn off the computer to read my weird little books

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 4d

These mf think they can solve everything with more software. The fact that they don't understand that what they've built is literally just Twitter - near functionally identical - and the only differentiating factor is the audience and moderation is extremely on brand.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 4d

no good can come from this. it is the solemn responsibility of trans people worldwide to do everything within our power to stop cis men from reading or writing ever books again.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.”

The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 4d

Just out here fixing civilization. By reading fiction. As a man.

You’re welcome, ladies.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 4d

I have mixed feelings on this, cause I've been on E for ~4 years and it is very hard for me to not be read as a guy to cis people. I can't guarantee what E may do in terms of how you read to other people.

But what my gender reads as matters way less to me than the fact that I fkn love my body on E

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 4d

The way some early transition girls doom post about their bodies has me like this

CHARUPOPU🆖🍒 @charupopu.bsky.social · 9d

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🔞Talia Zed 🏳️‍⚧️ @taliazed.bsky.social · 5d

You should be spending your weekend with a fat slut 💙

Talia standing nude in a sleeveless sweater

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 4d

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Hindpaw @hindpaw.bsky.social · 6d

Agility Dragonite fanart based on a 2 second gag from the most recent @bigyellowsilly.bsky.social RBY meta video

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 5d

It's not just me right? My ass looks insane here lol

#nsfwsky #transnsfw #mtf #transfem #ass

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 5d

Godzilla Minus One took me from being casually into Godzilla due to liking Kaiju stuff in general to being a rabid Godzilla enjoyer. I've been working my way through the classics because of it, and still nothing quite measures up to it except maybe the original. Genuinely one of my favs of all time

Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social · 5d

I am extremely late to the party on GODZILLA MINUS ONE. But omg why did this film not win every award it possible could on planey earth?!?! Beyond the effects being amazing, what a story of heart and soul. Dammit I need to see it on a big screen.

Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 7d

Like, Klein is strategically wrong, too. The left can't win by leaving people behind. Dems have tried that strategy and it doesn't work. But Coates doesn't even entertain it, not just for strategic reasons, but because politics is about people that matter to him. It's not just winning or losing.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 7d

It's not just regulating their emotions either. Coates was the only person in that conversation who seemed like he *had* emotions. Klein was so focused on the fact that his side lost the election that he completely lost track of feeling sympathetic for the people actually being hurt by this admin

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 7d

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 7d

It’s obvious to me that he resents the places his theories cannot reach. And this resentment invokes a profound lack of curiosity, an intellectual eye-roll, for the stories of those who have always had to know what he can’t fathom. That’s why his analysis is flawed. And why he won’t see that.

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Howl's Moving Ass @howlscake.bsky.social · 7d

I don't see adult content on here unspoilered so I don't have trouble with that, but like... I am increasingly feeling the dichotomy between 'normal' at work and 'normal' around my social group that is entirely queer & trans and very casual about sexuality

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