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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 9h

I have this on hold at the library but that last one's gonna make me just buy a copy 🤣

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 16h

Happy one-month-i-versary to Breakout Year, which Rachel Reid called "a sweet, soft, and sexy delight."

and Grace Reilly called "an absolutely delicious slow burn."

and my sports friends called "surprisingly accurate for a book that's thirsty about teffilin."

www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Flint is 8 years old today. To celebrate, here's a non-exhaustive list of things he's put in my bed in those 8 years:

-2 grout sponges
-a steak knife
-a whole steak
-several live lizards
-1 dead lizard
-a bag of avocados
-numerous half-eaten tomatoes
-a live mouse
-his favorite toys

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 10h

"thirsty about tefillin" is so niche 😅 I can't wait to read this book!

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 15h

now if I could just get kosher boudin balls, I'd be in heaven.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 15h

I have been searching everywhere for chicken andouille sausage to make kosher gumbo. Speaking of, here's a great recipe from Michael Twitty's Koshersoul book:

Okra Gumbo

From his food memoir "Koshersoul," Michael Twitty's okra gumbo recipe is a vegetable-forward take on the classic Southern dish. With the addition of matzoh balls, it makes a perfect plate for Passover...

www.latimes.com

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 16h

oh thank goodness because I was about to be like [stares in cajun jew]

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 16h

My favorite drug commercial list item is "...OR DEATH"

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 19h

And gave a secular and intellectual gloss to the Islamophobic wars of the Bush era.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 19h

Really hoping AMC's Vampire Lestat gets super weird with Armand and Daniel. I mean, in the books Armand imprisons Daniel then releases him to hunt him for sport and they eventually bone about it. (I read this when I was 13)

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 19h

and sorry to be all guilt trippy, but the more vulnerable people you throw under the bus, the fewer there will be to help when the fascists finally come for you. We only survive this through actual material solidarity.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 20h

People who live rent free in my head: the rich white ladies who would come into the bookshop to buy smutty romantasy books then yell at us for "selling pornography to minors" because we stocked Heartstopper.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 20h

shhhh I know how drug trials and side effects reporting work. It's still a very silly thing to read on the side of my asthma meds.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 20h

"possible side effects include: asthma attack" - the daily med I take to...prevent asthma attacks.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 21h

🤣🤣🤣 I was in bed with a book at 8pm on Saturday night. 21-year-old me is shaking her head.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 21h

My friendo's book is on sale! and it's really awesome!

Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 22h

*trying to ignore state of universe for 2 seconds*

It's week 2 of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe's SUPER SALE! Just $1.99 on eBook at most fine retailers and also Jeff's. (Pls share, it helps)

Bookshop
bookshop.org/p/books/a-bi...

Jeff's Amazon
www.amazon.com/Ship-Edge-Un...

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

Check out A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe - <B>A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adv...

bookshop.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

Despite my own personal lack of faith, I am not sympathetic to people harassing other folks for believing in the supernatural/godly. I’m especially not sympathetic to ignorant atheists who are so Christiancentric that they assume all religions work the way evangelical Christianity does.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic reminder that you can put a little basket in your bathroom closet with condoms and fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction stuff, and you can tell your teenagers you don't track it and it can be for them or any of their friends and you can regularly replace it if it's used or expires

A photo of a small container with condoms and fentanyl test strips.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Me: minding my own business, making stuffed peppers for dinner

My long covid dysautonomia:

a cartoon character named spongebob is standing in the sand with a pineapple in the background

Alt: a cartoon character named spongebob is standing in the sand with a pineapple in the background

media.tenor.com

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it is and it's incredibly annoying and condescending, just like any other form of proselytizing.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Messy vampire gay exes!

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 2d

A new look at ‘THE VAMPIRE LESTAT’ has been released.

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 1d

AMC's Interview with the Vampire is the type of book adaptation I love: one that has the guts to improve on the source material. SO EXCITED for the Vampire Lestat.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

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