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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Princess Pretty Ghoul @princessprettygirl.bsky.social · 5d

being a bisexual doesn't make me half straight it makes me double gay

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 3d

With the death of Twitter and also Entropy mag (RIP), there remains very little online evidence of my 2015-2017 devotion to One Direction, so you may be surprised to learn I just spent 2 hours watching a Louis Tomlinson interview and taking copious mental notes. I too am surprised, but here we are.

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 8d

My girlfriend will not be in attendance and is not a concert person but does have great taste. I too have great taste (in regions of the country).

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 8d

Achieving new heights of both Midwesternness and gayness by going to see Chappell Roan purely because I am proud of her for making a point of coming here, and also because my girlfriend thinks she's hot and talented.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 10d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 10d

Still.

Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · Jun 3

Most recent on-brand moment for me: getting to the season preview at the end of the first S2 episode of Interview with the Vampire and LEAPING to my feet to shout, “JUSTIN KIRK IS IN THIS??!!??”

Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump sign objectively, but I’ll go with the Goethe statue in Lincoln Park because I think it’d be hot.

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 11d

I have this experience every time I read it.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12d

I am not particularly pro-military but I do know that the reason why the military “went woke” is because diversity makes organizations stronger, not weaker

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Aneelin @aneelin.bsky.social · 12d

At the risk of sounding flippant about Current Times (which I assure you I do not “lol”) I’m here to say! After a long day doing your little best to stem the rising tide if fascism, what better to try & soothe your soul to regroup tomorrow than a lovely book that believes in the best of us.

Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 12d

does being trans in the US Right Now, w/ a queer romcom out in 2 weeks, feel like inching closer to a woodchipper in a clown costume? SURE. does this make it impossible to write promo posts? YES! am i forcing myself to throw my preorder link here before i 🧵 about this? BARELY: geni.us/1204-al-aut-am

COMING 16 OCTOBER 2025 [Image of blue book cover, Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, featuring two men cooking against a green backdrop with sparkles.]

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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 13d

Today in the garden.

12 foot tall Halloween skeleton looms over a 2 story house.

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wil 🦇 @itswil.bsky.social · 14d

bring me more eric adams jokes! MORE! PETER SHAMSHIRI WHERE ARE YOU

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 14d

This article from ASAN's Executive Director Colin Killick talks about how policies and misinformation from the Trump administration hurt and ignore autistic people. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I'm autistic. Trump and RFK Jr. must stop treating us like a plague to be eradicated.

Evidence for Trump's Tylenol claim is weak. Yet no prior administration has cared less about what either autism experts or autistic people have to say

www.usatoday.com

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 17d

“We’re cracking open a couple of Cold Wars with the boys.” - @aneelin.bsky.social

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 19d

Sometimes I'm afraid to reread my older published writing, but you know what? This holds the fuck up. Happy Bisexuality Day from me in 2017. www.autostraddle.com/young-adult-...

How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation

I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.

www.autostraddle.com

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 22d

Breaking news out of East Central Illinois

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 23d

If you get offered a job you’re not sure about accepting, and you have some time to think it over, take a day (or half a day, whatever you have) to imagine you’ve accepted it, and then take a day to imagine you haven’t accepted it, and see which feels better.

luna @imlunahey.com · Jan 30

people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 23d

love boarding in zone 6 for a flight, wriggling my leprous face tentacles and frightening the children and elderly with my sublime horrible poverty. “no carry-on for me! my master beelzebub shall provision me!!” i wail at the fainting ladies

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 24d

If you are a member of the Orr class

and you do not have a current and accurate passport

I cannot recommend strongly enough that you look into how to get a same-day passport appointment as soon as possible

the door may be closing very soon, and we can’t know if or when it will reopen

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24d

BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to let the State Dep't enforce Sec. Rubio's anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. A classwide injunction currently bars enforcement, allowing trans and nonbinary people to obtain accurate passports.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trans-nonb...

No. 25A
In the Supreme Court of the United States
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., APPLICANTS
ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
APPLICATION FOR A STAY OF THE INJUNCTION ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
D. JOHN SAUER
Solicitor General
Counsel of Record
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

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Selene @selenemsc.bsky.social · 25d

I’m a healthcare worker, and I support this message.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 25d

IMO it is completely and totally ethical to lie about comorbidities to get a COVID vaccine. This is not like 2021 where supply was limited and you were jumping the line in front of someone more vulnerable. We have enough vaccines! The restrictions are fake and purely anti-vax bullshit.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 26d

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"

Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 26d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 29d

I’m in that era of child-parent relationship where *I’m* the one to most reliably say, “Okay, take a deep breath,” and I won’t deny that I’m mad with the power.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Sep 10

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.

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