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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 1h

The idea of "gettin' froggy" has also taken on a fresh resonance these days-- though, of course, the people gettin' froggy in Portland are NOT the ones behaving like terries.

🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 2h

Microsoft Word's spell-check just suggested the word "Terries" to me, so I took it as a sign to watch this again.

And I'm glad I did, because the phrase "eatin' like Diane Keaton" has been in my head since yesterday (RIP), but I'd forgotten its origins.

Prepared for Terries - Key & Peele

YouTube video by Comedy Central

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t claim to be deeply familiar with many of her films, but here is my favorite Diane Keaton moment:

Diane Keaton as the mother in The Family Stone, looking at an old black-and-white photo of her pregnant self and telling her daughter (Rachel McAdams), “That’s you and me, kid.”

🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 1d

a man is dancing in a living room with the words pinot noir in the corner

Alt: Titus Andromedon from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt performing the “Pinot Noir” song.

media.tenor.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Important to note that Donald Trump’s opinion of his grand nephew with KCNQ2 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy is that he should just die

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine these being your values: I think disabled children have it too easy, they should have less stuff. That's the global right atm, those are the people we're dealing with.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

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🌶 Bonus! Eggybread Wonderlatch | Extra Hot Great

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 2d

I experienced about 3 seconds of genuine, toe-clenching, mounting panic as I started reading this.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 3d

I'm trying this again and must recommend it again!

🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · Oct 13

DELICIOUS DISCOVERY: A drizzle of lemon juice will nudge the flavor of (cold) apple cider into 🍏 Jolly Rancher territory.

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 3d

"Three eyes!"

— a bully making fun of someone with a monocle

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 4d

A few months ago, the social media team in my office at the college where I work engineered a brilliantly successful April Fool's Day joke around this:

Breaking News: Fewer Letters, Same School Spirit | April | Amherst College

www.amherst.edu

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 4d

T-shirts from my town that read, "Amherst, MA: Where only the 'h' is silent."

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 6d

I'm in no way qualified to write it, but I sincerely hope that one or more scholars are currently working on volume titled something like "Everyone Is Twelve Now: On Childhood and Childishness in Authoritarian America"

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 6d

The grand unified “Everyone is Twelve” theory is a legit contribution to contemporary thought and critique. We really are ruled by evil adult children!

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 5d

"That wain Georgie lost the arm of himself!"

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 5d

:: imagining "We all float down here" spoken in a Northern Irish accent ::

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 6d

I'm in no way qualified to write it, but I sincerely hope that one or more scholars are currently working on volume titled something like "Everyone Is Twelve Now: On Childhood and Childishness in Authoritarian America"

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 6d

The grand unified “Everyone is Twelve” theory is a legit contribution to contemporary thought and critique. We really are ruled by evil adult children!

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 6d

And Nicole *Kid man* is an *adult woman*?!

~Tilda is short for Slam In The Back Of My Dratilda @hulcricket.bsky.social · 6d

hollup the guy named keith *urban* is a *country* singer and we just gonna let that one go?!?

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 6d

And Nicole *Kid man* is an *adult woman*?!

~Tilda is short for Slam In The Back Of My Dratilda @hulcricket.bsky.social · 6d

hollup the guy named keith *urban* is a *country* singer and we just gonna let that one go?!?

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🎃 Katherine Duke but with pumpkins 🎃 @katducduk.bsky.social · 6d

I get the impression I might be the only Millennial who does not know and love "Mr. Brightside." I've somehow never listened to it all the way through. I heard a bunch of people singing it out the windows of a bus the other day, and I recognized it only because I've seen the lyrics quoted in memes.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.