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Kip Manley

@kiplet.bsky.social

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Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, three cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · Oct 11

Attently reading, as one does.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 2h

Ocean's Nine when?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

ok counterpoint maybe bari is gonna learn how reporting works

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 11h

As I'm moving from hoping to meet my funding goal into actually producing my 'Zine Storage Boxes I have been revising the design. This one is "A Love Letter to Self-Publishing", very similar to what I mocked up initially, but less messy and busy, and I think nicer www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

A mockup of the Love Letter to Self-Publishing 'Zine Storage Box. Mostly pale yellows, pinks and purples, the design mimics the famous Marvel Comics 25th Anniversary edition covers, except is filled with all your favorite characters from the world of self-published and indie comics. Yes, SMILE was originally a minicomic.

A better view of the 25th Anniversary design. Text on the graphic states, "A 'Zine is something homemade, personal, not created with mass-appeal in mind. maybe your 'zine only means something to a small group of people, but to those people it means so much"

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 10h

The split, as ever, as always, is between those who believe property rights are paramount, and those who believe human rights are.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 11h

What do you think would happen if Columbo got sent to The Village from "The Prisoner"

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 15h

(Oh, this is a damn CAVE )

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 15h

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 1d

Say the line, Bart! three panel meme but it’s SAY THE LINE, ZACH and then then I HAVE A COPY OF THAT BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO READING IT YET and then the cheering

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Wavering, here. Does ACAB include Doc Sportello?

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSS thank you

loaner of an only heart 🏳️‍⚧️ @notaname.bsky.social · 1d

the whole thing is here archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · Feb 11

What other man could pull off that décolettage? Those jodhpurs?

Picard with Vash on Risa. He's wearing a loose-fitting blouse with a plunging neckline.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Just started re-reading The Once And Future King, and T.H. White is throwing paragraphs like this at me. Just describing a medieval haying.

I mean, goddammit, is this guy trying to make me too ashamed to ever write again?

The day after Sir Grummore's visit was sweltering for the men who toiled from milking to milking and then again till sunset in their battle with the sultry element. For the hay was an element to them, like sea or air, in which they bathed and plunged themselves and which they even breathed in. The seeds and small scraps stuck in their hair, their mouths, their nostrils, and worked, tickling, inside their clothes. They did not wear many clothes, and the shadows between their sliding muscles were blue on the nut-brown skins. Those who feared thunder had felt ill that morning.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Dang it, I keep thinking it's Friday, dang it.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Becky's Basilisk

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, hey, the Democrats must be scoring points with the health care message—the Times is running stories about how nobody's paying attention to it.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to note that invoking the phrase “white pride” in Portland has particular meaning. In 1988 a group of neo-Nazi skinheads called “East Side White Pride” murdered an Ethiopian immigrant in SE Portland. www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ser...

Mulugeta Seraw (1960–1988)

Near Laurelhurst Park in Portland, above the street signs at Southeast Thirty-First Street and Pine, is a two-sided topper featuring the smiling face of a youn…

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

"Between the zip gun and the prayers, those people really calmed down."

Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

Just about to lock the 45th novelette, which means Patreons and Comrades will shortly be seeing the track listing: sign up! Join in!

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 2d

A ha!

Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, Agent Carter had a girlfriend?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

When the Trump regime says "Antifa", they don't only mean protesters, but in their own words: "anti-capitalists; pro-immigrant and anti-racism advocates; all trans people; and anyone with hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." Remember that.

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David Lafuente 💀 @davidlafuente.bsky.social · 2d

This story is 25 years old
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Zot! Online - Week 1

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