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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 7h

Missy Elliott and “Get Ur Freak On” coming through from 2001 with a perfect response for people who want to prompt their way through AI to “write” lol

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 12h

This review made me very wary. Spoilers in the review. blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

blackgirlwatching.substack.com

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 9h

My timeline is full of people quote-skeeting “This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:” and I’m stealing this middle school crush post so i can join in. You may have to imagine him dancing, but that is not hard!

Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 10h

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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 10h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck:

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Wolf Studios Art @wolfstudiosart.bsky.social · 12h

Salty Sally lost me like 20 followers over on IG, hopefully you guys like her better because I think she’s cute

Cartoony illustration of a cute tattooed woman with a big bushy blonde beard and a red woolly sailor hat. She’s wearing a nautical themed tank top and shorts. An old timey compass against a blue backdrop is behind her.

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Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social · 12h

Vile, Wrecked & Rotten has been announced! I wrote this musical graphic novel with Steve Burns, aka “Steve from Blue’s Clues,” aka one of my best friends, and it’s being illustrated by my dude @jimcampbellart.bsky.social, whose work you might know from an obscure tv show called Over the Garden Wall.

Rob Valois at Penguin Workshop has acquired, at auction, world rights to Vile, Wrecked, & Rotten, a musical middle grade graphic novel about the misadventures of Joanie Rotten, the 11-year-old protégé of two kid-phobic composers who ply their trade in the music-loving metropolis of San Orchestropolis, by Gabe Soria (I.) (The Midnight Arcade); Steve Burns (c.), host of Alive with Steve Burns and star of Blue's Clues; and Jim Campbell (r.), Eisner Award-winning artist of Over the Garden Wall. Publication is set for summer 2027; Charlie Olsen at InkWell Management represented Soria and Campbell, and Chad Kojouri at Range Media Partners represented Burns.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11h

You can keep potstickers in your freezer and whip up a quick sauce, maybe some sauteed vegetables, in a matter of minutes when you're too tired to cook a real meal. They do not want you to know this.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 12h

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13h

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 13h

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15h

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 16h

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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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 13h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 13h

Q: did you watch Little House on the Prairie as a kid? Because that is the only place I can imagine that I heard it as “primmer.” If I’d learned the concept from the books (which I read and re-read a bunch) I think I’d be team “prime-er” too.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 14h

So you don’t have to miss your kitty! A cunning plan!

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🔥🧊 @chrisdafer.bsky.social · 18h

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

we've had two democratic presidents obsessed with turning the page and all it did was give the gop time to sharpen their knives before plunging it in our collective backs.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 21h

Yup. Unless your visit to the DC offices with @definitelyvita.bsky.social came first. But we definitely bonded on Twitter!

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

people not from LA maybe don’t get how mixed into nature it is

from my balcony, in addition to squirrels and songbirds, I’ve seen:

hummingbirds
ravens
hawks (one even crashed into our balcony door)
parrots
bats
raccoons
possums
coyotes (sauntering right out in the street looking for pets to eat)

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

An illustration of Alice in Wonderland with that cat on a tree. Text bubble from cat says "We're all a little mad here." text bubble from Alice says "At me?"

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

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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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1d

Can't believe they bailed on the show before Godot showed up.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question: did you need to buy special pants that gave you that freedom to move?

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

effinbirds.com/post/7803730...

A painting of a bird beside the text "I appear to have overestimated the fuck out of your intelligence"

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

Me doubled over from preeclampsia: oh my god I hope this facility isn't compensated for setting an immigrant child's broken bone

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

In this scenario, where I'm a pregnant woman having some kind of medical emergency, I'm supposed to care how much money the hospital makes from treating me? Why? The fuck is he talking about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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