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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 16h

there is nothing in the rules of baseball that says that a game has to end

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like this would be an excellent time to remind everyone about the giant frog who taught Rabbi Hanina Torah.

The dish was set upon the Seder table, and when Rabbi Hanina opened it, he found a second dish within, and inside of this a live frog, jumping and hopping around gleefully. He gave the frog food and drink, and by the end of the festival he was grown so big that Rabbi Hanina made a cabinet for him, in which he ate and lived. In the course of time, the cabinet became too small, and the Rabbi built a chamber, put the frog within, and gave him abundant food and drink. All this he did that he might not violate his father's last wish. But the frog waxed and grew; he

consumed all his host owned, until, finally, Rabbi Hanina was stripped bare of all his possessions. Then the frog opened his mouth and began to speak. "My dear Rabbi Hanina," he said, "do not worry! Seeing thou didst raise me and care for me, thou mayest ask of me whatever thy heart desireth, and it shall be granted thee." Rabbi Hanina made reply, "I desire naught but that thou shouldst teach me the whole of the Torah." The frog assented, and he did, indeed, teach him the whole of the Torah, and the seventy languages of men besides. His method was

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 23h

outside wolf

A scanned image of a sketchpage. The early life cycle of a wolf is depicted in drawings and text: "Take a wolf." [a quadrupedal wolf.] "Make him bipedal." [He is standing on two plantigrade legs.] "Dress him in clothes from the department store." [He wears pants and a rugby shirt, one leg propped up on a small box.] "Give him a 20 year long interdisciplinary education." [He is seen as a high school math student, looking at a wall clock while using a graphing calculator. As a college student, timing the movement of a film development can. As a graduate student, looking at mortarboards being tossed in the air.] "He is now ready to go outside!" [He is once again on all fours, albeit still in bidepal form, wearing kneepads and a harness which reads "MASTER'S DEGREE- OK TO PET."

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 1d

I hope someone loves you on purpose today. Says Skeletor yelling from the top of a castle he probably stole from someone.

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The Big Bad Wolf @tbbw1.bsky.social · 23h

"When you strike The Frog with pepper balls, it [splits into a swarm of frogs or calls up all the other frogs in the land]."

There's some debate over the text. 🤣🐺

The Portland frog standing defiant against tyranny.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Saturn Song @saturnsong.bsky.social · 1d

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Six Dettmar @six.scanlinemedia.com · 1d

You might be thinking “Fallen London is so big, there’s no way you could get a decent sample after playing for just a month.” And you know, that’s fair. Very big game. Criticism accepted.

That’s why we started six months ago.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 3d

For the month of October, Novel Not New is getting spooky (or spooky-adjacent) with special guest Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social as we play and discuss Fallen London! We’ll publish a proper call for questions later, but in case you want to get in yours early, our address is [email protected].

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 1d

Glitch Productions has partnered with the ’Lackadaisy’ team to produce a TV show.

More episodes, minutes and music will be included in the show, which will be co-produced by them.

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to the woman who let me in on the fact that I was queer 🌈

Rumic World @furinkan.com · 1d

A very happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi! Born on October 10, 1957 in Niigata, she is entering into her 47th year as a mangaka! Happy birthday, sensei!

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 1d

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

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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laenan.bsky.social @laenan.bsky.social · 1d

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 7d

Friends, after almost a year of hoop-jumping, @pugliacci.bsky.social's top surgery is at the end of the month. This is a thread with a couple options/links to help support us during the recovery period after we've launched his tits into the sun.

Pat and Jasper posing together. Pat's making a goofy shocked face and Jasper's trying to smile as if Pat isn't a total doofus... or maybe because they are?

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 1d

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Apr 25

Hemry, Local Bartender
@BartenderHemry
"What's UP youtube, it's ya boi Ishmael.
We've got my man Queequeg on the stream today, so make sure you smash that like button if you wanna see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them."
12:13 PM • Dec 1, 2020

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 4d

"Poetry is something that is ineffable, ephemeral, inexplicably alive. It is ageless and immortal. Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is about his father and Our Father. Fathers is where the poetry of it lives. It is, itself, poetry. My God, it’s beautiful."

This review is beautiful.

Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 4d

Heard @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN sneaked at BeyondFest. Here's my review of it from Telluride: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 1d

"i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

A green line drawing featuring a figure looking out the port window of a space craft unto the glowing planet below. Various plants sit on the table. The text beneath reads: "i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

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HIDIVE @hidive.com · 2d

We don’t use AI for subtitles. Every line is carefully timed and translated by real people (who cry during finales and debate Best Girls, just like you).

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Herheim@Commissions open!/リクエスト大歓迎 @herheim731.bsky.social · 3d

#Claymore #クレイモア

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: a data hoarder created a searchable data of Epstein files. "This is a public service project. All documents are from public releases. This archive makes them more accessible and searchable."

www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

www.404media.co

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