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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 58m

I made a disparaging remark about pickles and my wife accused me of being a "pickle hater."

I agreed, I am... because they deserve it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1h

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 10h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 10h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Tansy 🔞 🔜 Furpoc AA @tansy.bsky.social · 8h

Patches tank top. What are our thoughts

A tank top featuring several small drawings of my little dog comfort sona Patches alongside the text: I love vaccines, autism, abortions, queers, hormone replacement therapy, & crime!

This text is originally from a vintage punk button from the 70s and doesn’t belong to any particular person that is traceable. I changed a couple works, replacing “homosexuals” with “queers” and “sex changes” with”hormone replacement therapy.”

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 5h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h

comics to read in your comfy deck chair on the titanic

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 18h

The map's form: relocatable pins
It shows: where things happened
Its purpose: to discourage

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

This is all part of the Trump crime family’s effort to justify invoking the Insurrection Act, by the clever technique of simply making shit up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from The Denton Observatory!

🔭 #Astrophotography

A comment with a greenish tinged nucleus, and, and light yellow tail. There are multiple stars in the background. There are satellite trails through throughout the photo.

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 1d

Heard "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on @wxpnfm.bsky.social this morning.

Cripes, decades later that song will still wreck you.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 1d

Interview with @vanessafogg.bsky.social about her upcoming collection, THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS!

@interstellarflight.bsky.social

Author Interview * Vanessa Fogg

Vanessa Fogg has long been one of my favorite writers. Several of her short stories are on my secret “all-time best” list, so it’s a treat to learn about her new collection, The House of Illusionis…

mynachang.com

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 1d

Check it out at Interstellar Flight Press & while you're there you can sign up for the online launch on November 3!

The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg

A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...

www.interstellarflightpress.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 2d

Paging @jeremyteg.bsky.social for the intersection of philosophy nerdery with linguistic pedantry and misc nonsense.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 2d

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 2d

"Vanessa Fogg is one such bard, using her words to illuminate the emotions, the ambitions, the hopes and desires, and sometimes fears, of humanity."

A lovely review for my upcoming book, The House of Illusionists! @interstellarflight.bsky.social

templetongate.net/house-of-ill...

Templeton Gate 3.0 - Literature - The House of Illusionists, and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg

Reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, films, comics and television shows

templetongate.net

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 2d

someone uncool wrote this

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

Medimedi

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

If you run a marathon without training, you get to brag about it. If you don't finish, well, you didn't train so you didn't really fail.

People want to be able to say they wrote a song, or a book, or a screenplay, or a beautiful drawing. But they don't want the work that actually entails.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 2d

This thing about referring to comedians as “truth tellers” is that none of them are capable of saying “I fucked up and I’m sorry”

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

New rule: You’re not allowed to make decisions about women’s bodies if you don’t know that pee and babies come out of different holes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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