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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · Oct 10

My hobbies include dispelling harmful stereotypes and really fagging up the room

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 2h

I had to triple check that this wasn't an Onion article

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 6h

Taylor Swift announces ‘The Life of a Showgirl (Deluxe So Glamorous Cabaret Version).’

Available until midnight.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 9h

When parakeets cosplay

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right

Alt: Michael Fassbender as Magneto in X-Men First Class saying "Perfection"

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Colin @csmith03.bsky.social · 2h

Mayor Quimby wreathed in flame with what look like horns. Caption reads “Flames added electronically by Channel 6”

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 2h

Marin Mazzie!!

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 3h

Betty Gilpin elevates everything she's in

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3h

40k Primarchs as 30 Rock Quotes

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John Coons/Teo @johncoons.bsky.social · 4h

As it exists, I don’t believe that SCOTUS is actually a place that interprets the law or exists to seek justice. It is a lever of power and a numbers game, and I have no respect for it as an institution.

There is no consistency or true philosophy at work, save this: they do what they want.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 12h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 4h

non-platonically is also fine

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 4h

I have consistently been torn between spelling it "mustache" and "moustache", both look equally correct to me

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 4h

Someone platonically slide into my DMs before I fall asleep at my desk

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 4h

I'm bored and sleepy at work, which is Bad

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 6h

As someone who knows and understands the context of this post I get exactly what you mean and where you are coming from but as a homosexual I respectively disagree

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 7h

Arguably a collection of words, but El Camino Real

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 7h

The thing about circumcision that always gets me is that the reason it became so popular among gentiles in America specifically is because in the late 19th and early 20th century quack doctors thought masturbation was a huge health hazard and they thought infant circumcision would help prevent it

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 8h

I am never not thinking about this Scientific American article

www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-i...

Is Inequality Inevitable?

Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests

www.scientificamerican.com

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 8h

It's not only a false promise that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty, it has actually been proven scientifically that free-market economies will inevitably (as in, ALWAYS) begin to concentrate wealth in the hands of an increasingly small number of people over time

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 12h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h

We put out this classic Dig Boston cover 20 years ago this month. horizonmass.news/2025/10/09/t...

two big boys having a nice time at the ballgame

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 9h

Same

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree https://theonion.com/area-man-has-far-greater-knowledge-of-marvel-universe-t-1819571080/

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 10h

Newer folks will never understand what it was like to see a grown human stick their dick into a can of beans for twelves likes on a niche microblogging platform

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

what was bluesky like in 2023 example #3091

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 21h

So @sinclairinat0r.com …

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 20h

How could it NOT

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 20h

He posted this picture in 2019 and I a) have yet to stop thinking about it, and b) have so many questions specifically about the nipple ring

A photo of David Castañeda shirtless that he posted to Twitter where he mentioned that his abs were painted in. He also has a fake scar but I have questions about the nipple ring

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 23h

It's p good actually!