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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 3h

"The definite proof that my semi-to-completely unhinged bullshit ideas are correct is this thing that says the exact fucking opposite"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

When you’re that rich no one ever tells you to shut the fuck up so you think everything you have to say is interesting

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 7h

Text of a 3800-year-old letter from the noblewoman Šewirum-uprat to her king, Zimri-lin, in the city-state of Mari.

Šewirum-uprat is not upset at Sin-mušallim for cheating on her with her nanny--that's not what this is about.

Šewirum-uprat finally found a good nanny--and Sin-mušallim took her!

"I have not (yet) heard from you. Here you have left me, and here I have been wronged. So, remove my tears. Sin-musallim has wronged me and has taken my nanny. Now she is living in his house. Had my lord taken her, and had she lived in his house, I would have been glad. But Sin-musallim has wronged me. Since you have established justice, establish justice for me. Give me back my nanny, so that I could bless you before Teshub and Hepat. May my lord not refuse me this lady. Establish your authority in my behalf."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14h

Book Cover of the Day:

LADIES of
THE GOTHIC
Tales OF Romance and Terror of the Gentle Sex
SELECTED BY Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis
Design of woman sitting on coffin with hand on a skull in front of gothic building.

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 15h

Theda helps me change the sheets

Fluffy black cat sitting on a stripped bed looking slightly alarmed. There's a metal head board and black curtains behind her

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 17h

.......I'm generally agnostic about Halloween costumes. I don't care how old you are or what you dress up as, show up, get candy.

But this. Show up as ICE and I will howl like a fucking banshee and chase your ass down the street.

Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 22h

I know, right now, there are some white boys thinking it will be funny to go as ICE for Halloween. I'm a just say, don't let "Cleverness" walk you into a beat down. I assure you, for many, the treat would be showing you just how unfunny you are. Trick around and find out.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like we could solve the reading crisis by bringing back the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program but for adults.

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 19h

I was starting to wonder where he was, glad he showed

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19h

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 19h

Today on the trail was more like it ☺️

Usual view of Salmon Creek from the Felida end of the trail, gray sky, everything wet from the rain

Blasted tree at the bend of the creek, gray sky, big clouds

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 21h

Gen X Dad vs Gen Z Son:
Homecoming Dance

Me: Let me Iron that shirt
Son: It's too late for that
Me: Can't wear a wrinkled Shirt!
Son: Nobody cares!
Me: Johnny Gill would care!
Son: Who?!

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 1d

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are 💯 responsible for shielding the pedophiles they once promised to expose.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for stoking civil unrest across the country. They’ve peddled in inflammatory rhetoric for years, outlawed anti-fascism, weaponized the DOJ, ICE and the National Guard.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

1. AIDS crisis
2. Challenger
3. Berlin Wall
4. 2 Live Crew 1st Amendment
5. AOL

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 21h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 22h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 1d

#vintagead

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 1d

This movie is surprisingly good. It just gets better as it goes along.

horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 1d

Phantom of the Monastery. 1934. Three friends shelter from a terrible storm in a haunted monastery. Neglected Mexican classic, among the finest gothic chillers of the 30s.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

Given that the whole point is to keep escalating the violence, this is the most effective form of protest. It undermines their narrative of a "violent mob", and every time they try to escalate, they'll just look goofy as hell beating a bunch of inflatable animals.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 1d

This. First time I saw it was in a theater and therefore had to keep my reactions to myself so I was basically the blinking guy gif the entire time

Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 1d

2025 watch #143: Possession. Hahahahaha holy shit what the fuck

Isabelle Adjani going beast mode in the subway in a scene from the 1981 film possession

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1d

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 1d

Had a bit of a fallow period in the charity shops recently but this Ken Currie exhibition catalogue from the early 90s might mark a change in fortunes

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙 @rekhet.bsky.social · 1d

I'd never heard of him so I looked him up and wow

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

the correct response to scaremongering about trans kids in sports is:
1) kids should be able to play sports with their friends
2) you want the government inspecting yr kid’s genitals? asking for chromosome and hormone tests? seems messed up!
3) sports governing bodies also already figured this out

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Oct 27

Fun size memento mori

Albert Jansz Vinckenbrinck, Miniature skull with case, c. 1650-c. 1664, boxwood (skull), shagreen leather with copper and gilt-copper and green velvet (case), 1.6 in x 1.4 in x 2.2 in (4 cm × 3.5 cm × 5.5 cm), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 🎃💀

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini, Pope Alexander VII with Bernini's skull (1655-56), Art Collection of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Rome. Pope Alexander VII sits in an elaborately carved chair, carved with the Chigi coat of arms, and rests his hands on a carved skull on the desk in front of him and looks out at the viewer

A realistic, life-size marble skull with teeth missing, carved out of marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1655)

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 1d

For these spooky times from the times when I felt capable of doing spooky illustrations

An illustration of a black cat taking a stroll around a suburb of America at Halloween. Pumpkins, white sheet ghosts outside wooden houses and a crow looks down at it all from the roof of a house. A starry sky. Black crosshatch pen and rolled printmaking ink on white paper. Pencil drawing outlines underneath the ink.

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