Ren
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Ren
@renboyle.bsky.social
Romance writer and reader. I like making stuff. Obsessed with Watergate.
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Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.”
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Ah, I see sex scenes are today's Discourse?

I'm just going to note that portrayals of sexuality that focus on how it can be abusive, or depressing, or gross usually qualify as art and are sometimes labeled great art.

Curious that portrayals of pleasurable sex are treated with more skepticism.
December 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I continue to think that he doesn't know his diagnosis. They're keeping him in the dark--there's no way someone this addled doesn't just spit it out.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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This is incredible
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Assuming Trump has Alzheimer's--does he know? Have they told him? In stark enough terms to make him comprehend it, I mean.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Found my kid watching some dubious "sciencey" Mr Beast lite and got her watching mythbusters instead. She is *enthralled*
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My child listened to Country Roads 31 times in one day and fucked my Spotify wrapped.
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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here we go

*HOUSE PANEL RECEIVES JPMORGAN, DEUTSCHE BANK EPSTEIN RECORDS
*HOUSE OVERSIGHT DEMOCRATS RELEASING JPMORGAN EPSTEIN FILES SOON
*HOUSE PANEL DEMOCRATS TO RELEASE DEUTSCHE BANK EPSTEIN FILES
*HOUSE PANEL DEMOCRAT RELEASES US VIRGIN ISLANDS EPSTEIN FOOTAGE
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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So the lesson is: if Republicans freak out, spend all the money they can in the last two weeks, and get good rural turnout, they can limit Democratic overperformance relative to 2024 to 16 points.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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There are few positions more immediately clarifying than a person’s stance on the r-word.
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Whamageddon but for whatever new sex act Ryan Lizza just wrote about.
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Feeling v pleased with my choice of advent calendar.
December 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I feel like the r-word used to be a word no one would ever spell out fully, even when quoting someone else, and I'd really like to go back to that practice.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holiday movie season kicks off with a traditional viewing of Miracle on 34th Street. (The original in black and white, ofc.)

(Alt text isn't working for me, but the gif below shows the creepiest boy in the world waving hello to Christmas movies.)
a black and white photo of a young boy in a suit and tie .
ALT: a black and white photo of a young boy in a suit and tie .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I feel like I’m being non consensually pulled in to other people’s kink universe. Oh you sat on your hands and knees and arranged all her majesty’s shoes? And she still cheated on you with men she found in a peat bog? Should we throw a key party? Should we invite Keith Olbermann
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid

(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Say the line, Bill.
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Oh! Oh!
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I want to note a statistic I often find quoted online, and what I believe to be the source:

“Prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with […] over seven-fold odds (OR 7.48, 95% CI 4.53–12.35) of becoming a completed homicide.”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM