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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 19h

yeah I don't know if the actual content of the cartoon was edited, probably not

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20h

All my comics have happy endings!

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 19h

here they were called the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because of the lengthy and intense moral panic about ninjas

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haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · 3d

LOOK AT THOSE DEAD EYES when Pollitt was “out of stage costume”! if that’s not an historical trans woman, i don’t know who is

a figure from page 38 of the revised edition of “Perdurabo”, depicting Herbert Pollitt in “costume” as a “female impersonator” looking fucking unclockable, next to Pollitt “out of stage costume”, with the deadest eyes you’ve ever seen unless you have known an egg or two in your life before they transitioned

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 1d

isn't it a children's cartoon? how many children do you know? actually I guess probably you know more children than me

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 11d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 2d

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 2d

I love you!! I hope you were allowed coffee today

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 2d

👀

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 2d

doing hot girl shit (shopping for gambesons online)

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 2d

I reposted this for you so I'm glad you liked it

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 3d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 3d

I think he's in some ways quite similar to Dickens, fundamentally a humanistic believer in liberalism but deeply suspicious of any political philosophy or ideology

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think this is the only explanation. My own reading has fallen off massively, and it's not because I'm working more - it very much feels like an attention economy problem. I struggle to pull myself away from the various easy-gratification machines

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 4d

bluesky really speedran the twitter "all the posts are about how this site sucks" thing huh

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · Mar 29

"there are no atheists in foxholes" is a terrible expression. sure, the things that foxes worship do not resemble our "gods". that does not mean that they are atheists

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wolf pupy @wolfpupy.bsky.social · 4d

glade #glade

wolf pupy comic - glade
panel 1:
a wolf puppy is saying "if i say that i am hanging out in the glade today and you go to the meadow that is your fault"
panel 2:
wolf pupy continues "i'm not here to teach you the difference"
panel 3:
wolf pupy says "i'm here to hang out"
panel 4:
wolf pupy is silently sitting in a glade, staring off into the distance

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 5d

Somehow I strongly feel this is sacrilegious

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 5d

I was and remain a "person who doesn't understand scents" unfortunately

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 6d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 6d

the whole robophobia meme immediately stopped funny once half the jokes became equating clanker with the n word. like, no it's not identical, but if you're replacing a word in a racial slur you can't reclaim with "wire", i'm gonna look at you funny! i don't think you should be staying that!!!

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