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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · Mar 25

It’s like Watergate but you gave everyone a concussion first.

Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever I order a gin martini, I say explicitly, “I am not afraid of vermouth.” And usually just ask the bartender to make it 2/1.

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 4d

Dolly Parton is really and truly one of the only things that could get me to pray.

Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 5d

I guess my biggest question (beyond the obvious moral revulsion) is: do these people actually still not understand the amount of access to information we have in 2025, with the means to disseminate it in seconds? Burn this shit to the ground.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 13d

It’s been a long journey, but I am now mostly on board! 😂

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 13d

All of these people are slimy, murderous ghouls, who should never know a moment of peace, and it really helps to watch one of them nut-tap themselves on TV over and over again.

Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 13d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you. I really, really needed this.

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 17d

a blonde woman is saying `` nice try jan '' while looking at the camera .

Alt: a blonde woman is saying `` nice try jan '' while looking at the camera .

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 18d

“Botchelism” accidentally the perfect title for the book about this year in America.

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 21d

Oh! Just an extremely normal way for the President of the Whole Entire United States to talk in public.

Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 23d

Chuck’s finger literally on my pulse.

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23d

the fall tinglers are trottin this way buckaroo. please enjoy NEW tingler THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOUP WEATHER’S LOOMING ARRIVAL GETS ME OFF BISEXUALLY out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRPZF17M or for all patreon tiers www.patreon.com/posts/physic...

man with no shirt and scarf surrounded by changing leaves and two sentient bowls of soup the title is THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOUP WEATHER'S LOOMING ARRIVAL GETS ME OFF BISEXUALLY

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · 27d

“This is our Reichstag fire!” they cried, as Kirk lay dead. Yes, you fucking freaks, we know.

I do not want and have never wanted any of them dead. I want them to chill out and be normal for the first time in their lives.”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 27d

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart.

Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Charlie Kirk is Dead. Here’s Why I’m Celebrating! — Assigned

It’s a wonderful thing to outlive a someone who spent his life working for your elimination. That's why I'm celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · Sep 9

An image of a person (me) blowing a trombone (capitalism fucking did this) directly into another person’s face (everyone I have ever met).

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · Aug 26

We should turn them all off, just in case.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you so much!! So glad you’re enjoying.

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Flynn @flynnwaslike.bsky.social · Jul 31

“That’s my best friend / she’s a real bad bitch….”

Unbound Edition Press @unboundedition.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are thrilled for Rebecca Orchant, whose wry culinary memoir, Simmering, was just announced as a finalist for the 2025 Lammy Award in Bisexual Nonfiction. Congrats @smcpickles.bsky.social!

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“Rebecca Orchant is your bestie at a queer dinner party ..."
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Unbound Edition Press @unboundedition.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are thrilled for Rebecca Orchant, whose wry culinary memoir, Simmering, was just announced as a finalist for the 2025 Lammy Award in Bisexual Nonfiction. Congrats @smcpickles.bsky.social!

ueplit.short.gy/simmering

“Rebecca Orchant is your bestie at a queer dinner party ..."
Alexander Cheves

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Jun 13

PSA for everyone going to protests

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · May 17

Hi hi! You sure can! In all the Internet places (although it does seem to be backordered on bookshop dot org rn)! Or, right here: www.provincetownbookshop.com/item/u3x-d-h...

Simmering

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · May 17

I love you guys so much, but like, stop starting Substacks in 2025! Are you not ever on the internet?

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · May 9

WOULD.

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Ladyslipper @ladyslipperptown.bsky.social · May 4

We can’t wait for you to meet Fernando.

A deep green Boston fern on a Raspberry Glacé wall.

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Rebecca Orchant @smcpickles.bsky.social · May 4

If you’re not sure who this is about, then it might be about you, fella.

Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social · May 3

I refuse to manage my feelings around, or find common ground with men who are raging about being oppressed or left out. You decided not to keep up with us and now you have to catch up to us AND THAT IS A YOU PROBLEM.

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