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Formerly known as geekchick lots of places, also starlightatsea@twt She/they 💖💜💙 DC by way of MS/Memphis Fan of monster smut, hockey (Caps), F1, Fairshaw, Steddyhands-flavor Canyonite, horror podcasts. Bifactional (Horde/Alliance). Cross-stitcher.

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 8d

Context for the usual display name. I have laughed at this every time I've seen it for the last year.

A post from "Chubblenauts and other examples of Arctic Excellence". It is a photo of baby Moo Deng yelling while a keeper is picking her up. The post text reads:

UNHAND ME at ONCE, I am GRUNTILLICUS, I saw the WORLD BORN in the FIRES of the GODFORGE, I cast the DUST which became YOUR BREATH, I would like a SMALL APPLE

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 16m

Once upon a time, I was married to someone who thought I was not as beautiful as I really was. I am now with someone who thinks I’m much more beautiful than I really am. I highly recommend the latter.

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 25m

This isn't breaking news, but I'd honestly forgotten they were leaning quite this heavily into the dark side until I saw this post, so I'm happy to be reminded of it.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 40m

Exec3: What if, while we targeted our advertising towards lanyard-class staffers with an occasionally overdeveloped sense of noblesse oblige, we argued that the NLRB was unconstitutional?

Exec1 and Exec2: Okay, now it's starting to get warm in here.

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

www.bloomberg.com

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 13h

Me not paying attention in the other room, noticing the programmed lights were turning themselves off: "It can't actually be midnight, I can hear that the baseball game is still...oh."

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thirdnline.bsky.social @thirdnline.bsky.social · 15h

This game started at the Kingdome.

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15h

Cal Raleigh was small dumper when this game started

Melissa Lockard @melissalockard.bsky.social · 15h

Dan Wilson was clean shaven when this game started

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 20h

I think that if I watch this without ear buds one more time, my husband is going to take my phone away from me. SHERMAN!

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 20h

Live footage of my extrovert friends trying to get me to leave the house.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm working on remembering when it's time to go to bed without the cat wandering through the office at 10:30 PM to yell at me that it's just about that time.

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

The vet just called to say that our cat's ashes are ready, and my husband had the call on speaker in the other room

Me: "Did she just end the call with 'Have a nice day otherwise'?"
Husband: "She did."
Me: "I guess that's reasonable. 'Your pet's remains are here, have a good day!' ain't great."

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Hm. Can I get this here by the 18th?

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 1d

Need more spooky frogs. With totally accurate skeletons.

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it's an inflatable frog costume but black with a white skeleton painted on it which is totally accurage

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Did I accidentally send my cover letter to McSweeney's instead of to the hiring manager? Crap.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"Strengths include the ability to work independently for years or even decades with minimal feedback and/or praise, as well as a marked level of comfort working with antiquated systems, outdated standards, and unending group email chains."

Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire

Forty-something professional seeks opportunity in an environment that is neither “fun,” “playful,” nor “collaborative;” minimal responsibility pref...

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

US distribution deal, please!

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 2d

The trailer for ‘HEATED RIVALRY’ starring Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams.

It follows a pair of leading Major League Hockey players who harbor a secret: Away from their rivalry on the ice, they are secretly lovers.

Premieres November 28 on Crave.

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't heard about the WP drama in a while.

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, i dunno if anyone cares but i am listening to the discovery hearing in the WPE vs Automattic/Mullenweg case right now and it's a little spicy!

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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 1d

Someone please come adopt this orange baby, it’s too cute to wait. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Hillary's Stripey Kitty | Peculiarity Shop

This kitty makes us ridiculously happy. I mean, all kitties do, but still. Components: Ceramic by CeramicLoveStory, vegan leather cord Comes on an adjustable vegan leather cord, adjustable up to 26". ...

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Drake batting a big ol' zero.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Currently 69% (obligatory "Nice.") funded with about two weeks to go.

poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 2d

vampurr has taken over your feed. as you read this, he's casting his spell, and you're starting to want to take him home. don't fight it. succumb to vampurr's charm 🌀

www.makeship.com/products/vam...

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 2d

"I started looking into plastic surgery when I was a lot younger, but now that I’m 25, more mature, and knowing the potential consequences of surgery, I would say I took the option more seriously than when I was 23 years old."

Right. Therapy would've been cheaper, except she got this done for free.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

this reads like an ad for getting your ribs removed to treat body dysmorphia and i’m pretty astonished it was even published

I Fractured My Ribs to ‘Remodel’ Them and Cinch My Waist

No matter how much I worked out, I felt boxy. So earlier this year I got RibXcar to change my shape once and for all.

www.thecut.com

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I would have settled for getting to finish announcing Tom Wilson's goal before a Bruins goal too.

a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Can we go back to the national broadcast guys talking about enjoying Ovi cereal instead?

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a SMALL PUMPKIN 🎃 @starlightatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I don't care if this review is real or a bit, I got a good laugh from it either way.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 3d

Guns N' Roses, while playing a show last night in Bogotá, Colombia, borrowed this flag sign out of the crowd. Axl held it up for everyone then later ran around stage wearing it around his neck while singing. Said the whole band would sign it then make sure the fan got it back.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 3d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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