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thanatophobe.bsky.social
Pirate Jenny
@thanatophobe.bsky.social
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Lady of a certain age. Pickle friend. Living in SoCal, missing the PNW.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times . . . "
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Pirate Jenny @thanatophobe.bsky.social · Aug 19
Me every day when it hasn't happened.
a white cat with a pink bow on its head is looking out a window
Alt: A white cartoon cat with a small pink bow on its head and a large pink bow around its neck, giving a big sigh and resting its chin on top of its crossed paws, looking pensive and disappointed.
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thanatophobe.bsky.social
I thought they were already boycotting because of DEI 🤔
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d
MAGA influencers claim they will boycott the big box store in response to it suing Trump and demanding a full refund of the tariffs it was forced to pay this year.
MAGA Melts Down After Costco Drags Trump to Court
MAGA, already upset about grocery prices, just lost another place to shop.
trib.al
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:
8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there. 9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell. 10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer… …trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.'' 11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy. 12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
His workload of actively avoiding all knowledge of what any other member of the government is doing or saying?
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
Does any cop ever see 3-4 other cars already stopped with lights flashing and think, "nah, they got this, I'll keep driving"?
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
Fucking Idaho (husband is from there, and it's where we'll be for Xmas 🫠).
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
I have several! And you know what, I still look up recipes online all the time!
sarahkelly.bsky.social Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 8d
Lotta people being weirdly smug about owning paper cookbooks
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
whippoorwont.bsky.social tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 8d
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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jowiph.bsky.social
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8d
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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scottmccloud.bsky.social
Nuremberg-based illustrator Sina Simbürger has posted some lovely comics, but they seem entirely siloed at Instagram and Threads. Kinda wish there was a standalone personal site I could link to; this stuff is good!

Anyway, click below or just Google her name I guess. 🤷
www.instagram.com/sin.xline
Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
WHAT 🤯
jennschiffer.com jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 16d
andy just showed me that you can click and drag the captions on youtube dot com to move them elsewhere on the video element
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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diversetechgeek.bsky.social
From July: Recommended Twitter alternatives (2025 edition)

www.diversetechgeek.com/recommended-...

#Twitter #socialmedia
Recommended Twitter alternatives (2025 edition)
A look at my recommended alternatives to Twitter, for those seeking an alternative to Elon Musk’s social network.
www.diversetechgeek.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
I will never stop complaining when I don't like the weather, so I feel obligated to say when I'm happy with it too (I wish all our downhill neighbors a very "hope you don't flood" 🤞).
Snapshot of a series of weather forecasts from this afternoon through Tuesday night. Behind "this afternoon" and "tonight" is a yellow box indicating a flood watch. All highs are in the 60s (Fahrenheit); all lows are in the 50s. The forecast for this afternoon is "heavy rain"; all others say "showers," "chance showers," or "showers likely."
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
Seeing multiple days of clouds and rain in the forecast just does something to me ☺️
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social
sometimes being an atheist really sucks bc i want so many people to burn in hell
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
excuse me I have been actively soliciting Edmund Fitzgerald memes for years
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May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
Being able to plant lettuce starts in November: 😃
Having to put shade cloth over my lettuce starts in November: 😡
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
Pardon me, but what the fuck? 🥵
Snapshot of the weather forecast for my area on Monday, November 10th, with an image of a bright sun in a blue sky with some small clouds. High of 87 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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janecoaston.bsky.social
“Look at those women with their Stanleys and their toddlers and their bullet journals” they will ruin your life buddy
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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mattufford.bsky.social
Tom Cruise in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "that sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" Jack Nicholson in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "a little bit is coming out the bottom"
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
thanatophobe.bsky.social
In junior high in the 80s I often had a forbidden Now & Later plastered to the roof of my mouth. The candy aisle at 7-Eleven was a wonderland.
jeeyon.bsky.social jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · Nov 4
A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me
A meme showing an example of a TikTok trend through two screenshots, one of a swingset captioned "Summer, 1998" and the other of a pot of jam on the stove captioned "Where sweets are baked, not bought." Under both screenshots is someone commenting "loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s"
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM