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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 18h

*points to wife*

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 1d

Helllllllll yes

Ivan Van Norman @lordvonbarron.bsky.social · 1d

Many years ago I did a show called Sagas of Sundry.

It was immersive horror, great storytelling, and reality show style skill challenges.

Now I want to bring it back, but call it Tales of Dread.

But I need your help. So I'm taking this project to Kickstarter.

Learn more at www.talesofdread.com

Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 1d

HALLELUJAH SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 1d

I had my first drum lesson today and now I understand why drummers always have sticks or pencils on them

I want to practice my rudiments on EVERYTHING

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 1d

I have sent more emails in the last week than I feel like I have all year

I am so tired

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

My wife and I are trying to have kids. We're looking at the cost of childcare. Frankly, it's a nightmare.

Young people struggling with the financial realities of starting a family in this country deserve a voice in the Senate. I promise you, I will fight for universal childcare.

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 3d

It's so rough! My wife & I are wanting to start a family as well, but it's so bleak for queer couples- insurance won't cover fertility treatments, and protections being rolled back it's getting scarier every day. Maine Family Planning rolling back services because of cuts makes us nervous too

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 3d

Like, we grew up in Georgia and watched so much racing all our lives because that's just... What we grew up on and it's just deeply cool that neither of us finished college but we both wound up in marketing for things we love

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 3d

There's so much happening that is awful so I am clinging to every shred of joy I can find and today it's the fact that my brother works as a marketer for a few young NASCAR drivers and today Kenny freaking Wallace said he and his wife are the best social media team in NASCAR

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Zev זאב @zevsamm.bsky.social · 4d

my cat sleeps on his back

a large long haired grey and white cat laying on his back on a white rug. His head is tilted and looking directly at the camera

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 5d

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 5d

The senator is now delivering a history lesson about the East India Company.

SENATOR: Everything was Dutch! New York was Dutch!
OTHER WOMAN: It doesn’t SEEM Dutch…
SENATOR: IT WAS

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Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social · 5d

I am DYING to know who this is

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 5d

I’m in a hotel bar listening to a slightly inebriated state senator from Maine explain how he believes China is taking over the American cannabis industry.

The other people at the table are arguing that Amazon is much more dangerous. The senator is adamant about China.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 5d

A nudge for everyone hosting #BannedBooksWeek read-ins next week. Your impact will be much bigger if you read/highlight/celebrate banned books by living authors from communities/identities being attacked now. Classics are great, but authors alive today need our support.