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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 14h

filling an empty diet pepsi bottle with diet coke will my brother lectures me on vitiation "in some sects the corruption of the pure is considered the greatest of all possible sins"

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 5d

taking a drive around the North East US with the Mycotyrant. he keeps requesting we stop at "the seat of power" and "your densest population centers" but i told him the DC museums are all closed and i don't want to deal with NYC traffic so we're going leaf peeping

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 5d

you could probably earn a little good will by acknowledging that trans people globally are facing unprecedented attacks on our lives and that fear that a platform we helped popularize is at best not taking this seriously and at worst catering to it, is a legitimate concern

Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 6d

im good at magic the gathering

(discord message)
friend: Oh yeah! I didn’t even notice that. Wait, is that *two* “discard at random” cards you have in there?
me: i think i have like 6 😁
friend: *saluting gif*

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 6d

did you know that with the $30 you save from cancelling your game pass subscription you could not only subscribe to @aftermath.site , you could buy yourself one amazing Steam game to go with it, then just keep doing that forever?

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 9d

they aren't going to stop you from getting your hormones tomorrow but they do want to stop you from getting your hormones SOON and they are making rapid advancements and we should all be very aware of that

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 9d

idk im of two minds about alarmist language framing these anti-trans developments. like yeah clearer info would be better but the pushback "stop trying to panic everyone" sounds a lot like the "chill out, transphobia is unpopular" shit we got before the election

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 13d

first test shirt modeled by tired post gardening dirt covered girl in a wawa bathroom

orange floral bleach painting on black shirt modeled by tired post gardening dirt covered girl in a wawa bathroom

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 13d

experimenting with bleach painting

smoking a cig wearing a yellow tank with bleach white text "SAVE SACCO + VANZETTI" with their heads side by side in the center

wearing a yellow tank with bleach white text "SAVE SACCO + VANZETTI" with their heads side by side in the center

Sacco and Vanzetti black and white photograph

black and white photo of protest with sign reading "SAVE SACCO & VANZETTI" "PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE"

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 14d

i had a few good blocks on twitter but it was a special joy when jesse singal blocked me after i made fun of him for name searching without tagging him

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16d

It is normal to feel insane when the entire political and journalist class across the Anglophone world is getting horned up over the idea of segregating, criminalizing, and exterminating you and all of your friends.

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 17d

the only question i really have about the kirk thing is whether jodie foster was impressed

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 17d

helped run my friend's booth at the market of the macabre yesterday because his band is on tour. here's a cute pic his mom took of me ☺️

me sitting in an outdoor booth labeled Scary Marys with framed pics of Frankenstein etc

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 17d

the wicked little grin that forms when i get to say "speaking of raymond" ☺️

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 17d

okay this sites moderation is completely fucked
but also THE BUSINESS PLOT!
finding out that the man who built the culty little Swedenborgian town i grew up in, Raymond Pitcairn, was a major player in the business plot has been an endless well of delight to dip into during family gatherings

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17d

72 hour suspension for a post about Prescott Bush's 1933 Business Plot and how absolutely none of the people involved were even prosecuted for it, let alone given the maximum sentence for it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...

Business Plot - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 18d

ive never had an issue with left and right or the cardinal directions or anything but i can never remember which number is balls and which is strikes unless i say it out loud like "1 ball 2 strikes"

Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 19d

ive joked that i don't like being called smart as a compliment but i think its a joke from truth, that its as meaningless as "good" and there are only maybe smartnesses and really thats just curiosity which can also be banal if its not a sort of kindness that resolves itself in a sensitive looking

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 20d

everyone but me sucks at communicating and so do i

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21d

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21d

idk what game this is from but it’s polygonal N64 / PS1 style graphics of a dryad or elf lady covered in vines with the text dialogue caption “Everything that makes you an outsider of broken systems makes you a builder of better worlds”

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 21d

haven't been this heartbroken since the sixers traded pat bev

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 21d

achewood "guess who just got yelled at" panel but it says "broken up with" instead

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 23d

how come nobody invites me join any of these transgender terrorist cells? i mean im probably no good at violence but i could serve appetizers and cheer everybody on and shit

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Ashley @ashleyfg.bsky.social · 23d

ethel cain voice: poison ivy all over my body

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