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@carapaceshell.bsky.social

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failed librarian, archivist, celticist, medievalist, and linguist; long covid enjoyer trans rights now and forever pfp: martin prince admiring the first snapdragon of the season banner: siamese cat tucked into bed watching tv

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · Jan 8

New Creation of Adam dropped

A chunky gray tuxedo cat is standing on his hind haunches in a kitchen accepting a treat from an outstretched hand. His front paws are dangling in front of him politely, and his belly is sticking out

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 5h

flying over mount rainier is the closest ill ever come to a religious experience

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11h

I lived in fear of this day, and it’s here. I finally got called out by The Onion

The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 6h

the lean-in

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 14h

Neighbor, that Halloween decoration scares me, an adult. Take it easy

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 14h

probably my favorite thing that could Only Happen Online is making friends with a james beard award winning writer because I dropped a BOFA on a guy being an asshole in her mentions

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

my cat on catnip while I'm chilling stoned

AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 1d

i'm pretty sure this was near mopac/far west exit (austin)

🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 1d

offer still stands for whoever's truck this was at the H-E-B in 2012

bad photo of a white pickup truck in a parking lot at night. the truck is entirely covered with hand-painted kitty cats

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

whoever owns this car I saw in the dunkin' donuts parking lot please be my best friend. if you are looking for a best friend and do not have a best friend i could be that

car with bumper stickers reading "hot girls hit the curb" "what a time to be gay and alive" "i'm retired go around me"

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 1d

Same! I haven't gotten mine yet this year but both times previously it was a minimal reaction.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

Friendly advice to the Trump administration: PLEASE keep putting Steven Miller on TV! Everyone likes him and is very impressed by him, he does not in any way come off as a shrieking little fascist who is naturally repulsive. People love “Steve” and want to hear much more from him! 👍❤️

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

That American Robin stance
#birds

A brown bird with rufous breast is standing in a shallow bird bath. With feet spread wide, it is glaring into the camera creating a formidable pyramid of attitude.

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 2d

I have seen this image now and again, off and on, for probably and twenty years and I swear to God every time I can't help giggle

Brians for Dinner, Brians for Lunch @briantransplant.com · 2d

There's a feeling like maybe oversized animals have to be destructive in order to count as Kaiju. I submit exhibit A.

A book cover with Clifford the Big Red Dog pulling man a branch with a cat on it, to the point the branch is bending. A boy and a girl stand nearby, both seeming to encourage him. The book title reads "Clifford Fucking Launches A Cat."

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2d

🚨WE NOW INTERRUPT YOUR MOD CRASHOUT🚨

with this!

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 2d

I think the United States should stop storing its federal judges in sensory deprivation tanks in between cases.

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 3d

If you a 404 Error like miss me with that shit man I don’t know you

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 3d

there's a george saunders story in here

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 3d

the irony is that i had seen this tweet (and probably saved a screenshot of it somewhere) but forgot, thanks to long covid swiss cheese brain

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3d

Ancient Twitter proverb

Screenshot of tweet by @jon_snow_420:

god: i have made Mankind
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 3d

gremlin asmr

Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 3d

Tricking the boys into being near each other with Delicious Churu

🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 3d

i'm going to be thinking about "we've fucked up a perfectly good monkey" for a while

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 3d

We can’t know for sure yet what the long term effects (10+ years) of a single COVID infection are, let alone several. But the millions of people with Long Covid (both acknowledged and not) and the 460,000+ scientific studies on COVID offer some strong hints (that should be taken and aren’t).

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 3d

that rules. i've never seen him play! (spotted him one time at a show during sxsw in 2004 or 05)

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