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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 6h

Call me basic, but as long as Jeff Mangum is alive I don't know if I can really entertain the idea of Taylor Swift in that role.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 6h

Oh shit, can he introduce me to Luigi?

Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 6h

I assume this is going to cause an international incident, 'cause we don't know her and she goes to school in Canada.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 13h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 12h

When writers say that's the fun part they (at least I) mean that's the part that gives meaning to human existence and endeavor. Pleasure, in this context, is humanity. So getting rid of the fun part is exactly turning humans into soylent.

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S. A. Hunt @sahuntbooks.com · 14h

I feel like people are forgetting that transgender people aren't just fictional made-up fae bullshit whose rights are negotiable, but actual real people and we are those real people.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

🎵the transgender hills are alive
with the sound of quislings🎵

User @jeffryder: Maybe don't die on transgender hills when we need to attract independents in order to actually take back the govt.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1d

We decorated for Halloween

Caspary the silver rex rat with her face and tail just peaking out of a cozy hanging tube with a skull and crossbones pattern...

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1d

It sounds like an old joke but I'm 100% serious: if conversion therapy was actually a non-coercive, voluntary, and respectful attempt to relieve an individual's distress about their own sexuality, heterosexual women would be choosing it at least semi-regularly.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1d

Announcing your grievances to the whole car before 9 am is already borderline, if you're gross about it that's too far.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1d

I couldn't quite see but I think someone pushed him off at the next stop because he hasn't made a peep since.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1d

Just had to yell at a racist on the train but what I love is that a whole bunch of other people yelled at him with me. #community!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 2d

Cishet dudes: Supposedly thinking about ancient Rome all the time, yet doing this.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 2d

Thrice Game #830 → I got a perfect score on today's Thrice!
🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
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Thrice

Daily trivia game from Geeks Who Drink

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 2d

No I will not 'choose an instance' last time I did that the Feds took their servers.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 2d

It's kind of funny that the biggest possible selling point for a new social media company right now would be "you can just use it and the people in charge aren't spoiled baby Nazis", and yet no one in the tech space seems even slightly interested in providing this.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 3d

I have never seen an episode of Home Improvement, Saved By the Bell, Family Matters, Full House, Married... With Children, The Cosby Show, etc. Basically it's easier to mention that I've seen a couple episodes each of Seinfeld, Friends, and That 70s Show and move on.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 3d

Oh my.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 3d

On this, the birthday of Clive Barker, one of the great Patron Saints of the Subversive, let the power of queer horror guide you.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

Manar has raised very little despite asking for help for a while so if you’re looking to help a family who hasn’t raised much- hers would be a good option

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Manar. Manar is 28 years old and before this she was a tutor for neighborhood children. She has three children Yousef, 9, Dana, 8 and Saif, 1 who was born during the war. All three children are suffering from malnutrition.