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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 11h

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 20h

it is almost impossible to communicate how racist and colonialist this entire episode is lol

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Incredibly funny bit to hand the nobel peace prize to someone who does "President Trump thank you for bombing our fishers, our country yearns for freedom only you can deliver" lol

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 23h

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 1d

Halfway into the sentence I was imagining someone who gets off to the idea of being the subject of a bet between god and the devil

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 2d

Someone called her that to me (ages ago) and my response was to feign concern that something had happened to Joni Mitchell.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Emily (but a ghost) @2amwakeupcall.com · 3d

before bluesky end
anyone want to admit they got a crush on me?
meme

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 3d

Led Zeppelin released Ramble On, Misty Mountain Hop, and Battle of Evermore while Tolkien was in his 70s but still very much alive.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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J O Y ❥ ✊🏾 @kraehenherz.bsky.social · Dec 7

God the tall queers will be the end of me one day 🔥🫠🤤😬

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone predicted it!!!!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 6d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 6d

Venus de Mars of All The Pretty Horses; the queer film fest screened the doc about her and now we’re down the street for a (solo) show. venusdemars.bandcamp.com

Venus de Mars • Venus de Mars & All The Pretty Horses

Venus de Mars, & All The Pretty Horses is a glam-punk quartet formed in 1993 Past Band members include: Bill Bailey, Ed Ford, Matt Bachelor Tiffany Tieche, LeeAnn MacDougall, Jendeen Forberg, Eden T...

venusdemars.bandcamp.com

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 6d

Once again watching a trans musician performing live and Venus just mentioned coming out in 1988 “This is not a fad. This is not ‘kids being confused.’ We have always been here. We will always be here.”

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 6d

Oh is it time for “if you don’t like this billionaire musical artist then you were just looking for a woman to hate” discourse again?

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 7d

don't let this one get lost in the sauce

static klinger @jessespector.com · 7d

SALSA HEIST

Salsa heist: $35,000 worth of dips stolen in Essex County, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County, Ont., say $35,000 worth of salsa and dips has been stolen during the theft of two tractor-trailers.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

It's the people who expect state cops to protect citizens from federal cops that make me want to clap their heads with two pieces of bread

Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 7d

Which is what Black people have been saying about law enforcement for centuries.

No one listened though. Now here we are.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 6d

The first part of this screenshot has me realizing her popularity fits perfectly into the “everyone is twelve now” theory of the world.
43yo woman looking at that ultra-scripted relationship “Travis really presents the exact blueprint for how a man needs to act” of course you think that, you’re 12

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Amy dot midi (Idiot Witch) @idiotwitchamelia.bsky.social · 7d

this is how lesbians react to any single advance or flirtation

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 7d

Today I will recommend anniebalaska.bandcamp.com/album/sister..., a beautiful, bouncy, heartbreaking, painstakingly researched meditation on the Good Time Girls of the Yukon Gold Rush.

I'm so happy I got to sing backups on a historical homage to sex workers.

Sisters of White Chapel, by Annie Bartholomew

9 track album

anniebalaska.bandcamp.com

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mcc @dryad.technology · 7d

But it's not…really the same thing, is it? Offtopic replies to Jay Graber about her site's moderation aren't *misunderstanding* her posts; the users are just trying to reach site administration through the one channel that seems to be available to them. Possibly noxious? But not *really* "offtopic"…

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 7d

I assume you mean just like separate but my first thought was Bloodborne style

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Dr. Scootford McPuffins, Sr. @drscootfordsr.bsky.social · 7d

Immediately thought of this tweet

That dumbass tweet about how TS perfectly encapsulates the interior lives of women

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 7d

it's bandcamp Friday! if you appreciate an indie musician, buy something from them today! mariancall.bandcamp.com

Buying a single album is worth more to an artist than thousands of streams in a month.

Marian Call

Marian Call has things to say. She sounds a little like Ingrid Michaelson meets They Might Be Giants & Regina Spektor for bourbon & laughs, which sounds improbable, but give it a try. She hails from A...

mariancall.bandcamp.com

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 7d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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Polly @crosspollytaupe.bsky.social · 7d

Can not stop pausing to check in on bluesky