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bartender. bookseller. bastard.
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edidin.bsky.social
When Your Friend Fucks Up: A Thread
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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mediocre.bsky.social
“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender
April 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work
July 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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sarah.northsky.social
Doing the autism cricket leg rubs beneath your blanket all alone beautiful?
October 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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wormmo.de
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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malaiseforever.bsky.social
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.
October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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meo.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Sorry, your kids are people. Don’t know what to tell you.
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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chateaucat.bsky.social
Hooting and hollering like a pervert any time this bitch shows up on the screen
July 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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ceej.online
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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robcham.bsky.social
DIY > AI
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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lalonde.bsky.social
bro you mistook gentleness of spirit for timidity of will again bro. bro you you mistook the succour of justice for the thrill of retribution. bro that fruit's gonna turn to ashes on your tongue i promise
February 19, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ohvulpecula.bsky.social
Old still from a John Waters interview- he’s sitting just off of center on a green couch, leaning forward, hands clasped. He’s in front of a bookshelf, looking concerned, or thoughtful. Overlayed on the image is the quote: “Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend.”
January 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Microfiche implies the existence of macrofiche. Giant leviathans who live in libraries, bellowing news stories to anyone who asks.
January 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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cait.bsky.social
once you have developed actual principles, the constant shifting of what is legal simply does not matter. all of this is made up, all of society is, none of this is real. the only thing that is real is love and our duty to each other
January 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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abigaildesmond.bsky.social
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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catbus.phd
Japanese fireworks catalogue circa 1880
color illustration of exploding fireworks shells color illustration of exploding fireworks shells color illustration of exploding fireworks shells color illustration of exploding fireworks shells
December 31, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.
1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes — look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough 23. Have company but dont waste time 24. Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27. Help win war — beat fascism 28. Love mama 29. Love papa 30. Love Pete 31. Love everybody 32. Make up your mind 33. Wake up and fight
December 31, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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mattstorymusic.bsky.social
Wikipedia page for the principle of "the purpose of a system is what it does".
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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buny.bsky.social
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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josie.zone
Robert O. Paxton, THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM:
66 Considering these precursors, a debate has arisen about which country spawned the earliest fascist movement. France is a frequent candidate. Russia has been proposed. Hardly anyone puts Germany first. It may be that the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to fascism is American: the Ku Klux Klan. Just after the Civil War, some former Confederate officers, fearing the vote given to African Americans in 1867 by the Radical Reconstructionists, set up a militia to restore an overturned social order. The Klan constituted an alternate civic authority, parallel to the legal state, which, in the eyes of the Klan's founders, no longer defended their community's legitimate interests. By adopting a uniform (white robe and hood), as well as by their techniques of intimidation and their conviction that violence was justified in the cause of their group's destiny,88 the first version of the Klan in the defeated American South was arguably a remarkable preview of the way fascist movements were to function in interwar Europe. It should not be surprising, after all, that the most precocious democracies-the United States and France-should have generated precocious backlashes against democracy. Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
October 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM