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macnult @macnult.com · 2d

bsky is evil but mastodon is corny you just can't win on the computer like you used to

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 4h

(puts on columbia, sc hat) huger

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 4h

your handle is literally “for shame”

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 4h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 5h

DONUT | OPEN
BREAD | INSIDE

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 5h

i’m so glad women’s fashion finally seems to be moving on from the everything-cropped-boxy-cut era

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 1d

katie tightpussy invented estradiol

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 1d

nope just a boner

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

someone has a lag switch

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Absolutely Hammered @ahpod.bsky.social · 2d

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

how are the benefits at the war for eternity?

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Lena @nebulena.net · 2d

this is so dumb

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

it’s all about the words you don’t use

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · Aug 4

i wonder if the technolibertarian devs have ulterior motives here

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

no i did not see that

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

all the dots didn’t connect for me until i realized the way they talk about their “atproto” is the same way libertarians talk about seasteading or charter cities

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

can confirm its fun

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

hey mondays aren’t so bad after all

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 2d

bluesky devs are essentially the same kind of libertarian tech utopians as peter thiel and this project makes more sense once you start to view them this way